Logitech G915 TKL: Numpad-free mechanical keyboard clicks all the right boxes [Wed Jun 10 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 10 June 2020 ***************************************************************** Logitech G915 TKL: Numpad-free mechanical keyboard clicks all the right boxes Yes, clicks. You can feel it, says Vulture who got his claws on one ***************************************************************** Business * Big Tech trade association warns Uncle Sam against knee-jerk national security measures that harm industry There'll be 'unintended negative consequences' if we continue like this * Ex-Dell distributor in Lebanon ignored ban on suing US tech giant. Now four directors have been sentenced to prison in the UK 18- and 9-month terms dished out for contempt of court * Civica bags £25m deal to handle web portal for UK National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme How many speeding Brit drivers does contract value equate to? 250,000 based on minmum fine possible * Singapore government boosts tech spend by 30% to pump post-pandemic economy Contact-tracing and building logins hailed as COVID-crimpers, so gov wants more * Samsung heir remains free as judge rules putting him inside would be detention without trial Financial contortions will be considered, but not with Lee Jae-yong under arrest Data Centre * From off-prem to just off: IBM Cloud goes down planet-wide so hard even the status page isn't working Widespread outage rolled for two-plus hours and seems to be easing, no word on cause * As UK Parliament heads back to in-person voting, select committees are told they can continue working via Zoom Critics worry mass return to House of Commons is unsafe * Tune in and watch online today: Busting the myths around cloud data protection Find the savings and security you need when working remotely * Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: UK man gets 3 years for torching 4G phone mast over 5G fears Vodafone confirms to The Reg: Misled Merseyside chap missed his target * China's silicon-self-sufficiency plan likely to miss targets due to Factories Not Present error Plan for 70% of home-baked chips by 2025 won't be met. And probably not by 2030 either Emergent Tech * Yeah, great start after sacking human hacks: Microsoft's AI-powered news portal mixes up photos of women-of-color in article about racism Blame Reg Bot 9000 for any blunders in this story, by the way * IBM quits facial recognition tech because Black Lives Matter CEO Arvind Krishna tells Congress it’s time to debate law enforcement reform, including access to AI Personal Tech * MacOS on Arm talk intensifies: Just weeks from now, Apple to serve up quarantini with Kalamata golive, reportedly 'People familiar' have been running their mouths, it seems * Logitech G915 TKL: Numpad-free mechanical keyboard clicks all the right boxes Yes, clicks. You can feel it, says Vulture who got his claws on one Security * June's Patch Tuesday reveals 23 ways to remotely pwn Windows – and over 100 more bugs that could ruin your day Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP emit fixes in security synchronicity * Thought you'd addressed those data-leaking Spectre holes on Linux? Guess again. The patches aren't perfect Google engineer flags bugs in speculative-execution exploit defenses * Researchers unmask Indian 'infosec' firm to reveal hacker-for-hire op that targeted pretty much anyone clients wanted And we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for that meddling Citizen Lab * Hospital-busting hacker crew may be behind ransomware attack that made Honda halt car factories, say researchers Snake / Ekans nasty fingered * Brave soz about coding snafu that sent search queries to affiliate links but insists practice is 'industry-standard' Sustainable revenue is hard for privacy-focused browser * Singapore to distribute wearable contact-tracing device and won't rule out making it compulsory Because not everyone has a smartphone and Apple devices remain problematic Software * MongoDB 4.4 aims to be a dev crowd-pleaser, but analysts say it's still short of 'general-purpose' database territory New features for core product as well as enhancements to Atlas DBaaS * Windoze 10: New levels of tedium reached with latest Insider build while 'stable' release still a bit wonky Plus: When Microsoft found breaking up hard to do, and much more * The FETT seeks to defeat SSITH defenses as US military goes hard on bug bounties and its Star Wars issues DARPA seeks a few good hackers * When open source isn't enough: Fancy a de-Googled Chromium? How about some Microsoft-free VS Code? Escaping telemetry might seem attractive, but there are downsides too Science * Saturn's largest satellite, Titan, is drifting away from its planet 100 times faster than previously thought Atmospheric moon taking a wander * Japan to test self-destructing satellite to shrink space junk with string and an inanimate carbon blob Now that launches and cubesats are cheap, ‘post-mission disposal’ has become more important ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: