Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten [Wed Mar 15 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 15 March 2023 ***************************************************************** Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten RSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign ***************************************************************** On-Prem * Amazon: Behold our antennas, which you cannot use just yet Project Kuiper satellite broadband coming next year, maybe * Watch Reg vultures wrap their heads around Silicon Valley Bank collapse Can we blame social media for this? We can try * The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them Successful invasion would make China 'the OPEC of silicon chips' * Cloud upstart offers free heat if you host its edge servers That's one way to counteract rising energy prices – but do you want to sit next to a DC? * Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies The Year of Efficiency may also include sending engineers back into the office * Industrial design: AMD brings 4th gen Epyc power to embedded applications 7-year availability as kit goes in hardware that hangs around much longer than average PC * Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten RSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign * Qualcomm tries to kick holes in logic behind €242M fine Hopes to avoid paying up for crushing a rival while helping Huawei and ZTE to prosper * Flirting hard with India doesn't mean US is breaking up with China Commerce secretary says relationship with Beijing is 'benign' and wants to be open to new possibilities Security * Crims exploit Microsoft, Fortinet flaws before any patches exist The outlook is grim for Outlook - and SAP, Adobe. Android, and Chrome - so get ready for a long update party * Microsoft squashes Windows bug exploited to inflict ransomware misery Not-so-smart SmartScreen flagged up by Googlers * UK refreshes national security plan to stop more of China's secret-stealing cyber-tricks A threat that needs two orgs to tackle it: the 'Integrated Security Fund' and the 'National Protective Security Agency' Software * Nutanix's cloudy clusters now officially at home in Azure HCI upstart adds a hybrid option that could be of interest to nervous VMware customers * OpenAI claims GPT-4 will beat 90% of you in an exam Weirdly coy about the AI model's size and what went into making it, tho * Now Google to shove its answer to ChatGPT into Gmail, Docs, apps via APIs, more PaLM springs forth * One third wiped off value of GitLab shares, Wall Street didn't like weaker outlook Investors nervous in same week that Silicon Valley Bank failed * After nearly two decades of waiting, GNOME 44 brings you... image thumbnails The primary desktop in Ubuntu 23.04 and Fedora 38 is getting there * Japan Post closer to replacing snail mail with autonomous drones As Alphabet's Wing wants to fly millions of small packages by 2024 * Meta winds down NFTs but will continue token efforts 'We're looking closely at what we prioritize to increase our focus' – which increasingly means staving off TikTok Special Features * SAP's in-and-out burger Qualtrics sold to Silver Lake and Canadian pension funds Someone's still got some cash jangling about after the Silicon Valley Bank mess Offbeat * MIT researchers propose modular, multi-mission Moon robots Fancy playing with some space Lego? * Sandia opens up ultra-fast X-ray cameras to speedy shutterbugs Seriously, this tech makes your phone camera look like it's from the stone age * Uber and Lyft gig worker win overturned: You're a contractor, Harry 'Today's ruling certainly isn't going to stop us' says campaigner * Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you 'ChatGPT is going to be in everything' says automaker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: