What today links Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram – apart from being run by monopolistic personal data harvesters? [Thu Mar 14 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 14 March 2019 ***************************************************************** What today links Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram – apart from being run by monopolistic personal data harvesters? They all fell over, fears of massive DDoS denied ***************************************************************** Business * Tech sector risks GM-crops-like crackdown if it doesn't win back trust, warns privacy watchdog 'We’re living in an age of anger where people feel disempowered, unhappy...' * UK digital competition review: Forget money, we should consider 'balance of harms' during tech mergers Plus: A little thing called Brexit has been most distracting * Big and Blue: IBM boss's wage package shrinks in 2018 on her own recommendation The less we talk about those travel costs though, the better * Carphone Warehouse fined £29m for mis-selling mobile insurance to punters who didn't need it Smartphone retailer at centre of very own PPI scandal after FCA probe * Bank of England takes a break from opining on banks' IT outages to 'fess up to forking needless cash on legacy kit, manual processes Might want to stop throwing stones for a while... Data Centre * Holy sh*tsnacks! Danger zone! Edinburgh Uni's Archer 2 super 'puter will cost a cool £79m Hammond splashes the cash – guess Brexit's sorted then? * Ready Stack repacked: Dell EMC unloads DIY converged infrastructure designs Also upgrades VxBlock options * Marvell-ous! Chip slinger unleashes 400Gbps switching silicon for the edge Scream if you wanna go FASTER. SAFE, mate Emergent Tech * Don't be too shocked, but it looks as though these politicians have actually got their act together on IoT security Actual bipartisan legislation in the US, with industry backing, reemerges * Nonprofit OpenAI looks at the bill to craft a Holy Grail AGI, gulps, spawns commercial arm to bag investors' mega-bucks Capital idea, old boy... yes, plenty of capital Personal Tech * What today links Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram – apart from being run by monopolistic personal data harvesters? They all fell over, fears of massive DDoS denied * China still doesn't want iPhones despite Apple slashing prices, say market watchers Wanted: A cheap model? * At last! A solution for those unable to wrench their gaze from Windows 10... Er, it's Your Phone No, not your phone. It's 2019, for heaven's sake. The app Security * Thought you were done patching this week? Not if you're using an Intel-powered PC or server Here comes Chipzilla with a big bunch of security fixes for graphics drivers, server and workstation firmware, and more * Just Android things: 150m phones, gadgets installed 'adware-ridden' mobe simulator games Devs may have been duped into using dodgy SDK, tut-tuts infosec biz * Open-source 64-ish-bit serial number gen snafu sparks TLS security cert revoke runaround 64 bits of cert ID on the wall, 64 bits of ID. Take the top bit down, don't pass it around, 63 bits of cert ID on the wall... * This is the Send, encrypted end-to-end, this is the Send, my Mozillan friend Ride the fox, ride the fox Software * Boeing... Boeing... Gone: Canada, America finally ground 737 Max jets as they await anti-death-crash software patches Mad Max airline grudgingly backs decision 'out of an abundance of caution' * Nippier blob copying in Azure Storage Explorer? You bet your Az Command line smarts leave blobs all a bit GUI, thanks to AzCopy * They're BAAACK: Windows 10 nagware team loads trebuchet with annoying reminders to GTFO Windows 7 Hail of notifications incoming... just be thankful 8 passed you by * Windows XP point-of-sale machine gets nasty sniffle. Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby XP lingers like that cold you just can't shake Science * Boffins discover new dust clouds in the Solar System, Mercury has a surprisingly filthy ring Venus also turns up a number of undiscovered orbital partners ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing, The Cursitor, 38 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1EN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2019 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: