Unix is dead. Long live Unix! [Wed Jan 18 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 18 January 2023 ***************************************************************** Unix is dead. Long live Unix! Don't expect to see any more big AIX news. This means the last Unix left is… Linux ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales Securities fraud lawsuit reloaded * I was reasonable to ask to WFH in early days of COVID, says fired engineer Infrastructure company retorts that it is an 'essential' business and cites lack of medical records * India’s top four outsourcers report rosy revenues, mild macroeconomic misgivings Attrition woes subside as workers stop shifting, producing pleasing cost savings On-Prem * Apple's M2 MacBook Pros, Mac Mini boast more cores, higher clocks and bigger GPUs Still waiting for that Ultra... * 2022 started with a bang but ended with a whimper for semiconductor companies Global revenues grew just 1.1% compared to 25% the year before * What's called Grogu but isn't that cute? Google's leaked answer to Apple AirTags Rumored product looks like part of a larger effort to compete with Cupertino's Find My network * Wyoming's would-be ban on sale of electric vehicles veers off road Like crude oil and water, cowboys and EVs don't mix * Twitter 2.0 signal boosts Taliban 2.0 through Blue subscriptions Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of your actions * JEDEC reportedly set to formalize Dell laptop memory standard So long, SODIMM – or that's the idea, anyway Security * Russian criminals can't wait to hop over OpenAI's fence, use ChatGPT for evil Scriptkiddies rush to machine intelligence to make up for lack in skills * Nearly 300 MSI motherboards will run any old code in Secure Boot, no questions asked 'I believe they made this change deliberately' claims researcher * Microsoft locks door to default guest authentication in Windows Pro Bringing OS version into sync with Enterprise and Education editions * Crypto exchanges freeze accounts tied to North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group Well whaddya know, the crypto ecosystem did the right thing by stiffing the WannaCry bandits * Tencent fired 100 people for corruption during 2022 A couple have already been jailed, others shown the door for embezzling or arranging sham contracts Software * Will 2023 be the year of dynamite disinfo deepfakes, cooked up by rogue states? And if so, what are we gonna do about it? * Bringing the first native OS for Arm back from the brink Steve Revill of RISC OS Open chats to us about taking the project into the future * Writing tool from AI21 Labs won't do all the hard work for you Wordtune Spices is more like an AI-powered Grammarly * Unix is dead. Long live Unix! Don't expect to see any more big AIX news. This means the last Unix left is… Linux * University still living in the Nineties seeks help with move to SAP S/4HANA Tens of millions up for grabs as institution needs to dump legacy code * Microsoft to offer ChatGPT-as-a-service from Azure real soon now Addition of the chatbot everyone's talking about, and to, comes as Azure OpenAI goes GA * Beijing lifts restrictions on rideshare giant DiDi Chuxing After eighteen month exile, it's allowed to recruit new customers Offbeat * Boffins say their protective satellite paint job could harvest power from the Sun How does Multifunctional Nanobarrier Structure sound for the bathroom wall? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2023 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: