Faxing hell: The cops say they would very much like us to stop calling them all the time [Tue Jun 23 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 23 June 2020 ***************************************************************** Faxing hell: The cops say they would very much like us to stop calling them all the time Brrrrr... dunngadunng... braaaaarp: that's the sound of da police ***************************************************************** Business * Paging technology providers: £3m is on the table to replace archaic NHS comms network 10% of the world's pagers are in use by Britain's health service Data Centre * Fujitsu, Japan strong-Arm their way to the top with world's fastest-known super: 415-PFLOPS Fugaku That big Arm news you were all expecting today, right? * Email innovator Hey extends an olive branch in standoff with Apple, tweaks code to make the iGiant appier We did what we think you want, now let it through * Belief in 5G conspiracy theories goes hand-in-hand with small explosions of rage, paranoia and violence, researchers claim Ironic, because new tech is supposed to solve the micro-burst issue * Dell stiffens up hyperconverged boxen for the mile-high club, or getting down and dirty VxRail gets rugged version, dalliances with AMD, Optane and NVIDIA Qaudro GPUs * China’s cloud spend soared by 67 percent in Q1, but COVID-19 didn't exactly help matters Country total of $3.9bn is about 40 percent of AWS revenue, but Amazon sells to the world * Internet blackout of Myanmar States that are home to ethnic minorities enters second year As India’s slowdown to 2G in Kashmir is extended to July Emergent Tech * Big Tech on the hook for billions in back taxes after US Supreme Court rejects Altera stock options case hearing Stop! In the name of tax! Before you break my bank! * Machine learning devs can now run GPU-accelerated code on Windows devices on AMD's chips, OpenAI applies GPT-2 to computer vision Plus: AI for the benefit of humankind group loses a member and more * Faxing hell: The cops say they would very much like us to stop calling them all the time Brrrrr... dunngadunng... braaaaarp: that's the sound of da police Personal Tech * Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length: macOS shifts from x86 to homegrown common CPU arch, run iOS apps, too We take a look at Cupertino's one-Arm bandit gambit * What's the Arm? First Apple laptop to ditch Intel will be 13.3" MacBook Pro, proclaims reliable soothsayer We'll find out as WWDC rolls on * Folk sure like to stick electric toothbrush heads in their ears: True wireless stereo sales buck coronavirus trends Shipments soared 86% in Q1, 200 million expected to be shifted this year Security * Step on it, I've got the police on my hack: Anon swipes, leaks online 269GB of crime intel docs from cops, Feds 'BlueLeaks' data lifted after web host biz pwned, we're told * We were already secure enough for mass remote working before COVID-19, boast IT pros Three-quarters claim pandemic didn't trigger big changes to corporate security settings * VMware and Office for Mac need patching, Microsoft can scan your firmware, and Anonymous takes credit for Atlanta police hacks Plus: Nigeria-based entrepreneur accused of fraud, and more Software * Features vs compatibility: Google Chrome team promises more 'rigour', but what does that mean? Fixing scrolling issues and CSS flexbox but fears of browser monoculture remain * Release the pressure: Win16 support arrives for version 3.2 of Free Pascal Five years since the last update, the team celebrates 50 years of the language with more architectures * C is for 'Careful now', D is for 'Download surprise': Microsoft to resurrect optional Windows 10 updates as 'Previews' Also: Money for Excel hits US, Teams readies new toys for next academic year, and more * Spaghetti Junction! Brum hospitals on hunt for new ERP and finance supplier to untangle current systems And there's £6m British pounds for the biz that can do it * The clouds part, cash rains on Microsoft's UK money-making machine Not even Brexit is going to slap our as-a-Service biz * Russia lifts restrictions on Telegram messenger app after it expresses ‘readiness’ to stop some nasties A win for Vlad the Decryptor Science * No longer a planet and left out in the cold, Pluto, it turns out, may have had hot beginnings That subsurface ocean scientists think the dwarf has? It may have formed 'early', claims paper * Virgin Galactic inks deal with NASA to train astro-tourists looking to buy a seat to the International Space Station Somebody else will have to provide the rocket, though * With intelligent life in scant supply on Earth, boffins search for technosignatures of civilizations in the galaxy Pollution, sprawling cities of megastructures, any sign aliens are screwing up just like us... * CERN puts two new atom-smashers on its shopping list. One to make Higgs Bosons, then a next-gen model six times more energetic than the LHC Needs about €21bn it doesn’t have and a whole lot of new science to make it feasible * Going to the cloud doesn’t mean you have to leave your legacy IT behind Tune in online next month to hear all about the advantages of legacy server emulation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: