Tweaks to IPv4 could free up 'hundreds of millions of addresses' [Thu Jun 2 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 2 June 2022 ***************************************************************** Tweaks to IPv4 could free up 'hundreds of millions of addresses' And 'tweaks' is doing some heavy lifting, there ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Smart homes are hackable homes if not equipped with updated, supported tech People forget IoT gadgets aren't dumb appliances. gear needs to be fed security, bug fixes * Azure Active Directory logs are lagging, alerts may be wrong or missing We have questions: Who's logged in lately? How would you know? Ain't it grand that Microsoft wants you in Azure AD? On-Prem * Amazon not happy with antitrust law targeting Amazon We assume the world's smallest violin is available right now on Prime * AMD nearly doubles Top500 supercomputer hardware share Intel loses out as Instinct GPUs power the world’s fastest big-iron system * Quantum computing startup probed in report, securities suit From alleging wild falsehoods to questioning man behind the curtain, Scorpion stings hell out of IonQ * Tweaks to IPv4 could free up 'hundreds of millions of addresses' And 'tweaks' is doing some heavy lifting, there * HP turns back on $1b in annual sales by quitting Russia and Belarus Revenue hit for HP far larger than many tech providers post-pullout but PC, print giant stays course * Immersion cooling no longer reserved for the hyperscalers, HPC With increasing density in a smaller footprint, small shops finally have datacenter dunking dibs * Microsoft's Surface Laptop Go 2: $599 for 11th gen Intel CPU Want a Surface badge, but don't have Surface Laptop money? Step this way * Red Hat helps US Department of Energy containerize supercomputing You might say the US agency needed an OpenShift in mindset * UK opens up 'high-potential individual route' for tech worker immigration Graduates from top 50 global universities get a pass as critics say it fails to make up for Brexit impact * Reg hack attends holographic WebEx meeting, blows away Zoom fatigue Far from the finished product and not obviously a game-changer, but intriguing nonetheless Security * Watch out for phishing emails that inject spyware trio You wait for one infection and then three come along at once * What if ransomware evolved to hit IoT in the enterprise? Proof-of-concept lab work demos potential future threat * EnemyBot malware adds enterprise flaws to exploit arsenal Fast-evolving botnet targets critical VMware, F5 BIG-IP bugs, we're told Software * Linux Lite 6.0: It's quite pretty, but 'lite' it is not We took the popular Ubuntu-based Windows replacement for a test drive * Salesforce shrugs off economic uncertainty with upbeat Q1 results CEO admits integration of mega-mergers remains an ongoing project * TomTom to chop 10% of workforce, blames automation tech Improvements in mapmaking platform to cost 500 employees their future at geolocation tech provider * Scribble to app: Microsoft's Power Apps VP talks us through 'Express design' Recognizing your doodles and building some software – or that's the idea Offbeat * Algorithm spots 104 asteroids in huge piles of data Rocks stood out like a THOR thumb for code * India probes ZTE and Vivo over finances, sparking Chinese protests Clever asymmetrical economic warfare makes Beijing very uncomfortable ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: