COVID-19 contact tracing apps were suggested as saviors. They sometimes delivered [Mon Apr 18 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 18 April 2022 ***************************************************************** COVID-19 contact tracing apps were suggested as saviors. They sometimes delivered Privacy fears didn't materialise, but bungling did ***************************************************************** On-Prem * TACC Frontera's 2022: Academic supercomputer to run intriguing experiments Plus: Director reveals 10 million node hours, 50-70 million core hours went into COVID-19 research * Apple dev logs suggest 'nine new M2-powered Macs' 'Widespread internal testing' of four processor types * Twitter preps poison pill to preclude Elon Musk's purchase plan Populist provocateur ponders partners to pay for platform prize * Intel’s neurochips could one day end up in PCs or a cloud service The brain-like chip technology could aid with low-power AI tasks like speech recognition * COVID-19 contact tracing apps were suggested as saviors. They sometimes delivered Privacy fears didn't materialise, but bungling did * Review: Huawei's Matebook X Pro laptop is forgetful and forgettable Blows hot and cold, and gets right up your nose * You can buy a company. You can buy a product. Common sense? Trickier Taking the Metal Mickey as customer complains that none of the equipment works Security * Feds offer $5m reward for info on North Korean cyber crooks Meanwhile: Caltech grad earns five years in prison for heping Kim's coders * Star loses $500,000 NFT after crooks exploit Rarible market This isn't the moving-fast-and-breaking-things future we wanted * Cybercriminals do their homework for latest banking scam What could be safer than sending money to yourself through your own bank? * Google issues third emergency fix for Chrome this year The latest patch is aimed at a type confusion vulnerability that is actively being exploited * North Korea's Lazarus cyber-gang caught 'spying' on chemical sector companies Crypto-coin theft isn't enough to keep these miscreants busy Software * How to democratize ML? More public data, says MLCommons Foundation makes 30k hours of speech and 340k keywords in 50 languages available online * GitHub's Dependabot learns to report bad news you can use Instead of just raising the alarm, automated code-scold will flag where the fire is ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: