The quest to make Linux bulletproof [Fri Feb 17 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 17 February 2023 ***************************************************************** The quest to make Linux bulletproof What the big players and an outlier are doing, and why ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Airbus in talks to buy 30% chunk of Atos's breakaway cybersecurity biz Well... that's one way to retain data sovereignty On-Prem * Unplug that Anker battery pack now: House blaze sparks recall Send them back? God no, throw them away, says maker * Tesla fires gigafactory staff after someone made the mistake of mentioning unions From organizing plans to filing a watchdog complaint in just a day - that's gotta be some sort of record * Qualcomm claims to be 5G Advanced-ready with Snapdragon X75 Bog-standard 5G already old hat by 2024 apparently * EU parliament sets out two draft bills to forge ahead with Chips Act Intel sees dollar signs, rubs its hands with glee * Chinese semiconductor industry: This Western chip ban alliance stinks Trade org claims restrictions will 'cause serious harm' globally * Burn, backlog, burn: Cisco inferno clears away supply chain hassles As rival Arista admits Meta and Microsoft now account for at least ten percent of its business * Foxconn expands Vietnam factories, perhaps to help Apple diversify beyond China Zhengzhou is lovely this time of year, Bac Giang could be nicer still * Debian dev to the rescue after proposal to remove Itanium from Linux kernel Nobody uses it, Linus Torvalds was happy to lose it, but it looks like sticking around * Biden: I want standard EV chargers made in America by 2024 – get on it So Tesla's gonna open up its proprietary tech? Security * Google's big security cert log overhaul broke Android apps. Now it's hit undo Devs missed warnings plus tons of code relies again on lone open source maintainer * VMware, Windows 11 shafted by Windows Server 2022 OS won't start on some systems with ESXi VMs, while Win11 updates may not make it to devices * More victims of fake crypto investor scam speak to The Register UK-based Coin Publishers were conned out of $206,000 after meeting in a Barcelona hotel * ESXiArgs ransomware fights off Team America's data recovery script Want a clue to what you’re dealing with? Check the ransom note Software * There's no place like... KDE: Plasma 5.27 is out and GNOME 44 hits beta New versions of the two dominant desktops for Linux and other FOSS Unix-a-likes * This app could block text-to-image AI models from ripping off artists Free software looming to fend off paintbrush-armed robots * BAE Systems handed £38m Border Force intelligence contract Cerberus data analytics system to give us a new reason to sweat at the landing gate * The quest to make Linux bulletproof What the big players and an outlier are doing, and why * Microsoft's .NET Framework gets one less update reboot Software behemoth makes Windows updates smaller, faster … how about less buggy and more tested? * 99-year-old man says cryptocurrency is for idiots Charlie Munger also thinks semiconductors are a terrible business, Taiwan's safe from China, Elon Musk is 'peculiar' * Meet the new Citrix, same as the old Citrix – but hybrid First public word on 'new' direction reveals focus on core technologies and 'a ton of hiring' to modernize them a bit Offbeat * Outage-ous: Twitter OKs cannabis ads, then goes up in smoke What happened to not getting high on your own supply? * Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else 'Year of efficiency' includes accounting for more threats toward CEO caused by 'year of efficiency' * Gen Z lingo and search engines: A Millennial Odyssey Alternative headline: The best use for nu-Bing Microsoft CTO could conjure was translating his daughter's slang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: