Between you, me and that dodgy-looking USB: A little bit of paranoia never hurt anyone [Wed Nov 14 2018]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 14 November 2018 ***************************************************************** Between you, me and that dodgy-looking USB: A little bit of paranoia never hurt anyone Let's lift our eyes from the balance sheet and take a look around... ***************************************************************** Business * We definitely don't need more towers, says new Vodafone boss scraping around for €8bn savings Steady as she goes with 5G * Data-nicking UK car repairman jailed six months instead of copping a fine Data Protection Act isn't our only legal weapon, beams ICO * Cheeky cheesemaker fails to copyright how things taste On yer bike, CJEU tells Dutch dairy dealer Data Centre * OK Google, what is African ISP Main One, and how did it manage to route your traffic into China through Russia? Sub cable biz raises hand, 'fesses up to causing BGP hijack drama * FPGAs? Sure, them too. Liqid pours chips over composable computing systems Xilinx Alveo cards added to platform list * Cloud zeta: Google's data-transfer boxen hit beta in Europe Rival AWS fluffs US govt cloud, pops up in Italy * New appliances from Cisco aim to make branch SD-WAN easier Optimised Office 365 performance also on cards * NBN satellite user waiting for extra gigabytes? Keep waiting Relief is coming next year, CEO promises * France: Let's make the internet safer. America, Russia, China: Let's go with 'no' on that Big names missing from 'Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace' * Big Q. Tch, what could have persuaded Intel to bring forward 5G chip production six months? Clue's in the headline. And more importantly: Will anyone but Cupertino care? Emergent Tech * Another 3D printer? Oh, stop it, you're killing us. Perhaps literally: Fears over ultrafine dust Bio-boffins bet beastly bad bits bash bronchi Personal Tech * Scam or stunt? It's looking like the latter... Xiaomi so sorry for £1 smartphone 'promo' When an offer looks too good to be true, it always is Security * It's November 2018, and Microsoft's super-secure Edge browser can be pwned eight different ways by a web page Look, we're tired of doing these headlines too, but for there's patching to do * Russia: We did not hack the US Democrats. But if we did, we're immune from prosecution (lmao) Hackers are lethal weapons, as in diplomatic... oh forget it * Between you, me and that dodgy-looking USB: A little bit of paranoia never hurt anyone Let's lift our eyes from the balance sheet and take a look around... Software * Microsoft lobs Windows 10, Server October 2018 update at world, minus its file-nuking 'feature', after actually doing some testing Wow, what a novel concept: 'Extensive internal validation' * SAP can claim to change its culture, but can it convince customers? Brit user group presses for info and tools amid licensing fudge * Michael Howard: Embrace of open source is destroying 'artificial definitions' of legacy vendors MariaDB boss says IPO is part of his 3-year plan * Just a little heads up: Google is still trying to convince everyone that web apps don't suck Chrome Dev Summit finds web apps still struggling next to shiny native counterparts Science * Rocket Labs mean business, Brits stick pin in Mars map, and Japan celebrates HTV-7’s dive into the atmosphere Another way ISS 'nauts can send stuff home Bootnotes * Open the pod bay doors: Voice of HAL 9000 Douglas Rain dies at 90 2001: A Space Odyssey's villain raised bar for killer robot trope ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: