Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious [Thu Mar 30 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 30 March 2023 ***************************************************************** Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond 'investigating' ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Oh, really? Microsoft worries multicloud complicates security and identity Coincidentally lays off techies in its identity team * Alibaba to separate into six parts. Take that HP and IBM, with your puny two-way splits Cloud and AI bundled into an entity that’s free to seek its own funds or list On-Prem * Diving DRAM prices are a problem not even AI can solve Analysts just don't see digi-brains making a difference to dismal demand that's caused deep discounting * Lockheed Martin launches biz to build lunar satellite network Crescent Space will be 'well positioned' to get a piece of NASA's cash pie, no contract yet * US bans good for Chinese chipmakers, and bad for us, says Taiwanese rival Beijing investing locally in advanced nodes will mean it buys locally, says MediaTek chairman * Micron writes off $1.43B in inventory as sales dive, claims only way is up AIs are going to need memory and storage silicon, you know * Germany sours on Microsoft again, launches antitrust review Welcome to the club, says Google, Meta, and Amazon * Intel pours Raptor Lake chips into latest NUC Mini PC line Big is not always beautiful * SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up Chinese fast fashion vendor could be this season's TikTok thanks to alleged tax evasion, slave labour, toxic goods, and an outsized carbon footprint * Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers iGiant urged to think different about workers' rights Security * Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond 'investigating' * EU mandated messaging platform love-in is easier said than done: Cambridge boffins Digital Market Act interoperability requirement a social challenge as well as a technical one * FTX cryptovillain Sam Bankman-Fried charged with bribing Chinese officials Court gives him new rules: Use one laptop, while living with the 'rents. Software * This US national lab turned to AI to hunt rogue nukes All it needs to do is detect ■■■■■■■■■■in the ■■■■■at ■■■■■■when the ■■■■■■■■* Judge grants subpoena to ID Twitter source code leaker Unmasking also in store for anyone who's 'posted, uploaded, downloaded or modified' tweet biz code * Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out First version built on 20.04 hits smartphones and tablets of UBPorts fans * UK seeks light-touch AI legislation as industry leaders call for LLM pause Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk find something to agree on * Broadcom-VMware merger probe to enter deeper second stage Competition regulators in Britain opt for Phase II discovery over worries about prices and rival tech access * Baidu's AI chatbot ducks out of public demo Please, let's not go all Skynet on this: Baidu has previously said ERNIE just isn't that impressive up close Special Features * Exasol: Taking a bet on the affordability of in-memory analytics German startup reconned on hardware economics favouring a specialist database Offbeat * Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins Quirky Brit idiom, or confusing and gendered term that could deter people from studying the field? * Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: