All grown up: Raspberry Pis running Ubuntu added to IoT patching service KernelCare [Thu Feb 11 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 11 February 2021 ***************************************************************** All grown up: Raspberry Pis running Ubuntu added to IoT patching service KernelCare No downtime for major updates ***************************************************************** Business * Drag Autonomy founder's 'fraudulent guns' and 'grasping claws' to the US for a criminal trial, thunders barrister Mike Lynch remains popular with the Leftpondians, court hears * Facebook and Google’s Australian pay-for-news nightmare finds a European admirer MEP driving EU’s Digital Services Act backs down under cash dangle plan Data Centre * US Air Force boots up not one but two AMD-powered supercomputers after five years of Intel Haswell CPUs Fawbush and Miller supers will crank away at weather-forecasting models * After first trying to use federal COVID-19 relief aid, State of Iowa comes up with funds to pay for Workday project And the cost of hitching their HR and finance system to the cloud? $52.5m over half a decade * Salesforce: Forget the ping-pong and snacks, the 9-to-5 working day is just so 2019, it's over and done with 54k staffers can WFH permanently, come in 1-3 days a week for meetings - or if they must - use vendor's 'immersive workspaces' * What the heck is FinOps? It's controlling cloud spend – and new report says it ain't easy Too much money wasted on on-demand pricing * Survey: Techies reckon open sourcery has better prospects than familiarity with a single vendor's cloud wares Dodging lock-in good for the career as well as the soul * Cisco predicts sunlit uplands after COVID-19. For now, though, sales are flat Reckons the world is going to re-wire and revisit security * IBM quietly announces Power-powered private cloud in a rack to 'evolve' your apps Converged infrastructure with an off-ramp from AIX to Red Hat OpenShift and all things cloud-native Personal Tech * The laptop you bought in 2020 may stop you buying a car in 2021: Chips are going short Nissan, Honda latest to complain that semiconductor drought has put the brakes on manufacturing Security * Miscreant admits he stole, traded victims' nude vids after guessing their passwords, security answers Nicholas Faber joins accomplice Michael Fish in admitting he raided university portal for sensitive info * No joy for Julian Assange as Uncle Sam confirms it will keep pushing for WikiLeaker's extradition to America Biden-era Dept of Justice forced to make call after UK judge blocks on mental health grounds * Eight Brits arrested after probe into SIM-swapping scam targeting US celebs National Crime Agency nabbed network that stole money, Bitcoin, personal data * All grown up: Raspberry Pis running Ubuntu added to IoT patching service KernelCare No downtime for major updates * No phish for the likes of you, thank you very much! Google finds email villains are picky about demographics, country Soon may the phisherman come to leave our inbox quite undone * North Korean attacks on crypto exchanges reportedly netted $316m in two years United Nations sanctions made silly by sloppy security Software * Apple, Microsoft, PayPal among 35 organizations compromised by evil twin dependencies attack Security researcher finds it's easy to confuse build systems with malicious versions of private software libraries * In case there was any doubt about using legacy Edge, Microsoft 365 throws its weight behind WebView2 New dependencies will rely on runtime from March * Popular open-source library SDL moving development to GitHub despite 'calamitous design choices' in git 'I don't have the energy to be a server admin for something that's held together with scotch tape and prayers' Science * The hottest destination for 2021: China probe follows UAE's into Martian orbit Also: NASA to use SpaceX's Falcon Heavy for the Lunar Gateway while eyeing another seat in a Soyuz * First UAE interplanetary probe now in orbit around Mars – two craft from China, US near Red Planet, too Orbital mechanics leads to rush hour Bootnotes * We imagine this maths professor's lecture was fascinating – sadly he was muted for two hours And more gaffes from the world of lockdown videoconferencing * The next departure leaves in... have you thought about a Microsoft 365 subscription? Waiting for a bus while welcoming Windows ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: