Uncle Sam's treatment of Huawei is world-class hypocrisy – consumers will pay the price [Fri Jan 12 2018]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 12 January 2018 ***************************************************************** Uncle Sam's treatment of Huawei is world-class hypocrisy – consumers will pay the price Wait. Did you say 'insecure chips'? ***************************************************************** Business * Intel top brass smacked with sueball for keeping schtum about chip flaws CEO, CFO under fire as lawsuits mount up * US House reps green-light Fourth Amendment busting spy program As America's very stable genius weighs in with his one cent * Worst-case Brexit could kill 92,000 science, tech jobs across UK – report No-deal predicted to lop £46.8bn off Blighty investment * UK data watchdog dishes out £600k in fines to 4 spam-spewers ICO fought dodgy contracts, buck-passing, and less than concrete proof * Black & Blue: IBM hires Bain to cut costs, up productivity The result? One-third of GTS to be 'redeployed' or not replaced when they leave * Apple hands Chinese iCloud to Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Doing business in China means keeping everything in Chinese hands behind the great firewall Data Centre * Shared services plan: UK.gov hitches wagon to cloudy Oracle offering What – no bonkers projected cost savings? You disappoint us, UK.gov * Cisco can now sniff out malware inside encrypted traffic This is Switchzilla’s kit-plus-cloud plan in action * GPU teleportation: 2018’s first virtual pissing match Citrix and VMware are both close to allowing live migration of NVIDIA-powered VMs * Juniper scores dubious honour of owning CVE-2018-0001 Ten bug-berries fall from the bush, including the return of 2003's Etherleak DevOps * Continuous Lifecycle 2018: New workshops, speakers added Serverless, Kubernetes ... or both Emergent Tech * What do we want? Consensual fun times. How do we get it? Via an app with blockchain... Actually no, we don't want an app for that, techbros * Heathrow Airport's local council prohibits drone flights from open spaces If it's owned by Hillingdon, you can't do that * Think tank: Never mind WannaCry, update NHS IT systems for RoboDoc Group says UK healthcare isn't benefitting from advances in AI * Brit transport pundit Christian Wolmar on why the driverless car is on a 'road to nowhere' A multi-billion dollar hype built on gullibility, says railway man * Cryptocurrencies to end in tears, says investor wizard Warren Buffet Old man shouts at a bubble he admits he does not understand * Audio tweaked just 0.1% to fool speech recognition engines Digital dog whistles: AI hears signals humans can't comprehend Personal Tech * OnePlus Android mobes' clipboard app caught phoning home to China Open sesame! Beta build quietly logged mystery activity to Alibaba-hosted cloud * Microsoft finally injects end-to-end chat crypto into Skype – ish... If you sign up to be a tester * Of course Uber allegedly had a tool to remotely destroy evidence Early contender emerges for 'least surprising story of 2018' * Q: How do you get YouTube to stop funneling ads to your vids? A: Make jokes next to a dead body Google-owned biz cancels Logan's run * Uncle Sam's treatment of Huawei is world-class hypocrisy – consumers will pay the price Wait. Did you say 'insecure chips'? Security * Brace yourselves for the 'terabyte (sic) of death', warns US army IT boss Sorry, make that, exiting IT boss * Everything running smoothly at the plant? *Whips out mobile phone* Wait. Nooo... SCADA mobile app security is getting worse Software * Wondering where your JavaScript libs went? Spam-detection snafu exiled npm packages Postmortem sheds light on brief dependency hell Science * Boffins closer to solving what causes weird radio bursts from space Could it be... no way, seriously? Aliens? It's probably not aliens * Dark matter on the desktop: Dark Energy Survey publishes data We live in a cannibal: data dump shows Milky Way has eaten smaller galaxies * Up, up and a-weigh! Boeing flies cargo drone with 225kg payload No word on demo bird's range or speed, but the carrying capacity looks decent Bootnotes * Butcher breaks out of own freezer using black pudding Beef and lamb prove to be inferior escape tools * Heart of darkness: Inside the Osówka underground city That time the Nazis hollowed out a mountain * UK.gov puts Suffolk 7-year-old's submarine design into production 'It was a bit tricky,' admits DSTL worker * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. Learn how to to ensure security, regulatory compliance, and business continuity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, The Lightwell, 12-16 Laystall Street, London, EC1R 4PF, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: