What does my neighbour's Tesla have in common with a stairlift? [Mon Dec 14 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 14 December 2020 ***************************************************************** What does my neighbour's Tesla have in common with a stairlift? Both are driving me up the wall ***************************************************************** Business * Exonerated: First subpostmasters cleared of criminal convictions in Post Office Horizon scandal It only took 16 years in some cases but we're getting there * UK MoD bungs Boeing £500m to plug gap left by a system it should have provided under £800m contract from 2010 'Fragile and ageing legacy systems' need to be replaced – now * CEST la vie: HMRC admits controversial IR35 status checker returns undecided verdict in nearly 20% of cases What a useless tool, say folk in freelance community, with months to go before tax reforms introduced to private sector Data Centre * Adios California, Oracle the latest tech firm to leave California for the wide open (low tax) Lone Star State Big Red says it's down to 'our employees’ quality of life' * UK competition watchdog fast-tracks investigation into mega-merger of O2 and Virgin Media American cable guy Liberty Global and Spanish multinational Telefónica ask CMA to hurry up and marry their kids * BOFH: Switch off the building? Great idea, Boss Never mind what those blinkenlights are doing. Take a deep breath and this will all be fine * Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there Company safe... telephone gear... Is this the cleaner's cupboard? * New Nutanix CEO and Azure HCI debut reboot the hyperconverged infrastructure market VMware’s Rajiv Ramaswami gets Dheeraj Pandey’s job, and the task of fending off Microsoft’s new contender * AWS is fed up with tech that wasn’t built for clouds because it has a big 'blast radius' when things go awry Which is why it's built its own UPS, from the firmware up. And also why Graviton ignores Intel's and AMD's best tricks * FCC mulls booting China Telecom from US networks over its ties with Beijing And repeats that there's no Huawei that Chinese manufacturer is getting its hardware in, either Emergent Tech * Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building 'Uyghur alarm' facial recognition scanner for govt Plus: Graphcore pits its latest AI chips against Nvidia's A100, and Google CEO apologises for ousting a top AI ethics researcher * What does my neighbour's Tesla have in common with a stairlift? Both are driving me up the wall Personal Tech * France fines Google, Amazon €135m total for slipping ad cookies into people's computers without permission We're sure these websites will find some way to rebound from this incredible punishment * Social networks warn Pakistan its new content-blocking laws will hurt economic growth Good luck with your digital transformation without us on board, says Asia Internet Coalition Security * Rogue ex-Cisco employee who crippled WebEx conferences and cost Cisco millions gets two years in US prison And the week's other security news * British voyeur escapes US extradition over 770 cases of webcam malware Forum bar and suicide risk keeps him in Blighty for now * Subway email weirdness: Suspicion grows over apparent Trickbot trojan delivery campaign If you got an unexpected message from the not-footlong guys, don't click links Software * Linus Torvalds launches Linux kernel 5.10 and warns devs not to send 5.11 code too close to Christmas New long-term support edition of Linux knocks off year 2038 bug, ends support for Power PC 601, and much more * Buggy behavior bites .NET SqlClient, but only for those not using Windows .NET devs have been struggling to deal with errors affecting non-Windows SqlClients under heavy load * The three or so people who run Windows 10 on Arm might be glad to know that x64 emulation is in preview For Dev Channel Insiders only at the moment * Oracle’s ERP and cloud surged in Q2. Hardware grew super-fast. So why was Larry Ellison a tad frustrated? Because the balance sheet showed only muted growth while subscription cash starts to flow Science * FBI confirms Zodiac Killer's 340 cipher solved by trio of amateur math and software codebreakers Mysterious message, unread for 51 years, turns out to be a bit dull * Don't give up on Planet Nine yet: Hubble 'scope finds just such a world a mere 336 light-years away Massive planets at far out distances from their stars are possible after all Bootnotes * You've got to be shipping me: KatherineRyan.co.uk suggests the comedian has diversified into freight forwarding We know 2020 has been hard on the standup circuit, but really? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: