Help, my IT team has no admin access to their own systems [Mon Mar 28 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 28 March 2022 ***************************************************************** Help, my IT team has no admin access to their own systems Looks like a job for ... Spotting the Obvious man! (I see you baby, shaking that mouse) ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * UK Budget: Cloud tax relief, compute study in historic cost of living crisis SMEs' software spending subsidy continues On-Prem * Nvidia outlines subscription-fueled journey to $1tr revenue Think about Tesla charging extra for features like Autopilot, then look at your GPU card, and you'll get the idea * Microsoft accused of spending millions on bribes to seal business deals Ex-senior director also claims Feds have seen evidence and done nothing * Boom times for North America's big datacenter real estate market CSPs, social giants behind bulk of colocation leasing activity in 2021 * Instant NeRF turns 2D photos into 3D scenes in seconds Nvidia says it has sped up NeRF rendering to mere tenths of a millisecond * Goldman Sachs reportedly set to head up $60bn Arm IPO Owner SoftBank pursues valuation higher for the chip designer than Nvidia's initial offer * Help, my IT team has no admin access to their own systems Looks like a job for ... Spotting the Obvious man! (I see you baby, shaking that mouse) * Google opens Play Store to third party payment systems – starting with Spotify Did lessons learned from South Korea make it all less scary? * 10x prices, year-long delays... Life as an electronics engineer in global chip shortage Never mind those flashy GPUs, MCU drought hits health to automotive Security * Kaspersky, China Telecom, China Mobile named 'threats to US national security' First Russian addition to FCC's Very Naughty List apparently unconnected to illegal invasion of Ukraine * ‘Precursor malware’ infection may be sign you're about to get ransomware, says startup As more and more biz pays up to restore data, we're told * Unit 42: Ransomware demands we're aware of averaged $2.2m last year Conti, REvil declared most active criminal gangs * Atlassian flags Bitbucket and Confluence Data Center flaws Cluster tech vulnerability means either patching or port tinkering could be on the cards * Hackers remotely start, unlock Honda Civics with $300 tech Any models made between 2016 and 2020 can have key fob codes sniffed and re-transmitted * US DoJ reveals Russian supply chain attack targeting energy sector Poisoned SCADA apps could have disrupted power supply – perhaps even at nuclear plants * Distributor dumps Kaspersky to show solidarity with Ukraine Security software vendor saddened but says its channel is holding firm * We blocked North Korea's Chrome exploit, says Google Fake Oracle and Disney job ads to lure victims is certainly an interesting choice Software * How AI can help reverse-engineer malware: Predicting function names of code Or: What kind of research Google's getting in its Mandiant takeover * Google helps develop AI-driven lab machine to diagnose Parkinson's Robo-worker manipulates test tubes and pipettes, images skin cells to classify disease * Supercomputer to train 176-billion-parameter open-source AI language model BigScience is a collaborative effort by developers volunteering to make ML research more accessible Offbeat * NASA will award contract for second lunar lander to a biz that's not SpaceX 'Competition is critical to our success,' says US agency boss * EU, US agree on Privacy Shield enhancements Transatlantic data sharing deal confirmed but court challenges ahead, warn lawyers * Big Tech revenues under threat from EU law proposals Digital Markets Act rules agreed, set to include fines of up to 10% of turnover and power to break up businesses * BOFH: Putting the gross in gross insubordination If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of 100 battles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: