Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime [Mon Jan 30 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 30 January 2023 ***************************************************************** Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime As per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar ***************************************************************** On-Prem * China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more * Apple sued for promising privacy, failing at it What's allowed for Cupertino is verboten for everyone else * California toys with digital vehicle titles on private DMV blockchain Because this is necessary, definitely can't go wrong * You there, boffins and tech giants, take this $50m and figure out better chips Yes, the Chinese will never think of doing something like this, muhaha * Home Depot sent my email, details of stuff I bought to Meta, customer complains DIY store didn't get 'valid consent,' says Canada's regulator * US in talks with critical chip tech countries Netherlands, Japan. Topic? China sanctions Uncle Sam well aware of strategic importance of lithography industry crucial to production nodes * AWS, Microsoft, Google among businesses owed money after FTX collapse Join the queue, eh? * Intel inside a world of pain as revenue plunges by a third U OK Pat? Asking cos client sales are down, server sales are down, and your forecasts are grim Security * Mon Dieu! Suspected French ShinyHunters gang member in the dock Man seized in Morocco is now presumably sleepless in Seattle * Microsoft to enterprises: Patch your Exchange servers If you want to keep the miscreants out, put the updates in, Redmond says * Uncle Sam slaps $10m bounty on Hive while Russia ban-hammers FBI, CIA New meaning to sweetening the pot * UK Cyber Security Centre's scary new story: One phish, two phish, Russia phish, Iran phish Nice people on LinkedIn want to harvest logins from politicians, boffins, and defense types * Google slays thousands of fake news vids posted by pro-China group Dragonbridge If you yell 'death to America' and no one watches the video, does it make a sound? Software * So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer Who said workforce development was just for humans? * Chrome bug bedevils file storage in the cloud 'I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that' * Microsoft squashes Windows 11, Server 2022 bugs with preview patches Remote Desktop, domain controllers giving you gyp? Gamble on these fixes * Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime As per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar * What is Google doing with its open source teams? Nothing good – the recent layoffs hit its best and brightest leaders hard * User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway Even with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right * Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics Offbeat * AI cannot be credited as authors in papers, top academic journals rule Work isn't original if it was taken from a plagiarism engine like ChatGPT * BOFH and the case of the Zoom call that never was No boss, your monitor is not a computer * Truck-size asteroid makes one of the tightest fly-bys of Earth ever recorded What a tease ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: