Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout [Mon May 9 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 9 May 2022 ***************************************************************** Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout Leftover bits of wire where PC used to be? Really ties the office together ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon You have died of dystopia * Google Docs crashed when fed 'And. And. And. And. And.' Cloud grammar police more Keystone Kops * European tech businesses cool on China due to coronavirus lockdowns Oops. Beijing wants zero COVID, not zero foreign investment * AWS allows a Lenovo server to play in its on-prem AI video cloud Nvidia-powered ThinkEdge SE70 gets a view of the Panorama CCTV booster On-Prem * RISC-V CEO seeks 'world domination' by winning over the likes of Intel We speak to the head of ISA's governing body on industry adoption, timelines, and more * China plans to toss foreign-made PCs from government agencies 'in two years' Just like it was supposed to do in 2019 * FTC says Frontier lied about its internet speeds amid $8.5m settlement Telco 'ripped off customers by charging high-speed prices for slow service', says watchdog * Clustered Pi Picos made to run original Transputer code Parallel retrocomputing project of the week, er, month, no, year * Teradata to take $60m hit for withdrawal from Russia Calls time on interactions and services with customers, including state-owned bank Sberbank * Legacy IT to blame for UK's inflexible benefits system Government department struggles with 30-year-old applications * Germany makes new move to attract chip manufacturers €14b in state aid on offer for companies to set up shop in the country * Was Nokia's Microsoft switch deal win a reward for SONiC contributions? Supply-chain constraints and code for network OS played a role, analyst tells El Reg * BT wins £26m extension on NI Oracle finance system project UK IT service provider sees contract value more than double 20 years after first work on system * Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout Leftover bits of wire where PC used to be? Really ties the office together * Starlink's Portability mode lets you take your sat broadband dish anywhere* * Terms and so many conditions apply * Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses DingTalk goes into 'extended reality' Security * India's ongoing outrage over Pegasus malware tells a bigger story about privacy law problems Stallled law satisfies few and has even been identifed as likely to damage growth * False-flag cyberattacks a red line for nation-states, says Mandiant boss NSA director says he doesn't know of a 'big one' that was successful * Cryptocurrency laundromat Blender shredded by US Treasury in sanctions first Helping North Korea? Uncle Sam would like a word * Bank for International Settlements calls for reform of data governance Wants Big Tech to butt out, and return control to individuals * F5, Cisco admins: Stop what you're doing and check if you need to install these patches BIG-IP iControl authentication bypass, NFV VM escape, and more Software * OpenAI's DALL·E 2 generates AI images that are sometimes biased or NSFW Plus: SoundCloud acquires startup for better algorithmic curated playlists * Revealed: Intel's plan to sell software simplifying computer vision training Sonoma Creek to target non-AI experts, according to docs seen by El Reg * Alibaba opens up code for federated learning platform Claims FederatedScope is easy to use and keeps training data private * Fedora backs down on removing BIOS support… for now The PC world is not yet ready for all UEFI all the time * RAD Basic – the Visual Basic 7 that never was – releases third alpha Spend your weekend wallowing in the good old days * Google Cloud hopes to woo factories with its usual fare: Analytics and AI A different kind of assembly language Offbeat * Nvidia pays $5.5m to settle SEC charges of shoddy cryptomining disclosures GPU giant accused of obscuring its impact on gaming segment in 2017 * Facebook deliberately took down Australian government pages during pay-for-news negotiations: report Whistleblowers say takedowns were used as leverage, Facebook disagrees ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: