MH370 final report: Aussies still don’t know where it crashed or why [Wed Oct 4 2017]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 4 October 2017 ***************************************************************** MH370 final report: Aussies still don’t know where it crashed or why ATSB wraps up, nine months after 'suspending' search ***************************************************************** Business * Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull hints at surveillance expansion Drivers' licenses pics shared with States? You ain't seen nothing yet: the private sector might get your mugshot, too * BBC Telly Tax petition given new Parliament debate date 125k refuseniks to have their say after all * Home Sec Amber Rudd: Yeah, I don't understand encryption. So what? Techies! Will you please stop patronising and sneering! ;_; Data Centre * Azure fell over for 7 hours in Europe because someone accidentally set off the fire extinguishers Engineering the Microsoft way * Ex-Intel boss Paul Otellini dead at age 66 Krzanich pays tribute to former Chipzilla supremo * NFS is now on tap in Azure – and NetApp is Microsoft's provider NFS as a service on-ramp to Azure * Call the doctor! WDC's new 14TB spinner has shingled write scheme Oh, that's shingles. As you were * Big iron storage supplier Infinidat blags more o' that sweet VC cash $95m to satiate its appetite for gutbusting growth * Actifio launches v8 of Sky Platform, extends dedupe to cloud crowd Goes native with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle * Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Self-processing flash drives, we'll need more capacity OpenIO talks us through how it's applying its software to SSDs * Nailing a cloud project without killing Bob boils down to not being a tool Management, devs, ops, Bob too... just be freakin' reasonable * Hierarchical Storage Management is back. And this time it's cloudy KompriseCloud can now shunt data between different cloud storage operators DevOps * Oracle VP: 'We want the next decade to be Java first, Java always' For perhaps the first time ever, a JavaOne keynote was actually useful Emergent Tech * Microsoft shows off Windows 10 Second Li, er, Mixed Reality El Reg takes another spin on Redmond's VR headset support in Fall Creators release Personal Tech * Commodore 64 makes a half-sized comeback The keyboard's cosmetic in this 'retro-games-baked-onto ROM' with HDMI and USB caper * Microsoft may have its groove back but it's binned 'Groove' Ghost-of-Zune music subscription service retired, users shunted to Spotify Security * Nothing matters any more... Now hapless Equifax bags $7.5m IT contract with US taxmen They're just trolling us at this point * Oath-my-God: THREE! BILLION! Yahoo! accounts! hacked! in! 2013! – not! 'just!' 1bn! Every user pwned, how's that $4bn looking now, Verizon? * Patch your WordPress plugins: Scum are right now hijacking blogs Unless of course your site is so dull that a little hacker defacement will cheer it up * Schrems busts Privacy Shield wide open Dublin Judge asks European Court to look at data flows all over again * MH370 final report: Aussies still don’t know where it crashed or why ATSB wraps up, nine months after 'suspending' search * Un-Delled SonicWall beefs up firewall to wrestle ransomware Newly-freed security vendor thinks it can drag users into cloudy security analytics Software * Ignite: Microsoft drops veil on Honolulu, releases SQL Server on Linux into the wild What went down last week in Florida? * The axeman strikes again: Microsoft has real commitment issues Yet another product cull raises questions about Microsoft's commitment to... anything, really * Introducing EE4J – Java EE's fling with the Eclipse Foundation Developers hoping move will reinvigorate the community * Blockchain, AI, chatbots, cloud … Oracle bingo! Big Red has all this year's big buzzwords covered * Linux kernel long term support extended from two to six years Google wants Android devices to survive four OS upgrades, even if LTS releases make Linus a bit grumpy Science * Physicists win Nobel Prize for spotting ripples in fabric of space-time Dude. Woah. * Forget the 'simulated universe', say boffins, no simulator could hit the required scale Reality will have to do unless you can leap-frog quantum computing * Life began after meteorites splashed into warm ponds of water, say astronomers Cosmic carbon crashes, plus grains galore, set the chemical world cranking * Bad news! Astroboffins find the stuff of life in space for the first time We thought this stuff would turn up where there's already life. Turns out it's everywhere Bootnotes * ISIS and Jack Daniel's: One of these things is not like the other Zürich bloke's neighbours send nasty letter over whiskey flag * Computers4Christians miraculously appears on Ubuntu wiki It must have been divine intervention * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. Learn how to to ensure security, regulatory compliance, and business continuity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, The Lightwell, 12-16 Laystall Street, London, EC1R 4PF, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: