Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of COVID-19 – and anti-vaxxer cranks aren't gonna like it [Thu Oct 1 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 1 October 2020 ***************************************************************** Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of COVID-19 – and anti-vaxxer cranks aren't gonna like it Aunty Mabel on Facebook thinks he is a Bond baddie (spoiler: he's not) ***************************************************************** Business * Brit tax collector HMRC wants fireside chat with suppliers to discuss ways to spend the annual £900m IT budget Prising open that pork barrel again? Nah, it's never been closed * Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of COVID-19 – and anti-vaxxer cranks aren't gonna like it Aunty Mabel on Facebook thinks he is a Bond baddie (spoiler: he's not) * Google sees signs of success in its campaign to water down Australian pay-for-news plan Regulators apparently sympathetic to calls for revision of arbitration process to set payments * Philippines president threatens Facebook ban after The Social Network™ deleted supportive content Congress to probe whether Facebook crimps free speech Data Centre * Not one to be outdone by Microsoft, Apple's cloud fell over too. Unlike Microsoft, it hasn't said what happened Apple TV, iCloud Mail, iWork for iCloud, App Store and more go TITSUP* * Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users, skyrocketing numbers, and the spectre of Microsoft Get to 100 million customers, 1% pays $100 a year, and bam! $100m business * Cloudy hardware spending topped cash splashed on conventional data centre kit for first time in Q2, says IDC Including private clouds, so let’s not go all ‘On-prem IT is dead’ just yet * So how do you feel about bridging storage and memory to supercharge your data center? Join our webcast and experience the Optane™ Effect Emergent Tech * What price your home delivery? Amazon accused of hiding real injury rate in its overworked warehouses Internal docs tell a different story to public pronouncements * I love my electricity company's app – but the FBI says the nuclear industry bribed politicians $60m to kill it Incredible tale that starts with smart home software being axed and ends with senior lawmaker denying taking a super-bung * VMware and Nvidia buddy up to integrate AI containers with vSphere, promising results as 'fast as public cloud' But no faster, so do you need it? * Hydrogen-powered train tested on Britain's railway tracks as diesel alternative Hydroflex has ambled through Warwickshire at up to 50mph * Prepare your shocked faces: Crypto-coin exchange boss laundered millions of bucks for online auction crooks Scumbag found guilty for his role in large-scale cyber-fraud ring * It's 2020, so let's just go ahead and let Amazon have everyone's handprints so it can process payments Read mine off my forehead, Jeffrey Personal Tech * It's Google's hardware launch day, and what do we get? A few Pixel phones, Nest kit, and another Chromecast One more thing: Hold for Me, a way to delegate muzak waiting to your handset * Corsair's K70 MK.2 does nothing a cheaper keyboard can't, but the steep price gets you top-notch components It also lights up like a Christmas tree * YouTube axes crowdsourced captioning: Use our buggy speech-to-subtitle code or pay an approved third party Gigantic internet radicalization operation calls time on volunteer efforts * Atari threatens to hit fourth VCS shipping deadline, provides pictures of boxes as proof of product delivery Meanwhile the console’s chief architect is still chasing payment Security * Business top brass are terrified their companies will simply be collateral damage in a future cyber-war Organizations need not fear a direct hit – someone knackering the internet or the grid would be enough * Russian hacker, described as 'brilliant' by judge, gets seven years in a US clink for raiding LinkedIn, Dropbox Yevgeniy Nikulin, grabbed in Prague, unlikely to see his mother alive again after swiping 200m+ user records * Who watches the watchers? Samsung does so it can fling ads at owners of its smart TVs Customers forgot they are the product when splashing out on a nice telly * FYI: If you're running HP Device Manager, anyone on your network can get admin on your server via backdoor Hidden database account discovered, patches finally available as well as mitigations * It's 2020 so not only is your mouse config tool a Node.JS Electron app, it's also pwnable by an evil webpage Malicious JavaScript can inject commands to execute Software * Microsoft lends Windows on Arm a hand with emulation layer to finally run 64-bit x86 apps at last News from the Department of Wait, It Didn't Already Do That? * NHS England awards £1.6m deal to build digital staff 'passports' in fight against coronavirus second wave Leaving it a bit late, aren't we? They better be blue Bootnotes * Singapore Airlines turns A380 into a restaurant, delivers plane food to homes As Australia's Qantas sells off old 747 drinks carts, fully loaded ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2020 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: