ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree [Mon May 18 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 18 May 2020 ***************************************************************** ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree Back to the time when tape was king ***************************************************************** Data Centre * It's Azure thing: Software AG hoists application integration platform into Microsoft's cloud Google's next, warns chief product officer * Openreach boss denies BT selling stake in UK's national broadband plumber KCOM owner Macquarie was said to be among suitors * Facebook to surround all of Africa in optical fibre and tinfoil Plans new sub cable running from the UK to Spain on just-about the longest route possible * UK housing association Places for People hands £21m to Salesforce to look after CRM and job scheduling Tender loving care * Swedish data centre offers rack-scale dielectric immersion cooling And reckons it can crack 100kw per rack with help from Yorkshire company Iceotope * VMware completes the native hybrid hyperscale set as Google turns on managed vSphere As IBM becomes only cloud partner permitted to use Virtzilla's special subscription licence scrip Emergent Tech * If American tech is used to design or make that chip, you better not ship it to Huawei, warns Uncle Sam Export of semiconductors built using US tools to Chinese giant banned without a license * Tales from the crypt-oh: Nvidia accused of concealing $1bn in coin-mining GPU sales as gaming revenue Lawsuit filed by shareholders who thought chip biz was onto something long-term rather than serving a fad * TSMC to build new 5nm chip factory in Arizona with US government backing Ticks plenty of diplomatic and supply chain security boxes with build in State tipped to be less MAGA-happy in 2020 Personal Tech * Mirror mirror on the wall, why will my mouse not work at all? Fault finding fail via the friends and family helpline Security * Cyber attack against UK power grid middleman Elexon sparks in-house IT recovery efforts Don't worry, you can still microwave your dinner – even if this smells of ransomware * You can't have it both ways: Anti-coronavirus masks may thwart our creepy face-recog cameras, London cops admit Metropolitan Police's China-style surveillance runs up against reality * Vint Cerf suggests GDPR could hurt coronavirus vaccine development Essay on role of internet during plague times also suggests online schooling may not be the finished article * Brit defense contractor hacked, up to 100,000 past and present employees' details siphoned off – report Outsourcer Interserve holds a number of UK defense contracts, among others Site News * Looking for a new tech gig? Here are vacancies for web devs, games programmers, server engineers and more Advertise with us here, or browse the listings to see if a role would suit you Software * India’s contact-tracing app unleashes KaiOS on feature phones 55 million users of $10 Bluetooth-enabled phones come into embrace of closed-source app * Rust marks five years since its 1.0 release: The long and winding road actually works Programming language ready to leave the wilderness for mass adulation * Everything OK with Microsoft? Windows giant admits it was 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming * Micros~1? ClippyZilla? BSOD Bob? There can be only one winner. Or maybe two We asked for a new Microsoft nickname – and you answered. Goodness, you answered * UK, Ireland users call on SAP to extend indirect licensing deadline again as COVID-19 ravages project plans 'People are going to lose a lot of time this year' * ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree Back to the time when tape was king Science * Worried about the magnetic North Pole sprinting towards Russia? Don't be, boffins say, it'll be back sooner or later Satellite data shows two huge iron blobs tussling under the surface Bootnotes * Beer gut-ted: As many as '70 million pints' spoiled during coronavirus pandemic must be destroyed in Britain Jeez, talk about bitter * If you don't LARP, you'll cry: Armed fun police swoop to disarm knight-errant spotted patrolling Welsh parkland Hey, he's not causing any harm, unlike Norfolk's plague doctor creep * We're going underground, and this time it's not an inebriated banker crapping themselves, but Transport for London Is that Jam on your XML? Or is it... oh no... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: