Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room [Mon Apr 15 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 15 April 2024 ***************************************************************** Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room And be paid danger money while he did it ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Australian operation of web host BlueVPS laid low by storage failure PLUS: AWS expands India payment options; Alibaba co-founders unite in criticism; Korea invests in AI; and more * UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga On-Prem * China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027 There's no Huawei we saw that coming * Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs Slow but bona fide made in China * Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now Another one bytes the dust * Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect * IT biz trials gadget deliveries by drone to sidestep traffic and emissions It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hard drive! * Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room And be paid danger money while he did it Security * Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes * Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government Affected federal agencies must comb through mails, reset API keys and passwords * French issue alerte rouge after local governments knocked offline by cyber attack Embarrassing, as its officials are in the US to discuss Olympics cyber threats * Apple stops warning of 'state-sponsored' attacks, now alerts about 'mercenary spyware' Report claims India's government, which is accused of using Pegasus at home, was displeased Software * Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders * How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future 'Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it' * AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality 'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content' * 75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns * Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon * Adobe will fork over cash for clips to train text-to-video AI Not touching copyrighted material with a barge pole * OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations The most secure Unix-like OS to date? * Microsoft gives Hyper-V ceilings a Herculean hike Windows Server 2025 will let you run a VM with 2,048 vCPUs, 240 TB RAM, and 68 network adapters * GCC 14 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanium architecture Linux kernel cut it loose, now leading FOSS compiler lands depth-charge on Itanic * Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear * British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive * VMware's end-user compute products probably have a new brand: Omnissa As the rest of Virtizilla's users face a pause in support and education services due to apparent SAP-to-Oracle migration Offbeat * Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability * BOFH: The new Boss, Aiman, is suspiciously good – for now Of course our unfriendly neighborhood sysadmin has nothing to do with it ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: