When forgetting to set a password for root is the least of your woes [Tue Feb 1 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 1 February 2022 ***************************************************************** When forgetting to set a password for root is the least of your woes A tale of command line booby traps and bored engineers ***************************************************************** On-Prem * SiC move: STMicroelectronics banks on bringing power electronics material in house as electric cars rev up Supply chain management is back at the forefront * Comcast restores broadband in Oakland after cables 'peppered' with holes from drive-by shooting Bullet-proof hosting? Can't help you there. Will you settle for rapid repairs? * Intel R&D spending surges after years of neglect as Gelsinger pledges to make Chipzilla great again A timeline of the x86 giant's stumbles – and commitments for the future * There's a new Chipzilla in town: Samsung topples Intel to become largest chip maker Semiconductor shortage helps cause reshuffle at the top * Chromebook sales in recession: Market saturation blamed as shipments collapse more than 63% in Q4 PC makers ditch Google OS portables for higher-margin Windows machines as component shortages linger * Ever-growing volumes of data mean computational storage is becoming crucial for HPC, say boffins at Dell's tech chinwag Data at rest should remain at rest * When forgetting to set a password for root is the least of your woes A tale of command line booby traps and bored engineers Security * Crypto outfit Qubit appeals to the honour of thieves who lifted $80M of its digi-dollars Offers $2 million bug bounty and hopes perps see that record payout, and a clean conscience, as reasons to sacrifice $78m Software * Workday gets £9.8m deal for second chunk of UK's Student Loans Company project Oracle replacement project continues as SLC opts for SaaS model * Citrix acquired by private equity, will be paired with Tibco in $16.5bn deal Go-private deal with gang it previously bought Wrike from * UK's new Brexit Freedom Bill promises already-slated GDPR reform, easier gene editing rules Claims it will make it easier to amend ‘retained EU law’ * Waymo sues California's DMV to block autonomous car crash data from publication Plus: Non-profit suicide hotline criticised for sharing mental health crisis texts with AI startup, and more * Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis The doctor won't see you now * Idea of downloading memories far-fetched say experts after Musk claim resurfaces in latest Neuralink development 'Save and replay memories'? Not quite, say boffins... * China reveals draft laws that heavily restrict deepfakes Big Tech gets hauled in and reminded of its responsibility to keep China's internet nice Offbeat * Website fined by German court for leaking visitor's IP address via Google Fonts Now that's egg on your typeface * Sure, the James Webb Space Telescope is cool and all. But try making one out of Lego Next: How to throw it a million miles without anything falling off * Earth to Voyager 2: Standby for connection – after we tip this water out of the dish Deep Space Network scope tilts to find its targets, or to dispose of the effects of recent rain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: