Zoom adds Choose Your Own Routing Adventure to keep chats out of China [Wed Apr 15 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 15 April 2020 ***************************************************************** Zoom adds Choose Your Own Routing Adventure to keep chats out of China As Microsoft gives Teams a Brady Bunch upgrade ***************************************************************** Business * 'Come 75,000 workers, join us!' says Amazon. Just don't dare complain about the boss or you're out on your ear “Repeatedly violated internal policies” means go to the door * Second-wave dotcom Uber-investor Softbank forecasts gargantuan losses as world economy faces slump Oh it can't be that baaa.... $16.7 BEEELLION?! * Wanted: An exit strategy from the overt surveillance of smartphone contact tracing It’s open source. It will be abused. So we need to design a way out before we dive in * A chief technology officer in a time of COVID-19: Keep calm and make the most of the whole business suddenly realising how important IT is Time to break ties with historic corporate inertia * Stop worrying – Larry Ellison and Prez Trump will have this whole coronavirus thing licked shortly with the power of data Revealed: Oracle founder's plan for global wellness * PC shipments went over a cliff in Q1, which may be only moderately terrifying Dell only vendor to increase shipments as debate turns to impact of pent-up demand vs shifting spending priorities * India kicks off competition for home-grown video conferencing clone Developers face three-month sprint to the finish line, with big government contract the prize * Yahoo! Japan! shares! user! location! data! with! government! to! track! coronavirus! clusters! As LINE named nation's preferred telemedicine tool Data Centre * From Brit telly presenter Eamonn Holmes to burning 5G towers in the Netherlands: Stupid week turns into stupid fortnight for radio standard Amazingly, contractor for massive UK TV channels differentiates himself from 'mainstream media' * UK MPs fume after Huawei posts open letter stating: 'Disrupting our involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice' Conservative politicos including IDS voice anger over 'untimely special pleading' * AMD takes another crack at Intel's server stronghold with more Epyc silicon All 'the working from home and virtual desktops' might make you think about data center rebuilds, hmm? * Reg readers have not one, but TWO teams in Folding@home top 1,000 as virus-bothering network hits 2.4 exa-FLOPS Distributed computing project sails past anticipated raw power of El Capitan – and you folks are at the forefront Security * April 2020 and - rest assured - your Windows PC can still be pwned by something so innocuous as an unruly font Adobe and Intel add their woes * Let's authenticate: Beyond Identity pitches app-wrapped certificate authority Enclave-bound service aims to be another nail in the password coffin * Zoom adds Choose Your Own Routing Adventure to keep chats out of China As Microsoft gives Teams a Brady Bunch upgrade * So how do the coronavirus smartphone tracking apps actually work and should you download one to help? Bluetooth, GPS, cell towers, code scanning: what’s the best way? Software * Stack Overflow banishes belligerent blather with bespoke bot - but will it work? 'The mean police, they live inside of my head, the mean police, they come to me in my bed...' * Integrate all the things: OpenText would like to knit together application data from across company boundaries ERP, warehousing, sales, accounts, supply chain all working together * Started from the bottom, now we're near: 16 years on, open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape draws close to v1.0 'It was really a long process because it's just volunteer work' * Microsoft's Teams clocks 2.7 billion minutes of meetings in a single day as April starts to run out for Windows 10 2004 Plus: New Edge build, more Office 365 branding snuffed * Google extends e-commerce platform to help people in India find nearby food during lockdown Google Pay is about to get really useful in India's biggest cities * We lost another good one: Mathematician John Conway loses Game of Life, taken by coronavirus at 82 British mathematician checks out * You can wipe those smiley faces off: Unicode technical website is going to be out for 'a couple of weeks' Data center snafu borks site because of...something Science * Astroboffins suspect twin-star smash may be the culprit for most biggest and brightest supernova yet spotted A rogue pulsational pair-instability nova from a heavy star measuring over 100 times the mass of the Sun * Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day It's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: