Retired engineer confesses to role in sliding Microsoft Bob onto millions of XP install CDs [Thu Nov 26 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 26 November 2020 ***************************************************************** Retired engineer confesses to role in sliding Microsoft Bob onto millions of XP install CDs 'While Bob never got to play on the big stage, he always followed the band around and got to ride on the bus' ***************************************************************** Business * Dell reports green shoots in enterprise infrastructure biz after seven consecutive quarters of shrinkage SMEs are spending again, claims tech giant Data Centre * AWS admits to 'severely impaired' services in US-EAST-1, can't even post updates to Service Health Dashboard Multiple services sickly after Kinesis catches a cold: CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Lambda, Managed Blockchain * Revenues are up, the boss is about to give his keynote, and results are due. Time to sell shares, says Salesforce CFO $2.5m worth – 1,000 pairs of Nike Air Mag sneakers or a second-hand Pagani? Decisions, decisions * That other controversial Chinese telco: The FCC rejects ZTE's petition against its 'national security threat' designation Local US carriers to remain unable to buy its kit with federal funding * NASA building network cables that can survive supersonic flight - could this finally deliver unbreakable RJ45 latching tabs? Needed for probe testing how X-59 can break sound barrier without breaking eardrums Security * Ticketmaster: We're not liable for credit card badness because the hack straddled GDPR day Lawyers for fined firm make eyebrow-raising claim to irate ex-customer * Google binned two apps by China’s Baidu, which says researchers got it wrong by linking it to personal info leaks Palo Alto Networks spotted subscriber IDs and MAC addresses on the move Software * China ‘firmly opposes’ India’s new round of app bans, says it's violated trade laws Left last couple of bans alone but now says national security argument is bogus and calls for mutual co-operation * Boeing 737 Max will return to flight after software updates, says EU's aviation regulator It flew OK without MCAS – but not well enough to be certified as safe * Sopra Steria: Adding up outages and ransomware cleanup, Ryuk attack will cost us up to €50m French IT outsourcer says its overall losses will deepen as direct result * Thought the M3 roadworks took a while? Five years on, Vivaldi opens up a technical preview of its email client Take the M3 exit to offline mail and calendar shenanigans * Retired engineer confesses to role in sliding Microsoft Bob onto millions of XP install CDs 'While Bob never got to play on the big stage, he always followed the band around and got to ride on the bus' * MongoDB loses its mind with marketing budget movie mania: Yep, it's Hackers with drop-down menus This must have cost a packet... * VMware says faster growth will come once customers get back inside data centres SaaS revenue tops licences for the first time in solid Q3 Bootnotes * Ad banned for suggesting London black cabs have properties that prevent the spread of coronavirus 'It's like being in my own bubble back here' * Mall of duty: Black Ops. No, you're not a customer, you're just an ad audience metric Quis custodiet ipsos bork-es? * Considering the colonisation of Mars? Werner Herzog would like a word Famed director dispenses a reality check for wannabe Martians * Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah Authorities warn aliens to get a permit before they do this sort of thing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: