Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth [Mon May 23 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 23 May 2022 ***************************************************************** Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth Network? What's that when it's at home? ***************************************************************** On-Prem * Robotics and 5G to spur growth of SoC industry – report Big OEMs hogging production and COVID causing supply issues * Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots' * FTC signals crackdown on ed-tech harvesting kid's data Trade watchdog, and President, reminds that COPPA can ban ya * SmartNICs power the cloud, are enterprise datacenters next? High pricing, lack of software make smartNICs a tough sell, despite offload potential * US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025 China refuses to share benchmarks, US sharpens focus on developing optimized software * Repairability champ Framework's modular laptop gets a speed boost With any other portable, this would be bad news for existing owners * Biden tours Samsung fab, talks chip cooperation with South Korea Factory is a model for one the company has planned in Texas * Daisy Group to take on some of data management company Sungard's UK customers Customers at other Sungard datacenters are not affected * Lenovo halves its ThinkPad workstation range Two becomes one as ThinkPad P16 stands alone and HX replaces mobile Xeon Security * Conti: Russian-backed rulers of Costa Rican hacktocracy? Also, Chinese IT admin jailed for deleting database, and the NSA promises no more backdoors * China-linked Twisted Panda caught spying on Russian defense R&D Because Beijing isn't above covert ops to accomplish its five-year goals * Microsoft patches the patch that broke Windows authentication May 10 update addressed serious vulns but also had problems of its own * Microsoft Bing censors politically sensitive Chinese terms Research claims it fails to autofill certain names in Han characters, Microsoft says it's technical error * Protecting data now as the quantum era approaches Startup QuSecure is the latest vendor to jump into the field with its as-a-service offering * Canada bans Huawei and ZTE from 5G networks, citing national security risks Ban on shopping from September, rip and replace order with 2024 deadline * India slightly softens infosec incident reporting and data retention rules But also makes it plain that offshore entities must comply Software * Deepfake attacks can easily trick live facial recognition systems online Plus: Next PyTorch release will support Apple GPUs so devs can train neural networks on their own laptops * Meta to squeeze money from WhatsApp with Cloud API for businesses How to make a free messaging platform bought for $22 billion profitable * FreeBSD 13.1 is out for everything from PowerPC to x86-64 The granddaddy of FOSS UNIX just keeps on trucking – and is a lot easier to install this time round * China’s GitHub clone making all repos private pending mysterious ‘review’ Gitee apologises but won't explain why this is happening * Mozilla opens testing for Manifest v3 extensions in Firefox Browser makers line up for Google's extension system but complaints persist Offbeat * Mysterious firm seeks to buy majority stake in Arm China Chinese joint venture's ousted CEO tries to hang on - who will get control? * Boeing's Starliner CST-100 on its way to the ISS 2 years late A couple of thruster failures shouldn't affect the Calamity Capsule's second attempt at reaching space station * Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth Network? What's that when it's at home? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: