Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 13 February 2023 ***************************************************************** How this database legal war could be decided by the name given to this license Neo4j v PureThink rumbles on ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Euronext says non, nein to US cloud providers services as rivals sign up Data sovereignty and compliance gives CEO pause for thought as Deutsche Börse AG jumps in bed with Google * No more rockstars, say Billy Idol, Joan Jett in Workday Super Bowl ad Blast 'corporate' types who are much more square than $5.14 billion HR corp On-Prem * Tech job bonfire rages on as Microsoft, GitLab and others join in Hundreds of thousands of techies looking for work, with ultimate cost to vendors not yet tallied * Subsidies? All UK chip industry needs is tax, rule tweaks, claims rightwing thinktank Margaret Thatcher-founded body thinks it's solved the problem US and China couldn't * What's up with IT, Doc? Rabbit hole reveals cause of outage Who would willingly chews a 6:00AM Sunday callout? Security * Ransomware crooks steal 3m+ patients' medical records, personal info All that data coming soon to a darkweb crime forum near you? * US, UK slap sanctions on Russians linked to Conti, Ryuk, Trickbot malware Any act that sends so much as a ruble to seven named netizens now forbidden * US teases more China tech sanctions, this time to deflate balloon-makers State Dept already has one target, FBI is identifying sources of floating surveillance platform's components * Australian government gives made-in-China CCTV cams the boot The usual suspects - Hikvision and Dahua - named as a risk to national security, prompting the usual denials * Romance scammers' favorite lies cost victims $1.3B last year Don't trust your super-hot military boyfriend you've never met. He doesn't exist Software * India's IT minister denies targeting Chinese apps for bans PLUS: Toshiba acknowledges buyout bid; BTS member Jungkook's hat lands online seller in strife; and more * How this database legal war could be decided by the name given to this license Neo4j v PureThink rumbles on * Roses are red, algorithms are blue, here's a poem I made a machine write for you Valentine's Day is the moment to fall a little bit out of love with chatbots * Let's play a game: Deepfake news anchor or a real person? Brit AI video tech caught up in pro-PRC disinformation campaign * Microsoft switches Edgeâs PDF reader to pay-to-play Adobe Acrobat And yes, sure, totally secure * Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default Some devs object because they don't trust Mountain View * While wider tech industry is hurting, analytics companies fatten up Sumo Logic attracts private equity investor while InfluxData and Onehouse raise VC cash * Don't bore us, get to the Horus: Elementary OS 7 is here and looking good After a long wait and some company problems, the latest member of the Pantheon appears * VMware turns 25 today: Is it a mature professional or headed back to Mom's house? Beat Microsoft. Set agendas. Became essential. Hiked prices. Now we wait for Broadcom's reign * IBM says it's been running 'AI supercomputer' since May but chose now to tell the world Cloud-native Vela specializes in developing and training large-scale AI models â in-house only, though * Japan joins ranks of nations plotting smackdown for Apple, Google Regulator wants to bust the oligopoly in mobile OS and app markets * Microsoft teases how it'll make Sentinel a bit easier to monitor and audit For those relying on this cloud-based security thing Offbeat * Water-hunting NASA cubesat won't reach Moon after total thruster fail ASCENT propulsion system just didn't work * Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos We wanted robot butlers and flying Deloreans ... and got internet-from-orbit instead * Elon Musk's Neuralink probed over pathogen transport Surely this is how at least one Michael Crichton novel starts * American jailed for smuggling controlled tech to Iran 30 months in prison for providing, um... enterprise mobile banking software dev tool * UK health department contracts 'critical friend' for £480m data platform As IT spending drops below promised billions, there's always room for those offering the right kind of feedback * BOFH: Generating a report the Director can show the Board â THIS is what AI was made for Spelling mistakes? Poor understanding of grammar? Yes, it looks like your work ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: