ZX Spectrum, the 8-bit home computer that turned Europe onto PCs, is 40 [Mon Apr 25 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 25 April 2022 ***************************************************************** ZX Spectrum, the 8-bit home computer that turned Europe onto PCs, is 40 Hey hey 16k, what does that get you today? ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Oracle users fail to get that moving apps to cloud means business transformation – Gartner Analyst house warns of unrealistic expectations moving Big Red’s enterprise workhorses to SaaS On-Prem * SpaceX's Starlink service lands first aviation customer Nope, not Delta – it's a regional semi-private jet operator and service 'won't require' logins * Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba makes 9 datacenter energy patents available Part of a Low Carbon Patent Pledge with Meta, Microsoft, and others * SoftBank aims to keep control of Arm after IPO – report Japanese owner may not believe it would get the valuation it has been seeking for a full sale * Plans for Dutch datacenter to warm thousands of homes Bytesnet working with Boston to recycle residual heat in Groningen district * ZX Spectrum, the 8-bit home computer that turned Europe onto PCs, is 40 Hey hey 16k, what does that get you today? * Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes Doing the floppy fandango Security * Now Mandiant says 2021 was a record year for exploited zero-day security bugs Now that's a race condition * US DOJ probes Google's $5.4b Mandiant acquisition Not a social network or an instant-chat app used by tens of millions, so scrutiny it is, then * Hive ransomware affiliate zeros in on Exchange servers Threat actor exploited known vulnerabilities in the Microsoft software to compromise multiple systems * REvil resurrected? Ransomware crew appears to be back. Keyword: Appears Months after arrests, gang – or someone mimicking them – now active Software * Samsung, others test drive Esperanto's 1,000-core RISC-V AI chip Now you're talking our language * OpenBSD 7.1 is out, including Apple M1 support 26 years and only two external exploits is not to be (packet) sniffed at * SAP to take €130m hit on withdrawing tech support from Russia Outlook unaffected by decisions which followed pressure from Ukraine's vice prime minister * macOS Server discontinued after years on life support It's not like Apple was a player in the market since the demise of Xserve * Former NHS AI leader joins US spy-tech firm Palantir Move coincides with NHS England's procurement of a far-reaching data platform * Google bans third-party call-recording apps from Play Store Apps pre-installed in the device will still be able to have call recording functionality * Uni team demo algorithm to shield conversations from eavesdropping AI Predictive code messes up audio just enough to derail automatic transcription * Robots are creepy. Why trust AIs that are even creepier? We know where we stand with wonky-faced hardware. It's the ones we don't recognize as AIs we should worry about Offbeat * US Space Force unit to monitor region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit Team America: Solar System Police * Take this $15m and make us some ultra-energy-efficient superconductor chips, scientists told A fair price to get everyone to stop talking about Moore's Law for good * Engineers up the torque to get Lucy's solar array latched Nobody wants flappy bits during an engine burn of Trojan asteroid explorer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: