Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 22 April 2022 ***************************************************************** Ubuntu 22.04 LTS arrives on everything from a 2GB Pi to AWS Graviton The last LTS before a Canonical float in 2023? ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Insteon's vanishing act explained: Smart home biz insolvent, sells off assets Acknowledgement of shutdown almost a week after backend powered off * AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions I mean, there's still so many, many IT depts to suck up into our cloud * Yandex speaks out from front line of Western sanctions against Russia Commercial life in Putin Land not exactly a bed of roses, warns Russia's Google * Kraft Heinz signs up Microsoft to lift it into the cloud Azure trusted with food giant's sauce code On-Prem * Intel forms graphics lab to make games look more real x86 giant hopes for 'open, collaborative and forward-looking' relationship with (checks notes) Nvidia and AMD * Elon Musk says he can get $46.5bn to buy Twitter This speech isn't free * Amazon to spend 11 days of annual profit developing robot warehouse workers Who will win? Staff unions or $1bn of venture capital? * Europe twists YouTube's arm to get better cookie consent popups No dark patterns, no Google nonsense ... Wow, what a superpower * Google tests battery backups, aims to ditch emergency datacenter diesel Tests in Belgium might mean carbon-free backup power for its other DCs * HPE pilots automated service to disaggregate RAN It's hoping CSPs will consume platform as a service via public or private cloud * NASA taps commercial partners for near-Earth communications network SpaceX and Kuiper in the $278.5m mix to replace space agency's Tracking Data and Relay Satellite fleet * ASML CEO: Industrial conglomerate buying washing machines to rip out semiconductors We've passed peak chip shortage, though, insists Gartner analyst * OneWeb inks deal to launch its LEO satellites from India UK prime minister visits country to 'welcome' contract, namecheck commercial pacts, talk up trade * UK government preps tech suppliers for £8bn mega framework Software? Ticked. Hardware? Ticked. Kitchen sink? Oh go on then, why not * Apple geniuses in Atlanta beat New York to the punch, file petition to unionize Cannot confirm reports of Tim Cook on the Midnight Train to Georgia Security * YouTube terminates account for Hong Kong's presumed next head of government Google cites US sanctions while Beijing and John Lee Ka-chiu are miffed * Emotet reestablishes itself at the top of the malware world Botnet infrastructure shut down last year, now central to a fast-spreading email scam, researchers say * Five Eyes nations fear wave of Russian attacks against critical infrastructure If this is surprising to operators, we are doomed Software * Oracle contracts and pricing a 'challenge' says Gartner While heaping praise on Big Red, analysts find room to criticize licensing, negotiations, and integration * Ubuntu 22.04 LTS arrives on everything from a 2GB Pi to AWS Graviton The last LTS before a Canonical float in 2023? * British motorists will be allowed to watch TV in self-driving vehicles Meanwhile, Elon Musk says we need to crack real-world AI to get fully autonomous cars to work * Machine-learning models vulnerable to undetectable backdoors: new claim It's 2036 and another hijacked AI betrays its operators * Biotech firm: Graphcore IPUs faster for AI-based drug discovery than GPUs Someone's got to keep, say, Nvidia on its toes * So, what happened with GitHub, Heroku, and those raided private repos? Who knew what when and what did they do? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: