Square peg of modem won't fit into round hole of PC? I saw to it, bloke tells horrified mate [Mon May 4 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 4 May 2020 ***************************************************************** Square peg of modem won't fit into round hole of PC? I saw to it, bloke tells horrified mate In praise of helpful friends and handy tools ***************************************************************** Business * Amazon settles for $11m with workers in unpaid bag-search wait lawsuit Puts to rest claims staff should've been paid for time spent in security lines Data Centre * Oracle faces claims of unequal pay from 4,000+ women after judge upgrades gender gap lawsuit to class action IT giant accused of paying women less than men doing exact same roles * Brit magistrates' courts turn to video conferencing to keep wheels of justice turning It's not just Skype and Zoom cashing in on remote-working boom * $31bn spent on cloudy infrastructure in Q1 on back of employees' mass migration to home working Digital gold rush spurred by global pandemic: Big 4 bag 62% of market * Extra knobs and dials for Microsoft's Productivity Score while Azure Active Directory lays on the freebies I always feel like / somebody's watching me * Square peg of modem won't fit into round hole of PC? I saw to it, bloke tells horrified mate In praise of helpful friends and handy tools * Identify and act on high-risk devices – faster Find out more at Forescout live virtual event on May 12 * Dell to unleash hybrid server/storage boxen that can run virtual machines Long-awaited storage consolidation to go hyperconverged lite so that workloads can run next to data * International space station connects 100Mbps symmetric space laser ethernet using Sony optical disc tech As the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group launches discussion of Solar System Internet * ICANN finally halts $1.1bn sale of .org registry, says it's 'the right thing to do' after months of controversy Questions linger over what is going on inside DNS overseer * Back when the huge shocking thing that felt like the end of the world was Australia on fire, it turns out telcos held up all right Or as well as they could once the power went out - yet report says reliance on electricity isn't a resilience issue Personal Tech * Google Australia says government pulled pin on content-for-cash talks, hands in its homework anyway And fires back with 'we do for free what meatspace distributors charge for' argument * Smartphone shipments plummet in Q1 as users, er, lock down their spending Coronavirus + entity lists + people not keen to upgrade = 13% dive * Xiaomi what you're working with: Chinese mobe-flinger proffers two Redmi Note phablets for UK market IR blasters and headphone jacks, likely south of £350? Oh my * Three is the magic number, unless you're Apple. That's how many million iPad shipments it was down in Q1 Cupertino hamstrung by Chinese factory closures, Samsung tabs up but wider market shrinks: IDC * Intel is offering more 14nm Skylake desktop processors, we repeat: More 14nm Skylake desktop processors 10th-generation Core additions land with up to 10 CPU cores, 5.3GHz max * Uber trials fixed-price hourly rentals for visits to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker Because if you have to go out in a plague, who wants multiple rides? * Apple on 2020 so far: OK, so iPhone sales are a bit glum. Wearables, music, apps, vids to the rescue... almost Hope on the horizon, says Cook, but it will take some time to get there Security * Spyware slinger NSO to Facebook: Pretty funny you're suing us in California when we have no US presence and use no American IT services... 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Behold X-ray boffinry YEARS past its design-life Bootnotes * As Brit cyber-spies drop 'whitelist' and 'blacklist', tech boss says: If you’re thinking about getting in touch saying this is political correctness gone mad, don’t bother Whitehat and blackhat next? * Browse mode: We're not goofing off on the Sidebar of Shame and online shopping sites, says UK's Ministry of Defence Its servers merely record more HTTPS requests to Mail Online and Amazon than anywhere else * Ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is here at last! Kind of Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of your partner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 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