Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 25 June 2019 ***************************************************************** Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM... ...And more, including dual 4K monitor outputs that you'll need new cables for ***************************************************************** Business * EE-k, a hundred grand! BT's mobile arm slapped for sending 2.5m+ unwanted texts Pestered folk to 'download my EE app' and 'upgrade your phone' * Remember the Nominet £100m dot-uk windfall it claims doesn't exist? Well, it's already begun Fasthosts registers all its customers' .uk domain names â just for safekeeping, you understand Data Centre * Mayday, mayday. Cray, you cray cray: Investor attempts to halt HPE's $1.3bn biz gobble Accuses both companies of withholding essential information, claims multiple conflicts of interest * BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a 'cascading catastrophic failure' that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc 'Normally you'd filter it out if some small provider said they own the internet' * Packet hauls microservers out of dusty grave: Whoa! Necromancy is really edgy Small machines with feeble CPUs are becoming interesting again * Cloudflare hits the deck, websites sink from sight after the internet springs yet another BGP leak Ghost in the machine conspires to ruin CDN biz's 10th birthday, it seems * Having bank problems? I feel bad for you son: I've got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one It was acceptable in the Eighties DevOps * Get a grip on Lambda, Kubernetes, Azure Functions, and more, at Serverless Computing London â save £100s today with blind bird tix Discount offer expires tonight so hurry, hurry, hurry Emergent Tech * Remember that crypto-exchange boss who mysteriously died after his customers' coins disappeared? Of course he totally stole them So claims this Ernst & Young probe report Personal Tech * Apple sued over fondleslab death blaze: iPad battery blamed for deadly New Jersey apartment fire Insurers and family fling sueballs at Cupertino giant * Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM... ...And more, including dual 4K monitor outputs that you'll need new cables for Security * Biz tells ransomware victims it can decrypt their files... by secretly paying off the crooks and banking a fat margin It's all in a lucrative day's work for Red Mosquito * Iran is doing to our networks what it did to our spy drone, claims Uncle Sam: Now they're bombing our hard drives Tehran's hackers are 'wiping' infected machines as tensions spike, fresh sanctions approved * Cisco cleans up critical flaws, Florida city forks out $600k to ransomware scumbags, and more from infosec land Your quick guide to what else has been happening in computer security lately * Driving Xtreme Cuts: DXC Technology waves bye bye to 45% of Americas Security divison 50 roles shifted off to India Software * Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row? Nope: It was not giving Android a run for its money... * Out of Steam? Wine draining away? Ubuntu's 64-bit-only x86 decision is causing migraines i386 binaries will still run, says Canonical, but it may not be good enough for key apps * The Windows Terminal turns up in the Microsoft Store Also: Azure backup for SQL dinosaurs and Machine Learning hits Windows Update Science * One goes up, one stays on the ground and one gets ready: It's a week in space A trio of heavy lifters in rocket boffinry * Curioser and curioser: Little Mars rover sniffs out highest ever levels of methane He who smelt it dealt it? Bootnotes * It's official. You can get FUCT, US Supremes tell scandalized bureaucrats in rude trademark spat Top court undoes snub for provocatively named clothing brand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: