Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request [Fri Jun 18 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 18 June 2021 ***************************************************************** Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world' ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Microsoft loves Linux so much that packages.microsoft.com has fallen and can't get up Ubuntu fans report 404 errors amid 'space issues' TITSUP* * Not very Sage rage over UK pay outage: Opayo says 'ohheyno' as payment processor's payments stop processing Glitch leaves punters unable to pay for their goods and services * UK product safety regulations are failing consumers online, in the IoT, and … with artificial intelligence? 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You already attack us way more than we attack you! * South Korea has a huge problem with digital sex crimes against women says Human Rights Watch Big tech and local authorities are both far from helpful when victims try to delete unauthorised images or prosecute creeps * GPRS-era mobile data encryption algorithm GEA/1 was 'weak by design', still lingers in today's phones Just in case you travel back in time to 1998 Software * FYI: There's a human-less, AI robot Mayflower ship sailing from the UK to US right now Follow this Plymouth to Plymouth trip online * TITAN crypto-token does the opposite of zero to $60: Value plummets in hours And did a code bug throw a spanner in the works for IRON investors? * Chrome 'Conformance' for JavaScript frameworks says: If you don't follow our rules, your project won't build Google knows best * Graph DB slinger Neo4j secures $325m round of funding for $2bn valuation Also touts sharded graph application running on 1,000 servers * Facebook, academics think they've cracked spotting deepfakes by spotting how they're generated 99% accuracy in testing * Utopia? 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