Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam [Fri Jan 27 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 27 January 2023 ***************************************************************** Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam Looks like a reboot of SWIV ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * VMwhat? Dell snaps up Cloudify for multi-cloud orchestration Intriguing move – just look at the software companies it has ditched... * Broadcom's $61b VMWare merger faces another hurdle: UK's competition watchdog Nobody expects the British Inquisition. (Except everybody. Everybody expected it) * Tech job bloodbath comes to IBM, CFO links layoffs to Kyndryl, Watson Health Human Capital leaves the building On-Prem * Have we hit a climate tipping point? Green power is in 2022 supposedly first year on record global low-carbon investments matched fossil fuels * US ban on China chip exports rebounds, causes 2,700 American job losses California-based chipmaking kit-maker Lam hit by DRAM decline, inability to export to Middle Kingdom * Musk: Tesla's doing great. I mean, have you seen my Twitter follower count? Elon conflates 'popularity' on unrelated platform with successful year for EV maker * Smart ovens do really dumb stuff to check for Wi-Fi Pinging search services in the US, China, Russia perhaps not ideal for privacy * Aviation overhaul bill passes US House... for the third time Maybe it'll be different this year as clamors of 'I told you so' accompany the proposal * Automotive industry is driving revenue for at least one chip company: STMicroelectronics Look, a semiconductor manufacturer that isn't whining about weak demand * Microsoft shells out for 2.5GW of solar. Not that it'll make a big dent in its emissions Unless it's hooking up all those panels to your PCs and servers Security * Bloke allegedly stole, sold private info belonging to 'tens of millions' globally If true, was it worth the $500k and prison jumpsuit? * Months after NSA disclosed Microsoft cert bug, datacenters remain unpatched You know when we all said quit using MD5? We really meant it Software * Disaster recovery blunder broke New York Stock Exchange this week The irony, it burns * Memory safety is the new black, fashionable and fit for any occasion Calls to avoid C/C++ and embrace Rust grow louder * SAP culls 3,000 jobs from CRM business and its results weren't even that bad 'Targeted restructuring' could have been worse, analyst points out Special Features * How to shave years off the journey from military lab to real-world use DARPA's Blake Bextine talks us through taking inventions commercial * FBI smokes ransomware Hive after secretly buzzing around gang's network for months Uncle Sam doles out decryption keys to 300+ victims amid sting op * UK govt Matrix has unenviable task of consolidating several different ERP systems Software to support 46,000 users as group part of £900m program to simplify central government back end * Techies ask PM to 'prepare UK chip strategy as a matter of urgency' Yeah, and make it something better than just asking Arm to dual-list in London... * NIST dreams of cellular networks free from 5G vendor lock in, supply chain pain Nokia radio units working with Ericsson distribute units? What's next? Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! Offbeat * Google gives in to India Android antitrust verdict, kinda Tech behemoth says it will appeal 'certain aspects' of the decision * Space mining startup prepping to launch 'demo' refinery... this April Last (failed) attempts at such an endeavor happened a decade ago, but AstroForge thinks it can do better * Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam Looks like a reboot of SWIV * James Webb Space Telescope suffers another hitch: Instrument down Second system to be knocked offline ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: