CSI: Xiaomi. Snappy Redmi Note 9 Pro shows every fingerprint, but at least you get bang for your buck [Thu Jun 25 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 25 June 2020 ***************************************************************** CSI: Xiaomi. Snappy Redmi Note 9 Pro shows every fingerprint, but at least you get bang for your buck High-spec £249 blower – but can it play Crysis Call of Duty? ***************************************************************** Data Centre * Internet Society, remember your embarrassing .org flub? The actual internet society would like to talk about it Non-profits call for independent probe into disastrous effort to sell TLD registry * TikTok boom: Brits spent a quarter of their waking hours in lockdown online – Ofcom A quarter? That's pretty weak * Skype for Windows 10 and Skype for Desktop duke it out: Only Electron left standing I just can't quit you, Skype. Oh maybe I can... they've tweaked the close function * Indonesia’s capital city is literally sinking. Google just opened a new cloud region there anyway Jakarta region is live now. And hopefully high and dry * Dell reportedly considers new VMware-related financial contortions We’re not buying the idea it could buy Virtzilla, but selling a stake could work * Foxconn signals Indian expansion to make ... something it will reveal eventually Seems sensible to assume it's going after India's new electronics investment incentives Emergent Tech * California Attorney General asks judge to force Lyft and Uber to classify drivers as employees – or else Request for injunction raises pressure on cash-burning ride hailing apps * Detroit cops cuffed, threw a dad misidentified by facial recognition in jail. Now the ACLU's demanding action Another machine-learning model that can't tell people of color apart? Shocker * Once again, racial biases show up in AI image databases, this time turning Barack Obama white Researchers used a pretrained off-the-shelf model from Nvidia * Pandemic has a silver lining for Brit automation merchant Blue Prism: Revenue up 70% for first half of fiscal 2020 Makes sense while enterprises wrestle with new ways of working * Maybe there is hope for 2020: AI that 'predicts criminality' from faces with '80% accuracy, no bias' gets in the sea Springer ditches paper from research tome, boffins rail against junk science * Apple launches incredible features everyone else had more than a year ago – this time for the 'smart home' HomeKit still playing catch-up though facial rec and better automation still a step in the right direction * Ex-CEO of fintech biz Wirecard arrested over missing money: Vanished €1.9bn may not have existed in the first place Founder posts bail as German investigators probe accounting scandal Personal Tech * Chime after chime: Apple restores iconic Mac boot sound removed in 2016 Triumphant F#-major to return with upcoming macOS Big Sur * GO on then: Facebook's Oculus to axe its entry-level VR headset 3DoF bad, 6DoF good * CSI: Xiaomi. Snappy Redmi Note 9 Pro shows every fingerprint, but at least you get bang for your buck High-spec £249 blower – but can it play Crysis Call of Duty? * China's internet watchdog freezes 10 too-trashy online video services before they undermine socialism Scantily-clad presenters and vulgar language 'corrupt the social atmosphere' and 'endanger the healthy growth of young people' Security * After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors Lawmakers will attempt to bend the laws of mathematics to their will * Ransomware crims to sell off 'scandalous' files swiped from Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Puff Daddy's legal eagles $600k starting bid, say public extortionists, or $42m to keep schtum * Laws on police facial recognition aren't tough enough, UK data watchdog barrister tells Court of Appeal Top judge replies: Don't understand what you're on about * Former UK Labour deputy leader wants to know how the NHS's contact-tracing app will ensure user privacy This is the Apple-Google API one, not the 'world-beating' one * Maze ransomware gang threatens to publish sensitive stolen data after US aerospace biz sensibly refuses to pay Bungling cybercrooks throw toys out of the pram as negotiations shut down * Carbon-based vuln hunters will always be better at infosec than AI, insist puny humans No intelligent pentesting systems were available to comment on this assertion * Three words you do not want to hear regarding a 'secure browser' called SafePay... Remote. Code. Execution How Bitdefender's security software was caught napping by ad-block bod Software * Apple's new WidgetKit: Windows Phone Live Tiles done right? Separating widgets from App Icons is how Apple will avoid Microsoft's mistake * Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks: Information Builders declares itself 'the new ibi', touts AI data tools Rebrand accompanies tech launches as CEO hits 18 months in job * Eclipse Foundation releases Jakarta EE 9 preview, adopts AdoptOpenJDK The big release with nothing in it. Thanks Oracle! Science * Things that make you go foom: Destruction derby as NASA and SpaceX test rocket components to failure Tanks put through their paces * Grav wave boffins are unsure if they just spotted the smallest black hole or the biggest neutron star seen yet Mysterious object's mass has challenged astrophysics models Bootnotes * When you bork... through a storm: Liverpool do all they can to take advantage of summer transfer, er, Windows Bork on, bork on... with hope in your heart.. And you'll never bork alone * Segway to Heaven: Mega-hyped wonder-scooter that was going to remake city transport to cease production It's frolicking with the Sinclair C5 at a puffed-up press conference in the sky ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: