Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off [Tue Oct 24 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 24 October 2023 ***************************************************************** Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off Public Accounts Committee demands timetable for replacements, because things have run so smoothly so far... ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes * Indonesia grounds second broadband satellite to free up digital inclusion funds Boeing and SpaceX lose out. Ministry is betting 70 million people without internet access won't On-Prem * Intel stock stumbles on report Nvidia is building an Arm CPU for PC market AMD also said to be working on an Arm-based PC chip * Biden admin reveals 31 R&D tech hubs, with $500m up for grabs Nothing more fattening than CHIPs: Up to ten locations get initial funding, more to come * No more Mr Nice DoJ - Tesla gets subpoenas over self-driving software claims Has someone been shooting their mouth off a little too much? * Dropbox drops bucks to ditch digs in long-term WFH model SF corporate nerve center will be 87% smaller than pre-pandemic as others mandate in-person work * Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off Public Accounts Committee demands timetable for replacements, because things have run so smoothly so far... * IBM flags up NorthPole chip to scale AI – though it's still far from shipping Paper describes work in massively parallel, interconnected system – with limits to data in on-chip memory * That script I wrote three years ago is now doing what? How many times? Whipping up a RAID repair nearly produced data doom * India plans semiconductor research institute to rival the world's finest And gives itself five years to build silicon photonics cores Security * Cisco fixes critical IOS XE bug but malware crew way ahead of them Initial fall in infected devices indicates evolution, not extinction, of attack code * DC elections agency warns entire voting roll may have been stolen Home of the Republic seemingly hit by Sony/NTT Docomo ransomware crew * Microsoft opens early access to AI assistant for infosec, Security Copilot Copilotization of all things continues... as helper offers incident reports to share with the boss and more Software * 'AI divide' across the US leaves economists concerned AI use up 266% in five years but it's still used by less than a quarter of workers * Google - yes, that Google - testing proxy scheme to hide IP addresses for privacy Plan for Chrome echoes Apple iCloud Private Relay * Databricks cements Arcion Labs deal, will absorb its data access tools A $100M match made in analytics heaven, parties claim * It is 2023 and Excel's reign of date terror might finally be at an end Data scientists to rejoice as spreadsheet's 'helpfulness' can be curbed * Martin Goetz, recipient of the first software patent, logs off at 93 The industry owes him a debt of gratitude * SEC boss warns it's 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause financial crash Plus Meta gets physical, moves bots in the house... * Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected In a world of incremental updates, Windows 12 won't be Windows 12 * South Korea approves Broadcom's VMware buy Virtzilla's final releases as an indepdent company might be biggish upgrades to its desktop hypervisors Offbeat * Japan to probe Google over 'suspicion' that antitrust laws are being broken Arrives at the same conclusion about the nexus of Android and search as pretty much everyone else * NASA eyes 3D-printed rocket nozzles for deep space missions Additive manufacturing might not be for everyone, but rocket makers seem to like it * Tim Peake on a return to space: 'Never say never' Bigs up commercial space as ESA prepares for Axiom 3 * NASA just patched Voyager 2's software but spared Voyager 1 the risky rewrite The upgrade might not go well, so prioritized the probe doing better science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: