Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech [Fri Jan 15 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 15 January 2021 ***************************************************************** Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech Meanwhile, hello Epson drivers? ***************************************************************** Business * Cor, get a load of moneybags Northamptonshire: Eight resellers win places on £5bn police framework Before you choke on your tea, authority likely won't splash anything near that * Gloucestershire IT pro faces court over £30k Amazon voucher theft allegations Accused pinched them from employer, sold them on eBay, prosecutors claim * Offshoring is kind of over, says Wipro, as financials surge thanks to offshoring Working from home means lots of us might as well be offshore now, suggests CEO Data Centre * Whatever 4D chess Acacia was playing has worked: Cisco merger back on after ante upped 64% to $4.5bn Switchzilla's enlarged offer accepted after smaller biz tried to stall acquisition * Watchdog urges Tesla to recall 158,000 Model S, X cars to fix knackered NAND flash that borks safety features Firmware updates aren't enough to tackle worn-out memory * Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere The Reg speaks to Stanford boffin behind decade-long push for SI prefix * Admit it: Your legacy backup is actually making you less resilient Join us later this month to see what modern data management looks like * Semiconductor-flinger SK Hynix raises $1bn to green up its act Toxic wastewater and resource hungry - wafer-fabbing's a mucky biz * Fujitsu opens door, invites '200 to 250' staff from UK Delivery team to walk out Juicier payoff for those who do, but employees fear process will become compulsory if numbers aren't met * Pirate Bay co-founder criticises Parler for its lack of resilience Torrent search engine is still up after years of whack-a-mole with copyright cops * Qualcomm pays $1.4bn to acquire ex-Apple and AMD Arm server chip engineers (and the biz they set up) Purchase of Nuvia raises eyebrows DevOps * It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol Questions go unanswered as CEO, COO launch probe Personal Tech * Did anyone tell Logitech about lockdown? Biz launches pricey video chat kit for office conference rooms and 'huddle spaces' One more thing to, er, look forward to when the pandemic ends * Samsung rolls out new Galaxy S21 range, including extra-lux Ultra Just your Stylus? Pen support moves to latest flagship models * Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech Meanwhile, hello Epson drivers? * Beagleboard peeps tease dual-core 64-bit RISC-V computer with GPU, AI acceleration, more for under 100 quid UnArmed to the teeth: Early versions to ship in April, more to follow in September * Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Trump ban means the service has failed ‘I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump’ says @Jack Security * Coming in at number 5, it's a blast from the past! Tenable's 2020 security flaw chart show features hits of yesteryear You know that update thing? JFDI * Ministry of Defence's cyber warfare drive is helping burn a hole through its budget, warns UK's National Audit Office All that counter-China stuff costs a pretty penny, y'know * Is a remote workforce making your organisation less secure? And can SASE save us? Software * Teasing HANA database upgrade, SAP leaves crowd wondering if software giant has lost its innovation mojo Great to know they 'remain committed' * Debian 'Bullseye' enters final phase before release as team debates whether it will be last to work on i386 architecture Security, lack of suitable hardware for testing makes full 32-bit support hard * JavaScript survey: React everywhere, Jest, Webpack on the up... if only it had static typing, sigh developers The world's favourite language has complex ecosystem in which build tools are now fundamental * Another Rust-y OS: Theseus joins Redox in pursuit of safer, more resilient systems This one is not just written in Rust – its design is based on Rust features * India’s top techies form digital foundation to fight Apple and Google App store fees and ‘privacy’ arrangements under fire Science * SpaceX cargo ship splashes down off Florida with science in tow – but what we want to know is how space wine tastes It's been sloshing around the International Space Station for a while Bootnotes * Attack of the cryptidiots: One wants Bitcoin-flush hard drive he threw out in 2013 back, the other lost USB stick password A combined total of $575m deleted... and counting ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 14 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2021 Situation Publishing. 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