Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory [Wed Jun 6 2018]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 6 June 2018 ***************************************************************** Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory Time team comes closest it ever has to magical zero result ***************************************************************** Business * UK has data adequacy issues? Oof, that's too bad! says Isle of Man Manx government keeps poker face, aims to add another arm to its tech biz offering * Schadenfreude for UK mobile networks over the tumult at Carphone That's what you get for selling unlocked phones * Palo Alto names new CEO: Former Googler Nikesh Arora He's heard of security but groks the cloud at scale and that's what matters * John McAfee plans 2020 presidential tilt Crypto-libertarian will form his own party, but first to launch his paper-based cryptocurrency Data Centre * US govt mulls snatching back full control of the internet's domain name and IP address admin ICANN or ICANN'T be trusted? Uncle Sam wants to know * Fancy using flash? Compose yourself, says infrastructure startup Whack some SSDs in your infrastructure and off you go * Cavium has two more tilts at Arm servers as Nvidia offers Arm-bots HPC types offered density, carriers get roll-your-own customer-premises kit * Microsoft doubles Azure Stack's footprint, embiggens Azure VMs How to expand a cloud platform without building data centres? Get partners to run 'em DevOps * Hacked serverless functions are a crypto-gold mine for miscreants Infosec bods warn of poorly secured tools auto-scaling, landing a jackpot for crooks Emergent Tech * I see a satellite of a man ... Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, that's now four sats fit to go But I'm just a poor Brit, and nobody loves me * MCubed: Blind bird ticket offer set to expire Just days left to save £100s on AI, ML and data analytics conference * AIOps they did it again, played with your heart, new acronym shame You might think it's a laugh, maybe you'll baaaarf, but yes, it's imminent Personal Tech * Amazon scam trio primed for prison stretch after million-dollar fraud Defected goods hustle brought in big bucks – for a while * Finally, San Francisco cleans up the crap from its streets – yes, all those fscking scooters App-rented tech bro-mobiles play fast and loose with city rules, say officials * Five actually useful real-world things that came out at Apple's WWDC Game-changers? Could be * Dual-screen laptops debut at Asus' Computex chat One has a screen on the touchpad, the other’s a no-real-keyboard clamshell * Intel claims it’s halved laptop display power slurpage One-watt displays promised, plus new Optane-for-PC and a 5.0 GHz CPU * FYI: Qualcomm hasn't given up on Arm-based Windows 10 slabtops Snapdragon 850 is latest attempt to lure PC makers, buyers from the x86 realm Security * Pwn goal: Hackers used the username root, password root for botnet control database login These are not the criminal geniuses you were expecting * Here's a transaction Transamerica regrets: Transgressors swipe retirees' personal info 45,000 plan holders hit by hack, say corp officials * Loose .zips sink chips: How poisoned archives can hack your computer Path traversal flaws could lead to data mangling, code execution – so patch now * Continental: We, er, tire of Whatsapp, Snapchat on work phones. GDPR, innit? Messaging apps verboten until they fall into line with EU regs * UK's first transatlantic F-35 delivery flight delayed by weather Airliners do it all the time - but these aren't airliners * Ex-CEO on TalkTalk mega breach: It woz 'old shed' legacy tech wot done it Dido Harding dodges security budget grilling * Just a third of Brit cops are equipped to fight crime that is 'cyber' Bad news if you've been defrauded online Software * SAP hopes to blow the doors off Salesforce with a block of C/4HANA It's war for biz customers as ERP king eyes up CRM lands * Yarrrr, the Business Software Alliance reckons piracy be down, me hearties Report: dodgy software still accounts for beeeellions of lost cash and malware aplenty Science * NASA makes the James Webb Telescope a looker with a heart of gold Astroboffins get precious about heat protection in space * Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory Time team comes closest it ever has to magical zero result * DIYers rejoice: Hitting stuff to make it work even works in space Curiosity Rover's drill is mostly working again after 'percussive maintenance' * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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