What's brown and sticky and broke this PC? [Mon Mar 25 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 25 March 2024 ***************************************************************** What's brown and sticky and broke this PC? Nothing, according to its user. But the techie who tried to fix it found a sweet solution ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * EU antitrust cops probe Microsoft ties between Entra ID and 365 services Google claims rival has made an 'art and science' out of licensing On-Prem * Apple iPhone AI to be powered by Baidu in China, maybe Of course it's called ERNIE seeing as Google has BERT * Fujitsu to shutter operations in Republic of Ireland In wake of Post Office Horizon scandal, global execs set new profit target, and Irish ops fell short * Vodafone, Three hustle to tie knot before regulators crash wedding Price hikes and reduced competition in virtual network space raised as major concerns * What's brown and sticky and broke this PC? Nothing, according to its user. But the techie who tried to fix it found a sweet solution * Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse Doing things outside the walled garden is kinda hard, devs admit * Vigorous US lobbying reportedly reversed India PC import license scheme Washington was most displeased and New Delhi knew it made a mistake * Indian court halts operations of government-run social media fact checker Rights groups protested potential for sneaky censorship of political rivals Security * Microsoft confirms memory leak in March Windows Server security update ALSO: Viasat hack wiper malware is back, users are the number one cause of data loss, and critical vulns * Some 300,000 IPs vulnerable to this Loop DoS attack Easy to exploit, not yet exploited, not widely patched – pick three * Vans claims cyber crooks didn't run off with its customers' financial info Just 35.5M names, addresses, emails, phone numbers … no biggie * Russia's Cozy Bear caught phishing German politicos with phony dinner invites Forget the Riesling, bring on the WINELOADER * Chinese snoops use F5, ConnectWise bugs to sell access into top US, UK networks Crew may well be working under contract for Beijing * 3 million doors open to uninvited guests in keycard exploit As months go by without fixes, hotels take the scenic route to securing rooms * Hardware-level Apple Silicon vulnerability can leak cryptographic keys Short of redesigning CPUs, the fix will seriously degrade performance * NVD slowdown leaves thousands of vulnerabilities without analysis data Security world reacts as NIST does a lot less of oft criticized, 'almost always thankless' work Software * Samsung preps inferencing accelerator to take on Nvidia, scores huge sale PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI * Docker launches Testcontainers on former rival Red Hat's OpenShift CEO Scott Johnston on company pivots and trying not to surprise the community * Flox rocks the Nix box by conquering code chaos FOSS CLI package management framework for repeatable, declarative deployments across multiple platforms * Uncle Sam wants to know how big airlines use passenger data 'Problematic' carriers can look forward to scrutiny, fines, and new rules * UN unanimously adopts ambitious AI resolution, sans teeth 'Safe, secure and trustworthy' AI a must, says document, but nothing in it ensures anyone plays along * CNCF boss talks 'irrational exuberance' in an AI-heavy Kubecon keynote Kubecon? More like Queuecon as Paris-based show's registration system fails * Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB Regulatory body insists it's on 'a journey of improvement' * Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one FOSS developers gotta eat, but users need certainty Offbeat * Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets This is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators * BOFH: So you want more boardroom tech that no one knows how to use Remember that scene from Scanners? * Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79 CompSci and math professor by trade, he envisaged a galactic Usenet, and was utterly brilliant ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2024 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: