I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue [Mon Jul 15 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 15 July 2019 ***************************************************************** I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means ***************************************************************** Business * Accounts whistleblower blackmailed Autonomy for a payoff, Mike Lynch tells High Court And yet his pre-HP buyout allegations got UK finance watchdogs sniffing * Usenet file-swapping was acceptable in the '80s – but not so much now: Pirate pair sent down for 66 months Yep, Usenet is still around * Microsoft tells resellers: 'We listened to you, and we have acted' (PS: Plz keep making us money) Software-snatcher backs down on licence plans * We have the best trade wars: US investigating French tech tax plan over fears it unfairly targets American biz How dare they. There are shareholders to consider Data Centre * X-ray specs: Signal whizz JMA Wireless claims to have solved indoor 5G, everyone But how will it compare against Wi-Fi 6? * Cloudflare comes clean on crashing a chunk of the web: How small errors and one tiny bit of code led to a huge mess The culprit? .*(?:.*=.*) * Oracle told to warp 9 out of court: Judge photon-torpedoes Big Red's Pentagon JEDI dream Good news for Amazon, Microsoft. Meanwhile: A lawmaker offers new hope to database giant * With heroes like BT and Openreach, who needs villains? ISP lobbyists' awards continue to vex How you holding up, Mozilla? * Ofcom head Sharon White pocketed nearly £500k last year A pittance compared to the near-£1m she is due to take home at John Lewis * Nvidia and friends: GPU giant's AI data centre network is going global Big iron systems servin' all over the world with new deals * Rackspace cloudy 'mix and match' stacks now available for EMEA mortals Service Blocks float across the Pond 9 months after landing in US * I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means DevOps * Amazon brings serverless pie to Visual Studio Code party AWS extension for debugging Lambda shuffles out of preview Emergent Tech * Gamers get a chance to battle an AI on the QT. Plus: Robo-marines, and fisticuffs over facial recognition in Detroit Rapid-fire summary of machine-learning news * Congrats, Nvidia and Google: You're still the best (out of five) at training neural networks ML Perf could do with more entrants' results * Loose tongues and oily seamen: Lost in machine translation yet again While I’m at it, another punch at Bitcoin * How an ace-hole AI bot built by Facebook, CMU boffins whipped a table of human poker pros This code doesn't need coolers to win: Two-core machine used to outplay world-beating elites Personal Tech * Cough up, like, 1% of your valuation and keep up the good work, says FTC: In draft privacy deal, Facebook won't have to change a thing Proposed settlement over Cambridge Analytica brouhaha slammed as ‘a mosquito bite’ * US border cops' secret racist Facebook group a total disgrace, says patrol chief. She should know, she was a member Contrary to honor and integrity * Farewell to function keys and swappable SSDs in the new two-port MacBook Pro Apple's latest entry-level lappy gets the teardown treatment * PC shipments back in black: Desktops to the rescue, aided by Win10 Big three only got bigger after snaffling remaining Intel CPUs * At $1k a page, take care when RTFM: Apple-1 documentation sells for nearly $13,000 at auction Can we interest you in some unwashed gym gear instead? Security * Brilliant Boston boffins blow big borehole in Bluetooth's ballyhooed barricades: MAC addy randomization broken Scrambling addresses can't always hide you from stalkers, say eggheads * Blah blah Blaha: Slovak infosec firm ESET sues politico who called them 'outrageous fascists' He also said they're working with the CIA * UK Home Secretary doubles down on cops' deeply flawed facial recognition trials 1984 is not an instruction manual, and yet here we are Software * Facebook devs devise Hermes to push cross-platform JavaScript to godlike speeds Not named after the French couturier but the Greek god of trade, roads, and thieves Science * Literally rings our bell: Scotch eggheads take first-ever snap of quantum entanglement 'Spooky action' caught on camera – see it for yourself * Ex-NASA Mars InSight contractor sets legal eagles on JPL over whistleblower sacking Hot on heels of $1.5m win against his employers * Hayabusa2 stirs up rubble on surface of Ryugu, pokes asteroid with sampling horn Second successful excursion for JAXA boffins Bootnotes * Now that's just offal: Heap of pig guts hog road after truck spills load in Kansas City Hopefully the bacon was brought home safely ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 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