China thrilled it captured already-leaked NSA cyber-weapon [Tue Mar 15 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 15 March 2022 ***************************************************************** China thrilled it captured already-leaked NSA cyber-weapon Not now with your mischief, Beijing ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Google introduces new Cloud infrastructure pricing New, in this case, meaning generally more expensive * Canonical: OpenStack is dead, long live OpenStack It might not be trendy anymore, but apparently it keeps on selling On-Prem * RISC-V's SiFive sells connectivity IP to Alphawave We want to concentrate on legging it after Arm, says biz * Ford to sell unfinished Explorers as chip shortage bites Why pay more when you can get less? * Wi-Fi 6E unaffected by chip shortages, claims Wi-Fi Alliance Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home * 114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call What if we've built the future, but nobody wants to come? * Despite shortages, networking hardware market grew strongly in 2021 Any port in a storm Security * Russia's invasion of Ukraine tears open political rift between cybercriminals Is the West OK when the gun points the other way? * China thrilled it captured already-leaked NSA cyber-weapon Not now with your mischief, Beijing * Viasat, Rosneft hit by cyberattacks as Ukraine war spills online One shows signs of a state-sponsored intrusion, the other potentially not * New US law: Cyberattacks to be reported within 72 hours Plus: Criminals use contact forms to spread BazarBackdoor, ServiceNow leaks, and more * Brit techie shows us life in Ukraine amid Russian invasion Martial law, no booze sales, big queues for trains westwards * China: Attacks from US IP addresses hit us, moved on to Russia and Ukraine Offers list of addys that look like they're hosted at carriers and colos – hardly the stuff of super-spies * Russia labels Meta an 'extremist' organization, bans Instagram As Ukraine calls for big tech to end support for its products in Russia * Taiwan rounds up 60 Chinese tech workers on suspicion of poaching tech and people The fight against economic espionage and skullduggery continues Software * Cerebras brings wafer-size AI chips to medical data analysis CEO tells El Reg why biomedical firms dig big dies * If you want to connect GPUs direct to SSDs for a speed boost, this could be it Go away, CPU, you're not needed here ... mostly * ReactOS shows off SMP support in open-source take on Windows Huge step towards the project's goal of being a drop-in replacement for older Microsoft operating systems * Ukraine uses Clearview AI facial-recognition technology Controversial search engine being used to identify dead and Russian operatives * Microsoft proposes type syntax for JavaScript Long overdue innovation or an affront to all that developers hold dear? * Ukraine president namechecks software giants to end support in Russia Oracle states it is agreeing to request while SAP and Microsoft decline to comment * Driver in Uber's self-driving car death goes on trial, says she feels 'betrayed' Plus: Clearview slapped with €20m from Italy's data regulator for scraping selfies, and more * Microsoft and OpenAI method could make training large neural networks cheaper Fine-tuning cost using μTransfer was 7% of what it would be to pre-train GPT-3 * Prototype app outperforms and outlasts outsourced production version Behind every successful company there is that one weird Visual Basic 3 app still running the show * Linus Torvalds ponders limits of automation as kernel release delayed Spectre-like flaw has made an eighth release candidate necessary Offbeat * Microsoft claims breakthrough in quantum computer system If true, Redmond is capable sustaining a stable working environment somewhere after all * Congress earmarks cash for fusion energy development When it comes to smashing atoms, things are really starting to heat up ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: