No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her [Wed Apr 3 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 3 April 2024 ***************************************************************** No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her Land of the Free has lost its way in quest for profits ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies Action gathers steam in the EU, US and UK as anti-trust teams collate market feedback * Huawei's cloud unit is its current growth vehicle Big in China – and a presence elsewhere, but not at a scale to worry global hyperscalers On-Prem * Feds finally decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes in phone networks And Diameter, too, for good measure * Lawsuit claims Meta hobbled Facebook Watch to help Netflix Advertiser antitrust lawsuit says claimed deal with Netflix is anticompetitive * Datacenter outages are on the decline, but when they hit, they hit hard Power snafus take limelight in latest downtime diary from Uptime Institute * Samsung enterprise SSD prices skyrocket thanks to AI's appetite for storage Consumer-grade devices won't be hit as hard * Microsoft warns deepfake election subversion is disturbingly easy Simple stuff like slapping on a logo fools more folks and travels further * Starlink clashes with Telecom Italia over frequency data sharing Refusal to play ball may result in satellite operator moving investment elsewhere * Happy 20th birthday Gmail, you're mostly grown up – now fix the spam Senders of more than 5K messages a day are in the crosshairs Security * OWASP server blunder exposes decade of resumes Irony alerts: Open Web Application Security Project Foundation suffers lapse * Pandabuy confirms crooks nabbed data on 1.3M punters Nothing says 'sorry' like 10 percent off shipping for a month * Rubrik files to go public following alliance with Microsoft Cloud cyber resilience model could raise $700M despite $278M losses * Polish officials may face criminal charges in Pegasus spyware probe Victims of the powerful surveillance tool will soon find out the truth * INC Ransom claims to be behind 'cyber incident' at UK city council This follows attack on NHS services in Scotland last week * Apple's GoFetch silicon security fail was down to an obsession with speed Ye cannae change the laws of physics, but you can change your mind Software * Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs Generative AI darling was on track to pay $99M on compute to generate just $11M in revenues * X's Grok AI is great – if you want to know how to hot wire a car, make drugs, or worse Elon controversial? No way * Amazon to lure upstarts with $500K in AWS AI credits each Come on in, drill into Anthropic and Mistral – that's not the sound of a door slamming shut behind you * What if AI produces code not just quickly but also, dunno, securely, DARPA wonders As 70% of boffinry nerve center's projects involve machine learning * UK and US to jointly develop AI test suites to tackle risks Memorandum of Understanding penned to put models, systems, and agents through their paces * Microsoft Teams decouples from Office 365 suite globally Licenses everywhere can omit collaboration app thanks to EU regulators * Intel courts devs with open arms and exotic hardware Is Developer Cloud enough to steal Nvidia's thunder? * VMware by Broadcom plots pair of Cloud Foundation releases that will show off its strategy But unhappy European buyers have called for regulators to step in Offbeat * No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her Land of the Free has lost its way in quest for profits * Japan's moon lander sparks joy by making it through a second lunar night Brief awakening brought mixed news and familiar scenery ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: