Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage [Fri Apr 21 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 21 April 2023 ***************************************************************** Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching On-Prem * Google Fi still kicking, gets third rebrand in less than a decade It's better than a one-way trip to the Graveyard * TSMC revenues slide for the first time in four years The world's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer isn't immune to ongoing chip slump * Broadcom chases AI craze with ML-tuned switch ASICs Faster GPUs don't mean much if you've got a network bottleneck * Seagate hit with $300m penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei Felt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. Oops * India gives itself a mission to develop a 1000-qubit quantum computer in just eight years $730 million plan includes secure quantum comms, the sort of thing you need when you live next door to China Security * Capita has 'evidence' customer data was stolen in digital burglary Admits criminals accessed 4% of servers from March 22 until it spotted them at month-end * An earlier supply chain attack led to the 3CX supply chain attack, Mandiant says Threat hunters traced it back to malware-laced Trading Technologies' software Software * ChatGPT creates mostly insecure code, but won't tell you unless you ask Boffins warn of risks from chatbot model that, Dunning–Kruger style, fails to catch its own bad advice * Google Brain, protein-folding DeepMind fold into one Great minds in tech come together to solve hard problems – such as, why did anyone think Bard was a good name? * Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster scuttles into public view You may be all a Flutter over the installer * What does an ex-Pharma Bro do next? If it's Shkreli, it's an AI Dr bot Martin, for it is him, tells El Reg: 'We've looked around for a real LLM-powered chatbot' * Microsoft nopes out after Twitter starts charging $$$ for API access Plus: Musk threatens lawsuit, claims Redmond trained models 'illegally using Twitter data' * Oracle offers AI to tell you if those lead times are hogwash It'll also give staff career advice * How DARPA wants to rethink the fundamentals of AI to include trust Would you trust your life to the current generation of AIs? Yeah, we wouldn't either * 4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML Are you still so keen to have generative AI write your emails, sales proposals, blog posts ... ? * Europe doesn't just pass laws on Big Tech algorithms, it sets up cop shops to police them The union doesn't fsck around Special Features * Europe wants more cities to use datacenter waste heating. How's that going? There's a cost, and operators are worried it will fall on them Offbeat * Pentagon shoots down UFO rumors but says 650 cases are still pending Has found no evidence of alien tech or objects that defy the known laws of physics * SpaceX's second attempt at orbital Starship launch ends in fireball 'Rapid unscheduled disassembly' could apply to much of Musk's world * Chinese company claims it's built batteries so dense they can power electric airplanes But Dr Rachid Yazami, one of the key minds behind lithium-ion batteries, thinks this could be hot air ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: