China bans export of drones some countries have already banned anyway [Wed Aug 2 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 2 August 2023 ***************************************************************** China bans export of drones some countries have already banned anyway Some say retaliation for sanctions, but Beijing says it just wants world peace ***************************************************************** On-Prem * AMD hopes for rebound in the second half of the year as Q2 profits plunge 94% Don't worry, AI will fix everything, predicts CEO Lisa Su * Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers Are we out of touch? No, it's the charity that's wrong * Czech energy billionaire in talks to buy Atos unit in $2.2B deal French IT supplier to complete split by selling non-Eviden bits to investment outfit * Panasonic liquidates its liquid crystal display business Here’s your metaphor for the state of the world: factory will be re-used to make EV batteries * Hong Kong High Court declines to force Big Tech to ban protest song Looks like it's time for the territory to ramp up its SEO offensive again Security * Bad news: Another data-leaking CPU flaw. Good news: It's utterly impractical Collide+Power vulnerability leaks secrets bit by bit - but could take months or years to learn a useful secret * Mattress maker Tempur Sealy says it isolated tech system to contain cyber burglary Sleeping giant says no sign yet personal info was stolen * US military battling cyber threats from within and without As if attacks from China weren't enough, one of the Air Force's own has reportedly gone rogue * China bans export of drones some countries have already banned anyway Some say retaliation for sanctions, but Beijing says it just wants world peace Software * Google wants to 'supercharge Assistant' with AI as Meta gives bots a personality Does that include Zuck or? * MIT bods offer PhotoGuard gadget to thwart AI deepfakes Open source image-massage works … up to a point * GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default Bringing automatic window tiling to the mainstream could be big – but what is it and how do you use it? * AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off Join Snowflake, Cloudera, Google as Apache format fans * AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian If you need to trick a computer into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts Offbeat * First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online Westinghouse's 2017 bankruptcy almost ended the Vogtle 3 reactor * Bacterial byproducts may help stop the stink in future spacesuits ESA is testing that pink stuff from your dirty bathtub as an antimicrobial Moon suit lining * SEC lawsuit against Terraform Labs and cofounder Do Kwon lives to fight another day Crypto bad boy’s appeal denied, despite recent Ripple Labs ruling * Astronomers testing next-gen asteroid-hunting algorithm discover potentially hazardous object Scientists explain how the new HelioLinc3D software works to The Register * Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a 'wish', not a plan Notably stretching the target requires 'a credible pathway towards its delivery,' says committee * Farewell, Aeolus: Doomed ESA weather sat reenters atmosphere over Antarctica Not quite a controlled deorbit but not an uncontrolled one, either ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: