A cautionary tale of virtual floppies and all too real credentials [Tue Oct 27 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 27 October 2020 ***************************************************************** A cautionary tale of virtual floppies and all too real credentials Only a complete banker would map that to... oh dear... ***************************************************************** Business * Police ICT Company ponies up £12m for one platform to rule UK cops' social media orifices Procurement limb seeks fully auditable contact channel for reporting crimes, emergencies – what could go wrong? * Lee Kun-hee, who transformed Samsung into a global electronics titan, dies at 78 Chaebol's second CEO once set a bonfire of dud fax machines to teach the company a lesson in quality control * Pakistan calls on Facebook to extend holocaust denial ban into Islamophobia crackdown As comms minister says nation will create its own regulated Netflix clone Data Centre * Seeing as real 5G isn't even here yet, you could just get a OnePlus instead of an iPhone 12 and save loadsamoney Firm launches cheapest phones yet: £329 5G model, £179 basic handset * Yes, we have a 5G iPhone now. But that doesn't mean 5G has arrived And please forget about that 4th industrial revolution because most networks only have NSA 5G * A cautionary tale of virtual floppies and all too real credentials Only a complete banker would map that to... oh dear... * QUIC! IETF sets November deadline for last comments on TCP-killer spawned by Google and Cloudflare Next comes all the joy and laughter of the standards process * Still struggling to support your newly remote workforce? You’re not alone… Tune in next week to see what VDI can do to help Emergent Tech * President Trump's H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America's largest corps, top study finds White House immigration restrictions knock less than half a per cent off * Uber drivers take ride-biz to European court over 'Kafkaesque' algorithmic firings by Mastermind code Lawsuit challenges robo-dismissals, Uber insists it manually reviewed cases * Linux Foundation projects on AI and data merge – because one of these concepts simply can't exist without the other Combined org hoping to attract more industry support * How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers Plus: Facebook won't get lost in translation, Cruise all set to build fleet of driverless taxis, and more Personal Tech * Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for any rule-breaking.... on privacy grounds Irony overload as social media giant accuses NYU of bulk data collection * Honey, I shrunk the battery: Something's gotta give as iPhone 12's logic board swells to accommodate 5G chippery Next-gen connectivity requires reshuffle beneath the surface Security * Hackers rummaged about in Finnish psychotherapy clinic – now patients extorted with public data dump threats Details on 300 reportedly already published to Tor website * Report: UK colleges face testing times with ageing kit, iffy connectivity, and some IT staff supporting 1k+ users Cloud-first but no 'resilient internet connection'? Oh dear Software * Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November 'Hey, you folks heard that there's this virus starting to spread?' – IE, probably * Linux kernel's Kroah-Hartman: We're not struggling to get new coders, it's code review that's the bottleneck Plus: 'Intel is not doing well with disclosures. I’m not happy. It’s not getting better' * SAP stock price crashes 23%, €28bn wiped out as firm warns of Klein(er) revenues, profits ahead due to COVID-19 SAP: Look at the cloud, look at the cloud... you're under. Market: Nope * Windows 10 October 2020 Update has arrived... and so have the fixes. Plus: Fancy a discount on a Surface Duo? Also: Teams migration, Windows 10 on Surface Hub 2S * UK mapping agency the Ordnance Survey is heading into gaming territory with £6m tender for developer team Great, we can't wait for Grand Theft Auto: Brecon Beacons Science * Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope Fly me to the Moon, let me swim among the stars * NASA trying to stuff excess baggage into OSIRIS-REx after too-successful asteroid scoop Collector is leaking regolith, sparking swift stash plan Bootnotes * IKEA Croydon (FYI: that's a place in outer London, not a type of DIY cabinet) likes things in pairs, from chimneys to bork The site may be getting on a bit, but the Windows fail is bang up to date ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: