Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 6 March 2023 ***************************************************************** Huge lithium discovery could end world shortages ... Oh, wait, it's in Iran Good thing we've got a great rapport with Tehran, no? ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Hands up anyone happy with Uncle Sam's $50B IT mega-job. Anyone? Record number of gripes from suppliers vying for slice of this procurement pie * Zoom chops president it hired less than a year ago Vid-chat-biz ditches Greg Tomb as head-rolling continues On-Prem * Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites Whatever happened to small government that stays out of our lives * Huge lithium discovery could end world shortages ... Oh, wait, it's in Iran Good thing we've got a great rapport with Tehran, no? * Dell, HPE grind out infrastructure sales but signal customer caution Server sector still challenging and storage sales cycles lengthening again * Arm swans off to Nasdaq despite UK gov pleas to IPO in London Foreign-owned chip business gets even less British, no dual listing for now * BT opens 'voluntary job leavers' scheme for merging Enterprise and Global units Something something £100M cost savings, something something staying competitive * Service desk tech saved consultancy Capita from VPN meltdown, got a smack for it Maybe he shouldnât have built a naughtily-named website where users could get the fix? * Thought you'd opted out of online tracking? Think again Probe shows that â to absolutely no-one's surprise â big biz isn't playing ball * China's memory maker YMTC scores $7B to counter bans US isn't the only country splashing out the cash for fabs Security * Secret Service, ICE break the law over and over with fake cell tower spying Investigations 'at risk' from sloppy surveillance uncovered by audit probe * Snap CISO: I rate software supply chain risk 9.9 out of 10 'Understanding your inventory is absolutely No. 1' he tells The Reg * FTC: BetterHelp pushed users to share mental health info then gave it to Facebook Feds propose $7.8M payment and ban on revealing 'sensitive' data to settle complaint * Frankenstein malware stitched together from code of others disguised as PyPI package Crime-as-a-service vendors mix and match components as needed by client * Warning on SolarWinds-like supply-chain attacks: 'They're just getting bigger' Industry hasn't 'improved much at all' * German Digital Affairs Committee hearing heaps scorn on Chat Control Proposal to break encryption to scan messages for abuse material challenged as illegal and unworkable Software * SBOMs should be a security staple in the software supply chain Know the ingredients before mixing the code. Oh and pay open source maintainers for goodness' sake... * Microsoft opens Azure confidential containers to public preview Security features in AMD Epyc chips push confidential computing effort Offbeat * US adds Inspur â friend to Intel, IBM, Cisco and hyperscalers â to export ban list Loongson, Chinaâs most advanced chipmaker and a desktop contender, also added to entity list * China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency PLUS: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more * Why our solar-storm sats corrode â and probably not what you expected My dear, I do believe I have the vapors ... in spaaace * Hubble images photobombed by space hardware on the up Big brains worry investment explosion could hit astronomy * Can we interest you in a $10 pocket calculator powered by Android 9? Beware, it only has 3GB free and may go up to â yikes! â $23 * To explore caves on Mars and the Moon, take a hint from Hansel & Gretel, say boffins Robot adventurers drop mesh network 'breadcrumbs' to stay connected * China leads the world in tech research, could win the future, says think tank US comes in second, rest of the world is a distant third in fields from biotech to batteries * Ericsson fined for dodgy Djibouti dealings and warned over Iraqi indiscretions $206 million for breaching 2019 settlement â and DoJ warns it won't be afraid to do this again * Space. The eventual frontier. This is the delayed journey of Crew-6 astronauts en route to the ISS SpaceX overcomes ground systems issue that halted previous launch attempt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: