Ah lovely, here's something you can do with those Raspberry Pis, NUC PCs in the bottom of the drawer: Run Ubuntu Appliances on them [Fri Jun 19 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 19 June 2020 ***************************************************************** Ah lovely, here's something you can do with those Raspberry Pis, NUC PCs in the bottom of the drawer: Run Ubuntu Appliances on them Choose between five options ***************************************************************** Business * Winter is coming, and with it the UK's COVID-19 contact-tracing app – though health minister says it's not a priority 'Focus' now on call centre-based system run by outsourcers, it seems Data Centre * America's Team Telecom urges FCC to do something about that 120Tbps fiber line between US, Hong Kong Google, Facebook cable link to China problematic, says oversight body * BT and Serco among bidders competing to run Britain's unfortunately named Skynet military satellite system Hollywood was right! * IT ops lessons from the lockdown: Help us understand the challenges you've faced and overcome mid-pandemic We're producing a study with Freeform Dynamics – and we need to hear from you clever people, please * HPE chief Neri: I've got COVID-19 and am staying home for the next fortnight It's remote business as usual though, insists firm * Intel bets big on AI with third-gen Xeons tuned for deep learning, VMs, in-memory databases, analytics There's also a Stratix FPGA designed with AI tasks in mind * IT self-service provisioning and access: Productivity enabler – or huge headache? Are you happy with staff picking and choosing what they want, when they want it? We'd love to hear your views, please * Customers of Brit ISP Virgin Media have downloaded an extra 325GB since March, though we can't think why That's a lot of... Netflix. Yes, that's it * AWS scoops Intel silicon and 8TB of storage into new Snowcone edge box Shoebox-sized server is water-resistant and runs EC2 instances and Greengrass Emergent Tech * Facebook's $500k deepfake-detector AI contest drama: Winning team disqualified on buried consent technicality Oh OK, so NOW the social network cares about getting people's permission before using their data to train computer systems * Amazon's not saying its warehouse staff are dumb... but it feels they need artificial intelligence to understand what 'six feet' means The yellow markings on the floor aren't enough for real neural networks Personal Tech * The incumbent President of the United States of America ran now-banned Facebook ads loaded with Nazi references We wanted flying cars and space travel for 2020 but instead we got re-runs of fascist propaganda * Ryzen shine, kids: Huawei buries AMD silicon in latest laptop, hopes to lure 'young professionals' By which it means people who can’t afford a Macbook, right? * Smartwatches win the consumer tech sector for Q1 2020 as locked-down folk take up fight against corona-carbs Shipments up 12%, says Canalys * If Fairphone can support a 5-year-old handset, the other vendors could too. Right? Biz model isn't good for consumers or the environment, but Google holds all the cards for Android * Google’s Fitbit lift strains competition laws says Australian regulator Worries that wearable and web combo makes for unbeatable diagnostics duo * For years, the internet giants have held on dear to their get-out-of-jail-free card. Here are those trying to take that away Soon it'll be known as Section 230 because there are 230 suggested solutions to overhaul it Security * Feds cuff Detroit man for allegedly hacking University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Data pilfered from PeopleSoft HR database sold to tax fraudsters, it is claimed * Nothing fills you with confidence in an IT contractor more than hearing its staff personal records were stolen by ransomware hackers. Right, Cognizant? Employees bag commiseration prize of free ID protection * 'Work pressure' sees Maze ransomware gang demand payoff from wrong company New York architects hit instead of Canadian standards agency after crooks get names mixed up * Used Cisco Webex recently? Memory vuln could have let remote attackers snoop on your meetings and files Only if they'd already pwned your box, mind. Still: get patching! * Chrome extensions are 'the new rootkit' say researchers linking surveillance campaign to Israeli registrar Galcomm Galcomm retorts: 'The report is at least irresponsible, if not worse' * Ah lovely, here's something you can do with those Raspberry Pis, NUC PCs in the bottom of the drawer: Run Ubuntu Appliances on them Choose between five options Software * No surprise: Britain ditches central database model for virus contact-tracing apps in favour of Apple-Google API Plus: Tech contracts dished out reportedly worth £108m * Windows 10 Fast Ringers – sorry, 'Dev Channel' – tossed Linux GPU support for WSL2 in latest Insider preview build Also: Kernel updating and benchmarking the beast * Uber turns SaaS vendor with deal that bakes public transport authority into its app Given the scoundrels in the world of software, could Uber be worse? * Bricks and mortar chemists take down Indian contact-tracing website On grounds that it favoured online chemists in a nation that forbids online drug sales Science * NASA to send Perseverance, a new trundle bot, and Ingenuity, the first interplanetary helicopter, to sniff out life on Mars in July Mars2020 mission will scout for interesting rocks to bring back to Earth Bootnotes * How do you run a military court over Zoom? With 28 bullet points and a ceremonial laptop flunkey, of course! Britain's Military Court Service mixes ancient and modern in the most jarring way * Hayfever in Haymarket, or has Windows sneezed out a BSOD? The spectre of bork returns to Newcastle ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: