So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance [Mon Feb 3 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 3 February 2020 ***************************************************************** So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance It's Hammer Time ***************************************************************** Data Centre * Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages BT, Gamma, Nationwide, Tide, anyone else? * ICANN't approve the sale of .org to private equity – because California's Attorney General has... concerns DNS overseer gets letter demanding documents about controversial registry sale * Quick, get the popcorn: Amazon Web Services says Microsoft's benchmarks for Azure are a load of stripe Fight! Fight! Fight! * So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance It's Hammer Time * It’s not true no one wants .uk domains – just look at all these Bulgarians who signed up to nab expired addresses 'It earns money for freelancers and very small businesses in our rather poor country' says maker of catcher tool Emergent Tech * Two startups enter, one leaves: Intel kills off much-delayed Nervana AI training chip, pushes on with Habana Spring Hill NNP-I inference parts to live on, Spring Crest NNP-T is toast * Will Asimov fix my doorbell? There should be a law about this Computer systems must do no harm? ... Ha ha ha... * Got an AI secret you want to tell the world? Advice on ML business tools to share? Our MCubed 2020 call for papers is open and waiting for you Not ready to speak yet? Grab a blind-bird ticket while you can Personal Tech * Leave it to eager beaver: Pre-orders for Samsung's next flagship are up for pre-order 6 March release date 'leaked' * Stock market rewards LG's display limb for doing less terribly than expected Glimmer of hope in OLED biz * Apple finally clambers to top of phone market again as spider-eyed iPhone 11 lures fanatics out of the shadows The one true Jesus mobe walks away with the Q4 phone market * Brits may still be struck by Lightning, but EU lawmakers vote for bloc-wide common charging rules How about them Apples? Security * Remember those infosec fellas who were cuffed while testing the physical security of a courthouse? The burglary charges have been dropped And it only took, er, four and a half months for people to see sense * China's Winnti hackers (apparently): Forget the money, let's get political and start targeting Hong Kong students for protest info Supply-chain hackers now taking aim at kids fighting for democracy, say researchers * A year after Bank of Valletta 'cyber heist', cuffs applied as cash-cleansing case continues Would sir care for an Audi with that Jag? * Attempts to define international infosec rules of the road bogged down by endless talkshops, warn diplomats Do you want Russia or China writing treaties on what's cool online? Software * SF tech biz forks out $146m in fines, settlements after painkiller makers bribed it to design medical software that pushed opioids to patients Practice Fusion pocketed kickbacks for crafty alerts and drop-down menu Science * US's secret spy payload offloaded: Rocket Lab demos missile muscle with second Electron guided home Astronomers wring hands as more small sats sent aloft Bootnotes * Elon Musk shows world that he is truly awful at something Rockets, self-aggrandisement: Good. Cars: OK. Music: Make it stop * Throw a sofa at this guy with your mind. She's in Control. Oh look, now I've learnt to bloody fly. She's in Control With apologies to Joy Division * BSOD Burgerwatch latest: Do you want fries with that plaintext password? Getting a whiff of unsupported OS too ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2020 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: