Buggy chkdsk in Windows update that caused boot failures and damaged file systems has been fixed [Wed Dec 23 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 23 December 2020 ***************************************************************** Buggy chkdsk in Windows update that caused boot failures and damaged file systems has been fixed Improving Windows' quality by making it not boot? ***************************************************************** Business * North of England NHS buyers name IT consultants who got in on £200m framework deal Hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of consultancy work farmed out * Australia wants Google to jump higher and sweat before it can buy Fitbit Ad giant’s promise to play nice with other exercise gadgets accepted in Brussels, deferred down under Data Centre * After 11 years, Australia declares its national broadband network is ‘built and fully operational’ Those 35,000 connections that aren’t built? Celebrate the 11.86 million that were, says Minister * UK on track to miss even its slashed full-fibre gigabit coverage goals, warn MPs Plus: Govt has no targets at all for 5G deployment, claims telco insider * Expect €5m cloud, says European Centre for Midrange Weather Forecasts OK sunshine, but put it on-prem * Google says it’s the cleanest cloud, also reveals deal with Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company for new cloud region You can’t make this stuff up Emergent Tech * Business intelligence vendor MicroStrategy reveals it’s bought a billion bucks of bitcoin Better capital returns than cash and all allowed under company rules Security * UK firm NOW: Pensions tells some customers a 'service partner' leaked their data all over 'public software forum' Compromised info include names, email addresses, DoBs, and National Insurance numbers Software * Buggy chkdsk in Windows update that caused boot failures and damaged file systems has been fixed Improving Windows' quality by making it not boot? * SHRT hits the fan for first-gen Surface Hub users: Jumped-up whiteboard can now be updated via dedicated tool Also: Santa drops a final Windows Insider release, new PowerShell, Skype Together Mode * Red Hat defends its CentOS decision, claims Stream version can cover '95% of current user workloads' Doing both CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux would mean doing both poorly claims CentOS board member Science * Earth observation chief Dr Josef Aschbacher takes reins at European Space Agency Also: Rocket Lab rounds out a busy year, OneWeb returns to constellation work, NASA ploughs ahead with Orion Bootnotes * What's that lurking behind the borked face of finance? Windows, of course Rule number one of sausage club: never ask what goes into the sausage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: