I just love your accent - please, have a new password [Mon Sep 2 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 2 September 2019 ***************************************************************** I just love your accent - please, have a new password How's that Boris Johnson impression working out for you? ***************************************************************** Business * Uber, Lyft and DoorDash put $30m apiece into ballot battle fund to kill gig-economy employee benefits We love our employees, sorry, contractors, so much we’ll spend a small fortune stopping them from getting overtime, workers’ comp etc * Whistleblowing saboteur costs us $167m bellows Tesla’s accountant And another $262,000 to figure out who he was * Juniper Networks gives SEC $12m to settle bribery charges but says everything's fine Channel partners flying customers for holidays in Russia and China, that's fine! * Yeah, yeah, PCs are dead? Ask Texan Mick and his Dell empire if that's the case Computers bring home the bacon for US biz in Q2 * Last one out, hit the lights: UK energy supplier SSE to axe 115 bodies from tech department Roles to be outsourced to HCL Data Centre * We're great, boasts Huawei in founder's Little Red Book - but isn't that a video game screenshot? As resilient as a bullet-riddled piece of, er, video game artwork * Microsoft's cloudy Windows Virtual Desktop: It fills a gap, but there are plenty of annoyances You shall not PaaS? An Ask Me Anything reveals common gripes Emergent Tech * The top three attributes for getting injured on e-scooters? Having no helmet, being drunk or drugged, oddly enough First world problems, with a big scoop of utter stupidity * Lab grown stem cells emit brain waves like newborns – and boffins build robot worm to slither through heads Insane in the brain Security * JACK OF ALL TIRADES: Twitter boss loses account to cunning foul-mouthed pranksters Plus a Cisco bug, dentists bitten by malware, and France takes down a worm * Coin-mining malware jumps from Arm IoT gear to Intel servers Cryptocurrency crooks look to siphon cycles from enterprise kit * Google security crew sheds light on long-running super-stealthy iOS spyware operation Project Zero dissects years-long surveillance campaign * For Foxit's sake: PDF editor biz breached, users' passwords among stolen data And they're imposing a 20-character limit on new ones * When you think how infamous NHS-pwning malware's still hitting the unwary, it'll make you WannaCry – Kaspersky Ransomware strain was top customer call-out title in 2018 * Despite billions in spending, your 'military grade' network will still be leaking data You can't patch stupid * I just love your accent - please, have a new password How's that Boris Johnson impression working out for you? Software * Developer reconsiders npm command line ad scheme after outcry Effort to help fund open source projects proves too much * TfL inks £6.5m deal with Sopra Steria to build traffic data-munching and control system Tunnels, bridges, lights and other route constipation hardness to be eased by laxative of software goodness * No it's not Russell Brand's new cult, it's Microsoft's Office crew rolling out their Save Experience Not one, not two, but three Save dialogs in updated Office 365 desktop applications Bootnotes * Rebel Galaxy Outlaw: Well, lookie here! For once a space game that doesn't promise the universe And it's probably better for it ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 14 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2019 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: