Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup [Wed Dec 4 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 4 December 2019 ***************************************************************** Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup From 'boy genius' to 'oh boy' ***************************************************************** Business * EU wouldn't! Uncle Sam brandishes 'up to 100%' tariffs over France's Digital Services Tax China is so last year. America (tech giants) first * Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, so the EU is investigating Google to get some more money in its hat Because eight billion euros just ain’t enough Data Centre * Larry leaves, Sergey splits: Google lads hand over Alphabet reins to Sundar Pichai Sergey leaves his first love… again * Gravitons, Neoverse... you'd be forgiven for thinking AWS's second-gen 64-core Arm server processor was a sci-fi Amazon cloud teases Graviton2 tech * HPE planning to turn balancing on-premises and cloud environments into point-and-click adventures Firm touts self-service portal GreenLake Central in Munich * Internet Society says opportunity to sell .org to private equity biz for $1.14bn came out of the blue. Wow, really? Anger rises over ten-figure sale of registry Emergent Tech * Closing Windows, opening ML and AI-powered coding: Orgy of announcements in marathon AWS keynote We sat through a three-hour AWS lecture so that you didn't have to * We took a shot every time Qualcomm said 5G, AI or mobile gaming in its Snapdragon 865, 765 system-on-chip launch... ...nd its nt evevn lunchteim yt * Trump Administration fast-tracks compulsory border facial recognition scans for all US citizens Homeland Security also clamping down on H1-B visas * Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup From 'boy genius' to 'oh boy' Personal Tech * Pablo Escobar's brother is Medellín in the foldable phone biz, sniffing out new markets Got a phone for The Reg to stroke a claw across, Roberto? * EFF warns of 'one-way mirror' of web surveillance by tech giants – led by Google Online tracking report explores persistent privacy problems Reg Lectures * Register Lecture: Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GNSS? New decade, independent geo-time keeping Security * AWS has new tool for those leaky S3 buckets so, yeah, you might need to reconfigure a few things Security a popular topic at Las Vegas event * UK parcel firm Yodel plugs tracking app's random yaps about where on map to snap up strangers' tat Shipped from expensive shop X? In the shed, you say? Researcher spots badness Software * Mayday in Moscow as devs will be Russian to Putin mandatory apps on phones, laptops, TVs Don't be Stalin, you only have until July, thanks to new law * It's Hipp to be square: What happened when SQLite creator met GitHub The 'Hub is not really about Git any more, says Fossil architect Science * Astronauts brave razor sharp edges and fiddly pipes to bring joy to boffins Fixing the unfixable – AMS-02 gets a new pump * Boffins believe it was volcanoes, not just life, that made Earth what it is today – oxygen rich Photosynthesis alone ain't going to cut it as an explanation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: