Wells Fargo, Zelle slammed by Liz Warren over rampant online banking fraud [Thu Nov 10 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 10 November 2022 ***************************************************************** Wells Fargo, Zelle slammed by Liz Warren over rampant online banking fraud Customers 'more than twice' as likely to be hit by scams, says Dem Senator ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Salesforce trims workforce as growth slows post-lockdowns The COVID-era hiring spree which saw thousands onboarded comes to an abrupt end * Euro clouds lodge another complaint against Microsoft over anti-competitive licenses CISPE says Redmond's recent concessions did not level the playing field On-Prem * Musk sows chaos with Twitter Official policy Today's messes: a possible crypto venture; blue tick blackflips; advertiser assurances; and a promise to try dumb things * Optimizer Rescale recommends Rescale's optimization recommender Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it * GlobalFoundries expects semi market dip – but only in first half of 2023 Foundries folk pity the fool who writes off whole of 2023, though analyst says GF crew is 'optimistic' * TSMC reportedly looks to raise a second Arizona chip fab America's Chip Act looking a bit less like 'expensive exercise in futility' * Musk sells $3.95 billion in Tesla shares, paid eleven times more for Twitter Meanwhile, more advertisers pause spending on loss-making social media platform and user base said to be declining * Intel takes on AMD and Nvidia with mad 'Max' chips for HPC x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory * HPE goes Cray for Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons in latest supers Of course the IT giant's Epyc 4 systems will still ship first * Unlucky for some: Meta chops 13% of global workforce Zuck admits biz recruited too hard during pandemic and decline in advertising forced his hand * Ampere says no changes to its Arm licensing as it readies new chips Whatever's happening with Qualcomm, server chip outfit says it knows of no tweaks to model * Boffins find COVID changed the way sysadmins work – probably for the worse Crisis mode led to more formal meetings and lists, which just make more useless work * LG debuts thin malleable screens made from contact lens material The world may never be free of unsmashable ads * IBM so confident in supply chain, it's frozen storage prices and has freebies for late shipments Big Blue tries the Domino's approach Security * Wells Fargo, Zelle slammed by Liz Warren over rampant online banking fraud Customers 'more than twice' as likely to be hit by scams, says Dem Senator Software * Mythic bet big on analog AI but has run out of cash Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful' * Strong support for Snap and Ubuntu Core as Canonical meet IRL Reg FOSS desk chats with one of the core architects * Zoom adds email and calendar to its apps, to relieve the crushing burden of ALT-TAB Also teams up with cinema chain AMC to let you Zoom at the movies Offbeat * Republican senators tell FTC to back off data security, surveillance rules And they don't like the states' 'patchwork' privacy laws, either * Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's arguments for new trial deemed spurious – just like her tech Federal judge won't revisit fraud case, sets a date for sentencing instead * Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset The metaverse is shaping up to be such an inviting place * China's first domestic single-aisle jet, the C919, scores 300 orders Thousands behind Airbus and Boeing, but the backlogs of western airliners might sweeten the deal * Microsoft's $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard under investigation by EU regulators Officials are concerned acquisition could reduce competition and lock gamers to Xbox and Microsoft PCs * This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all Ah, so now we know who to blame for all of this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: