It's happening! Official retro Thinkpad lappy spotted in the wild [Tue Sep 5 2017]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 5 September 2017 ***************************************************************** It's happening! Official retro Thinkpad lappy spotted in the wild Anniversary special brings back much-loved features ***************************************************************** Business * China bans crypto-currency fundraising schemes Bitcoin, Ethereum values dip after 'Initial Coin Offerings' ruled dangerously disruptive * Facebook fails in bid for streaming sports rights Indian Premier League cricket rejects Zuck's ~US$600m bid in favour of Murdoch moolah * Google, propaganda, and the new New Man Since when was 'intervening' in TV shows a good idea? * Paris Hilton inflates crypto bubble some more, backs Initial Coin Offering Meanwhile, China says of ICOs: That's hot, we mean, er, banned * Smart meters: 'Dog's breakfast' that'll only save you 'a tenner' – report £390 per meter... £420 ... pff, it's public money, who cares? * 80% of IT projects in public sector delayed due to IR35 – report Half of gov techies quit following tax clampdown, says survey * Google's Hollywood 'interventions' made on-screen coders cooler But not by much: shows Google touched still had lonely hoodie-wearing white male geeks * Yahoo! must! face! the! music! over! data! breaches! judge! rules! Purple Palace's corporate carcass to cop a kicking as class action gets green light * Oracle staff report big layoffs across Solaris, SPARC teams Storage products in peril, too, but Big Red declines to comment Data Centre * Can your complex distributed systems take the weight? Learn how to stay strong * Detox from your weekend kebabs with a healthy storage golubtsy Storage pigeons roost as we munch on cabbagey treats * UK.gov unveils six areas to pilot full-fat fibre, and London ain't on the list Scatters £10m across country out of £200m pot Emergent Tech * Retail serfs to vanish, all thanks to automation Oxford doomsayers sees bleak future for those employed in retail, transport, warehousing, and logistics Personal Tech * It's happening! Official retro Thinkpad lappy spotted in the wild Anniversary special brings back much-loved features Security * Leaky S3 bucket sloshes deets of thousands with US security clearance Bunch of resumés citing secret government work exposed * Crypto-busters reverse nearly 320 MEELLION hashed passwords Researchers reverse hashes in Troy Hunt's password release. PS, don't forget the salt Software * Facebook promised to open up its log storage system LogDevice: how to make sense of 10 hyperscale data centres * Linus Torvalds passed a kidney stone and then squeezed out Linux 4.13 SMB 1.0 also deemed better out than in, as TLS makes it into the kernel Transformation * A big ask for any nerd, but going outside (your usual data sets) can be good for you Might not seem relevant, but the smart cruncher knows better Science * 15 'could it be aliens?' fast radio bursts observed in one night Who or what had 10 million trillion trillion joules to play with, 3 billion light years away? Bootnotes * Thousands of hornets swarm over innocent fire service drone Never mind robots, get a load of these winged horrors * Argentina eyes up LASER DEATH CANNON testbed warship Looking to buy the elderly American Ponce * Well, whad'ya know? 'No evidence' that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower Freedom of Information request to DoJ turns up... nada * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. Learn how to to ensure security, regulatory compliance, and business continuity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, The Lightwell, 12-16 Laystall Street, London, EC1R 4PF, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: