As Russia wages disinfo war, Ukraine's cyber chief calls for global anti-fake news fight [Mon Oct 24 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 24 October 2022 ***************************************************************** As Russia wages disinfo war, Ukraine's cyber chief calls for global anti-fake news fight 'Completely new approaches should be developed to prevent the influence of this propaganda' ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Blazing South Korean datacenter operator raided by cops, blames its own batteries PLUS: Australia boosts data breach fines; India outlet drops Meta allegations; AWS spices up Thailand's cloud; and more * Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare But the solution may need more than a really big database On-Prem * Toyota R&D wheels Fujitsu's pseudo-quantum tech out onto vehicle assembly floor At least they didn't call it another DPU * Biden wants SpaceX to beam internet to Iran amid uprising Er, did Joe forget who runs Starlink? * TikTok accused of covert plot to track specific US citizens' every move China-owned boredom-killing biz issues precision-engineered denial * Why are PC webcams crap? Lenovo says it knows the reason Can expensive tech save this reporter's ugly mug? Not likely * Elon Musk reportedly wants to gut Twitter workforce by 75% Twitter tells staff it knows of no plans, though. Plus: billionaire's ventures could take heat from Committee on Foreign Investment * IBM withholds healthcare subsidies from some retirees Former staff describe threat as a 'heist' and 'outright attack' on pension scheme * Bias toward office staff will cost you: Your WFH crew could walk, say execs Productivity KPIs need a 21st century makeover, say tech bosses * To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess We'd say this was a clear case of RTFM but this rig was so simple it didn't have a manual Security * As Russia wages disinfo war, Ukraine's cyber chief calls for global anti-fake news fight 'Completely new approaches should be developed to prevent the influence of this propaganda' * Good news, URSNIF no longer a banking trojan. Bad news, it's now a backdoor And one designed to slip ransomware and data-stealing code onto infected machines Software * Human-replacing AI startups reach $1bn unicorn status Plus: Meta builds speech-to-speech system to translate Hokkien, Waymo expands to LA, and more * How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling Long live the King's English or something like that * Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019 * OpenBSD 7.2: The other other FOSS xNix released with Apple M2 support Plus better support for some newer Intel wireless and graphics chipsets * Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time Works well, but selection of available apps is meagre * India fines Google $162 million for abusing Android monopoly That's a whole six hours of revenue, but requirements to open the Android ecosystem will hit harder Offbeat * 20 years on, physicists are still figuring out anomaly in proton experiment Anyone got the technical reference manual for this simulation we're living in? * Boffins shatter data transmission speed record One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet * Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit * Infosys reverses opposition to staff taking side gigs Moonlighting is now now OK – if you do it the Infosys way, says CEO Salil Parekh * We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water Weird puffy gas giant circles red dwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: