Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells workers to wear pants at least 3 days a week [Thu May 11 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 11 May 2023 ***************************************************************** Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells workers to wear pants at least 3 days a week Some say return to the office is a soft layoff, others blame Gen Z ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft * Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising Wait... what? On-Prem * Cisco to manufacture telecoms gear in India – but not much and not soon ‘To further strengthen and diversify the supply chain’ which is just what India loves to hear * YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens Just a small experiment – for now? * What you need to know from today's Google IO: PaLM 2, Pixel Fold, AI everywhere We sat through the Chocolate Factory's PR blitz so you don't have to * Don't turn it off and on again: Expired Cisco cert cripples vEdge SD-WAN kit Updates said to be rolling out now... if your gateway hasn't already bricked itself * Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons * Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells workers to wear pants at least 3 days a week Some say return to the office is a soft layoff, others blame Gen Z * Money starts to flow as liquid cooling gets hot in datacenters Global investment company KKR picks up CoolIT Systems for $270M * Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight To make matters worse, other bits of the same region have wobbled * Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced? All these analysts know is that their gut says... maybe Security * Sonatype axes 14 percent of staff, reminds them not to talk to the press Workers slam 'horrendous' handling of layoffs that left even 'engineering managers in the dark' * Twitter adds new DM features, and Musk says E2EE is here, starting today We'll believe our DMs are encrypted when someone provides proof, thanks * 23-year-old Brit linked to 2020 Twitter attack and SIM-swap scheme pleads guilty Admits to cyberstalking, wire fraud charges as Feds take $700k off him * Capita looking at a bill of £20M over breach clean-up costs Analyst says expense 'no small drop in ocean' but reputational damage could be 'far greater' * Japan's ubiquitous convenience stores now serving up privacy breaches Fujitsu in the frame for foul up with government document dispersal app Software * Google IO: A deeper dive into the developer day's details WebGPU, Chrome extensions, Android, Dart, Flutter, and more * Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire Teams gets a bot, OneNote gets a bot, PowerPoint gets a bot, Outlook gets a bot, everybody* gets a bot! * MariaDB's Xpand offers PostgreSQL compatibility without the forking drama Play designed to swat CockroachDB and tempt users over from hyperscaler DBaaS systems * Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech Building a wall... of code Offbeat * This upstart is selling tickets for a SpaceX trip to the world's first private space station 30 days with three other people in a double-width shipping container built by a crypto billionaire. What's not to like? * The world of work is broken and it's Microsoft's fault Employees are wasting literal days on meetings and email – but in rides AI like a knight in shining armor, right? * Korea hopes US will extend sanction exemptions for SK hynix and Samsung Stuck in the middle or not, supply chains – and the Korean economy – must carry on ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: