Excuse me, sir. You can't store your things there. Those 7 gigabytes are reserved for Windows 10 [Wed Jan 9 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 9 January 2019 ***************************************************************** Excuse me, sir. You can't store your things there. Those 7 gigabytes are reserved for Windows 10 Buying a new PC in 2019? You may have a bit less disk space than you were expecting ***************************************************************** Business * It'll soon be even more illegal to fly drones near UK airports Mandatory registration and on-the-spot fines for fliers * Despite vows to spend more with smaller firms, UK.gov sure does seem to love legacy lock-in MPs told long negotiations, lack of know-how hinders SME spending * Sorry, Samsung. Seems nobody is immune to peak smartphone Chaebol warns operating profit to fall 29% * Ministry of Justice abandons key plank of £280m IT project Common Platform Programme to 'reuse' the 'legacy' prosecutors' case wrangling system Data Centre * Double denim? Ha! Now you can go triple denim with Seagate's hipster portable drive range Western Digital's CES lineup a tad more composed * Fire(cracker) sale at AWS: Up to 50% lopped off container compute engine Fargate Your move, Microsoft and Google * Feeling a bit gassy? Toshiba floats 16TB helium whopper Nine-platter beast serves up high-capacity spinning rust * Big cable trolls big mobile with '10G' trademark application It stands for 10 gigabits per second connections, so at least it means something * Huawei's 7nm 64-core Arm server brain, fresh Intel desktop Core chips, IBM tapping Samsung for Power10, and more Your handy guide to processor-related bits and bytes Emergent Tech * If you've been dying to run some math on a dinky toy quantum computer, IBM may have something for you Well, we all have to start somewhere: Rentable Q machine has just 20 qubits * Drone goal! Quadcopter menace alert freezes flights from London Heathrow Airport Alleged sighting of annoying flying gizmo torments second UK air travel nerve-center Personal Tech * US trade watchdog, mobe makers queue to smack Qualcomm as antitrust trilogy opens Will there be a deal or no deal? Security * Make a SAP decision: Apply these security fixes if you're using German giant's software 11 patches ship on Patch Tuesday * Welcome to 2019: Your Exchange server can be pwned by an email (and other bugs need fixing) Hyper-V, DHCP, Word, and more. Plus, bonus shock: Adobe spares Flash in January patch dump * Jeep hacking lawsuit shifts into gear for trial after US Supremes refuse to hit the brakes Owners claim security vulns have damaged resale price * Senator Wyden goes ballistic after US telcos caught selling people's location data yet again Rights warrior ticked off after yet another report of whereabouts being flogged to dodgy geezers * Fill the gaps in your security knowledge at SANS London April 2019 New and tested training courses cover every angle * Cops: German suspect, 20, 'confessed' to mass hack of local politicians Case not linked to international spying, reckon sources. Hmmm * Linus Torvalds opts for the scream test: Linux kernel syscall tweaked to shut data-leak hole – anyone upset, yell now And he did it without swearing... folks with broken programs may act otherwise * FYI: Twitter's API still spews enough metadata to reveal exactly where you lived, worked Old tweets betray sensitive data under new tools * Aussie Emergency Warning Network hacked by rank amateurs More moron-crime than serious cyber-crime, your data is safe Software * Excuse me, sir. You can't store your things there. Those 7 gigabytes are reserved for Windows 10 Buying a new PC in 2019? You may have a bit less disk space than you were expecting * Microsoft pulls Office 2010 updates because they're big in Japan. As in, big pain in the ASCII Software performance tweaks have opposite effect Science * Chinese rover pootles about... on the far side of the friggin' MOON Plus: SpaceX gets back to some Falcon work Bootnotes * Reg Standards Bureau introduces the Devon fatberg as coastal town menaced by oily blob That's 2.91 Brontosauruses to you ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: