Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal's firmware, gain root access and a few ideas [Fri Jul 9 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 9 July 2021 ***************************************************************** Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal's firmware, gain root access and a few ideas Extra-terrestrial service probed ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Salesforce's Patterson blazes a trail for humble-braggers everywhere UK & I shindig has everything: Olympians, Bake-Off stars, and the ever-rising former BT boss * India takes on e-commerce giants with plan for a national platform Hopes to integrate closed platforms into giant national marketplace and make the lot open-source Offbeat * 11-year-old graduate announces plans to achieve immortality by 'replacing body parts with mechanical parts' Walking sci-fi horror movie plot wants to look inside boffin brains to find way to help ailing grandparents * Ex-IBM whistleblower's suit back in court, 8 years after he alleged irregularities in $265m IRS software deal Judges revive some of the claims * Massive 3D catzilla gets crowds purring in busy Shinjuku district of Tokyo We'd hate to see the litter tray * Not a baaa-d idea: Embracing the eunuch lifestyle slows ageing – for sheep anyway Too big a price to pay for decelerating your epigenetic clock? * The James Webb Space Telescope, a project dating back to the late 1900s, may launch this very century Europeans still hoping for Halloween lift-off On-Prem * Fool me OnePlus, shame on me: Chinese phone firm fingered for fiddling with performance figures – again Company caught throttling everyday apps but leaving benchmarks, selected games alone * UK competition watchdog sniffing around Motorola profits after delay to replace company's Airwave service Blue-light radio network drags on, adding excess £1.2bn to telco's coffers * Mobile carrier Telenor quits Myanmar, says coup makes doing business its way impossible Firm tries to stand up for customers, human rights, sells to M1 and takes a bath * BT and Communication Workers Union draw up 'principles' to guide future planning on pay and redundancies Threat of national industrial ballot in May forced telco back around negotiating table * Intel's Foveros tech hits a speedbump as Lakefield gets canned – one year after launch Innovative multi-process-node chip sandwich perhaps a little too innovative for its customers * Galaxy quest: Yet another sub-£500 phone comes to trouble mobile big dogs in the form of Realme GT 5G Big brand flagship performance, midrange price, 3.5mm earphone port * Dell bigwig: Expect another 6 months of supply woes. Oh, hello Windows 11 It's partly for a good reason, though: vaccines * Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal's firmware, gain root access and a few ideas Extra-terrestrial service probed * Huawei hits the highway as Volkswagen signs to put 4G in 30 million vehicles A sport of patent revenue comes in handy when faced with US sanctions and 5G bans Security * US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight Appeal against January decision to be heard by High Court * ICO survey on data flouters: 50% say they receive more unwanted calls than before pandemic Plus: Fewer people proportion agree 'current laws' sufficiently protect personal information * Criminals prefer to WFH too: Singapore infosec agency says 43% of all crimes in the city-state happened online in 2020 The times they are a-changin' * In conversation with Gene Hoffman, co-creator of the internet's first ad blocker El Reg revisits those early days of the internet and learns of the NSA tipping off Boeing about French spying * India under attack by rapidly-evolving advanced persistent threat actor SideCopy, says Cisco Talos Gang is using custom RATs malware to target government employees, and has an interest in Pakistan, too * White hats reported key Kaseya VSA flaw months ago. Ransomware outran the patch So close, and yet so far Software * If you've mastered Python 101, you're probably better at programming than OpenAI's prototype Codex 10 PRINT "ML won't take my job ";: GOTO 10 * Google herds FLoC back to the lab for undisclosed post-third-party-cookie ad tech modifications Privacy advocates say surgery on bird-themed system must happen in public * Linux Foundation celebrates 30 years of Torvalds' kernel with a dry T-shirt contest Artistic types invited to submit their designs – under very specific guidelines * OpenUK's latest report paints a rosy picture of open source adoption Might be nice if a few more of those adopters turned to contributors, though * YouTube's recommendation engine is pretty naff, Mozilla study finds It even pushes videos that break the site's own content policies * Tencent uses facial recognition to enforce China’s curfew on gaming kids Accounts held in grown-ups’ names targeted if they stay up late * Three-dozen US states plus DC sue Google over Play Store's revenue cut, payment system, and more Chocolate Factory rolls its eyes at 'meritless' antitrust lawsuit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2021 Situation Publishing. 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