Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install [Tue Jul 26 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 26 July 2022 ***************************************************************** Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install If you use Putty, there's a good chance you've visited Chiark ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Couldn't connect to West Europe SQL Databases last week? Blame operator error Clouds form over PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer) * India's big four services giants bemoan rising labor costs Business is good at TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL – but margin pressure and staff attrition are big problems * AWS sales boss claims Microsoft's softened cloud licensing regime is a sham Claims Redmond still prices rivals out of the market even after allowances for Euro-clouds On-Prem * After config error takes down Rogers, it promises to spend billions on reliability Routers flooded with internet traffic in filter blunder, watchdog told * Chinese chipmaker workers told to sleep at their factories 'Closed loop' ordered to keep fabs and manufacturing plants running amid COVID-19 outbreaks * Japanese space agency to put massive HPC cloud to the test If only we'd had this kind of compute before we launched Hubble * Price, lead times and scarcity of fiber optics may derail projects Cost of optical cable more than doubles in 16 months as demand goes through roof * Intel’s smartNICs probably aren’t for you (yet) says Intel 'Right now, the focus is on the super-high volume' * Honor moving team out of India for 'obvious reasons,' says CEO Small market share there anyway or Indian regulatory crackdown? * Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer This will be the x86 giant's first major foundry customer * A character catastrophe for a joker working his last day Or: How to give 1,000 workers an extended lunchbreak Security * Node.js prototype pollution is bad for your app environment Boffins find common code constructs that may be exploitable to achieve remote code execution * T-Mobile US to cough up $550m after info stolen on 77m customers Oops, did the Un-carrier under-count by 29m punters? * Twitter launches probe after miscreants claims to have swiped 5.4m users' details And yes, Musk is back in the headlines, denying another affair * Cyber-mercenaries for hire represent shifting criminal business model Emerging threat group offers a broad range of attack services * DoJ approves Google's acquisition of Mandiant Plus: Ukrainian fake news and Uber admits covering up data breach * Infosec not your job but your responsibility? How to be smarter than the average bear Many of last week's security stories tell the same tale Software * Nvidia gets down with low code in AI Enterprise update GPU giant promises to make ML accessible to even the most modest biz * Fedora sours on Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' license Lack of patent rights waiver in CC0 cited as problematic * Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install If you use Putty, there's a good chance you've visited Chiark * Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone Known Issue Rollback for affected Windows 11 users * Oracle to hike support fees in line with inflation US looks forward to 8% increase while consumer prices spike around the globe * Russian ChessBot breaks child opponent's finger But don't get all 'Rise of the Machines' on this one – Russian media says the 'bot has played for years without problems Offbeat * Apple v Chicago streaming service tax battle ends in hushed settlement A 9% levy on content slingers will stand in The Windy City – are others next? * Aviation body wants views on rocket plans of Virgin Orbit The race for first space launch from UK soil (or airspace) continues * Browsers could face two regimes in Europe as UK law set to diverge from EU British government wants to boost innovation but lawyers warn of risk to adequacy ruling * DARPA seeks portable muon-making machine to see through almost anything We currently make muons at CERN, so this is quite the miniaturization job * South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: