White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake [Mon Feb 20 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 20 February 2023 ***************************************************************** White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake Wow Harold, you could buy, like, 23 billion sliders with that ***************************************************************** On-Prem * White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake Wow Harold, you could buy, like, 23 billion sliders with that * Virtual reality telemetry means you can virtually kiss goodbye to privacy Boffins find they can identify VR players just from head and hand movements * Sick of smudges on your car's enormo touchscreen? GM patents potential cure How about the inside of the windshield instead? * Intel coughs up for something other than stock buybacks: Avoiding wafer spoilage Defect-detecting Swiss biz inhales a cool $14 mill * Still waiting for Intel's Aurora? Borealis will give you a taster Supercomputer deadline's been and Argonne, but for now, here's a testbed for boffins * Infineon given the green light for €5B Dresden chip fab Still waiting for word on those sweet, sweet subsidies * Heads to roll at Lenovo amid 'severe downturn' in PC sales World's largest PC maker aims for $150m in cost controls, says never been a worse time to sell smart devices * If you have a fan, and want this company to stay in business, bring it to IT now It ain’t half hot in the datacenter when an errant aircon engineer leaves the tech team to take the heat Security * If you're struggling to secure email forwarding, it's not you, it's ... the protocols Eggheads prove they can mimic messages and bag bug bounty bucks * Intruder alert: FBI tackles 'isolated' IT security breach Move along, totally nothing to see here * 'Russian hacktivists' brag of flooding German airport sites In other words, script kiddies up to shenanigans again * Cry Havoc and let slip dogs of war ... there's an upgraded malware server in town ThreatLabz finds free alternative to Cobalt Strike and other tools used in the wild * EU lawmakers argue against signing US data-transfer pact Committee: Something about complaints process being dealt with in total secrecy doesn't sit right * Antivirus apps are there to protect you – Cisco's ClamAV has a heckuva flaw Switchzilla hardware and software need attention, unless you fancy arbitrary remote code execution * Norway finds a way to recover crypto North Korea pinched in Axie heist Meanwhile South Korea's Do Kwon is sought for fraud by US authorities Software * Linus Torvalds releases 'pedestrian' Linux Kernel 6.2, urges testers to show it some love Intel has as much to celebrate as anyone thanks the arc of progress catching up to its GPUs * Nations agree to curb enthusiasm for military AI before it destroys the world Some rules and whatnot about taking responsibility, tackling unreliability would be ace, yes * systemd 253: You're looking at the future of enterprise Linux boot processes The init system many love to hate intros tool to create Unified Kernel Image files * Ubuntu Advantage is being wired deeper into the distro Dislike those messages about Ubuntu Pro? Then you won't like this * What Brit watchdog redacted: Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue Those billions just may have dissuaded iPhone giant from building rival search, beefing up Safari * Tesla's self-driving code may ignore stop signs, act unsafe. Patch coming ... soon Musk takes issue again with 'recall' given this will be an over-the-air update * Microsoft makes Windows-on-Arm in VMs on Macs official – with Parallels for starters VMware approves even if it's not yet on the approved list * Microsoft's new AI BingBot berates users and can't get its facts straight Ask it more than 15 questions in a single conversation and Redmond admits the responses get ropey Offbeat * Toshiba COO dumped over entertainment expenses scandal PLUS: Chinese province to buy four million servers; Google Cloud's nine-day APAC network glitch; and more * The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns Droughts, flash floods the future for the Midwest ... probably * SpaceX threatened with $175,000 fine for Starlink crash risk paperwork blunder Looks like Musketeers jumped the gun, launched mission too early * APNIC warns members to watch out for fake election phone calls The Register finds evidence of astroturfing in governance stoush ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: