Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase [Fri Aug 4 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 4 August 2023 ***************************************************************** Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase That's not what they meant by 'move fast, break things' ... But maybe brake things ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Orkney islands look to drones to streamline mail deliveries Unmanned aircraft trial will skip delays caused by boat-battering weather * AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server That's vastly more cores than Intel puts in a single processor sold to the public On-Prem * Blue Origin tells staff to catch next rocket back to their desks Face colleagues five days a week, Jeff Bezos' space firm says * Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results There's a word for describing going it alone against huge rivals, starts with a B, just can't put our finger on it * UK government's semiconductor brain trust meets for the first time Actually listening to the experts? We'll believe it when we see it * Qualcomm's great vanishing act: $2.48B of Q3 profit disappears Smartphone CPU king talks of 'additional cost actions' as market recovery still out of reach * China floats strict screentime limits and content crimps for kids Two hours a day maximum and a guarantee of no nasties - parents everywhere might just welcome the Communist approach to this issue Security * Couple admit they laundered $4B in stolen Bitcoins after Bitfinex super-heist A man, a plan, and Razzlekhan fought the law – and the law won * Russia's Cozy Bear is back and hitting Microsoft Teams to phish top targets Plus: Tenable CEO blasts Redmond's bug disclosure habits * Old-school hacktivism is back because it never went away Mysterious Team Bangladesh has carried out 846 attacks since June 2022, mostly DDoS * Brit healthcare body rapped for WhatsApp chat sharing patient data Time for a proper secure clinical image transfer system, perhaps? * Prepare for plenty more pain from Ivanti's MDM flaws, warn cyber agencies Invaders already spent four or more months frolicking inside Norwegian government servers Software * IBM, NASA emit actual open source AI model – for grokking Earth satellite images Some people just want to watch the world burn * Microsoft yanks internal Windows 11 testing tool soon after release Redmond bugs out of that side quest * Lacros rescues Chromebooks by extending their lifespans 'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks * SAP CEO push for cloud-only 'innovation' shatters users' trust in German-speaking heartlands UK and German user groups issue strong statements after Klein courts investors with cloud strategy * Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch Debian 12-based version should be your first choice for a non-systemd distro * Baidu builds AI into cars so you can distract the kids with text-to-image tools Drawing flying pandas is useful. But Chinese web giant isn't saying how AI on wheels is practical Offbeat * NASA and pals complete Artemis II recovery dress rehearsal One more box checked in humanity's quest to return to the Moon * Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase That's not what they meant by 'move fast, break things' ... But maybe brake things * Airbus to help with International Space Station replacement Orbiter is supposed to be ready by 2028, so JV partners had better hurry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: