Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time [Mon Feb 22 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 22 February 2021 ***************************************************************** Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time Popular programming language, at the top of its game, still struggles to please everyone ***************************************************************** Business * Ex-American football player attempts to breathe life into failed lawsuit claiming Gears of War used his likeness First Amendment under the microscope * The chips are down. We need your support, semiconductor industry tells US president Biden How about some investment... or at least a tax break? Data Centre * House Republicans introduce legislation for outright ban on municipal broadband in the US Doomed bill seems to forget municipal broadband exists due to failures of private sector * Huawei loses attempt to rescue CFO Meng from US clutches despite using 140-year-old law in High Court Worth a try, eh, chums? * AWS tops up the Bezos rocket fund thanks to more money from Brit tax collection agency A 48-month, £41m hyperscale cloud service deal done with HMRC * Fancy a £130k director of technology role with the UK's Ministry of Justice? All you need to do is 'fix the basics' Miserly? No, they'll throw in a loan for a season train ticket too * Big Tech workers prefer 3 days at home, 2 in the office. We ask Reg readers: What's your home-office balance? Little love for a return to the five-days-on-campus week, Blind survey shows Emergent Tech * Dangerous flying car drone zoomed into UK's Gatwick Airport airspace after killswitch failed Goodwood Festival of Speed took a nasty turn in 2019, finds AAIB Personal Tech * UK Supreme Court declares Uber drivers are workers, not self-employed: Ride biz's legal battle ends in a crash Brits score vital win against US giant's gig economy model * €121,000 YOGA Book Android is 'priced right' says Lenovo Gouging in a pandemic? Shurely shome mishtake... * The wastepaper basket is on the other side of the office – that must be why they put all these slots in the computer Wow, this PC is hot stuff... actually it might be a bit too hot * Post-COVID-19 biz travel: Jet in, go to hotel, meet in rooms sliced into sealed halves to separate locals and visitors. Still get jetlag Singapore's holding a global mega-conf in August, will have 600 no-quarantine-required rooms ready * Australia facepalms as Facebook blocks bookstores, sport, health services instead of just news Reg writer on the spot reports that life without news links on The Social Network™ is just fine Security * Malware monsters target Apple’s M1 silicon with ‘Silver Sparrow’ Behaves like a legit software installer and phones home for instructions, but lacks a payload * Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time Popular programming language, at the top of its game, still struggles to please everyone * Atheists warn followers of unholy data leak, hint dark deeds may have tried to make it go away Rival atheists accused of not believing in privacy law * Microsoft admits some Azure, Exchange, Intune source code snaffled in SolarWinds schemozzle We’ll be fine, says Redmond security crew. No word on whether you will be too once crims analyse their haul Software * Ghost of Microsoft's Legacy Edge browser will linger as the default on Surface Hubs after April execution for desktops Consistency is key * Axe-happy Microsoft halves support for Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Channel Who wants to live forever? * Microsoft announces a new Office for offline fans, slashes support, hikes the price Office 2021 is on the way and 'the cloud is where we invest' * Citibank accidentally wired $500m back to lenders in user-interface super-gaffe – and judge says it can't be undone Press space or click mouse to continue ...wait, not yet, doh! Science * What's that, Lassie? Dogs show signs of self-awareness according to peer-reviewed academic study? Canine friends may not be as dumb as they sometimes like to appear * British govt emits fuzzy vision for UK version of American boffin special forces group Darpa Aria. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it? Bootnotes * Healthy 32-year-old offered COVID-19 vaccine because doctors had him down as 6.2cm tall with BMI of 28,000 Bloke was placed into vulnerable category because of his weight * You want me to do WHAT in that prepaid envelope? Not quite the data dump I thought you meant ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2021 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: