Salesforce? Salesfarce: Cloud giant in multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data [Mon May 20 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 20 May 2019 ***************************************************************** Salesforce? Salesfarce: Cloud giant in multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data Plug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info ***************************************************************** Business * Nvidia keeping mum on outlook for year as data centre slows, channel chokes on crypto crap The term, we believe, is 'rekt': GPU giant loses nearly $1bn in sales, profits fall 68% Data Centre * Salesforce? Salesfarce: Cloud giant in multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data Plug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info * Load of old Bull: French integrator Atos trots out first edge server box Don't worry, it'll shut itself down if someone hits it hard enough * Cray's found a super scooper, $1.3bn's gonna buy you. HPE's the one Substantial losses weren't much fun, now we'll wait till deal is done * Intel budges Samsung out of its seat at the top of silicon-slinger league As most chip suppliers take a hit on sales * DRAM, that's cold: Overclockers squeeze out extra Micron DDR4 performance with liquid nitrogen system Hardly practical but the headroom is there * Virtustream xakes xanaged, xrofessional xervices to xhe xtreme xith xStreamCare Biz will do almost anything for money (as long as it is cloud-related) * Don't miss: Learn all about Office 365 and cloud resilience from Mimecast and El Reg How to avoid the Icarus effect – and what we mean by that * Dedicated techie risks life and limb to locate office conference phone hiding under newspaper DON'T ASK ME STUPID QUESTIONS, JUST GET YOUR ASS OUT THERE Emergent Tech * Standards group W3C wins support from all major players to get AI working in the browser Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla on board, says chair * Oracle AI's Eurovision horror show: How bad can it be? Yep. Badder 'Baby by myself the stain grows more obvious...' * Tesla big cheese Elon Musk warns staffers to tighten their belts in bid to cut expenses (again) Plus: Battery software updated following vehicle fires * If you hear podcasting star Joe Rogan say something dumb, it may not be his fault – an AI has cloned his voice And how it could be you being impersonated next Personal Tech * Polygraph knows all: You've been using our user feedback form Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies... Security * CIA traitor spy thrown in the clink for selling secrets to China. Stack Overflow, TeamViewer admit: We were hacked... ...And more from the world of infosec this week * Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers Explosives activated by wireless networking signals discovered amid election * It's not chicken feed: Million-dollar meal deal for livestock sabotaged by hackers... and, er, exchange rates Six-week investigation delay shrank payment by 13% * Get out of Huawei, it's an avalanche of news from everyone's favourite Chinese bogeyman We read this week's Huawei happenings and filleted it so you don't have to * Good heavens, is it time to patch Cisco kit again? Prime Infrastructure root privileges hole plugged Do the thing ASAP, you know how it works by now * Freed whistleblower Chelsea Manning back in jail for refusing to testify before secret grand jury If orange is the new black, she's back in black Software * It's been a lean month for Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, but look! Remote Development Also: Accidental explosion in TypeScript type-checking de-borked in version 3.5 * Microsoft sends partners hundreds of unwanted OPI: Other People's Invoices Risky business: Azure cloud rains bills Science * It's 50 years to the day since Apollo 10 blasted off: America's lunar landing 'dress rehearsal' Charlie Brown and Snoopy go to the Moon * SpaceX takes a leaf from the Microsoft playbook and stands down Starlink for an update Also: Repeated reboots to get a Windows 10 update installed? Just like the (not so) old days Bootnotes * Russian bots are just for rigging US elections? They hit home, too: Kid stripped of crown in TV contest vote-fix scandal Singing competition stunned by suspicious spree of SMSes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: