It's Patch Blues-day for Outlook: Microsoft's email client breaks worldwide following software update [Thu Jul 16 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 16 July 2020 ***************************************************************** It's Patch Blues-day for Outlook: Microsoft's email client breaks worldwide following software update Admins sent scrambling as latest patch blamed for crashes ***************************************************************** Business * €13bn wings its way back to Apple after Euro court rules Irish tax deal wasn't 'state aid' Vestager vexed * Apple and Google, take note: Newly enacted EU law aims to protect developers from arbitrary decisions of tech giants 'At least 30 days' notice of a suspension required – but there are plenty of get-outs * With another NHS overhaul in the offing, £200m up for grabs in northern England for pretty much anything related to IT Whatever it is they're doing, consultants will be kept busy * USA ends Hong Kong's special treatment, crimping flow of tech to territory Seeing as finance is Hong Kong's thing and that industry needs lots of security kit, this could be scary Data Centre * US restricts visas for folks working at Huawei and other Chinese tech makers – seemingly over China's human-rights abuses Staff face being turned away at the border for nation's treatment of Uyghurs * Bad news: Your Cisco switch is a fake and an update borked it. Good news: It wasn't designed to spy on you Autopsy finds rip-off gear is mainly about making coin, not bugging your network * We asked. You spoke. Now it's time to reveal how Register IT pros pick and choose their network security gear What are the upstarts doing right and the market incumbents doing wrong? * Trump gloats, telcos weep, and China is furious: How things stand following UK's decision to rip out Huawei 'Retaliation should be public and painful' says Beijing-approved rag * VMware on AWS just got cheaper and gruntier. But you can only choose one Yet Virtzilla still won't say how many paying punters are actually using its Amazonian cloud * Mozilla unveils $4.99/month subscription-based VPN, says it won't hang onto user logs Sling some dollars Moz's way for that special WireGuard experience * Up your remote-working game with application modernisation and delivery – and more: Watch these virtual sessions Reduce your mean time-to-resolution with efficient troubleshooting * Wipro’s new CEO plans ‘obsession for growth’ as plague slowed it in Q1 Contractors look to have copped it as offshore utilisation rates grew Emergent Tech * Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty again after cryptocurrency flop broke laws set up to stop him All work and no play makes… you’re coming with us, you clown * Don't want AWS training its AI systems from your pics, text, audio, code? It's now easier to opt out of the slurp And you've told your users their info may be harvested by Amazon, right? Across regions, yeah? Personal Tech * Downwardly mobile? Well, things aren't looking up for Dixons Carphone's phone biz Sales crash by 20% and that break-even period has just been pushed out by up to another year * Chinese mobile giant OPPO claims new 125W fast-charging spec will fully fuel your phone in 20 minutes But competitors concerned about hits to battery capacity and longevity * AMD pushes 64-core 4.2GHz Ryzen Threadripper Pro workstation processors New family can wrangle 2TB of RAM, has bandwidth to burn, makes single-socket beefy PCs sing * As the FCC finally starts tackling its dreadful broadband maps, Georgia reveals just how bad they are Spoiler alert: Cable companies are ripping Americans off Security * Twitter mass hacking: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, Biden, Obama, more hijacked to peddle Bitcoin scam Miscreants have already obtained more than $110K from the credulous * It's Patch Blues-day for Outlook: Microsoft's email client breaks worldwide following software update Admins sent scrambling as latest patch blamed for crashes * Cambridge student rebuilds Polish Enigma-code-breaking box that paved the way for Turing ... and Victory! Marian Rejewski's cyclometer recreated in hardware for first time in decades * Citrix denies dark web claim of network compromise and ransomware attack Says third party holding some business contact information has had trouble but its own infrastructure remains safe Software * SAP on the back for Michiel Verhoeven who has been handed the keys to ERP giant's UK and Ireland biz Ex-MD Jens Amail returns to Germany, and we can't blame him * Cornwall councillor suggests authority paid £2m for Oracle licences that no one used on contract originally worth £4m These things are noticed when you have an IT pro in local government * Brit retailer John Lewis to catapult 111 tech bods over to Capgemini weeks after dumping 244 on Wipro 80 among newly TUPE'd workforce may face redundancy, say insiders * You're testing them wrong: Whiteboard coding interviews are 'anti-women psychological stress examinations' Boffins find flaws in the way software engineering hopefuls are sifted Bootnotes * The Devil's in the details: Church of Satan forced to clarify that no unholy rituals taking place in SoCal forest What a shame * Pokémon Go players fined for breaking down-under COVID-19 lockdown rules As were the morons whose illegal party was rumbled when they made a colossal KFC order ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 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