Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it's built [Thu Oct 6 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 6 October 2022 ***************************************************************** Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it's built Small, safer vessels could be 'silicon chip' that ushers in new nuclear age ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * American software biz CEO arrested for allegedly storing election data in China LA DA ain't happy about handling of poll workers' info * Microsoft drops the C bomb on financial services – 'compliance' Windows giant know exactly how to get these types fired up * MIT boffins cram ML training into microcontroller memory Neat algorithmic trick squeezing into 256KB of RAM, barely enough for inference let alone teaching On-Prem * Er, Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge Get ready for that deposition tomorrow, Elon * China may prove Arm wrong about RISC-V's role in the datacenter Cloud and equipment makers also keen to escape Softbank's licensing boot * IT management giant DXC confirms takeover interest No formal offer yet received, Baring Private Equity Asia linked with ailing IT services house * Hot DRAM, Micron promises $100b for 'largest chip fab in US history' Memory maker says plant will help to boost memory production in America * Arm job cuts hit UK harder than global rationalization Anyone remember SoftBank's pledge to double headcount in Britain? * India's IT services sector wants workers back in offices – but not all the new hires Industry insists it needs new blood, yet offers are being rescinded, pay rises delayed, and workers are furious * Boss of Chinese memory maker Yangtze departs for no obvious reason No 'corruption' alleged, rumours of a big win selling to Apple make shunting a little odd Security * Former Uber CSO convicted of covering up massive 2016 data theft Passing off a ransom payment as a bug bounty? That's obstruction of justice * NetWalker ransomware scumbag jailed for 20 years And note to his crime pals – he said he would sing like a canary * Cyber-snoops broke into US military contractor, stole data, hid for months Tell us it’s Russia without telling us it’s Russia * Modified version of Tor Browser spies on Chinese users Patiently gathers data that can be used to identify the victims, says Kaspersky * DoJ ‘very disappointed’ with probation sentence for Capital One hacker Paige Thompson ‘This is not what justice looks like’ says official on sanction for leak of 100 million records * No Shangri-La for you: Top hotel chain confirms data leak In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree Software * SUSE wheels out first public prototype of its server Linux distro, asks for feedback Adaptable Linux Platform v0.01 shows that the future of SLE is containerized * Linux 6.1: Rust to hit mainline kernel New language will be official, probably within a couple of months * IceWM reaches version 3 after a mere 25 years And it's not the only venerable window manager still in development * VideoLAN to India: If you love FOSS so much, why have you blocked our downloads? Activists help pen letter to New Delhi demanding answers Offbeat * Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it's built Small, safer vessels could be 'silicon chip' that ushers in new nuclear age * Boffins hunt and kill cockroaches with machine vision laser Oh the hijinks of academia * Charge a future EV in less than five minutes – using literally cool NASA tech Well, yeah, when the batteries and power supplies can handle it, too * UK politico proposes site for prototype nuclear fusion plant British minister famed for love of imperial measures picks a spot in center of industrial decline * Waxworm's spit shows promise in puncturing plastic pollution Scientists believe moth larvae saliva can oxidize, degrade polyethylene * Physics Nobel Prize in a superposition between three quantum physicists How apt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: