Supreme Court says secret UK spy court's judgments can be overruled after all [Thu May 16 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 16 May 2019 ***************************************************************** Supreme Court says secret UK spy court's judgments can be overruled after all It all went a bit Pete Tong for the Peeping Toms ***************************************************************** Business * Hours before Congress backs robocall blocking law, guess what the FCC boss suddenly decides? Amazing how fast Pai and his team can move when motivated * Nest tosses £1.5bn pension admin service agreement out there for outsourcers to fight over UK.gov-backed scheme confirms deal with Indian outfit Tata to end 2023 * IT bod flings £1m sueball at Met Police for wrongly listing him as a convicted fraudster London cops claim he's got his databases mixed up Data Centre * Banhammer Republic: Trump declares national emergency, starts ball rolling to boot Huawei out of ALL US networks Fail Huawei, fail Huawei, fail Huawei: Executive order targets IT, telelcom systems * C'mon, UK networks! Poor sods have 'paid' for their contract phones a few times over... Tell 'em about good deals You have a year – Ofcom * Live online today: CTO of Hybrid Cloud at HPE meets our team to discuss real-world multi-cloud deployments There’s more than one way to store and process your data * Cloudflare gives websites their marching orders to hasten page rendering automatically Adjustments to HTTP/2 Prioritization allow faster delivery of web resources Emergent Tech * Big Tech leapt on the blockchain bandwagon but its applications are stuck in cryptocurrency If there's another use for the tech, venture capitalists aren't particularly interested * Quit worrying about killer robots, they are coming whether you like it or not – and they absolutely will not stop The only winning move is not to play, as a wise computer said Security * Titan-ic disaster: Bluetooth blunder sinks Google's 2FA keys, free replacements offered A pairing problem makes an account compromise possible, although improbable * We like transparency and we're a CA, hackers hack all night and we log all day Cert authority Sectigo funds Lets Encrypt transparency log * Supreme Court says secret UK spy court's judgments can be overruled after all It all went a bit Pete Tong for the Peeping Toms * MI5 slapped on the wrist for 'serious' surveillance data breach Auditors poked around for a week after too many Peeping Toms had a trawl * Microsoft emits free remote-desktop security patches for WinXP to Server 2008 to avoid another WannaCry Plus plenty of other fixes from Redmond and Adobe – and special guest star Citrix Software * Have you always wanted an algorithm that can search like Bing? Well, if you change your mind, one's on GitHub now Make your app answer all the easy questions, like, 'Where can I download Chrome?' * Microsoft goes to great lengths to polish Azure Active Directory's password policies Get it? Lengths. Users now have 240 extra characters to play with * El Reg rifled through the history of Huawei's 'new' GaussDB – only 'new' bit is machine learning Third version since 2016 Science * NASA wheels out Habitation prototypes while SpaceX encounters problems with parachutes Also: 60 Starlink sats shoehorned in a Falcon 9 fairing, bound for orbital shenanigans * Your FREE end-of-the-world guide: What happens when a sun like ours runs out of fuel On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero Bootnotes * Silence of the vans: Uber adds 'Plz STFU, driver' button to app for posh passengers using Black Low wages and job insecurity, with an added hint of dehumanizing social control * If you're ever lost on the Moon, Ordnance Survey now has you covered for Apollo 11 anniversary Hot tip for Reg readers: There are Easter eggs to be found ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: