Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail [Tue Jan 9 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 9 January 2024 ***************************************************************** Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail Kit sucked out of Alaska Airlines 1282 found on the side of the road ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss How the hyperscalers derailed Europe's cloud infrastructure train On-Prem * Nvidia gives RTX 40 series a Super refresh as AI PC hype takes off Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Not it’s GPUs with slightly better specs * Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail Kit sucked out of Alaska Airlines 1282 found on the side of the road * Nvidia readies downgraded chips for China, but will anyone want to buy them? Once again, export restrictions are having the opposite to intended effects * AMD brings its AI engines to the desktop with Ryzen 8000G APUs, RX 7600 XT graphics cards The House of Zen's aging Ryzen 5000 processors get some love too * Need to plug in an EV? BT Group kicks off cabinet update pilot Old BT green boxes to be repurposed Security * Apache OFBiz zero-day pummeled by exploit attempts after disclosure Issue has been patched so be sure to check your implementations * British Library: Finances remain healthy as ransomware recovery continues Authors continue to lose out on owed payments as rebuild of digital services drags on * Facebook, Instagram now mine web links you visit to fuel targeted ads Also: Twitter hijackings, BEC arrest, and critical vulnerabilities Software * OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials' As IEEE study shows super lab's neural nets can emit 'plagiaristic output' * 'Only 700 new IT jobs' were created in US last year Pandemic overhiring + AI-generated cuts at the entry level = A bad year to be a techie, says Janco * Avoiding AI-capable PCs will be impossible by 2027 Generative AI - huh - what is it good for? Premium priced PC sales, apparently says Canalys * UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims Renewed focus follows TV drama * Watermarks on AI art a futile game of digital hide-and-seek Plus: A virtual Elvis Presley animated using AI to perform in shows, and the most popular chatbot on Character.ai * Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before FOSS's license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way * New year, new bug – rivalry between devs led to a deep-code disaster How badly do you want your name in the About box? * Everyone's suing AI over text and pics. But music? You ain't seen nothing yet When record labels go bananas over brief samples, good luck generating tracks built from today's culture Offbeat * America's first private lunar lander suffers 'critical' fuel leak en route to Moon Astrobotic's Peregrine packed with NASA science gear and other payloads may be a bust * Nearly 200 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes grounded after door plug flies off mid-flight NTSB chair pushes for 25 hours of cockpit voice and flight data recordings * NASA science bound for Moon after successful Vulcan Centaur launch Your turn, Starship ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2024 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: