Google bins integrity API that looked more than a bit like horrible DRM for websites [Fri Nov 3 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 3 November 2023 ***************************************************************** Google bins integrity API that looked more than a bit like horrible DRM for websites Chocolate Factory to focus on more limited attestation for Android WebViews ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Cloudflare dashboard, API service feeling poorly due to datacenter power snafu Right on time for results day * European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal Larry promised Brussels 'less risk and cost' and they believed it On-Prem * Uber, Lyft to hand back $328M of stolen wages to NY drivers So much for appy cabbies being 'partners' - Big U kept fares low by making 'em pay fees that riders should have picked up * US Commerce Dept pinky swears it won't push American spyware on world-plus-dog Or maybe just not let foreign govts buy this stuff at all? * Amazon's $1.4B price-raising 'Project Nessie' algorithm exposed in FTC antitrust fight More details emerge from Loch Jassy, including how this may have been anything but a 'scrapped' project * GPS leading your phone astray? We can just fix that in code, startup claims Zephr bags $3.5M, reckons its tech can pinpoint location to sub-60cm levels * Snowflake puts LLMs in the hands of SQL and Python coders As more features come to Data Cloud, customers might want to keep an eye on consumption * China's YMTC scrounges for billions to help bypass US sanctions Meanwhile, RISC-V has Uncle Sam rattled * Qualcomm in recovery position following annus horribilis Smartphone sales not nearly so bad and just think of the AI potential for margins * Batterygate bound for Blighty as UK court approves billion-dollar Apple compensation case 24 million more angry iPhone users get their turn to give iGiant a kicking * UK bets on Intel CPUs and GPUs, Dell boxen, OpenStack for Dawn supercomputer We'd make some kind of Sun sets joke here but it's too early in the morning * Lenovo’s phantom ThinkPad X1 foldable laptop finally materializes The day after Halloween, at a slightly less scary price than LG, HPE, and ASUS charge for their folding laptops Security * FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges Jury took just four hours to reach guilty verdicts * Infosec pros can secure IT, but have harder time securing job satisfaction Industry facing burnout scare as workplace issues snowball * Critical Apache ActiveMQ flaw under attack by 'clumsy' ransomware crims Over a week later and barely any patches for the 10/10 vulnerability have been applied * Okta tells 5,000 of its own staff that their data was accessed in third-party breach The hits keep on coming for troubled ID management biz * Boeing acknowledges cyberattack on parts and distribution biz Won't say if it's LockBit, but LockBit appears to have claimed credit. Maybe payment, too Software * Google bins integrity API that looked more than a bit like horrible DRM for websites Chocolate Factory to focus on more limited attestation for Android WebViews * Scarlett Johansson sics lawyers on AI biz that cloned her for an ad Plus: Beatles emit song with a little help from a neural network * In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn't buy it * Theora video codec to be coded out from Chrome and Firefox Usage barely measurable so ax will swing on compression dinosaur * UK MoD braves the weather to train maritime AI capabilities We will scan them on the beaches * Don't fear the Thread Reaper, a Windows ghost of bugs past Otherwise known as 0x13 – and not coming to a desktop near you * Trinity desktop's latest release snaps into action on Q4OS 5.3 It's already available on this lightweight Debian spin * Microsoft warns it may ‘throttle’ its generative AI services for ‘excessive’ users Updated T&Cs reveal intent to restrict access under undefined circumstances Offbeat * Rocket Lab sets sights on 2024-2025 window for Venus mission Return to flight followed by a trip to Venus * Alien rock remains found not on but deep inside the Earth Scientists offer explanation for origin of two anomalous structures nestled within our world * Dirty dancing grabs the attention of China's cyberspace regulators Alibaba service fined as Beijing calls for online platforms to name major creators and deploy kid-mode services ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: