Cutting the ties: European hosting provider OVHCloud to offer Google Anthos no Google account needed
Full Euro data sovereignty, promises cloud company Google’s “first partnership of this kind” with an independent hosting provider sees its Anthos Kubernetes platform offered without ties to Google Cloud, according to the third-party cloud company selling the service.…
Date: 2020-11-11
theregister.co.uk
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| Crooks social-engineer GoDaddy staff into handing over control of crypto-biz domain names (2020-11-23) | Web traffic email redirected personal info exposed in DNS hijacking Miscreants were able to hijack traffic and email destined for various cryptocurrency-related websites this month by hoodwinking GoDaddy employees |
| MongoDB loses its mind with marketing budget movie mania: Yep, it’s Hackers with drop-down menus (2020-11-25) | This must have cost a packet MongoDB has just found out what it can spend the marketing budget on if not the usual fodder of canaps and international flights |
| FYI: Someone wants to launch mobile broadband satellites into space used by scientific craft – and NASA’s not happy (2020-11-05) | Choo choo! Mind the incoming A-train orbital spacecraft A proposed constellation of 243 satellites designed to beam internet connectivity to smartphones and under consideration by Americas comms watchdog will triple the existing risk of a potential collision with ten Earth science spacecraft in low-Earth orbit NASA warned |
| When even a power-cycle fandango cannot save your Windows desktop (2020-11-20) | In steps our hero: Have you tried turning it off and on again? On Call Its Friday! Come board the On Call bus to a time when Program Manager was king and Windows was a mere teenager |
| The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised (2020-11-16) | When recommendation engines promote misinformation during a pandemic its a matter of life and death Column My television is trying to radicalise me with an endless stream of recommendations to watch videos from a mainstream media outlet that deliberately inhabits a place on outer reaches of the political spectrum |
| Los Angeles police ban facial recognition software and launch review after officers accused of unauthorized use (2020-11-19) | Bad boys bad boys what you gonna do when they run an algorithm for you? The Los Angeles police department LAPD has banned commercial facial recognition software and launched a review after 25 officers were accused of using it unofficially to try to identify people |
| Years after we detected two neutron stars crashing into each other, we’re still picking up X-rays. We don’t know why (2020-10-14) | Discovering a new type of celestial source is very exciting lead astroboffin tells us After a thousand days of observations the continuing X-ray radiation from two neutron stars smashing into one another has left astronomers puzzled |
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| UK Court of Appeal rebukes Home Office for exceeding its powers with bunkum ‘national security’ GSM gateway ban (2020-11-20) | Legal saga that began with dodgy prosecution ends in vindication Updated The Home Office cannot order Ofcom to ignore its legal duties even when a government minister wants to shut something down because of unspecified national security concerns the Court of Appeal has said ruling that ministers acted outside their legal powers when banning GSM gateways |
