No defence for outdated defenders as consumer AV nears RIP [Tue Jan 11 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 11 January 2022 ***************************************************************** No defence for outdated defenders as consumer AV nears RIP How sad would you be to see AV go? Us neither ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * French tech giant Atos issues second profit warning in 7 months Week 2 for new CEO, forced to report sliding sales, delayed projects to investors On-Prem * Who's Intel Inside and Outside today: PC chip boss installed after EVP heads for exit – plus next CFO named 25-year veteran Michelle Johnston Holthaus appointed alongside beancounter from Micron * Nvidia promises British authorities it won’t strong Arm rivals after proposed merger We're just two chip businesses, standing in front of the regulators, asking them to love us * 50 US airports to be surrounded by 5G C-band-free zones AT&T and Verizon come to agreement with FAA on tech rollout * Supply and demand means TSMC set to beat revenue expectations for Q4 2021 What happens when you're top of the pile and everyone wants chips * Spruce up your CV or just bin it? Survey finds recruiters are considering alternatives Shock: Nobody likes whiteboard interviews either * UK government tool to monitor its legacy application estate is… LATE Hardly a surprise from the team that brought you billion-pound delays to the Emergency Services Network * To err is human. To really screw things up requires a wayward screwdriver Plug and play, 1970s style * Rocketing chip sales growth to ease off this year, reach $680bn, say analysts Meanwhile Deloitte says semiconductors are 'growing as fast or faster than ever before' Security * Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike resigns, leaves WhatsApp co-founder to run things until a successor is named Departure comes as app courts controversy by integrating private cryptocurrency scheme * Avira also mines imaginary internet money on customers' PCs Who should your PC work for: you, or your antivirus vendor? * China puts Walmart in the naughty corner, citing 19 alleged cybersecurity 'violations' Warning comes weeks after govt body accused subsidiary Sam’s Club of 'ulterior motive' in goods stocking spat * GCHQ was rebuked for ignoring spy law safeguards as pandemic hit Britain Auditor IPCO flagged it up – but then approved 99.94% of state snooping * No defence for outdated defenders as consumer AV nears RIP How sad would you be to see AV go? Us neither Software * JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort Faker.js and colors.js sabotaged by maker * When ERP projects go awry: Surrey County Council incurs £3.2m additional costs in delayed Unit4 project Select committee set to examine causes of the setbacks * BeOS rebuild / Haiku has a new feature / that runs Windows apps Poetry and WINE – a heady combination Offbeat * Canon: Chip supplies are so bad that our ink cartridges will look as though they're fakes The solution? Click the annoying error messages away and keep printing * The James Webb Space Telescope has only gone and deployed its primary mirror And you thought unfolding the table for Christmas dinner was tricky ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2022 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: