Haunted disk-drive? This story will give you the chills... [Mon Oct 22 2018]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 22 October 2018 ***************************************************************** Haunted disk-drive? This story will give you the chills... Techie called in after computer always starts the day with a go-slow ***************************************************************** Business * Oz intel committee: Crypto-busting is only bad if you're a commie, and we're not by the way El Reg listened to the whole depressing folly so you don't have to * Sounds like a massive, risky UK.gov scheme, but let's not keep too many tabs on it, OK? Spending watchdog slams transparency and record-keeping on major projects * European Commission: We've called off the lawyers over Ireland's late collection of Apple back taxes Case closed month after Apple coughs $14.3bn in 'illegal State Aid' Data Centre * Ericsson's very good bad quarter, Mozilla encrypts SNI, new TIP projects, and more Your weekly dose of networking * Samsung claims key-value Z-SSD will be fastest flash ever Plus: 7nm LLP, QLC, stacked RDIMMS and brainy drives * Yale Security Fail: 'Unexpected load' caused systems to crash, whacked our Smart Living Home app All working now says biz. No, no, no, no, say customers, it is NOT! * There's no 'I' in 'IMFT' – because Micron intends to buy Intel out of 3D XPoint joint venture Chipzilla has to go it alone or turn to a partner * Metadata-farming, data-silo-killing startup: Go on. Bring us your unstructured stuff Former Primary Data boss talks to El Reg about Hammerspace * Ex-Huawei man claims Chinese giant is suing his startup to 'surpass' US tech dominance Both parties accuse each other of IP theft * Haunted disk-drive? This story will give you the chills... Techie called in after computer always starts the day with a go-slow DevOps * Pull request accepted: You want to buy GitHub, Microsoft? Go for it – EU Eurocrats reckon that anti-competitiveness from Redmond would be a massive foot-shooting exercise * Atlassian: Look at our ginormous Jira revenues! But about that loss... * Have you made DevOps, Containers or CD work for you? Tell us about it Continuous Lifecycle London ‘19: Call for papers closes tonight Emergent Tech * Need a modest Arm Cortex-A CPU in your custom chip? Just apply online. Plus $125,000 That's how much it costs to license the blueprints (and don't forget the royalties) * A DeepMind library to help build reinforcement learning bots, and how Google's Pixel 3 cameras handle zoom Also applications are now open for OpenAI's Scholars programme * Anonymous Amazonian demands withdrawal of face-recog kit from sale Was your anti-surveillance letter sinkholed? Write a blog about it * Finally, a use for AI and good old-fashioned simulations: Hunting down E.T. in outer space Targeted ads, coming to a galaxy nowhere near you Personal Tech * Silent running: Computer sounds are so '90s 'Do not disturb' mode isn't for you, it's for the rest of us * FYI: Drone maker DJI's 'Get it on Google Play' website button definitely does not get the app from Google Play... Quadcopter slinger rudely palms folk off to .apk download Security * Apple boss demands Bloomberg Super Micro U-turn, Russian troll charged, NSA hands out cash, and more Plus, hackers find a safe haven in West Haven * Spotted: Miscreants use pilfered NSA hacking tools to pwn boxes in nuke, aerospace worlds High-value servers targeted by cyber-weapons dumped online by Shadow Brokers * You like HTTPS. We like HTTPS. Except when a quirk of TLS can smash someone's web privacy Never-closed browsers and persistent session tickets make tracking a doddle Software * Peter Thiel's Palantir reportedly eyeing up $41bn IPO Spies' fave data mining biz could go public as early as late 2019 – reports Science * Core-blimey! Riddle of Earth's mysterious center finally 'solved' by smarty seismologists So solid crew confirm old idea by spotting tiny waves * It's Two Spacecraft, One Mission as BepiColombo gets ready to launch JAXA and ESA in a tree, going to visit Mercury Bootnotes * FYI: Faking court orders to take down Google reviews is super illegal NYC biz boss gets nine months in the clink for profound idiocy * London flatmate (Julian Assange) sues landlord (government of Ecuador) in human rights spat WikiLeaks overlord challenges housemate rules in court * Facebook names former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg head of global affairs Zuck and Clegg in Silicon Valley – no, it's not the latest Netflix satire * Insects with farts that smell like coriander assist in covering up Paris's aroma d'urine Sightings of Asian stink bug in French capital spike * From dank memes to Krispy Kremes: British uni eggheads claim viral lol pics make kids fat Turns out getting diet advice from popular internet images is a bad idea ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing, The Cursitor, 38 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1EN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2018 Situation Publishing. 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