SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities [Wed Feb 24 2021]

Hi The Register Subscriber | Log in

The Register

{* Daily Headlines *}

24 February 2021

 
mars_astronaut

SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities

Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels?

 

Business

UK might still be in lockdown but tech jobs rise above pre-pandemic levels and beyond, according to ONS

More women in tech workforce too, and salaries staying firm or going up

2 Comments

Microsoft staffers restive as annual employee poll lands – without questions about compensation

‘We are only insanely paid vs ludicrously paid at Google or Netflix’

15 Comments
f5_effective_waf

Apps are Essential, so your WAF must be effective

E-book

IBM_Logo

IBM Watson AIOps

An AI-powered IT incident resolution application, fueled by your own data.

Data Centre

SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities

Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels?

55 Comments

Xilinx pops a 16-core 64-bit Arm system-on-chip from NXP into its latest FPGA-based 100Gbps smart NIC

Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane

4 Comments

UK's Health Department desperately seeking service provider to run IT after 'cloud-first' shift

Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs

10 Comments

Nominet sets the date for extraordinary meeting where members could fire CEO

Showdown over future of the .uk operator set for late March, shenanigans already alleged

40 Comments
webcast-Protect-and-recover

Protect and recover your NAS and unstructured data

Faster, more reliable, more compatible

state_of_app_sec

The State of Application Security 2020

Applications Remain the Top External Attack Method; Don’t Get Complacent

DevOps

IT contractor caught charging Uncle Sam expert rates for newbies, agrees to pay back $6m in settlement

Triple-I worked on Homeland Security and ICE systems

21 Comments
IBM_Logo

Gartner: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations Delivers Improved Business Outcomes

Whitepaper

Emergent Tech

DataStax 'pauses' AIOps database project to figure out exactly what AIOps is

Some enterprise folk less keen on cloudy machine learning

4 Comments

Personal Tech

Spotify to introduce lossless audio streaming: Better sound or inefficient gimmick?

'More about branding than it is quality,' reckons analyst

16 Comments

Samsung shows off next-generation big-pixel camera sensor tech, coming to an Android phone near you

Good chance a phone you buy this year will use this photography tech

8 Comments

SD card slot, HDMI port could return to the MacBook Pro this year, says Apple analyst

An end to dongle hell in sight?

14 Comments

MWC Shanghai opens with celebration of the humble smartphone's role in helping humanity cope with COVID-19

GSMA chief offers new burgers-per-year benchmark for techno-impact

Microsoft sides with media groups, together they urge Europe to follow Australia's lead, make Google, Facebook pay for news article links

Already interest from MEPs, one body tells us

32 Comments

Facebook and Australia do a deal: The Social Network™ will restore news down under and even start paying for it

Relationship status changes from ‘Separated’ to somewhere between 'In a Domestic Partnership’ and 'It's Complicated'

23 Comments

Does Samsung want you to buy new phones? Asking 'cos Galaxies now get four years of security updates

Even kit from 2019 is covered and so are the modestly priced A and M series

35 Comments

Security

Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to publicly admit when they've been hacked

Senate intelligence committee hears ideas in light of SolarWinds disaster

VMware warns of critical remote code execution flaw in vSphere HTML5 client

If you don’t patch, the hosts driving all your virty servers are at risk. So maybe your to-do list needs a tickle?

1 Comments

They break into your network but do nothing themselves: 'Initial access brokers' resell stolen creds for $7k a pop

So says Digital Shadows as it puts a price on illicit access methods

Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints of GlobalEye radar snoop jet

And what may be CAD drawing of a military radar antenna

5 Comments

Linux Mint users in hot water for being slow with security updates, running old versions

Automatic updates? 'We have ideas on how to improve this,' says founder

53 Comments

Software

US government jobs report predicts pandemic will lead to boom times for IT industry

Along with epidemiologists. As for the hospitality industry… not so much

1 Comments

Apache foundation ousts TinkerPop project co-founder for tweeting 'offensive humor that borders on hate speech'

ASF board member resigns in protest of org's online chatter 'policing'

89 Comments

Science

NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video

See how plucky Perseverance touched down on the unforgiving dust world

95 Comments

Bootnotes

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just a very unhappy Windows installation

The last attempt to resume your country failed. Would you like to try again?

7 Comments
 
  
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
  
    

This email was sent to you

You can update your preferences or unsubscribe

Situation Publishing Ltd, 14 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HN, UK

The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2021 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved.

Privacy Policy

Older messages

Whistleblowers: Inflexible prison software says inmates due for release should be kept locked up behind bars [Tue Feb 23 2021]

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Hi The Register Subscriber | Log in The Register {* Daily Headlines *} 23 February 2021 Olympic gold medalist Misty Hyman speaks to Perryville State Prison, Arizona, inmates about making a fresh start

Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren’t answering after large-scale outage [Thu Feb 4 2021]

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Hi The Register Subscriber | Log in The Register {* Daily Headlines *} 4 February 2021 outage Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren't answering after large-scale

Terraria dev cancels Stadia port after Google disabled his email account for three weeks [Tue Feb 9 2021]

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Hi The Register Subscriber | Log in The Register {* Daily Headlines *} 9 February 2021 Game over greenscreen Terraria dev cancels Stadia port after Google disabled his email account for three weeks

CD Projekt Red 'EPICALLY pwned': Cyberpunk 2077 dev publishes ransom note after company systems encrypted [Wed Feb 10 2021]

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Hi The Register Subscriber | Log in The Register {* Daily Headlines *} 10 February 2021 I smell bacon CD Projekt Red 'EPICALLY pwned': Cyberpunk 2077 dev publishes ransom note after company

Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep [Fri Feb 12 2021]

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Hi The Register Subscriber | Log in The Register {* Daily Headlines *} 12 February 2021 Illustration of a person with a giant all-seeing eye in a monitor for a head against a Ubuntu desktop background

You Might Also Like

☕ Great chains

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Prologis looks to improve supply chain operations. January 15, 2025 View Online | Sign Up Retail Brew Presented By Bloomreach It's Wednesday, and we've been walking for miles inside the Javits

Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Hegseth's hearing had some fireworks, but he looks headed toward confirmation. Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing. Hegseth's hearing had some fireworks, but he looks headed toward

Honourable Roulette

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Honourable Parts // The Story Of Russian Roulette Honourable Roulette By Kaamya Sharma • 15 Jan 2025 View in browser View in browser The Honourable Parts Spencer Wright | Scope Of Work | 6th

📬 No. 62 | What I learned about newsletters in 2024

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

“I love that I get the chance to ask questions and keep learning. Here are a few big takeaways.” ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌

⚡️ ‘Skeleton Crew’ Answers Its Biggest Mystery

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Plus: There's no good way to adapt any more Neil Gaiman stories. Inverse Daily The twist in this Star Wars show was, that there was no twist. Lucasfilm TV Shows 'Skeleton Crew' Finally

I Tried All The New Eye-Shadow Sticks

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

And a couple classics. The Strategist Beauty Brief January 15, 2025 Every product is independently selected by editors. If you buy something through our links, New York may earn an affiliate commission

How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

... ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

☕ Olympic recycling

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Reusing wi-fi equipment from the Paris games. January 15, 2025 View Online | Sign Up Tech Brew It's Wednesday. After the medals are awarded and the athletes go home, what happens to all the stuff

Ozempic has entered the chat

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Plus: Hegseth's hearing, a huge religious rite, and confidence. January 15, 2025 View in browser Jolie Myers is the managing editor of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Her work often focuses on

How a major bank cheated its customers out of $2 billion, according to a new federal lawsuit

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

An explosive new lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alleges that Capital One bank cheated its customers out of $2 billion. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏