Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight [Fri Dec 11 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 11 December 2020 ***************************************************************** Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight Billing budget? Free plan? All useless when buggy code went into overdrive ***************************************************************** Business * Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable, claims it misled standards bodies IP arm of Finnish firm should have spoken up sooner... or so the lawsuit claims Data Centre * Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight Billing budget? Free plan? All useless when buggy code went into overdrive * Oracle Database 21c bridges NoSQL gap with native JSON support, plays catch-up with relational rivals Take those claimed performance gains with a pinch of salt, though * AMD, Arm, non-Intel servers soar as overall market stalls Dell and HPE in stasis as mid-range and high-end markets slide * India to spend up big on submarine cable to sparsely-populated but strategically-placed remote island group Population of 64,000 needs better access to e-government services, and there's also four navy bases to consider Personal Tech * Twitter, Mozilla, Vimeo slam Europe’s one-size-fits-all internet content policing plan Blanket deletions will smother internet, EU tech chief told Security * Ad-scamming, login-stealing Windows malware is hitting Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Yandex browsers, says Microsoft Sophisticated campaign has been going on for months, we're told * 'Malwareless' ransomware campaign operators pwned 83k victims' MySQL servers, 250k databases up for sale $500 a pop, $25k 'earned' and not much of a trace left, says Guardicore * The patch that wasn't: Cisco emits fresh fixes for NTLM hash-spilling vuln and XSS-RCE combo in Jabber app Wormable nasty still doesn't need any user input to pwn target devices * UK union pens letter to data watchdog on icky workplace monitoring systems like Microsoft's Productivity Score The Pandora's Box that won't stay closed * UK Ministry of Defence: We won't prosecute bug bounty hunters – oh btw, we now have one of those 'Better late than never' opines industry bod * Google Chrome's crackdown on ad blockers and browser extensions, Manifest v3, is now available in beta Web advertising giant says it has been working with filter makers, others to 'evolve the platform' * South Korea kills ActiveX-based government digital certificate service Service was so unpopular, getting rid of it was an election policy Software * It's not 'Door to Heaven', it's 'Stargate': DataStax reaches out to front-end devs with support for GraphQL Open-source API framework aims to make Cassandra a bit easier * Rocky Linux is go: CentOS founder's new project aims to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Rocking the Red Hat boat with an alternative distro designed for production use * Back to the Fuchsia, part IV: Google's in-development OS now open to community contributions New shiny has governance, mailing lists, public repository... but how will Google use it? * China bans 105 apps, eight app stores, and says it’ll swing the hammer again TripAdvisor caught in sweep of software deemed too nasty for local consumption Science * SpaceX Starship blows up on landing, Elon Musk says it's the data that matters and that landed just fine Test flight took candidate Mars trip rocket to new heights ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: