FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban' [Thu Nov 16 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 16 November 2023 ***************************************************************** FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban' War of words escalates as deadline draws near ***************************************************************** On-Prem * Google, Amazon, Microsoft make the Mozilla naughty list for Christmas shopping Big Tech's toys have privacy problems. Why not buy utterly unconnected dead-tree books instead? * Meta's fix for teen online mental health? Hold Apple and Google responsible Facebook: If only we had a national law to ensure kids get parental permission to indulge in damaging social media * Cruise parks entire US fleet over safety fears Roadblocks ahead as external watchdog hired for full audit of self-driving biz * Right-to-repair fight going national as FTC asked to lay down the law Why shouldn't you be able to fix your own kit? Clue: Profit is involved * Amazon to staff: Come into the office – it'd be a shame if something happened to your promotion We know who's been naughty and who's been nice, says box-shifting-cum-cloud-computing biz * Intel chips away at carbon footprint but skims over thirst for water, chemicals Semiconductors are a dirty business * Banned US chipmaking equipment still ending up in China, says report Plus: US execs line up to dine with President Xi * Fujitsu-backed FDK claims nickel zinc batteries ready for use in UPSes Might be great for the datacenter, but not likely to be in EVs anytime soon Security * Clorox CISO flushes self after multi-million-dollar cyberattack Plus: Ransomware crooks file SEC complaint against victim * Google Workspace weaknesses allow plaintext password theft Exploits come with caveats, but Google says no fixes as user security should do the heavy lifting here * FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban' War of words escalates as deadline draws near * Ransomware more efficient than ever, and baddies are still after your logs Trying times for incident responders who battle fastest-ever ransomware blitz as attackers keep scrubbing evidence clean Software * Microsoft touts mirroring over moving in data warehouse gambit Fabric update cuts against the grain, and may have more to do with Databricks partnerships * You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company Bing Chat is now known as – you can guess. Plus more AI bits and pieces coming to Teams, Office, etc * OpenAI pauses ChatGPT Plus sign-ups as it 'hits capacity' If only there was an investor with a scalable cloud to hand... * RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 arrive – one is free, one merely free of charge The Hat adds tool to facilitate migration from various free RHEL-a-like distros * To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee * Rivian bricks infotainment systems in 'fat finger' fiasco Ruh-roh, where did the aircon go? * Google DeepMind's GraphCast AI weather predictor looks fascinating on paper but ... ... Even its creators say it ain't 'a replacement for traditional forecasting methods' * Software is listening for the options you want it to offer, and it's about time Talking back to devices will end the confusion caused by long menus of functions nobody uses Offbeat * Tesla Cybertruck no-resale clause vanishes faster than a Model S in Ludicrous Mode Time for eBay jockeys to ready their watchlists for second-hand clunkers * Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie Nic Cage? Rami Malek? Or maybe Donald Duck? You decide... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: