In Windows 10 Update land, nobody can hear you scream [Tue Oct 16 2018]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 16 October 2018 ***************************************************************** In Windows 10 Update land, nobody can hear you scream Probably because Microsoft has accidentally disabled your audio ***************************************************************** Advertisment Gartner IT Infrastrcuture, Operations and Cloud Strategies Summit. View Agenda Business * As angels, rich dudebros suck: 1 in 5 Y Combinator women tech founders say they were sexually harassed Surprising nobody, survey finds investors think they're buying more than a slice of a startup * Icahn to Dell investors: You can't touch this reverse merger with VMware Undervalues tracker stock by $11bn, quips: 'Peace better than war but I still enjoy a good fight' * The march of Amazon Business has resellers quaking in their booties 'To team up with Amazon is like to team up with the devil' * Cabinet Office: Forget about Verify – look at our 3,000 designers (and 56 meetups) Digital government? Not sure how it is for you, but it's been great for us Data Centre * Mobe networks battle to bring comms back after Hurricane Michael smashes US Gulf Coast 'Unprecedented' fibre damage from deadly storm, says Verizon * Virgin Media? More like Virgin Meltdown: Brit broadband ISP falls over amid power drama Status: TITSUP – Total Inability To Support Users' Packets * Outside of Japan, Fujitsu KILLS the K5 cloud with 'immediate effect' Another old world vendor to rely on hyperscale beasties... in this instance, Azure * Cease and DE-CIX: German internet operator fights spies, IEEE eyes 802.11 future and more Also: Juniper and the gang plus AI network research tools * Scanning an Exchange server for a virus that spreads via email? What could go wrong? Techie gets away with it by saying 'I Love You' DevOps * Serverless? There’s more than one way to run a function And more than one place… Emergent Tech * Alexa heard what you did last summer – and she knows what that was, too: AI recognizes activities from sound Gadgets taught to identify actions via always-on mics * GCHQ asks tech firms to pretty please make IoT devices secure Hive, HP Inc sign up to refreshed code of practice * Enterprise IoT security sucks so much, it's made Intel and Arm work together to tackle it Chip rivals lock lips to make customers happy Advertisment Gartner IT Infrastrcuture, Operations and Cloud Strategies Summit. View Agenda Personal Tech * Samsung’s flexible phone: Expect an expensive, half-bendy clamshell Like a Psion without the keys * Microsoft Surface to die in 2019? Not while Redmond keeps making it, er, blush But you're only in the pink if you're in China Security * Dating app for Trump loners commits YUGE blunder: It leaks more than the West Wing Donald Daters application more insecure than the president * Hunt for Red Bugtober: US military's weapon systems riddled with security holes – auditors Death from a-bug. Dr Strange-bug. Top Bug. We could do this all day... * Penta-gone! Personal records of 30,000 US Dept of Defense workers swiped by miscreants Travel details for thousands of citizens slip into hands of slippery scumbags Software * In Windows 10 Update land, nobody can hear you scream Probably because Microsoft has accidentally disabled your audio Science * NASA Administrator: 'We will fly again on a Russian Soyuz rocket' 'I have no reason to believe at this point that it won't be on schedule' For reals, my dude? * Bloodhound Super-Sonic-Car lacks Super-Sonic-Cashflow Plucky Brit land speed record chaser fails to find £25m down the back of the sofa, calls in Administrators Advertisment Gartner IT Infrastrcuture, Operations and Cloud Strategies Summit. View Agenda ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2018 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: