Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs [Wed Jan 17 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 17 January 2024 ***************************************************************** Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs Not all batteries like subzero temperatures ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure On-Prem * Boss fight between Donkey Kong champ and leaderboard org ends with settlement Video game record keepers Twin Galaxies finish messy four-year fight with Billy Mitchell * JPMorgan latest to pile into quantum upstart with $5B valuation Banking giant believes Quantinuum key to optimizing investment portfolios * US Supreme Court doesn't want to hear Apple, Epic's gripes about in-app purchases Get ready for links to non-Cupertino payment systems, America, hopefully * The chips are down in China as imports see largest ever drop Makes sense since the global market fell 11% in 2023 * John Deere tractors get connectivity boost with Starlink deal SpaceX gets chance to prove the FCC was wrong for rejecting its $885m rural broadband subsidy bid * Apple claims top spot in global smartphone market for first time Shipments grow in Q4 after near two years of declines, and Huawei making a comeback in China * Europe benched in high tech 'Champions League' says ASML Calls for stronger team play in the global economic tournament * UK public sector could save £20B by swerving mega-projects and more, claims chief auditor Spending watchdog slams reliance on outdated systems and poor governance * How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch * Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects * Remember when enterprise administration was more than just a browser dashboard? Playing Colossal Cave Adventure on an ICL 2966 and coding on the last Elliott 803 * Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form The only PC with a keyboard so dreadful it challenged the ZX80, now even less usable Security * FBI: Beware of thieves building Androxgh0st botnets using stolen creds Infecting networks via years-old CVEs that should have been patched by now * Patch now: Critical VMware, Atlassian flaws found You didn't have anything else to do this Tuesday, right? * More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are exposed to old denial of service bugs Majority of public-facing devices still unpatched against critical vulns from as far back as 2022 * Ivanti zero-day exploits explode as bevy of attackers get in on the act Customers still patchless and mitigation only goes so far * China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia ‘Inaccessible and autonomous armed group territories’ host crooks who use tech to launder cash, run slave scam gangs, and more Software * Pentagon using ChatGPT? Oh sure, for cyber-things and veterans, says OpenAI Just days after ban on 'military and warfare' applications goes away, Davos hears the details * How 'sleeper agent' AI assistants can sabotage your code without you realizing Today's safety guardrails won't catch these backdoors, study warns * Google AI chatbot more empathetic than real doctors in test No, that does not mean machines can replace primary care physicians * Windows 12 fan fiction shows how Microsoft might ladle AI into the OS Unlikely to be a stop-the-slurpage button, but look at the wallpaper * Asahi Linux team issues promising update on efforts to conquer Apple Silicon Good progress for penguinistas keen on Macs Offbeat * Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs Not all batteries like subzero temperatures * Can you dig it? Samsung buys chunk of a Canadian nickel mining company Korean giant wants a local source of the stuff needed to build batteries * India again backs down on its controversial PC import restrictions Desktops escape regulations, laptops and servers don't, no reasons explained ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: