Just the place you'd want to spot a BSOD: While waiting in line for a roller coaster that lifts you up 124ft [Wed Feb 26 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 26 February 2020 ***************************************************************** Just the place you'd want to spot a BSOD: While waiting in line for a roller coaster that lifts you up 124ft This bodes well ***************************************************************** Business * In-depth: Deloitte and accounts expert both cleared what HPE described as 'contrived' Autonomy sales Lynch's man backed auditor but how much did it truly know? Data Centre * Firefox, you know you tapped Cloudflare for DNS-over-HTTPS? In January, it briefly knackered two root servers at the heart of the internet Probe raises serious questions about private v public web management * Blow me down with a feather, well, storage server software update gone awry: Nest vid streams go dark for 16 hours Google so sorry after devices fly the coop in multi-hour outage * While hype merchants push chatbots, CIOs are saving up pennies while expecting a recession, reckons study Digital transformation? Pah, pass the tins of beans and firelighters * Get in the lake, Sparky: Databricks touts new ingestion file sources Data warehousers likely hoping it's not, er, Apache on their efforts * Lustre HPC file systems no longer disappear in a puff on Amazon Web Services – but you'll pay more Throughput boosted and encryption in transit added to temporary counterparts * MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped It's going to be hard for the GSMA to come back from this * Would-be .org gobbler Ethos Capital promises to keep prices down in last-ditch effort to keep $1.1bn deal alive Private equity outfit makes concessions, key questions still remain * Afilias vanishes from battle to run Colombia's trendy .co after El Reg probes technical docs, allegations of a stitch-up Afil-alas, we hardly knew ye Emergent Tech * Good news, everyone: The US military says it will be ethically minded about how it develops AI Whew! Defense dept will 'detect and avoid unintended consequences' – so that's fine, right? * London's top cop dismisses 'highly inaccurate or ill informed' facial-recognition critics, possibly ironically Appears she ignored report that concluded the tech is highly inaccurate * Talk about making a rod for your own back: Pot dealer's seized €54m Bitcoins up in smoke after keys thrown out with fishing gear Cops hope for high-tech solution Personal Tech * Xiaomi in the UK: Multi-eyed Mi Note 10 hits Blighty festooned with cameras and hefty battery life Chinese tat bazaar's latest smartphone effort will set you back £459 Security * Mind the gap: Google patches holes in Chrome – exploit already out there for one of them after duo spot code fix Pair engineer malicious code from public source tweak before official binary releases * Apple tries to have VirnetX VPN patent ruling overturned again, US Supremes say no... again Still not the last word for VirnetX after 10-year fight * Password killer FIDO2 comes bounding into Azure Active Directory hybrid environments A preview of muddy paws all over your on-prem resources, or a passwordless future? * Microsoft uses its expertise in malware to help with fileless attack detection on Linux Aw, how generous Software * Firefox now defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS for US netizens and some are dischuffed about this Good for privacy – or an alarming move towards further internet centralisation? * Credit Karma's enriched: Turbo Tax daddy Intuit snaps up personal finance platform for $7bn That'll be good for their credit rating * Just the place you'd want to spot a BSOD: While waiting in line for a roller coaster that lifts you up 124ft This bodes well ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: