Apple wins Epic court ruling: Devs will pay up for now as legal case churns on [Fri Dec 10 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 10 December 2021 ***************************************************************** Apple wins Epic court ruling: Devs will pay up for now as legal case churns on Previous injunction that ordered company to allow non-Apple payments systems is suspended ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed Our wrap-up: Instant Glacier storage, Kubernetes at AWS, Adobe pops up despite Microsoft partnership, and more * Big Tech's private networks and protocols threaten the 'net, say internet registries APNIC and LACNIC worry about who will set the rules of future internetworking * Alibaba the biggest, but more clouds on China's horizon Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu all growing fast, and Americlouds are about to expand * Meg Whitman – former HP and eBay CEO – nominated as US ambassador to Kenya Donated $110K to Democrats in recent years On-Prem * Chatter around GPUs for RISC-V is growing Power for the people, and AI * China's road to homegrown chip glory looks to be going for a RISC-V future The RISC-V Summit is over - here's what you need to know * Academics horrified that administration of Turing student exchange scheme outsourced to Capita Company ousts British Council in running Erasmus replacement * A single HPC-AI software environment is less desirable than you might think Every possible thing that can be tuned must be tuned – and tuned well * More than half of UK workers would consider jumping ship if a hybrid work option were withdrawn by their company How to dodge The Great Resignation * PC market pulls past peak pandemic demand, and IDC says it will keep growing Lappies are leaping – albeit a little lower – and gamers are growing, but tablets are turgid Security * A third of you slackers out there still aren't using HTTPS by default And it's really bad news for EV cert vendors in Top 1 Million report * Resistance is ... cheap? Cloudflare, Mandiant, and pals form incident response 'n' cyber insurance borg Trust us with everything, croons septuple-strong partnership * Oz Feds reveal distribution model behind backdoored 'An0m' chat app spread by crims Resellers were given exclusive territories to target, and offered tech support Software * Google advises Android users to be careful of Microsoft Teams if they want to call 911 Woman tells El Reg she discovered the bug during a granny emergency * We've only gone and got our hands on an early preview of Fleet, the forthcoming JetBrains IDE Rough edges, but ground-up design makes sense * Road to nowhere: UK plans for an 'AI assurance industry' but destination is unclear Govt hopes for 'mature, world-class' sector, but doubts linger over regulation * Apple wins Epic court ruling: Devs will pay up for now as legal case churns on Previous injunction that ordered company to allow non-Apple payments systems is suspended Offbeat * China: Bars app that often hosted dissenting conversations Also China: This one guy sent feedback to the government online, it was adopted, that shows we’re a democracy * Gas giant 10 times the size of Jupiter discovered in b Centauri binary system Orbit roughly 100 times wider than that of similar planets in our solar system * OK, boomer? Gen-X-ers, elder millennials most likely to name their cars, says DVLA Most bizarre names chosen by UK drivers included ZZ Top and The Beast * Actual metal being welded in support of the UK's first orbital 'launch platform' Orbex is still testing, but aiming for the real thing in 2022 * Don't panic about cyber insurers pulling up the drawbridge, says Lloyd's New clauses are menu to pick from, not commandments of stone * UK and USA seek new world order for cross-border data sharing and privacy They'll even run a competition to help this along ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: