Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours [Fri Jul 26 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 26 July 2019 ***************************************************************** Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours Patch your darn metal bird, sighs EU aviation agency ***************************************************************** Business * SK Hynix to cut DRAM production, investment as profit declines 89% When the chips are down: trade tussle with Japan yet another reason for pessimism * Azure consultant to sue Google for linking his cached pics to cloned site, breach of copyright High Court judge reverses earlier toss-out decision * German patent hoarder IPCom fires sueball at Vodafone over 4G A FRAND in need is a FRAND indeed, pair square up for infringement battle Data Centre * AWS still a cash machine for Bezos, Intel is down a 5G modem biz, and Google is on Tulsi Gabbard's bad side Here's a round-up from a bumper day of earnings * Car crash: Ford writes down $181m in Pivotal stock as investors claim cloud biz still can't do Kubernetes properly Automaker loses money as software-as-a-service slinger's woes mount * Somebody is working on a $600m data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, could rhyme with schmoogle 'Google? Who is Google? My name is Guy Incognito' * Our sales were to genuine customers, Autonomy ex-CEO Mike Lynch insists in court Boss bats away the idea deals were 'circular' to pump up revenues * Huawei is planning to inject $436m into Arm-based server silicon With its eye mostly on the domestic market * Virgin Media promises speeds of 1Gpbs to 15 million homes – all without full fibre But industry is sceptical hybrid network tech will cut it * Hello there. You're overspending on AWS! Cloud giant introduces Chatbot for Slack chat alerts and diagnostics Amazon Web Services' work-in-progress beta talks... but does not listen * O2: We've found Huawei of not using you-know-who's kit in 5G rollout Sticking with Ericsson and Nokia * IT outages in the financial sector: Legacy banks playing tech catch-up risk more outages, UK MPs told 'How many times in a week can we change an app without it falling over?' * Tune in this month: How to leave the past behind and migrate to the cloud – your practical guide Derby City Council's head of tech will be on hand along with Nutanix and El Reg Emergent Tech * UK digital network Openreach takes 15 electric vans for a spin Just another 22,000 to go... Personal Tech * If at first you don't succeed, Fold? Nope. Samsung redesigns bendy screen for fresh launch in September Infinity Display Flex extended 'beyond bezel' so users know not to peel it off Security * South Africans shivering in the dark after file-scrambling nasty hits Johannesburg power biz City says no data stolen in ransomware outbreak, some prepaid punters without 'leccy * Backdoors won't weaken your encryption, wails FBI boss. And he's right. They won't – they'll fscking torpedo it Give it a Wray, give it a Wray, give it a Wray now: Big Chris steps in to defend blowing a hole in personal crypto Software * Free supported Java turns up in latest SQL Server 2019 preview Microsoft: Why pay Oracle when you can pay us for Big Data Clusters? * Hey, Windows Insiders! Sorry about that whole 20H1 build thing. Won't happen again – honest Microsoft, you still have a problem * Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours Patch your darn metal bird, sighs EU aviation agency Science * Meet the super-speedy white dwarf binary system that's going to grav-wave our world ZTF J1539+5027 - where a year lasts under seven minutes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: