SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities [Wed Feb 24 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 24 February 2021 ***************************************************************** SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels? ***************************************************************** Business * UK might still be in lockdown but tech jobs rise above pre-pandemic levels and beyond, according to ONS More women in tech workforce too, and salaries staying firm or going up * Microsoft staffers restive as annual employee poll lands – without questions about compensation ‘We are only insanely paid vs ludicrously paid at Google or Netflix’ Data Centre * SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels? * Xilinx pops a 16-core 64-bit Arm system-on-chip from NXP into its latest FPGA-based 100Gbps smart NIC Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane * UK's Health Department desperately seeking service provider to run IT after 'cloud-first' shift Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs * Nominet sets the date for extraordinary meeting where members could fire CEO Showdown over future of the .uk operator set for late March, shenanigans already alleged DevOps * IT contractor caught charging Uncle Sam expert rates for newbies, agrees to pay back $6m in settlement Triple-I worked on Homeland Security and ICE systems Emergent Tech * DataStax 'pauses' AIOps database project to figure out exactly what AIOps is Some enterprise folk less keen on cloudy machine learning Personal Tech * Spotify to introduce lossless audio streaming: Better sound or inefficient gimmick? 'More about branding than it is quality,' reckons analyst * Samsung shows off next-generation big-pixel camera sensor tech, coming to an Android phone near you Good chance a phone you buy this year will use this photography tech * SD card slot, HDMI port could return to the MacBook Pro this year, says Apple analyst An end to dongle hell in sight? * MWC Shanghai opens with celebration of the humble smartphone's role in helping humanity cope with COVID-19 GSMA chief offers new burgers-per-year benchmark for techno-impact * Microsoft sides with media groups, together they urge Europe to follow Australia's lead, make Google, Facebook pay for news article links Already interest from MEPs, one body tells us * Facebook and Australia do a deal: The Social Network™ will restore news down under and even start paying for it Relationship status changes from ‘Separated’ to somewhere between 'In a Domestic Partnership’ and 'It's Complicated' * Does Samsung want you to buy new phones? Asking 'cos Galaxies now get four years of security updates Even kit from 2019 is covered and so are the modestly priced A and M series Security * Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to publicly admit when they've been hacked Senate intelligence committee hears ideas in light of SolarWinds disaster * VMware warns of critical remote code execution flaw in vSphere HTML5 client If you don’t patch, the hosts driving all your virty servers are at risk. So maybe your to-do list needs a tickle? * They break into your network but do nothing themselves: 'Initial access brokers' resell stolen creds for $7k a pop So says Digital Shadows as it puts a price on illicit access methods * Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints of GlobalEye radar snoop jet And what may be CAD drawing of a military radar antenna * Linux Mint users in hot water for being slow with security updates, running old versions Automatic updates? 'We have ideas on how to improve this,' says founder Software * US government jobs report predicts pandemic will lead to boom times for IT industry Along with epidemiologists. As for the hospitality industry… not so much * Apache foundation ousts TinkerPop project co-founder for tweeting 'offensive humor that borders on hate speech' ASF board member resigns in protest of org's online chatter 'policing' Science * NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video See how plucky Perseverance touched down on the unforgiving dust world Bootnotes * Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just a very unhappy Windows installation The last attempt to resume your country failed. Would you like to try again? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: