Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market [Wed Jul 19 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 19 July 2023 ***************************************************************** Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei * Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop On-Prem * Tesla board members to return $735M in compensation settlement Look who is learning to share: Deal includes no admission of fault, naturally * Make chips, not trade wars, says Semiconductor Industry Association Industry body warns against political rhetoric or US subsidy efforts will be diminished * Samsung 'closing the gap' with TSMC on 3nm, 4nm The race to 2nm is getting crowded as Intel, Japan's Rapidus enter the fray Security * US adds Euro spyware makers to export naughty list Predator dev joins Pegasus slinger * Recycling giant TOMRA pulls systems offline following 'extensive cyberattack' Says baddies launched attack at weekend, isolates parts of tech infrastructure to contain spread Software * Meta trots out Llama 2 AI models, invites devs to hop on As Microsoft warns it'll charge $30 per user per month for Copilot for Business * If you're going to train AI on our books, at least pay us, authors tell Big Tech Also: OpenAI enters deals with the Associated Press and Shutterstock to license content, and more * Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't Special Features * JumpCloud says 'nation state' gang hit some customers Enough to make you hopping mad Offbeat * Auroras – the solar system's universal light show (except Neptune... sorry, Neptune) Data from 2021 Mercury flyby shows same mechanisms cause phenomena throughout our star system * Unidentified object on Australian beach may be part of Indian rocket launcher Probably not aliens, maybe * Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone Could've sworn that came out yesterday ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: