Haven't deleted your Yahoo account yet? Reminder: Hackers forged login cookies [Fri Feb 17 2017]

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Reminder: Hackers forged login cookies We're! not! even! bothering! with! exclamation! mark! this! time! ***************************************************************** Business * nbn™ to cut the charges ISPs pay for traffic In theory this should mean ISPs offer faster plans for fewer dollars * Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong cuffed in $40m corruption, perjury bust Explosive news that, for once, doesn't involve a self-detonating battery * Why I had to sue the FCC – VoIP granddaddy Dan Berninger It's life or death, says guru unhappy with net neutrality regulations * MEPs in 'urgent' call for new laws on artificial intelligence and robotics Liability issues with self-driving cars is key concern * Virgin Media swallows 215,000 new fibre customers in Blighty UK broadband biz posts unexciting results * Identity disorder: Does UK govt need Verify more than we do? A bit less self-assurance goes a long way Data Centre * HPE blames solid state disk failure for outages at Australian Tax Office 'Rare issue under a set of circumstances that have never previously been encountered' * Enterprise IT storage – where being fat and very dense is, um, a good thing. Right, Cloudian? Cali upstart peddles 4U HyperStore 4000 box * Google yanks workers from ISP outfit, it's THE FIBER COUNTDOWN Will things ever be the same again? * Dell EMC plans to use VxRail for mutant cloud cargo Hyper-converged nodes get turnkey hybrid cloud software * NetApp confirms: SolidFire hyperconverged appliance is coming HCI plans reveal overshadows Q3 numbers * Data centre locations In the city or up the country? * Reg tours submarine cable survey ship 'Geo Resolution' Former US sub-hunter boasts 1980s décor, serious sonar, workstations galore and so much printer ink * Xen Project wants permission to reveal fewer vulnerabilities Should bugs that don't expose user data be left alone, saving time and effort? DevOps * GitLab invokes the startup defence to explain data loss woes 'We're learning every day'. But does 'test your backups' really need to be learned? Emergent Tech * Zuckerberg thinks he's cyber-Jesus – and publishes a 6,000-word world-saving manifesto We took one for the team and deciphered it for you * THE SCHMIDT HITS THE BAN: Keep your gloves off AI, military top brass Plus: Alphabet boss tells us not to worry about the Singularity * Analyse this: IBM moves Watson machine learning to mainframes Real time results from old time data * Sigfox leads with its chin on security for internet-connected things 'Imagineer's declaration' betrays industry-wide apathy * Just finished your first TensorFlow app? Might be time for a rewrite... Google's machine learning library hits 1.0 * Watch how Google's starving DeepMind AI turns hostile, attacks other bots to survive Really, guys? Really? Security * US visitors must hand over Twitter, Facebook handles by law – newbie Rep starts ball rolling Rookie's bill targets visa applicants, may never happen * Don’t panic over cyber-terrorism: Daesh-bags still at script kiddie level Medieval terror bastards not great at hacking says ex-top NSA lawyer * Corpse of US anti-spying law unearthed, reanimated, pushed blinking into the sunlight Bill reintroduced to crack down on location snooping * Haven't deleted your Yahoo account yet? Reminder: Hackers forged login cookies We're! not! even! bothering! with! exclamation! mark! this! time! * F-Secure buys industrial control security firm Also locks down automotive and aviation electronics * Former NSA techies raise $8m for their data governance startup Immuta to free up data scientists in 'highly regulated' environments * Revealed: Web servers used by disk-nuking Shamoon cyberweapon Avoid this wonderful malware on your network by black-holing connections * Crypto-curious? Wickr's opened its kimono for code review Look, don't copy: 'this is not an open source license' * ITU ponders whether blockchain belongs in its security standards Security working group has decided it wants to know what it needs to know Software * Microsoft ups Surface slab prices for Brits. Darn weak pound, eh? If we had a pound for every time a biz cited UK currency woes * Dirty data, flogged cores: YES, Microsoft SQL Server R Services has its positives The language isn't the problem, it's you and your PC Transformation * Cloud industry body sets up new data protection code European providers team up Science * Baby supernova spotted, just three hours old and a real cutie If 'cute' means 'explosively re-writes plenty of our theories about how stars behave' Bootnotes * Nul points for Ukraine's Eurovision ticket site fail Glitch left fans without seats * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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