Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process [Wed Jun 24 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 24 June 2020 ***************************************************************** Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests ***************************************************************** Business * Ex-barrister reckons he has a privacy-preserving solution to Britain's smut ban plans Content tagging – and I'll give the tech away for free, says Safecast Global chief * ASEAN trade bloc scoops Googlebucks to digitise businesses out of COVID-19 crunch Hopes to educate 200,000 people in villages and smaller cities * Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... but not your H-1B geeks, L-1 staffers nor J-1 students US freezes visa applications until the end of the year, cites COVID-19-sparked unemployment Data Centre * HashiCorp Cloud Platform unveiled – but in private beta for AWS only Kubernetes? 'A huge set of workloads get excluded' by it, says HashiCorp * HPE's GreenLake remade with fresh set of cloud services as biz starts move to aaS future 'Ezmeral' brand added to container platform and machine learning stuff * Microsoft loosens Teams' necktie as platform courts your forensic accountant relatives Just look at the time. Looks like I can't attend the family meeting about our calendar! * Ampere smacks the ball over the net, back at Marvell: Our Altra Max cloud processor will have 128 Arm cores That's 32 more than you... when it ships... next year * While eyes are fixed on Apple announcements, Microsoft's streaming service Mixer goes the way of the Windows Phone Facebook laps up the leftovers * Ancient Arm server outfit Kaleao resprouts as Bamboo with CPU offload plan and electricity-saving power play PANDA architecture said to be ideal microservices-muncher * VMware bungled bundling blurt blaring Bitfusion bringing new GPU-and-AI powers to vSphere Bitfusion integration will require an add-on licence after all, rather than being tossed into vSphere Enterprise Plus DevOps * Grappling with mixed infra, containers, service meshes? Join Continuous Lifecycle Online for practical help Stay up to date on DevOps, CI/CD and containerization while working from home Emergent Tech * Wired: China's Beidou satnav system, 35th bird in orbit. Tired: America's GPS. Expired: Britain's dreams of its own Middle Kingdom completes its third-generation positioning system * Machine learning models trained on pre-COVID data are now completely out of whack, says Gartner That AI-powered product and price recommendation engine? Useless now * Samsung combines 5G, AI, drones and cloud in conspiracy ... to ease network maintenance costs To save telco workers from climbing the greasy pole as networks get denser * Korean boffins build COVID-bot to shove a swab right up your hooter Yes, this will help health pros. But after seeing it thrust a swab into your schnoz, you may want to avoid testing by humans or robots * China praises Pakistan SatNav collaboration Latest sat launch was postponed but China's GPS alternative network is nearly finished Personal Tech * Coming live from Next@Acer in Taipei: Hardware refreshes, new ruggedised line – and, er, an energy drink A plan to inject life into the flagging PC industry? Meet the Predator Shot: putting the spin in spinach * Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests Security * The state of OpenPGP key servers: Kristian, can you renew my certificate? A month later: Kristian? Ten days later: Too late, it’s expired Sorry, I was busy, came the reply * Here's a headline we never thought we'd write 20 years ago: Microsoft readies antivirus for Linux, Android Redmond knows a thing or two about tackling malware – amirite, Windows fans?! * None shall pass: Yet another layer to protect hapless users, employers from dodgy docs added to Microsoft 365 Clicking through Protected View is why we can't have nice things, so here's 'Safe Documents' * UK police's face recognition tech breaks human rights laws. Outlaw it, civil rights group urges Court of Appeal Appeal starts over Cardiff creepycam deployment * What did it take for stubborn IBM to fix flaws in its Data Risk Manager security software? Someone dropping zero-days The other kind of DRM strikes: Bod baffled after attempt to raise alarm over vulnerabilities is ignored Software * Apple says if developers are unhappy with its App Store decisions, it will entertain appeals against its rulings – and even its own rules The Lord of the iThings will see you now * Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me: Teradata talks up cloud integrations in bid to fend off native competition Would you like it in a box? Would you like it with a fox? * iPadOS 14: Apple's attempt to pry fondleslab from toddlers' mitts and make it more businesslike Is it a real computer yet? Science * US starts sniffing around UK spaceports – though none capable of vertical launches actually exist right now Plus: SLS boosters arrive at Kennedy, Rocket Lab to go back-to-back with NRO Bootnotes * Windows fails to reach the Finnish line as Helsinki signage pleads for help Please update me, let me load... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: