Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards [Fri Aug 30 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 30 August 2019 ***************************************************************** Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards Live footage of runway and grass verge more compelling than actual flight instruments ***************************************************************** Business * Gov flings £10m to help businesses get Brexit-ready with, um... information packs Just months before 'Brexit day' * Maltese browser game biz flings €1m sueball at Google over Adsense kerfuffle Claims to have made nearly €800k from ad clicks Data Centre * Get your royalty-free soft-core OpenPOWER processor core blueprints here. Extra, extra – read all about it Plus: Intel slips first 10nm Agilex FPGAs to select lucky customers * Vodafone hurls sueball at Ofcom over plans to relax BT leases Claims loosening BT's price cap will cost businesses £230m * Hong Kong ISPs beg Chinese govt not to impose Great Firewall on them 'Network censorship will only accelerate the loss of HK to competing cities' * UK.gov: Huge mobile masts coming to a grassy hill near you soon Bad news for Nimbys and 5G health cranks, good news for 4G * Drop by the Cloud Shack and you could win free tickets to Nutanix's .NEXT Europe 2019 event Tune into expert-led eight-part video series and bag fear gear Emergent Tech * Apple says sorry for Siri slurping voice commands of unsuspecting users Devises three-point plan to up its privacy game * Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards Live footage of runway and grass verge more compelling than actual flight instruments * A carbon-nanotube RISC-V CPU blinks into life. Boffins hold their breath awaiting first sign of life... 'Hello world!' MIT, Analog get into some RISC-y business Personal Tech * Huawei new smartphone won't be Mate-y with Google apps as trade sanctions kick in Chinese mobe maker says screw you, we'll build our own * Apple blinks on iPhone repairs, touts parts program for independent tech mechanics... sort of Planned obsolescence and big profits be damned, we're going to let you fix your kit Security * Google takes a little more responsibility for its Android world, will cough up bounties for mega-popular app bugs Payouts extended to anything with more than 100m installs * Capital One 'hacker' hit with fresh charges: She burgled 30 other AWS-hosted orgs, Feds claim Ex-Amazon techie accused of cyber-looting other storage buckets, mining crypto-coins on hacked servers Software * Clutching at its Perl, developer community ponders language name with less baggage First Gim, er, Glimpse – now our web vultures' favorite coding lingo * Mozilla shaves down Beard to a luxuriant mustache, looks for new CEO by end of year The clock is ticking to find replacement, he's off by Xmas * Zapped from the Play store: Another developer gets no sense from Google, appeals to the public Five years' history not enough to get a meaningful human response * Brit software giant Micro Focus takes a bath after share price crashes 30%, sales tank Slowing economy blamed for customers delaying software buys as storm clouds gather Science * Behind time and way over budget, but the James Webb Space Telescope has finally been put together Let's hope the sunshield doesn't get ripped off again, eh? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 14 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2019 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: