Here's a headline we'll run this century, mark our words: Alien invaders' AI found on Mars searching for signs of life [Mon Jun 29 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 29 June 2020 ***************************************************************** Here's a headline we'll run this century, mark our words: Alien invaders' AI found on Mars searching for signs of life World will marvel at tiny electronic brain made of sand taught to think ***************************************************************** Business * Google to 'surface' friendly banks' business loans through Pay app To help Indian small businesses cope with COVID crunch Data Centre * Fintech biz Wirecard folds into insolvency like two pair against a flush. Good luck accessing your chip stack Regulators freeze funds, stop affiliated finance apps from functioning * Huawei wins approval to plonk £1bn optical comms R&D facility in UK's leafy Cambridgeshire 'We want to promote UK tech on a global scale' – aw, nice of you * After three leisurely years, Citrix releases second long-term-service hypervisor Version 8.2 supports bigger hosts, improves network security and bins old Windows versions as guests * Singapore awards 5G licences – and winning carriers pick anyone but Huawei for nationwide network Bid that proposed using Chinese vendor’s kit scores only limited network access * Wanted – DRAM or alive: US Feds bag arrest warrants for three Taiwanese accused of stealing Micron's mem secrets Former employees missed court appearence, maybe because a Taiwan court already found two of them guilty Emergent Tech * Dems take a crack at banning Feds from using facial-recog tech. Congress will put it on todo list after 'learn Klingon' Plus: Amazon buys self-driving startup, and more Personal Tech * It's now safe to turn off your computer shop: Microsoft to shutter its bricks-and-mortar retail locations worldwide 'Reimagined' flagships to endure, but that place you used to go to when the Apple Store was too busy is going away * White elephants in the mist: Google's upcoming Pixel 4A may ship without Soli motion recognition, per FCC filing Stripping radar-based tech would cut price and allow phone's sale in markets where 60GHz spectrum is restricted * Beware the fresh Windows XP install: Failure awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth There's a rat in my system, what am I gonna do? * After 84 years, Japan's Olympus shutters its camera biz, flogs it to private equity – smartphones are just too good Oh, snap Security * Macs, iPhones, iPads to get encrypted DNS – how'd you like them Apples? Cupertino idiot-tax corp is fashionably late to the party * Let's roll the 3d6 dice on today's security drama: Ah, 15, that's LG allegedly hacked, source code stolen by Maze ransomware gang Crooks threaten to leak swiped software blueprints * Tune in and watch live: Email encryption doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing deal Next week: Explore how keeping email safe can be part of a wider corporate strategy * Brit plod's use of facial-recognition tech is lawful, no need to question us, cops' lawyer tells Court of Appeal Plus: Home Office urges judges to leave lax legal framework as is * When one open-source package riddled with vulns pulls in dozens of others, what's a dev to do? Snyk survey puts cross-site scripting top of the list for security holes – but watch out for prototype pollution too Software * Unfortunately for SAP, major ERP upgrade projects are the last thing customers want to think about right now Orgs still fixated on getting remote working right, says user group chief Science * Here's a headline we'll run this century, mark our words: Alien invaders' AI found on Mars searching for signs of life World will marvel at tiny electronic brain made of sand taught to think * Russia returns to space tourism and offers a first citizen spacewalk As Japan's virtual space tourism rig is readied for bolt-on to ISS * NASA mulls going all steam-punk with a fleet of jumping robots to explore Saturn and Jupiter's mysterious moons I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Bootnotes * It's National Cream Tea Day and this time we end the age-old debate once and for all: How do you eat yours? The question that not even quantum computing can solve * An unfortunate bit of product placement for Microsoft as Liverpool celebrates winning some silverware Never mind the ball-based shenanigans – how about some love for Windows Activation? * Lockdown team building: Actualise the potentiality of your workforce... through the power of video games Human: Fall Flat, Left 4 Dead 2, Embr, Sea of Thieves – goodness, we've been having a blast * CompSci student bitten by fox after feeding it McNuggets Umm, kid: us computer folks are supposed to be the smart ones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: