Helsinki Syndrome: Ubuntu utterly fails to boot on metro [Thu Apr 29 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 29 April 2021 ***************************************************************** Helsinki Syndrome: Ubuntu utterly fails to boot on metro Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I want to bork ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision Yes, AWS is still fighting for this $10bn deal * Red Hat OpenShifts gears at summit to pin its future on 'open hybrid cloud' Kubernetes takes centre stage as open-source giant aims to offer OpenShift everywhere * 33 'unsustainably loss-making' Dixons Travel outlets set to be shuttered affecting 400 staff Electronics retailer 'confident' workers can be offered opportunities elsewhere in the business * Bumper third quarter for Microsoft as Azure revenue grows 50% year on year Cloud migration and winner-takes-all integration drive more coins into Redmond's pocket * The Fast and the Curious: Safety-conscious Red Hat eyes continuously certified Linux platform for motors Can open innovation work in the automobile industry? Offbeat * Michael Collins, once the world's 'loneliest man,' is dead. If that name means little or nothing to you, read this Buzz Aldrin sole remaining survivor of Apollo 11 Moon landing * Show me the Monet: Late Samsung chairman's family settles inheritance tax bill, massive art donation Highly anticipated details of stock division still unavailable * Helsinki Syndrome: Ubuntu utterly fails to boot on metro Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I want to bork * A trip to the dole queue: CEO of $2bn Bay Area tech biz says he was fired for taking LSD before company meeting Micro-dosing among Cali techies ... suddenly it's all starting to make sense * Boffins stumble upon method to make silicon control lasers Quantum experiment may clear the way for viable silicon photonics – chips with electronic and photonic interconnects On-Prem * FCC gives SpaceX the go-ahead to drop Starlink satellite orbits by 500 kilometres or so Low enough to witness Musk's Twitter trolling of Jeff Bezos? * UK's Competition and Markets Authority sticks probe in SK Hynix's $9bn proposed buy of Intel's NAND and SSD units Regulator inviting comments on implications for local goods and services * Ofcom 5G auction ends with UK carriers spending £23m for choice spectrum positionings What's £23m compared to £1.35bn? * FreedomFi's 5G gateways will mine HNT cryptocurrency for owners who dole out coverage to passing users, IoT devices Traffic + Demand * Bandwidth = $$$ (maybe) * Singapore goes Cray-cray in the best way, picks HPE for new 10 PFLOPS super 'puter $30m, 100,000-core beast will use third-gen AMD EPYCs and 352 – count 'em – Nvidia A100 GPUs * In case you were wondering, no, AMD hasn't managed to fsck everything up. It's still making lots of money Turns out people, orgs are still buying truck loads of kit a year into the pandemic * Beijing offers tax credits to patent-packing, R&Ding chip outfits great and very small Big list of requirements to get the financial boost – and no mention of 'cut and paste from the West' Security * Ransomware crooks who broke into Merseyrail used director's email address to brag about it – report Hasn't stopped the trains, though * Brit MPs and campaigners come together to oppose COVID status certificates as 'divisive and discriminatory' Transport minister confirms use of the NHS app for just that when citizens travel abroad Software * UK government gives Automated Lane Keeping Systems the green light for use on motorways But at less than 37mph, don't expect anything to be quick * There is no escape: Atlassian to send Jira into places only Excel dares to tread HR, finance, marketing and more in the crosshairs for Jira Work Management * Microsoft joins Bytecode Alliance to advance WebAssembly – aka the thing that lets you run compiled C/C++/Rust code in browsers Maybe we can make software modular, secure, speedy all at the same time * Chaos, climate... and Kubernetes top the agenda of our Continuous Lifecycle Online 2021 conference Must see: Dr Holly Cummins and Liz Fong-Jones to deliver keynotes * India's open-source advocacy org assists lawsuit opposing COVID-19 vaccine policy Calls for jabs market to be abandoned, and local vaccine IP to be freed * Australia probes app stores, politely suggests Apple and Google could try being nicer and more careful Down Under watchdog doesn't call for commission cuts nor suggest major interventions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2021 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: