CEO told to die in a car crash after firing engineers who had two full-time jobs [Thu Oct 20 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 20 October 2022 ***************************************************************** CEO told to die in a car crash after firing engineers who had two full-time jobs Boss says it was 'stealing' – but what do you think? ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first * Gartner thinks enterprise IT will be immune to recession Tech dept still wearing halo from saving companies in lockdown... plus cloud committers 'can't cut that spending' * Kakao CEO quits, South Korea hits emergency button after dire datacenter blaze Almost, but not quite, that moment of Big Tech accountability you've been waiting for On-Prem * IBM Consulting orders staff back to the office for at least three days a week And would you believe it, employees are not thrilled * Intel sued over historic DEC chip site's future Everyone cool with us plonking down a massive warehouse here? No? Oh well * Amid losses, Uber driven to become advertising network Don't want to see ads during your trip? Sorry, no app for that * DuckDuckGo's macOS browser hits public beta Remember, remember, the Microsoft trackers * SpaceX's in-flight Wi-Fi, Starlink Aviation, takes to the skies Oh c'mon! Was it too much to expect Skynet? * Next-gen Thunderbolt capable of 120Gbps for 8K displays Oh snap. It's not going to work with existing passive cables if they're longer than a metre * Cisco's latest switch packs 32 800G ports into a pizza box If you need even more speed, Nvidia and Broadcom have silicon twice as fast * Global smartphone sales come tumbling down as reality bites Inflation and energy prices force consumers to prioritize household bills over shiny electronic devices * The great semiconductor drought may be about to break Or maybe we've just lost our appetite. Either way, lead times are very slowly on the mend * Lenovo reveals rollable laptop and smartphone screens Can't say when they’ll roll out for sale or why you want kit with more moving parts * India to lead drive for global crypto regulations to bust money laundering As president of the G20, it will have the platform to make it happen * Manufacturers could be forced to include repair instructions Fix-it guides among changes mulled by FTC for home appliances and potentially other stuff Security * CISA warns of security holes in industrial Advantech, Hitachi kit When we concede that everything has bugs, we wish it wasn't quite everything * Cost of a health insurance security breach? NY watchdogs say it's $4.5m Hundreds of thousands of people's sensitive info poorly protected * Verizon prepaid accounts hijacked by SIM swap crooks Nightmare for those with one-time security codes texted to their phones * Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security OK, boomer – how do I turn off cookies? * So, the US, China, and Russia walk into an infosec conference Suffice to say things got a little awkward * Tear in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric can give attackers full admin privileges Orca Security disclosed the bug, and older versions remain vulnerable * Germany stands down cyber boss over Russian ties Involvement with lobby group that welcomed Putin's pals presses buttons Software * The only Windows 10 updates for the year are coming. Spoiler alert: It's just security What did you expect, HoloLens-ready Minesweeper and new skins for Calculator? * Google submits Go apps container project to Cloud Native Computing Foundation Did we say donate? We meant submit. Megacorp swiftly KOs former blog title * How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one * FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor "Serverless" microVMs further blur the line between containers and virtual machines * NASA AI shows slashing sulfur in shipping fuel cut air pollution at sea COVID-19 pandemic made a bit of a dent, too Offbeat * Founder of zero-emissions truck venture Nikola found guilty of $1b fraud Verdict in for trial where promo vid showed gravity rather than batteries or fuel cells keeping electric truck moving * CEO told to die in a car crash after firing engineers who had two full-time jobs Boss says it was 'stealing' – but what do you think? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: