Cloudflare dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, moves to hCaptcha as free ride ends (and something about privacy) [Fri Apr 10 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 10 April 2020 ***************************************************************** Cloudflare dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, moves to hCaptcha as free ride ends (and something about privacy) You want this service at Cloudflare's scale? Then maybe you might want to pay for it ***************************************************************** Business * SAP slashes revenue, profit forecasts as virus outbreak bites into biz prospects First quarter started off so well... * Poor semiconductor revenues can't catch a break: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the wafer – bam, coronavirus Gartner predicts 2020 slump, but it'd be worse were it not for NAND flash * China's biggest e-learning company admits deliberately getting its sums wrong when counting sales Employee cuffed after forged contracts and dodgy documents discovered Data Centre * Still on-premises? Iron out your hybrid cloud plan with the help of Nutanix Find out how to widen your cloud options while keeping control * VMware’s cloudy capacity constraint stretches into third week Only in one AZ of one region, but it's been working to add more hosts for two weeks and counting DevOps * AWS revamps Fargate serverless containers, but wait – where's Docker Engine? Ah, 'deemed unnecessary' Bezos cloud crew chops 'bells and whistles' in favour of native support, adds shared storage * Tekton Pipelines hits beta: 'Ragdoll Norby' to sort continuous integration for Kubernetes And 'difficult to understand, hard to debug' PipelineResources have been deprecated Emergent Tech * RAND report finds that, like fusion power and Half Life 3, quantum computing is still 15 years away Has anyone told the Chinese? * Hi, Google Duplex here, trying to book a haircut for a socially inept human. Sorry, 'COVID-19'?... DOES NOT COMPUTE Chocolate Factory's AI call assistant will soon be getting confused by Brit idioms at the worst time possible * Self-driving car LIDAR stalwart Velodyne sued for sacking a third of its staff claiming coronavirus was the cause Employees allege offshoring was reason behind next-day sacking of 140 staff * Europe calls for single app to track coronavirus. Meanwhile America pretends it isn’t trying to build one at all Plus, what’s big tech doing to help? Not much it seems, Bill Gates excepted * Australian state adds AI number plate readers to GPS tracking of corona-quarantine busters Western Australia is enforcing internal borders now Security * Ransomware scumbags leak Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, etc documents after contractor refuses to pay Anti-mortar system specs, legal paperwork, payment forms, and more, dumped online from infected PCs * Signal sends smoke, er, signal: If Congress cripples anonymous speech with EARN IT Act, we'll leave the US Secure messaging app says it could not continue under proposed law * Consumer reviewer Which? finds CAN bus ports on Ford and VW, starts yelling 'Security! We have a problem...' Spoiler: It found a tyre pressure sensor and a Wi-Fi password * Low-orbit internet banking fraud claim alleged to be a load of space junk This is what comes of mixing the International Space Station, a relationship breakdown, and banking records * Cloudflare dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, moves to hCaptcha as free ride ends (and something about privacy) You want this service at Cloudflare's scale? Then maybe you might want to pay for it Software * Neo4j has this great IDE-a: How about we stuff all our graph workspace, database, algorithms and visualisation wizardry in one place? Graph graph graph egg and graph; graph graph graph graph graph graph baked beans graph graph graph * Linux fans thrown a bone in one Windows 10 build while Peppa Pig may fly if another is ready in time for this year No Neo in 2020? Never mind, The Matrix 4 is out in 2021 * You in for a curl up and dye? Yeah, looks like the same for this screen in a hairdressers A cunning cut won't save this bit of borkery Science * COVID-19 is pretty nasty but maybe this is taking social distancing too far? Universe may not be expanding equally in all directions Alternative headline: Here's a bug report for cosmology Bootnotes * French pensioner ejected from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing bang seat* handle That's a retirement day present he won't forget * Upstart Americans brandish alligators at the almighty Reg Standards Soviet Thou shalt respect the Osman and keep your distance, rebels * Watch out, everyone, here come the Coronavirus Cops, enjoying their little slice of power way too much Brit cops turn to drones, now mobile tools to make everyone’s lives a misery ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: