'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 MAX warning fiasco [Wed May 8 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 8 May 2019 ***************************************************************** 'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 MAX warning fiasco Engineers knew of problem in 2017. Management didn't until after fatal crash ***************************************************************** Business * IT bod who does a bit of everything: You might want to specialise if that pay rise proves elusive Tech salaries up almost 2 per cent in 2018 Data Centre * Marvell's Avengers, er, Aquantia Endgame: Biz gobbled up for $452m in robo-ride Ethernet bid Self-driving cars are gonna need a decent amount of internal networking * This move by Dropbox will reduce users' files to tiers: Rarely, regularly accessed data now kept separate Not all documents are created, er, stored equal * Lightning speed – how fast is that again? Virgin plugs in another 102k to superfast broadband But revenues for Q1 2019 flat as a pancake * Dutch chip-making specialist ASML rifles through pockets of rival XTAL: Nice IP. We'll be having that Bankrupt competitor can't pay $845m for trade secrets theft * 5G willikers, did AI do that? HPC botherer DDN buys Nexenta Splashing out on software-defined file and object storage plus ... some extras * If the thing you were doing earlier is 'drop table' commands, ctrl-c, ctrl-v is not your friend £500k social network scotched less than two weeks after launch DevOps * Continuous Lifecycle London: Doors open in one week Head to Westminster for the best in DevOps, containers, and more... Emergent Tech * Google jumps the shark from search results to your camera: Nest Hub, Pixels, and more from ad giant's coder confab AI. Privacy. AI. Privacy. AI. Privacy. AI. Priva... * Blockchain is a lot like teen sex: Everybody talks about it, no one has a clue how to do it Still a solution looking for a problem? Seems that way Personal Tech * Put a stop to these damn robocalls! Dozens of US state attorneys general fire rocket up FCC's ass Foot dragging causing real harm to Americans caught up in scams * Hate e-scooters? Join the club of the pals of 190 riders in Austin TX who ended up in hospital Wear a helmet, hipsters Security * And in this week's weird news, Feds seize dark-web news site, accuses admins of getting rich off drug cyber-souk Pair cuffed in Israel * Remember those stolen 'NSA exploits' leaked online by the Shadow Brokers? The Chinese had them a year before Or so claims Symantec * Be wary of emails with links to ... er, Google Drive? Is that right? Alibaba, Azure and more used for badness, warns infosec biz * 'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 MAX warning fiasco Engineers knew of problem in 2017. Management didn't until after fatal crash * NSA foreign spying, biotech snooping, Hamas hackers bombed, airline cams, and much more from infosec land Quick-fire summary of the past few days of news Software * Can I get a RHEL yeah? Version 8 arrives at last as IBM given go-ahead to wolf down Red Hat All subsequent updates will have a Big Blue tint * EU lumbers towards Apple probe as Spotify cries foul over App Store's 30% cut Competition commissioner finds grounds to investigate * The OpenStack Foundation would like everyone to just get along and play nice, m'kay? Joss sticks lit at the Open Infrastructure Summit Science * Rocket Lab picks up the pace while SpaceX sends a Dragon to the Space Station Also: NASA's 2024 Moon dreams get another soaking from the big bucket of reality * Cocaine, psychedelics, DMT? They sure knew how to party 1,000 years ago: Archaeologists make startling discovery Meet South America's Stoned Henge ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2019 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: