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Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 17 April 2024 ***************************************************************** FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price Of course there's an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86% Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks On-Prem * RISC-V AI chip upstart Rivos plans to undercut Nvidia, helped by a quarter-billion in VC lucre With Apple lawsuit behind it, focussed on finalizing its designs * FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price Of course there's an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers * China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models * Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts That other processor company really wants you to use AI at work * Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers Enhanced data density and speed upgrades, though challenges in endurance remain * Blackstone wants to plug hyperscale datacenter into former Britishvolt battery site Plans to plant $12B bitbarn where homegrown renewables hope once lived * KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout Consultancy tasked with helping local services get on board * AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs * Intel's effort to build a foundry biz is costing far more – and taking longer – than expected If you wanna make money you've gotta spend money. And against Samsung it's gonna cost a lot * Konica Minolta and Fujifilm ponder JV to cut costs of printer businesses Japanese giants have big brands, but tiny shares of a shrinking market Security * Fire in the Cisco! Networking giant's Duo MFA message logs stolen in phish attack Also warns of brute force attacks targeting its own VPNs, Check Point, Fortinet, SonicWall and more * MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time What a twist! * Alleged cryptojacker accused of stealing $3.5M from cloud to mine under $1M in crypto No prizes for guessing the victims * SIM swap crooks solicit T-Mobile US, Verizon staff via text to do their dirty work No breach responsible for employee contact info getting out, says T-Mo * Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers Social engineering patterns spotted across range of popular projects * Change Healthcare’s ransomware attack costs edge toward $1B so far First glimpse at attack financials reveals huge pain * Google location tracking deal could be derailed by politics $62 million settlement plan challenged over payments to progressive nonprofits Software * YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move' * Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off A good PR move opines community member * Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling * Microsoft to tackle spam by restricting Exchange Online bulk email Need to send to more than 2,000 external recipients in 24 hours? Time to start looking for an alternative * US Equal Employment agency says Workday AI hiring bias case should continue Judge to hear software vendor's effort to dismiss discrimination case next month * AI gold rush continues as Microsoft invests $1.5B in UAE's G42 Can regulators keep up? * Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions * OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation Local customers get early access to Japanese-language GPT-4 Offbeat * NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack Who needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home? * NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: