Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia [Tue Dec 10 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 10 December 2019 ***************************************************************** Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia CEO accused of breaching contract with Cupertino, fires back in court ***************************************************************** Business * Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released But it's all anonymised data so who cares, right? * Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software Who needs who more? * David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74 Northamber founder passes after 'short illness' Data Centre * Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia CEO accused of breaching contract with Cupertino, fires back in court * Amazon: Trump photon-torpedoed our $10bn JEDI dream because he hates CEO Jeff Bezos 'Blatant and sustained effort' to deny AWS Pentagon IT mega-contract, cloud giant claims * Watch live online: Your customers and staff need always-on instant results. Here's how to meet those demands Optimize the performance, cost and capacity of data-driven apps with Intel * Ericsson throws $1bn at US authorities to make bribery probe go away Swedish comms flinger enters agreement with DoJ and SEC * Outposts, Local Zone, Wavelength: It's a new era of distributed cloud, says AWS architect Adrian Cockcroft talks to El Reg about cloud architecture – and why we need more chaos in our systems * Here's a bit of Intel for you: Neri a day goes by that HPE doesn't feel CPU shortage pinch Not just server pain, PCs too, says new CEO * Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent It only took colleagues an hour to notice our hero was missing Emergent Tech * Tesla has a smashing weekend: Model 3 on Autopilot whacks cop cars, Elon's Cybertruck demolishes part of LA Dude was distracted by his dog when flash motor pranged police, officers say * Homeland Security backs off on scanning US citizens, Amazon ups AI ante, and more And why China might not be as big as first thought in AI spending Personal Tech * Advertisers want exemption from web privacy rules that, you know, enforce privacy They also want a ban on interfering with their cookies * Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership And thus the age of the Glasshole passes into history * Xerox woos HP stock owners with talk of layoffs, selloffs and cash payouts post merger Let's strap these bricks together and maybe we'll make a boat * Apple tipped to go full wireless by 2021, and you're all still grumbling about a headphone jack They can live in my new world or they can die in their old one Security * Ad network ransomware crook to flog £5k Rolex after court confiscates £270k in ill-gotten gains Next thing she's wearing my Casio * Metasploit for drones? Best of luck with that, muses veteran tinkerer Been down this path and it ain't that easy, says man who knows Software * Kiwi tax probe squeezed $25m out of Microsoft – now it's Oracle's turn New Zealand's Inland Revenue Department has questions about transfer pricing * Things Microsoft will be glad to never see again: Windows 10 1809 and Windows Phone Office New builds, Project Scarlett and much more * Gee, S/4HANA. Just what I always wanted: Customers are wary of what's in SAP's sack So the decades we invested in the last platform mean nothing? Science * Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station Plus: Commercial crew news and NASA publishes what ISRO won't Bootnotes * Behuld – zee-a internet ouff tuilet tissuoe at Meecrusufft Sveden. Bork bork bork! Windows giant shows off smart-metered, connected office in Stockholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: