To the Moon? Emojis can be financial advice, says judge [Tue Feb 28 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 28 February 2023 ***************************************************************** To the Moon? Emojis can be financial advice, says judge QED, NFTs are securities ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors * Arm has legs: VMware's Bitnami starts packaging apps for Graviton and Ampere Customers are keen on the lower cloudy database prices available after dropping x86 On-Prem * Twitter rewards remaining loyal staff by decimating them Reminder: Elon spent $44 billion on this. Forty-four thousand million dollars * Sure looks like Beijing stole blueprints from chip fab world's ASML If at first you don’t succeed, spy, spy again * HMD offers Nokia phone with novel concept: Designed to be repaired by its owner With spares and tools coming from iFixit, no less * What's really up with data disconnects in the deep blue sea? There's always a catch if you blame it on trawlers * Backup tech felt the need – the need for speed. And pastries and Tomb Raider Ignoring the manual led to near-failure of mission to escape with precious pile of verified DVDs Security * Feeling VEXed by software supply chain security? You’re not alone Chainguard CEO explains how to secure code given crims know to poison it at the source * Dish multi-day outage rolls on as ransomware fears grow Techies 'hard at work' and all of that * China makes it even harder for data to leave its shores Many foreign companies had already given up – now there's more red tape * Russian charged with smuggling US counterintel tech to Motherland Also, don't download that 'ChatGPT Windows client,' and this week's critical vulnerabilities to keep an eye on Software * OpenAI CEO heralds AGI no one in their right mind wants Elites won't accept anything that takes away power, we're not dazzled by fake predictable intelligence * Seeing as GPT-3 is great at faking info, you should lean into that, says Microsoft When AI gives you lemons, you make orangeade * Linux app depot Flathub may offer paid-for software Latest twist in long saga of trying to monetize desktop penguinistas * Pop open a cask: Homebrew version 4.0.0 is here Add-on package manager for macOS (and Linux if you need it) * Microsoft pushed 'inaccurate' Windows 11 upgrade to unsupported devices Softening requirements to spur hardware sales? Nope, it was an error * Official: Lomiri desktop now runs on Debian Converged environment formerly known as Unity 8 breaks free from Ubuntu – and indeed, from tablets Offbeat * Ground equipment failure scrubs latest ISS SpaceX launch Crew-6 will have to wait to go to space, and everyone in orbit will have to wait that much longer to come home * To the Moon? Emojis can be financial advice, says judge QED, NFTs are securities * Germany to court Indian IT talent – starting with easier visa application processes Perhaps just in time to give H-1B holders affected by US tech layoffs somewhere to go other than home * Global finance wonks worry financial services too invested in outsourcers, Big Tech Not keen on crypto, either – and looking forward to consistent language on cyber incidents * Chinese defence boffins ponder microwaving Starlink satellites to stop surveillance Beijing has filed the paperwork for its LEO constellation, but SpaceX is already there ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: