Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections [Thu Nov 9 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 9 November 2023 ***************************************************************** Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections EFF warns incoming rules may return web 'to the dark ages of 2011' ***************************************************************** On-Prem * Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PC 8,388,608KB ought to be enough for anybody, huh? * Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription Also: Antitrust trial exhibits signals Incognito mode isn't truly private and 100M users may be underage * Digital democracy or IT anarchy? Gartner flags the low-code revolution Without strong governance, incoming tools will wreak havoc for CIOs * Sales bonanza at ASML as China stockpiles chipmaking kit Dutch exports skyrocket thanks to Washington restrictions * Wipro: Get back to the office for three days a week or else Still, at least it isn't forcing everyone to wear smart casuals... * Major telco outage leaves millions of Australians disconnected Communication minister advises businesses to “keep receipts” * Uncle Sam snooping on US folks? Not without a warrant, lawmakers agree Proposed Section 702 overhaul bill rolls in as expiration date looms Security * Microsoft, Meta detail plans to fight election disinformation in 2024 Strategies differ, though both have gaps that could hurt efficacy * Atlassian cranks up the threat meter to max for Confluence authorization flaw Attackers secure admin rights after vendor said they could only steal data * Monero Project admits thieves stole 6-figure sum from a wallet in mystery breach It's the latest in a string of unusual wallet-draining attacks that began in April * Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections EFF warns incoming rules may return web 'to the dark ages of 2011' Software * Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician's death at Korean food plant * Adobe sells fake AI-generated Israel-Hamas war images – then the news ran them as real The world needs a timeout moment * Cruise patches robo-taxi software to not drag humans across the road anymore Self-driving car outfit also creates chief safety officer role. No wonder * Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim * The Cloud Native Computing Foundation leaps aboard the AI bandwagon Nice tech, but poke underneath and you'll find Kubernetes * OpenAI tackles 'major outage' hitting ChatGPT APIs Meltdown apparently resolved, capacity issues still popping up, as Claude hits a resource wall * 1 in 5 VMware customers plan to jump off its stack next year Forrester predicts exodus from Virtzilla following Broadcom takeover * Canonical reveals more details about Ubuntu Core Desktop This new entrant in the immutable space is not a replacement for ordinary Ubuntu * Pharma boffins sharpen hunt for target molecules using graph DB French pharma firm Servier gets Neo4j to help find relationships in 'messy' data * US actors are still on strike – and yup, it's about those looming AI clones How about you pay us every time our likeness is used by algorithms to make studio execs richer? Offbeat * Wanted: Driver for rocket-powered Bloodhound Land Speed Record car Ability to attract sponsorship a bonus as vehicle set to emerge from ashes, attempt to blast past 763mph * European Space Agency grits teeth, preps contracts for SpaceX Galileo launch Secret tech will have to be shipped to the US for launch thanks to delays * Boffins detect direct evidence of atomic oxygen on Venus's day side Measures could help future probe mission, plus understanding of why boiling hot atmos so different to Earth's * Euclid space 'scope's first color snaps pull back the curtain on cosmic mysteries After a rocky start, here's looking at Euclid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: