Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance [Mon Oct 16 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 16 October 2023 ***************************************************************** Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance Nobody minded for 20 years or so, until another student took action ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation On-Prem * India drops plan to place PCs on restricted import list PLUS: TSMC chips away at export restrictions; Singapore's COVID model challenged; Japan's banking and ID systems wobble * Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder's daughter was killed in festival massacre And engineer and girlfriend among those held hostage by Hamas * Canon claims its nanoimprint litho machines capable of 5nm chip production Probably not a threat to ASML's EUV tech just yet, analyst tells El Reg * Biden hopes to squeeze loopholes to slow China's devouring of US AI chips Won't stop supply of nerfed export-friendly accelerators * Nvidia's accelerated cadence spells trouble for AMD and Intel's AI aspirations Or it could, just as soon as they figure out how to make the networking work * UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy Crumbs compared to the billions thrown about in US and Europe * UK government embarks on bargain bin hunt for AI policy wonk Con: You won't get a Menlo Park salary. Pro: You won't have to meet Zuck * Nutanix, Cisco say buyers will get the best of them both There's enough overlap that the deal works already. Next: cloud networks and maybe a storage push * Qualcomm to shed over 1,000 staff in California, plus some Brits, starting in December Vice-presidents, engineers among those scheduled to have a rotten Christmas * Samsung nabs contract to produce 3nm server chips for mystery US biz Parts reportedly geared toward high-performance compute and leverage advanced packaging Security * 530K people's info feared stolen from cloud PC gaming biz Shadow Will players press start to continue with this outfit? * Thwarted ransomware raid targeting WS_FTP servers demanded just 0.018 BTC Early attempt to exploit latest Progress Software bug spotted in the wild * Calls for Visual Studio security tweak fall on deaf ears despite one-click RCE exploit Two years on and Microsoft refuses to address the issue Software * How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work Check for 'cr' bubble in pictures if your app supports it, or look in the metadata if it hasn't been stripped, or... * Microsoft ends its week on a high – after a trying time with tax bills and Copilot costs Bit of a Blizzard of news for Redmond * Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build The bull has escaped Minos' labyrinth, and El Reg follows the thread * MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall Strategic DBaaS and distributed back end jettisoned after years of promotion * GNOME developer proposes removing the X11 session The suggested change is the first step in desktop environment becoming Wayland-only * Brit watchdog slams Microsoft as it clears $69B Activision Blizzard buy 'Tactics employed by Microsoft are no way to engage with us' * Gas supplier blames 'rogue' code for Channel Island outage CEO claims bug had millions-to-one chance of disrupting supply – but it did * Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance Nobody minded for 20 years or so, until another student took action Special Features * Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices * EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states What could possibly go wrong? * Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act? The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge * Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach Not quite a pound for every one of the 13.8 million affected UK citizens, and it could have been more * Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance They know they're being watched and don't mind - maybe because Beijing says it improves safety Offbeat * Three dozen plaintiffs join Apple AirTag tracking lawsuit in amended complaint 38 people now accusing Apple of negligence over stalking, assaults and murders enabled by Bluetooth trackers * BOFH: We've made a big mesh, Boss. That's what you wanted, right? The signal is strongest in the pub... * NASA reschedules Boeing's first crewed Starliner flight for mid-April 2024 Given they're still trying to fix the capsule's parachute the astronauts better say their prayers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: