NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish [Fri Dec 15 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 15 December 2023 ***************************************************************** NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish Science and telemetry data hit by latest issue ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * SAP admits attempt to adapt on-prem security for its cloud flopped Software giant learned the hard way that lift-and-shift isn’t easy On-Prem * Four more months of Section 702 snooping slipped into $890B US defense budget bill Congress renews warrantless spying tool scribbled on back of huge check for the Pentagon * Google pencils in limited third-party cookie purge for January One percent of Chrome users will experience the web as if using Firefox or Safari * Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned Software cons reportedly outweighed public-cloud pros * Privacy crusaders accuse X of ad-targeting that flouts EU rules Campaign to promote 'chat control' legislation allegedly sorted users by political views, religious beliefs * Intel wants to run AI on CPUs and says its 5th-gen Xeons are ones to do it Oh and its got more cores, a bigger cache, and a simpler chiplet architecture to boot * Unite the union claims Vodafone and Three merger is about 'corporate greed' Flags up potential job cuts, price hikes, and national security issues * Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees If it looks like a job, and is supervised like a job, it'll be classified as a job * UK government woefully unprepared for 'catastrophic' ransomware attack Extortionware 'relentlessly deprioritized' and even King Charles seems oblivious to danger, scathing report finds * FCC really, truly won't give SpaceX nearly a billion bucks for Starlink rural broadband You Musk be joking, says legal veep Security * Microsoft seizes websites used to sell phony email accounts to Scattered Spider and other crims That should solve the global cybercrime problem, right? * Russia joins North Korea in sending state-sponsored cyber troops to pick on TeamCity users National security and infosec authorities band together to help victims sniff out stealthy Russian baddies hiding in networks * Money-grubbing crooks abuse OAuth – and baffling absence of MFA – to do financial crimes Business email compromise, illicit cryptomining, phishing ... if it makes a dollar, this lot do it * Surprise! Email from personal. information.reveal@gmail.com is not going to contain good news Internet plod highlight tactics used by cruel Karakurt crime gang Software * The truth about Dropbox opening up your files to AI – and the loss of trust in tech 'Your info won't be harvested for training' is the new 'Your private chatter won't be used for ads' * Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update The rapture of the black T-shirt brigade was very short indeed * Microsoft embraces its inner penguin with Linux-powered Windows AI Studio Visual Studio Code extension preview has a bunch of limitations for now * Suffering from tab overload? Vivaldi unveils Session Panels Browser history also deposited under the Christmas Tree in new release Offbeat * NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish Science and telemetry data hit by latest issue * GM's Cruise sheds nine execs in the name of safety and integrity Robotaxi firm's car ran over a woman, then it allegedly misled investigators * Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription cancellation practices Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: