NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules [Mon Apr 3 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 3 April 2023 ***************************************************************** NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules Who watches the watchmen? The Office of the Inspector General ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * British govt tech supplier Capita crippled by 'IT issue' Earning that nickname all over again On-Prem * Japan joins US, Netherlands in chipmaking tech export crackdown Latest rules stop short of naming you-know-who * China sticks national security probe into America's Micron Looking for leaky memory, and possibly revenge * Google halts purge of legacy ad blockers and other Chrome Extensions, again Manifest V2 will die another day * Decade-old patent battle goes Apple's way But wait! There could be more litigation as VirnetX isn't giving up yet * Uptime guarantees don't apply when you turn a machine off, then on again, to 'fix' it The chap who took the support call for the SEV-1 incident survived – just Security * Ukrainian cops nab suspects accused of stealing $4.3m from victims across Europe If the price looks too good to be true, it probably is * NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules Who watches the watchmen? The Office of the Inspector General * Psst! Infosec bigwigs: Wanna be head of security at HM Treasury for £50k? Juicy private sector job vs … money off a season travel ticket * NHS Highland 'reprimanded' by data watchdog for BCC blunder with HIV patients 'Serious breach of trust' says ICO, 'stakes too high' for mistakes in cases like this * Pro-Russia cyber gang Winter Vivern puts US, Euro lawmakers in line of fire Winter is coming for NATO countries Software * OpenMandriva Rome version 23.03 is out now Fresh installation image for the rolling-release edition of OpenMandriva * Version 100 of the MIT Lisp Machine software recovered A new version of very old software for a very old, but very important, computer * Italy bans ChatGPT for 'unlawful collection of personal data' Perché siamo il Garante, e tu sei pazzo Special Features * From Sun to the cloud: MariaDB carves out space in database market CEO on industry shifts that allow open source and smaller players to gain a footing * Couchbase's chief techie on squaring the schema-less circle Ravi Mayuram on work to make life easier for devs while sprinkling a bit of SQL on top Offbeat * India flies – and lands – reusable autonomous spaceplane PLUS Japanese PM grilled by ChatGPT; Singapore slams bank outage; WeChat adds paid tier; and more * Astronomers (re)discover never-before-seen phenomenon on Saturn Rain of icy and rocky debris from rings was initially dismissed as bad data * Ex-politico turned Meta hype man brands Metaverse 'new heart of computing' Stop sniggering at the back. 'We're going to stick with it', says Nick Clegg. Unlike Disney * Virgin Orbit lays off 85% of staff as funding deal falters Expenses slashed as hopes dashed for UK space pioneer * Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records Except maybe in America, where life expectancy keeps dropping ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: