FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds [Wed Aug 30 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 30 August 2023 ***************************************************************** FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds On AWS Firecracker – but there are other new micro-VM engines around, too ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Southern Water to drink up tech deals worth up to £358M Wide-ranging procurements hint at prospect of SAP ERP system replacement On-Prem * AMD on the edge: Stripped down Siena Epycs teased Hopes cool-running Zen cores can socket to Intel's Xeon-D – maybe with a smaller socket * Reports of the PC's death are greatly exaggerated, says IDC Demand may be 'tepid at best' but analyst sees return to pre-2019 levels next year * America's financial cops say Impact Theory's NFTs were unregistered securities Dissenting opinion asserts position is wrong and that many headaches linger Security * Meta reckons China's troll farms could learn proper OpSec from Russia's fake news crews Claims to have taken down two colossal networks, with 'Secondary Infektion' schooling 'Spamouflage' * University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu Halls of learning are stuck offline, but go Wolverines! * Apple security boss faces iPads-for-gun-permits bribery charge... again 'We will continue fighting this case' global chief's lawyer tells us * FBI-led Operation Duck Hunt shoots down Qakbot Totally plucked: Agents remotely roast Windows botnet malware on victims' machines * More UK cops' names and photos exposed in supplier breach All 47,000 Met Police officers and staff reportedly accessed in break-in Software * Google threatens to inject Duet AI bot into more corners of Workspace: Meet, Chat, etc And adds rivals Claude 2, Falcon, Llama 2 to Vertex AI * Perhaps AI is going to take away coding jobs – of those who trust this tech too much Llama 2 avoids errors by staying quiet, GPT-4 gives long, if useless, samples * Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic * FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds On AWS Firecracker – but there are other new micro-VM engines around, too * NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal Quango must show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement * OpenAI pops an enterprise sticker on ChatGPT to give big biz some peace of mind Here's what you actually get for this VIP level. And how is Microsoft happy with this? * Nvidia just made a killing on AI – where is everyone else? It doesn't matter if your GPU is better at training if no one can get hold of them * US Air Force wants $6B to build 2,000 AI-powered drones Pilots' Goose cooked as uncrewed vehicles prove cheaper and perhaps more versatile Offbeat * NASA to outdo most Americans on internet speeds, gigabit kit heading to the ISS See hot singles in your area! Well, -453.8 F singles at least * Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster Asks Beijing to stop the phone calls harassing civilians, as tests show impact of nuke plant water * US and China to keep talking about chip bans, just not when they'll end Intel and Micron made the agenda, but action to ease their woes did not * Samsung realizes behaving ethically is good for business, says compliance boss Mega-corp has mastered the complexity of numerous technologies but it took several scandals to impart this obvious lesson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: