Microsoft: Yo dawg, we heard you liked Windows password expiry policies. So we expired your expiry policy [Fri Apr 26 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 26 April 2019 ***************************************************************** Microsoft: Yo dawg, we heard you liked Windows password expiry policies. So we expired your expiry policy Password resets reset ***************************************************************** Business * A copy-paste of Europe and a '5G' hotel: El Reg's Adventures in Huawei Land were fairly wacky Welcome to Ox Horn, such a perfect town. Here we have some rules, let us lay them down Data Centre * Last year, we joked that Amazon was a cloud giant with a gift shop. Looking at these AWS figures, we were right Modest expectations for next quarter, though, as web souk works toward one-day delivery * Gather round, friends. Listen close. It's time to list the five biggest lies about 5G Let's cut the crap, El Reg style * Buying a second-hand hard drive on eBay? You've got a 'one in two' chance of finding personal info still on it Troves of deleted data lingers on disks... according to this 'ere study, anyway * It's a great time to buy DRAM and NAND, not to sell – just ask SK Hynix Chip flinger slams brakes on production as it waits for demand to pick up * Having dated for a while, Xilinx gets serious and buys Solarflare to raise its networking game FPGAs + NICs = profit * One of UK's largest pension funds goes to Hull, bids £504m for broadband firm KCOM Largest shareholders for LSE-listed biz give thumbs-up to proposed sale DevOps * What happens when your legacy platforms meet DevOps, Containers and CD? Find out at Continuous Lifecycle London next month Emergent Tech * Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete, not when the end result is this dumb We're messy, expensive, lazy, difficult – and entirely necessary * Boffins bring home the bacon as AI-powered robo-medic performs heart surgery on pigs 'The best way to do this is a partnership between the robot and a surgeon' Security * NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans' phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don't need that no more An attack of conscience or have the super-snoops got something better now? * Microsoft: Yo dawg, we heard you liked Windows password expiry policies. So we expired your expiry policy Password resets reset * It's your what in a box? Here's a thing to make your bosses think about malware responses You mean they already do? Pull the other one Software * Turn on, tune in, cash out: Hipster chat plat Slack whacks beardie millennials with features But is it enough to combat the Microsoft juggernaut? * Microsoft's Edge on Apple's macOS? It's more likely than you think for new browser Chromium base should ease porting pains substantially * Now Ponder Mistakes: NPM's heavy-handed management prompts JS code registry challenger Contender hopes to one day become the preferred Node.js Package Manager * QEMU 4 arrives with toys for Arm admirers, RISC-V revolutionaries, POWER patriots... you get the idea Plenty of CPU goodness to spread around in the first big 2019 update Bootnotes * Parents slapped with dress code after turning school grounds into a fashion crime scene Kids, you're all right ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: