Death and taxis: Windows has had enough of clinging to a cab rooftop in the London rain [Mon Mar 2 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 2 March 2020 ***************************************************************** Death and taxis: Windows has had enough of clinging to a cab rooftop in the London rain May we present the BSOD on Wheels ***************************************************************** Business * Ding dong Dell, servers in the well. Who pulled them out? Little PC stout Client solutions to the rescue as infrastructure shrinks 7% Data Centre * Take it Huawei, Pai: Senate passes bill to rip 'dodgy' kit from rural telcos Now one Donald-shaped signature away from dishing out $1bn to fund the big switch * Switchzilla? More like Ditch-your-staff-zilla: Cisco back at the layoffs as revenues shrink Hardware is hard * BOFH: Gosh, IPv5? Why didn't I think of that? Say, how do you like the new windows in here? Take a look. Closer... No, no. There's no such thing as a stupid question * I heard somebody say: Burn baby, burn – server inferno! The heat was on, risin' to the top / Everybody's goin' strong, and that's when the SPARC got hot Emergent Tech * Quantum compute boffins called up to get national UK centre organised for some NISQy business Interim managers ready to go. £93m budget locked and loaded. No lets not talk about the size of the US National Quantum Initiative Program Personal Tech * FCC sucks its teeth, clicks its tongue, says: Yeah, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US, Verizon gleeful sold your location data. Guess we should fine them? How much you make, Randy? Wanna cough up, I dunno, twice that or something? * Vivo's APEX 2020 concept smartphone grabs life by the gimbals to shoot stable snaps Or it would, if it were ever released Security * Southern Water not such a phisherman's phriend, hauls itself offline to tackle email lure UK utility biz suspends internet services Software * Time to svn commit like it's the year 2000: Apache celebrates 20 years of Subversion Git outta here – has it been that long? * Former SAP CEO McDermott pockets a cool €15 million from final year at the helm of German ERP giant How many expansive ERP projects would that buy? One? Two? Answers on a postcard * Raise your low-code game with OutSystems' webcasts on chatbots, progressive web apps, and more Make things that work well, look good, and talk back, with help from interactive online training * Windows 10 Slow Ring update strides confidently into 2020 Edge Goes Surfing? How about Horace Goes Skiing? * Google updates Android Studio: IDE like multi-display support and a split-view designer Microsoft Surface Duo in mind? * Death and taxis: Windows has had enough of clinging to a cab rooftop in the London rain May we present the BSOD on Wheels * Trashing privacy? That's our job! Facebook accuses analytics biz of harvesting people's info from software dev kit sold to app makers Sueball lobbed at OneAudience * 'Developers have lost hope Microsoft will do the right thing'... Redmond urged to make WinUI cross-platform Any love for Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, WebAssembly? Bueller? Bueller? Science * RIP Freeman Dyson: The super-boffin who applied his mathematical brain to nuclear magic, quantum physics, space travel, and more Science's civil rebel dies aged 96 Bootnotes * Escape From Tarkov: Hardest of the hardcore looter-shooter is spellbinding despite the punishing learning curve Fun not required * Sure, check through my background records… but why are you looking at my record collection? Where do I see myself in five years' time? On parole with a bit of luck * EU court tells prudish IP office to fack off for balking at 'fack ju' trademark application Germans didn't think goofball film title was 'morally unacceptable', judges rule * US Homeland Security mistakenly seizes British ad agency's website in prostitution probe gone wrong They got it back – after reneging any claim against Uncle Sam for damages ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: