Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions [Wed Sep 27 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 27 September 2023 ***************************************************************** Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions High cost and hard to work with? Yep, that's Apple all over ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Bermuda, your data, Google's gonna take your US data Search giant's latest subsea cable will feed your YouTube addiction * Twitter, aka X, tops charts for misinformation, EU official says In measure of fakery, Musk's social media biz has highest noise-to-signal ratio On-Prem * LG has its own folding PC now, but good luck getting your hands on one The 'Gram Fold' looks limited to LG's home of Korea * FCC plans to restore net neutrality rules tossed out under Trump Discriminatory handling of data and paid internet fast lanes could again be disallowed * Chip firm accused of IP theft bites back, claims Apple's contracts are rotten iGiant says Rivos poached talent and SoC designs in '22 * Do SSD failures follow the bathtub curve? Ask Backblaze Check out the raw data yourself... if you dare * AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all * Samsung wants to push CAMM format into memory mainstream Smaller footprint and detachable * Switch to hit the fan as BT begins prep ahead of analog phone sunset Vows it won't 'proactively' shift folks who only use a landline or have no mobile signal * US Space Force wants hotline to China amid rising tensions Cold War 2 is heating up * Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions High cost and hard to work with? Yep, that's Apple all over * Japan's PM hints at semiconductor subsidies as part of wider growth plan Digital transformation and startups at center of stimulus package Security * ROBOT crypto attack on RSA is back as Marvin arrives More precise timing tests find many implementations vulnerable * MOVEit breach delivers bundle of 3.4 million baby records Progress Software vulnerability ID'd in enormous burglary at Ontario's BORN * Ukraine accuses Russian spies of hunting for war-crime info on its servers Russian have shifted tactics in the first half of 2023, with mixed results Software * OpenAI could be valued up to $90 billion if deal to sell employee shares closes ChatGPT makers allegedly in talks with investors to let employees sell out * Report: CIA eyes building AI chatbot to rival China CIA, FBI and friends using AI to uncover threats? What could possibly go wrong? * Amazon accused of being a monopolist in FTC lawsuit Khan's been waiting for years to file this case - she better hope her aim is good * Long-term support for Linux kernels is about to get a lot shorter Despite the OS's success, maintainers are short-staffed and under-appreciated * Oracle's $130M-plus payday still looms on horizon for Larry and Safra And shareholders – presumably not Ellison who still owns 42% – are still not happy about it * Getty delivers text-to-image service it says won't get you sued, may get you paid Trained on its own image library that's clear of copyright complications * Doom developer John Carmack thinks artificial general intelligence is doable by 2030 Suggests we might not have AI at all if it weren't for Quake * No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL Reckons it can deliver Comic Sans faster and keep your shame a secret Offbeat * Cryptocoin Ponzi scheme AirBit Club co-founder jailed 12 years behind bars, and ordered to forfeit $65m in illicit proceeds * China identifies AI, optoelectric semiconductors, as challenges it wants to crack Underwater comms make list of 14 techs at which Beijing hopes to do better ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: