Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years [Tue Apr 4 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 4 April 2023 ***************************************************************** Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years Realization they'd burned money for ages led to smoldering solution rather than angry conflagration ***************************************************************** On-Prem * Tesla Semi, out since December, already facing a recall over brakes Only 35 of the trucks affected, but that might be most of the ones on the road * New models of IBM Model F keyboard Mark II incoming New layouts for the original 'clickier than the Model M' keyboard * Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years Realization they'd burned money for ages led to smoldering solution rather than angry conflagration Security * Hey Siri, use this ultrasound attack to disarm a smart-home system We speak to the boffins behind latest trick to fool Google Assistant, Cortana, Alexa * Uber driver info stolen yet again: This time from law firm Never mind software supply chain attacks, lawyers are the new soft target? * April brings tulips, taxes ... and phisherfolk scammers Tactical#Octopus: Don't let users click on that zip file * Western Digital confirms digital burglary, calls the cops Thinks info from internal systems 'obtained' by miscreant, unsure of nature or scope data * 3CX thought supply chain attack was a false positive 'It's not unusual for VoIP apps' says CEO * Vietnam threatens to cut off two million mobile subscribers To scupper scams, account-holders must hand over personal info or else * School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator ALSO: DJI forgets the 'B' in 'BCC,' and this week's critical known exploits Software * China aims to pair J-20 stealth fighter with 'loyal wingman' battle drone Reports suggest Beijing may speed past rivals with supersonic helper for its air superiority weapon * ChatGPT is coming for your jobs – the terrible ones, at least OpenAI tech outperforms digital serfs toiling away on Amazon's estate * AI software helps astronomers deblur galaxies snapped by Earth telescopes Researchers hope their code will be used for images taken with the upcoming Vera C Rubin Observatory * In the battle between Microsoft and Google, LLM is the weapon too deadly to use The only winning move is not to play * After 11 years, Atlassian customers finally get custom domains ... they don't want Oz upstart promised jira.domain.com, now offers something.jira.domain.com * Google denies Bard trained using OpenAI ChatGPT responses ALSO: Synopsys releases AI tools for faster chip design, and Cerebras open sources family of language models * China somehow got through COVID without MS Teams but – phew! – it's arrived Microsoft's cloudy pal 21Vianet upgrades to M365 Special Features * US chip sanctions may push Brazil, others right into China's arms Hope you're all looking forward to another cold war * US Veterans Affairs department didn't check with CIO for 39% of IT projects Contracts could be duplicate and poorly conceived, accountability report finds * Capita: Cyber-attack broke some of our IT systems Staff regain access to Microsoft apps, tech outsourcer still working to restore services for some * US Navy turns to hull-climbing bots to combat maintenance backlog Seals are totally yesterday's news - the Navy's latest critter is a Gecko * Why a top US cyber spy urges: Get religious about backups Lesson we've learned from Ukraine Offbeat * NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight First for women, people of color, Canucks * Parisians say au revoir to shared e-scooters 89% of citizens want them gone – at least among the 7.46% who showed up to vote * Paid and legacy Twitter verification now indistinguishable Platform balks at April 1 deadline, tweaks wording instead ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: