Heresy: Hare programming language an alternative to C [Wed Apr 27 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 27 April 2022 ***************************************************************** Heresy: Hare programming language an alternative to C Hare-brained. Bad Hare day. Hare no evil, say no evil ... At least it'll be a pun goldmine ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * MegaChips takes aim at edge AI in US with ASIC program Japanese ASIC provider rolling out AI partner program to get around in-house expertise * Arm to IoT devs: Go faster with our pre-made chip subsystems In addition to cloud service, Arm also puts out its fastest Cortex-M CPU design yet On-Prem * Nvidia, Intel, others pour $130m into optical chip startup Ayar Labs The current affairs reporting you've been searching for * Semiconductor sales forecast to hit $676b in 2022 Pandemic supply chain and war in Ukraine has potential to disrupt recovery, warns Gartner * Taiwan to dominate chipmaking market for foreseeable future Billions of subsidies in Europe and US will hardly make a dent * Supercomputer lab swaps lead-acid UPS batteries for alkaline gear Boffins walk into the Li-ion's den * Apple's grip on iOS browser engines disallowed under latest draft EU rules Leaked Digital Markets Act language forbids limiting of Safari rivals * China again signals desire to shape IPv6 standards Calls for accelerated adoption as local users pass 700 million Security * Who is exploiting VMware right now? Probably Iran's Rocket Kitten, to name one We hope you've patched that 9.8/10 severity bug * Coca-Cola probes pro-Kremlin gang's claims of 161GB data theft Life tastes not so good right now * USA's plan to decouple its tech with China lacks a strategy – report The Schmidt hits the fan * DDoS attacks at an all-time-high in Q1 2022, says Kaspersky More attacks and more targeted attacks than ever before. What could have happened to cause that uptick? * Microsoft fixes Point of Sale bug that delayed Windows 11 startup for 40 minutes You thought hunting for discount vouchers took a while? That's nothing compared to Windows booting on a till * India inks tech pact with EU – only the US has the same deal Meanwhile, UK and India finally explain Cyber Security Partnership agreed to in May 2021 Software * Ex-Googlers take a stab at building 'general intelligence' that makes software do what you tell it Star-Trek-style computers? There are worse ways to spend $65m of funding * Smart contract developers not really focused on security. Who knew? Bugs cost $680m in 2021, academics say, as devs have other concerns * d-Matrix gets $44m in quest for efficient AI server chiplets d-ream team or a d-isaster? Let's see what Microsoft's money can do * When companies invest, they invest in software – report Well, it's not like there's any hardware to buy at the moment * Red Hat uncorks Application Foundations for cloud-native development Ready-to-implement components that make the business easier, firm claims * Google Cloud sees storm brewing over API security Strap in, we're on a tour from zero trust to chatty digital assistants * Fancy a remix? Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu Cinnamon have also hit 22.04 Remember the 12-year-old who revived the Unity desktop? Both that and fellow unofficial remix Cinnamon are looking great * Heresy: Hare programming language an alternative to C Hare-brained. Bad Hare day. Hare no evil, say no evil ... At least it'll be a pun goldmine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: