Twitter Chief Information Security Officer flies the coop [Fri Nov 11 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 11 November 2022 ***************************************************************** Twitter Chief Information Security Officer flies the coop As social media giant grapples with Musk takeover, a safe pair of hands reaches for the door ***************************************************************** On-Prem * AMD grows Epyc datacenter share, loses to Intel generally Both firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine * TSMC: You know what would be fab? Some local neon supplies Chipmaker tired of Putin choking the supply chain of the gas * AMD's 96-core Epyc CPUs leapfrog Intel to put DDR5, PCIe 5.0 in the datacenter Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim * Tesla rival Rivian posts losses of $1.7b, with worse to come Taps mic: Elon? Elon are you there? Care to comment? * EU set to sign internet satellite deal, as UK frees up spectrum Hasn't escaped Europe's notice that US, China, Russia are launching sat after sat * The Osprey has landed: IBM's 433-qubit quantum processor Still quite a way to go before fabled 4,158-qubit system lands, scheduled for 2025. Plus: Fujitsu details quantum/HPC hybrid calculation tech * NTT claims it can stop the noise leaking from annoying people's headphones Can't do anything about their musical taste though * CIOs in Europe warned: Be wary of tech price inflation Weakness of local currencies vs the dollar will force US vendors to act and act again Security * Instagram star gets 11 years for $300m email scam plot Hushpuppi swaps private jet, Dubai penthouse for prison duds and $1.7m to victims * Husband and wife nuclear warship 'spy' team get 20 years each The Toebbes tried selling US Navy secrets, but handed them right to the FBI * Twitter Chief Information Security Officer flies the coop As social media giant grapples with Musk takeover, a safe pair of hands reaches for the door * Windows breaks under upgraded IceXLoader malware We're the malware of Nim! Software * No formal certifications? CUE the Ubuntu skills testing scheme Canonical is working on a new way to prove to employers you know your stuff * SAP's vision underplays complexity of S/4HANA cloud migration, says Gartner Difficult decision did not end with RISE with SAP, analyst tells The Reg * OpenPrinting keeps old printers working – even on Windows Or, how to make an unsupported printer work on Windows 11 with Ubuntu and WSL2 * Microsoft's grand unified theory of .NET advances a little More support for multiple platforms, Arm architecture, and the cloud in release 7 * I'm happy paying Twitter eight bucks a month because price isn't the same as value Addressing social media's baked-in flaws starts with users realizing its true worth Offbeat * Apple and Amazon conspired to raise iPhone and iPad prices, claims class action lawsuit Alleges agreement choked resellers using Amazon Marketplace, eliminated 98% of competition * Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth! They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market * Cygnus cargo ship makes it to ISS with blanketed solar panel 'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: