What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it [Fri Dec 29 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 29 December 2023 ***************************************************************** What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it 'Our licenses aren't working anymore,' says free software pioneer ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Broadcom to end VMware’s channel program, move partners to its own invite-only offering Suppliers don’t know much about what’s going on. Which leaves users in limbo, too * Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago PLUS: Fujitsu Japan spins out servers, storage, and PCs; Japan’s moonshot on track; Samsung reportedly delays Arizona fab opening On-Prem * Nvidia slowed RTX 4090 GPU by 11 percent, to make it 100 percent legal for export to China For now * ‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’ Readers share more filthy tales of cruddy computers, including a potentially explosive airport issue * Israel to plow $3.2B into $25B Intel fab project Foundry site due to open in 2028 ... assuming it's not, y'know, delayed or cancelled * Microsoft nixed Mixed Reality: This Windows VR didn't even make it to the ER Stick WMR next to 3D TVs, Segways, and maybe soon generative AI * Apple's timepiece turmoil taken to appeals court Leftover Christmas dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Series 9 and Ultra 2 watches vanish from shelves * How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid * How the tech toy century has troubled Santa's sack Bell Labs made it bulge then Gordon Moore made it deflate Security * A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not What can be learned from MGM's and Caesars' infosec moves * Kaspersky reveals previously unknown hardware 'feature' exploited in iPhone attacks 'This is no ordinary vulnerability' sec pros explain Software * New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over 'millions of articles' used to train ChatGPT 'A business model based on mass copyright infringement' * What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it 'Our licenses aren't working anymore,' says free software pioneer * Here's who thinks AI chatbots will eventually be smart enough to be your coworker Large language models one day may automate your day-to-day work chores – without getting you fired, we hope * Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more Turing Award winner whose research and startups broke ground for five decades, tells The Reg he has more up his sleeve * War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape The MIT and New Jersey schools of software design, and how big lies turned into holy truths Offbeat * NASA Juno probe to produce 'firehose of data' during close flyby of Jupiter moon Io, Io, it's off to work we go * DotAsia registry tries to put poll problems behind it and set new strategy Home of the .asia gTLD has had a challenging year * 30 years and still sunbathing: SOHO probe continues work as a space weatherman From the cutting edge of physics research to a valuable monitoring tool * ESA's Mars Express continues to avoid retirement home Another chunk of science, another mission extension. But probe is running on fumes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: