From landslide to buried alive: Why 2017 election forecasts weren't wrong [Wed Jun 14 2017]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 14 June 2017 ***************************************************************** From landslide to buried alive: Why 2017 election forecasts weren't wrong Swing when you're winning ***************************************************************** Business * Australian oppn. leader wants to do something about Bitcoin, because terrorism and crypto Bill Shorten says there are things 'we do not know enough about to deal with properly' * Uber culture colonic cleanses CEO Kalanick Taxi app upstart told to ditch values that excused abusive behavior – while its bro-in-chief takes time off * Marissa! Mayer! out! as! Yahoo!-Verizon! closes! Chief exec says Yaho-o-oo! as biz becomes Oath * British Airways poised to shed 1,000 jobs to Capita Don't worry long-suffering BA customers, Capita will take care of you * Damian Green now heads up UK Cabinet Office But what does the department of odds and sods actually do these days? * Congressman drafts COVFEFE Act to preserve Trump's Twitter tantrums Bigly ambitious bill would archive the President's social media dealings * France and UK want to make web firms liable for users' content Anti-terror crackdown, evil tech biz to blame yadda yadda, we're told * Oh snap! Election's made Brexit uncertainty worse for biz, says BT CEO 'If it was unstable and uncertain this time last week, it’s gone up a notch' * Germany puts halt on European unitary patent Constitutional Court slams brakes on UPC – but why? * From landslide to buried alive: Why 2017 election forecasts weren't wrong Swing when you're winning * Lockheed, USAF hold breath as F-35 pilots report hypoxia Toothless Tiger Moths at Arizona base grounded * Australian carriers seek lower regulatory hurdles for taller towers And if you don't like it, off to the Ombudsman you go Data Centre * Just days after tech community abandons plans to punish internet shutdowns… Egypt goes censorship crazy What do you need news for, anyway? 'It shouldn't be a problem' – NTRA official * HPE hatches HPE Next – a radical overhaul plan so it won't be HPE Last CEO Meg Whitman tells staff she's signed pact with Faust * Hyper-active Pure goes bananas with new software Also demo'ing end-to-end NVMe over fabrics to Cisco UCS servers * Enterprise flash storage market report reads like it's a vendors graveyard Virident? Violin?! Where is Tintri? HPE?! IBM??!!! * Data shepherd Rubrik herds Microsoft, Oracle users towards its Alta Now talks to Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Hyper-V and Oracle RMAN * Specsavers embraces Azure and AWS, recoils at Oracle's 'wow' factor Warms IBM Watson for patient data probe * Hyperconverged hybrid cloud is the new blue IBM and Cisco give their VersaStacks multi-cloud capabilities and a VDI special * PCIe speed to double by 2019 to 128GB/s Version 4.0's not out the door but connection wonks have decided to fast track version 5.0 * Microsoft dumps docs.com cloud file locker, sets December death-date There can be only one and that'll be LinkedIn's SlideShare * Farewell, slumping 40Gbps Ethernet, we hardly knew ye IDC's network tracker finds 100 Gbps and software-defined kit surging, at Cisco's expense DevOps * Lame-o devs like coding to Taylor Swift and U2 People who put crap on your laptop love bands who put crap on your iPhone Emergent Tech * OpenAI and DeepMind double team to make AI safer New algorithm keeps humans in the loop * Waymo waves off original Google Firefly driverless car Replacing soon-to-be 'museum exhibit' with fleet of robo delivery vans * French firm notches up 50km unmanned drone inspection flight Peeking at the pylons, mes braves? Security * Five Eyes nations stare menacingly at tech biz and its encryption US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada mull leaning hard for access to your info * Discredit a journo? Easy, that'll be $55k. Fix an election? Oh, I can do that for just $400k Cybercrooks rake it in with Fake-News-as-a-Service * Pizza proffer punctures privacy protection, prompts pals' perfidy People like the idea of privacy but not the effort, research finds * Connectivity's value is almost erased by the costs it can impose The internet made information flow on the cheap, but making it anti-fragile will cost plenty * Raspberry Pi sours thanks to mining malware Change your default user name or Linux.MulDrop.14 will send your Pi down the crypto-mines Software * Apple frees a few private APIs, makes them public Glacial thaw brings a bit more openness to hermit kingdom * It's 2017 and Microsoft is still patching Windows XP+ – to plug holes exploited by trio of leaked NSA weapons Bugs used by stolen tools fixed among 96 software holes * Ever wonder why those Apple iPhone updates take so damn long? Turns out Apple execs were testing new file system on you * Hundreds stranded at Manchester Airport due to IT 'glitch' Thomas Cook most impacted with 12 delays Science * It came from space! Two-headed flatworm stuns scientists The regeneration process continues to baffle boffins Bootnotes * AWS launches celebrity-spotting-as-a-service: What a time to be alive Cloud can now ID 'hundreds of thousands' of athletes, pollies, actors, struggles with oiled butt * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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