Saved by the Bill: What if... Microsoft had killed Windows 95? [Wed Jan 26 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 26 January 2022 ***************************************************************** Saved by the Bill: What if... Microsoft had killed Windows 95? Now this looks like a job for me, 'cos we need a little, controversy... 'Cos it feels so NT, without me ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Employers in denial over success of digital skills training, say exasperated staffers Large disparities in views from bosses vs workers on 'talent transformation initiatives,' says survey * Pakistan considers ten-year tax holiday for freelance techies Could clean up dispute over who collects tax and when, but unlikely to worry outsourcing rivals On-Prem * Now that's wafer thin: Some manufacturers had less than five days of chip supplies, says Uncle Sam Components fabbed using 40nm-plus process nodes hit hard * Nvidia reportedly prepares for un-Arm'd fight with rivals: $40bn takeover may be abandoned Softbank, meanwhile, remains 'hopeful' it can offload Brit chip designer * Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-digit files for copyright infringement If you're unable to share your files, this is probably why * Shut off 3G by 2033? How about 2023, asks Vodafone UK Says it'll be 'asking customers' to make sure own phones support 4G, and to check on friends, family * LG promises to make home appliance software upgradeable to take on new tasks Kids: empty the dishwasher! We can’t, Dad, it’s updating its OS to handle baked on grime from winter curries * IBM confirms new mainframe to arrive 'late in first half of 2022' Hybrid cloud is Big Blue's big bet, but big iron is predicted to bring a welcome revenue boost * Earthquake halts operations at two of Toshiba's chip factories 6.6-rated rumble joins fire, snow, plague, and trade war as source of recent semiconductor supply chain SNAFUs Security * Linux distros haunted by Polkit-geist for 12+ years: Bug grants root access to any user What happens when argc is zero and a SUID program doesn't care? Let's find out! * Sophos: Log4Shell would have been a catastrophe without the Y2K-esque mobilisation of engineers Anti-malware biz weighs in on one of the worst security flaws of recent times * UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit infosec pros Are you competent? Ethical? Welcome to UKCSC's new list Software * Baidu's AI predictions for 2022: Autonomous driving! Quantum computing! Space! Human-machine symbiosis! Did a computer program tell them to write this? * Parallels: Purveyors of decent virtualization software... and occasionally iffy checksums La la la, we're not listening * Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool' 'Most of it – if not all of it – really amounts to fear, uncertainty and doubt' * Saved by the Bill: What if... Microsoft had killed Windows 95? Now this looks like a job for me, 'cos we need a little, controversy... 'Cos it feels so NT, without me * Microsoft's do-it-all IDE Visual Studio 2022 came out late last year. How good is it really? Top request from devs? A Linux version * Meta says it's building world's largest AI supercomputer out of Nvidia, AMD chips Facebook owner needs 16,000 GPUs, 4,000 Epyc processors – good luck, everyone else Offbeat * 22-year-old Brit avoids US extradition over SIM-swapping conspiracy after judge deems him to be high suicide risk Accused said to have suffered mental health problems from childhood * Do you know what TikTok is? Then you might make a good magistrate, says Ministry of Justice 82% of volunteers in England and Wales are aged 50 and above * Behold! The first line of defence for 25% of the US nuclear stockpile: Dolphins Erm... should we be concerned? * James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth Funnily enough, that's where we want to be right now, too ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: