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Hi The Register Subscriber | Log in {* Daily Headlines *} 16 January 2023 Microsoft Defender ASR rules strip icons, app shortcuts from Taskbar, Start Menu Happy Friday 13th sysadmins! Techies find workarounds but Redmond still 'investigating' OFF-PREM Microsoft applies coat of Rust to Azure Sphere IoT platform The hope? To grease the security skids for internet-connected devices – and they need all the help they can get 7 Comments Twitter's Singapore landlord says avian network still a tenant, despite eviction reports This time last year the plan was for lots more hires. Then came Elon 8 Comments Time-Tested Wisdom for DevSecOps Whitepaper Analyzing the Economic Benefits of the Pure Evergreen Storage Program Whitepaper ON-PREM Apple just cut Tim Cook's pay by 40%. How ever will he get by on that $50m? Something something shareholders unhappy with the heft of CEO's package 28 Comments Self-driving car computers may be 'as bad' for emissions as datacenters Oh, great – another source of carbon fumes we forgot to factor in 58 Comments SpaceX tells astronomers: Fine, we'll try to stop Starlink spoiling stargazing sessions Agrees measures to prevent streaks of light across the night sky in time-lapse observations 32 Comments Half of environmental claims about products are full of crap, says EU Draft paper calls out businesses for vagueness 30 Comments HPE to face lawsuit for allegedly misleading DXC investors Failed to persuade a judge to ditch legal spat this week 11 Comments Cisco warns it won't fix critical flaw in small business routers despite known exploit Software support ended in 2021, so we’re relying on SMBs knowing how to block ports 31 Comments Future-Focus: Be a Secured, Digital-First Bank Lay the groundwork for security resilience with Fortinet Security Fabric Use the Power of the Cloud to Keep Your Data Safe from Ransomware Sponsored by Rubrik SECURITY NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again Also: That Pokemon is actually a RAT, Uncle Sam fails a password audit 16 Comments Russians say they can grab software from Intel again And Windows updates from Microsoft, too 41 Comments Canadian owes bosses for 'time theft' after work-tracking app sinks tribunal bid She hoped to score thousands but laptop app had other ideas 27 Comments Microsoft Defender ASR rules strip icons, app shortcuts from Taskbar, Start Menu Happy Friday 13th sysadmins! Techies find workarounds but Redmond still 'investigating' 30 Comments Long data privacy notices aren't foolproof, Euro watchdog tells Meta As Meta reels from €390 million EU fine, the 'personalized ads' case might not be over, Max Schrem’s legal group says 3 Comments This can’t be a real bomb threat: You've called a modem, not a phone Security was nonetheless very, very, interested in hearing this comms engineer tell his tale 150 Comments Euro-cops shut down crypto scam that bilked millions from unwitting punters If the investment opportunity sounds too good to be true … 23 Comments Microsoft fumbles zero trust upgrade for some Asian customers Enhanced access privileges for partners choke on double-byte characters, contribute to global delays 4 Comments The Keys to Scaling Digital Transformation: BCG Regional Reports Whitepaper SOFTWARE AWS adds Superapp Grab's Asia-centric maps to its cloudy location service PLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko Sorry, when exactly are you going to sod off to Mars, mate? 77 Comments Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets DragonFly designed to land and taxi when the pilot is incapacitated, or just busy 147 Comments NASA overspent $15m on Oracle software because it was afraid an audit could cost more Houston, we have a problem: Millions wasted on license penalties 38 Comments OFFBEAT Software engineer accused of stealing $300k from employer was 'inspired by Office Space' We know it's an influential film but that doesn't mean it's an instruction manual 26 Comments Ex-Twitter Brits launch legal challenge against dismissal How to conduct a UK redundancy process: Not the way the US social media company is doing it, say sacked employees 29 Comments BOFH: It's 4ft tall, heavyset, has optional fax. No they didn't take the toner! PFY and Simon do some of their best work: outsmarting thieves, drinking beer and reading the fine print 35 Comments