Do not try this at home: Man spends $5,000 on a 48TB Raspberry Pi storage server [Fri Nov 19 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 19 November 2021 ***************************************************************** Do not try this at home: Man spends $5,000 on a 48TB Raspberry Pi storage server It was not good ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * British Airways Executive Club frequent flyers have their airmiles grounded Lengthy 'improvements' turn into a TITSUP* for Club members - though you can still book a flight * Future of the three NHS bodies managing health tech in doubt after £2.1bn cash injection Health secretary signals shack-up could be on the cards * CIOs across Europe add their VOICE to chorus of calls to regulate cloud gatekeepers What do we want? Licences not lock-in! Where do we want to use them? Anywhere! * Open Infrastructure Foundation adopts cross-cloud resource manager Taibai China-based FiberHome donated code after consultation – didn't just "throw it over the wall" On-Prem * Citrix initiates 'Restructuring Program' – jobs and facilities to go Sets aside up to $90M just for employee severance packages * Ford taking control of chip supply in Globalfoundries deal Sick of taking second best, car industry makes its own deals * Riverbed Technologies files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following pandemic 'headwinds' Closure of factories, labour shortages, and continued slowdown in network optimisation sales at fault * UK Telecommunications Act – aka 'power to strip out Huawei' – makes it to the statute book We bet the Chinese comms giant just LOVED that description * Do not try this at home: Man spends $5,000 on a 48TB Raspberry Pi storage server It was not good * Wouldn't it be nice not to duplicate data in a multicloud world? Storage supplier Dell certainly thinks so UK GM says company wants a 'direct connect to multiple clouds' * A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again? Could this be Dot-co The Sequel? * Cisco thinks you're happy to wait ages for new kit, then pay premium prices Supply chain pain will persist deep into 2022, so it's not like you have a choice if you're in Switchzilla's world Security * Canadian teen nabbed in $36.5M crypto heist – possibly the biggest haul yet by a single individual Plus, US gov to sell off $56M of Bitcoin – the largest single sum recovered so far from a cryptocurrency fraud * Boffins find way to use a standard smartphone to find hidden spy cams Smartphones now have lasers so we're gonna use them to find voyeurs * Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub GitHub: 'Credentials exposed by our users are not in scope' * Singaporean regulator punishes biggest-ever data breach: Almost 5.9 million hotel customers' info exposed RedDoorz.com left red-faced after leaving AWS access key in an APK Software * Streamlabs shamed into dropping 'OBS' from product name after open-source OBS Project wades into Twitter spat Logitech-owned streaming software likes to copy others' homework * MCubed does web workshops: Join Mark Whitehorn’s one-day introduction to machine learning next month Tired of reading about AI? Why not give it a go yourself! * Korea gives Google and Apple another kick for requiring their own payment systems All your apps – or a percentage of revenue – are belong to us * Indian PM calls on the world to save youth from Bitcoin Narendra Modi positions India as a place democracies should come to build tech – and diplomatic ties Offbeat * Everything but the catch: '90s pop act or a successful mission for Rocket Lab? 2022's plan: Playing with boosters and helicopters * Regulators on three continents probing Nvidia's $40bn purchase of Arm, CFO confirms US Federal Trade Commission latest to 'express concerns' * New study demonstrates iodine as satellite propellant... in space Tech promises to support boom in small satellites * It's fake ooze, don't fall for fake ooze: Alien fossils found on Mars might just be simple chemistry, uni pair warn Similar mistakes have been made in the past, after all ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: