UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms [Thu Nov 30 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 30 November 2023 ***************************************************************** UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms Acts under the guise of protecting the public from fraud, yet history suggests Home Office has other motives ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Two sats, one customer: Japan's NTT signs up for Amazon's space internet Take that, Elon On-Prem * Meta yanks VR headset's strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin - what could possibly go wrong? * Goldman sacked: Apple 'wants out' of credit card collab Don't be too shocked: Financial giant has been fleeing normie banking lately after failing to find footing * Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive No one's buying these things. Just, uh, ignore the massive markups * Time to take action: Google's inactive account purge begins Friday You should've received an email if you're affected, but here's a reminder just in case * Server sales down 31% at HPE as enterprises hack spending Customers still 'digesting' shipments bought in 2022, says exec in mixed fiscal year for hardware biz * Google goes geothermal to power some bitbarns Search giant exploring more locations to squeeze watts from rocks Security * Rogue ex-Motorola techie admits cyberattack on former employer, passport fraud Pro tip: Don't use your new work email to phish your old firm * Uncle Sam probes cyberattack on Pennsylvania water system by suspected Iranian crew CISA calls for stronger IT defenses as Texas district also hit by ransomware crew * Okta data breach dilemma dwarfs earlier estimates All customer support users told their info was accessed after analysis oversight * British Library begins contacting customers as Rhysida leaks data dump CRM databases were accessed and library users are advised to change passwords * UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms Acts under the guise of protecting the public from fraud, yet history suggests Home Office has other motives * Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS Planning portal back online with a more secure connection * Japan's space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory JAXA is having a tough time in cyberspace and outer space, the latter thanks to an electrical glitch Software * Meta: If you're in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to 'fess up Facebook titan vows to protect two billion voters ... but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU * IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though * Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too * Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times New features are great and all, but maybe fix some of the issues too? * Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator Competition Markets Authority claims merger will reduce innovation for designers and other creative types * AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons In the US, however, folks are ready and willing to bin you for a bot * Good luck finding competent Copilot help, warns Microsoft MVP Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred * VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a 'strategic review' of end-user compute and Carbon Black products Offbeat * Dragonfly delayed – formal confirmation of journey to Saturn's moon slips into 2024 Titan trip postponed while NASA awaits the FY 2025 budget request * That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth Forget Martian dust devils, it's the peril of the blue smoke you have to worry about * No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins 'We looked very hard for a smoking gun linking technology and well-being and we didn't find it' * Japan's digital minister flamed and shamed for using his smartphone in Parliament His job is to modernise Japan but Googling electoral trivia to ensure accurate answers is not allowed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: