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A DeepMind library to help build reinforcement learning bots, and how Google's Pixel 3 cameras handle zoom
Roundup Hello, here's a quick roundup of interesting or useful bits of AI news that happened this week.…
Apple boss demands Bloomberg Super Micro U-turn, Russian troll charged, NSA hands out cash, and more
Roundup After we encountered a libssh security blunder, a leaky Tea Party, and a dodgy Redmond sports marketer, another week is in the book.…
Oz intel committee: Crypto-busting is only bad if you're a commie, and we're not by the way
Comment Tech vendors: don't worry about Australian law enforcement demanding you decrypt user messages. It's OK, because we're not a communist regime.…
FYI: Faking court orders to take down Google reviews is super illegal
A New York business owner will be spending the next nine months behind bars after he was convicted of forging court orders to take down unflattering online reviews.…
London flatmate (Julian Assange) sues landlord (government of Ecuador) in human rights spat
Housemate from hell Julian Assange is taking his landlord, the government of Ecuador, to court to stop its officials from, allegedly, running roughshod over his human rights.…
Core-blimey! Riddle of Earth's mysterious center finally 'solved' by smarty seismologists
The Earth’s core is solid, according to a pair of geophysicists who claim to have solved an 80-year-old conundrum concerning the planet's center.…
Spotted: Miscreants use pilfered NSA hacking tools to pwn boxes in nuke, aerospace worlds
Miscreants are using a trio of NSA hacking tools, leaked last year by the Shadow Brokers, to infect and spy on computer systems used in aerospace, nuclear energy, and other industries.…
Pull request accepted: You want to buy GitHub, Microsoft? Go for it – EU
The European Commission has given the thumbs up to Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub.…
Atlassian: Look at our ginormous Jira revenues!
Atlassian, the collaboration outfit responsible for inflicting Jira on the world, has announced a jump in revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2019 and an equally eyewatering jump in losses.…
Ericsson's very good bad quarter, Mozilla encrypts SNI, new TIP projects, and more
Coming off a long string of losses, Ericsson probably hoped to turn in some good news, but at its latest financial results, the company announced the sacking of 50 people in response to a corruption scandal.…
Samsung claims key-value Z-SSD will be fastest flash ever
Among a blizzard of news from Samsung's Tech Data, El Reg has spotted smaller processor nodes, FPGAs added to SSDs, stacked and cubed memory, quad-level cell flash and object-storing SSDs on the way.…
Yale Security Fail: 'Unexpected load' caused systems to crash, whacked our Smart Living Home app
An unspecified and “unexpected load” on its infrastructure broke the Smart Living Home app for a day, an apologetic Yale Security UK confirmed to customers yesterday - however the smell of failure still lingers today.…
Yale Security Fail: 'Unexpected load' caused systems to crash, whacked our Smart Living Home app
An unspecified and “unexpected load” on its infrastructure broke the Smart Living Home app for a day, an apologetic Yale Security UK confirmed to customers yesterday - however the smell of failure still lingers today.…
There's no 'I' in 'IMFT' – because Micron intends to buy Intel out of 3D XPoint joint venture
Micron has announced its intent to buy out Intel's interest in Intel Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT), the pair's flash and 3D XPoint foundry joint venture.…
Facebook names former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg head of global affairs
Facebook has hired former British deputy PM Nick Clegg to head up its global affairs – a move that reportedly involved boss Mark Zuckerberg spending months “wooing” the Lib Dem has-been.…
Metadata-farming, data-silo-killing startup: Go on. Bring us your unstructured stuff
+Comment Newcomer on the storage software-as-a-service scene Hammerspace announced the general availability of its eponymous SaaS application this week. This software has been engineered using technology from Primary Data – yes, that Primary Data – applied to hybrid IT and cloud environments, providing a SaaS cloud-control plane.…
Sounds like a massive, risky UK.gov scheme, but let's not keep too many tabs on it, OK?
The UK's spending watchdog has said it isn't possible to tell whether the biggest and most risky government projects are doing what they're supposed to because of poor records and incomplete reporting.…
Insects with farts that smell like coriander assist in covering up Paris's aroma d'urine
Oh, c'est mal, les punaises diaboliques sont arrivés à Paris! But before you pack the holy water if sojourning in the French capital this winter, you should know a clothes peg might be more suitable.…
Peter Thiel's Palantir reportedly eyeing up $41bn IPO
CIA-backed data-mining business Palantir is reportedly in talks with banks to take the company public for a blockbuster sum, and could move as early as next year.…
European Commission: We've called off the lawyers over Ireland's late collection of Apple back taxes
The European Commission has decided to withdraw court action against Ireland over the delayed recovery of €14.3bn worth of back taxes that were ruled as illegal state aid, it has confirmed.…