The silence of the racks is deafening, production gear has gone dark – so which wire do we cut? [Mon Nov 18 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 18 November 2019 ***************************************************************** The silence of the racks is deafening, production gear has gone dark – so which wire do we cut? Well, Clarice? ***************************************************************** Business * HP to Xerox: Nope, your $33.5bn bid falls short of our valuation Board keeps door open... HPOX not a total impossibility, at least not if Carl Icahn has his way * Uncle Sam prepping order to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch from the UK Meanwhile, his co-defendant has troubles getting into land of the free * Tonight on Tales from the Crypto: It lives! GPU flinger Nvidia bouncing back after miner affair Just goes to show, stick with what you know * High Court dismisses nameless Google Right To Be Forgotten sueball man... yes, again Amazingly made it to 2 years without telling anyone his name Data Centre * A bridge over troubled water: Intel teases Ponte Vecchio, the GPU brains in US govt's 1-exaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again * 5G SIM-swap attacks could be even worse for industrial IoT than now Trust your hardware? Pah, you oughta trust nobody * TalkTalk says it's yet to close deal on FibreNation as UK telecoms industry reels over Labour's nationalisation plans 'The news overnight ... making everybody in the sector pause and consider' * Use the courts, Jeff: Amazon to contest Microsoft scooping $10bn JEDI contract Bezos' empire strikes back claiming 'unmistakable bias', self-recused defense chief denies it * Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election The 1980s called and it wants its state-owned telco-provider back * The silence of the racks is deafening, production gear has gone dark – so which wire do we cut? Well, Clarice? DevOps * Google promises to be good with Knative as it releases Cloud Run serverless containers Admits open-source API bigger than any one company, but it is not letting go Emergent Tech * Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter The meatball that shook the world has investors salivating * Can't you hear me knocking? But I installed a smart knocker I'll huff and I'll puff... * Boffins harnessed the brain power of mice to build AI models that can't be fooled How neuroscience can help AI Personal Tech * Huawei's first Google-free phone stripped and searched: Repair not too painful... once you're in Mate 30 Pro's modular innards praised, but glue still abundant Security * Denial of service kingpin hit with 13 months denial of freedom and a massive bill to pay Illinois man gets more than a year in the slammer for $550K DDoS scheme * 1Password hopes to cross some items off its todo list with help from $200m in venture capital Though not much detail on said list, except security and privacy * Try as they might, ransomware crooks can't hide their tells when playing hands Sophos sees common behavior across various infections Software * Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java, AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes The case that just won't die * White Screen of Death: Admins up in arms after experimental Google emission borks Chrome Change rolled back, but it's not a good look * Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites *Cough cough* Science * Physicists are rather giddy after creating a rare type of laser using laughing gas Tanks of nitrous oxide needed for, erm, science eh? * Boffins show the 2017 Nork nuke can move, move, move any mountain (by a meter) Satellite radar imaging shows explosion was 17 times more powerful than Hiroshima Bootnotes * What a load of bollards! Object of bloke's street furniture romp run over Still a better love story than Twilight ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: