HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies [Mon Jan 22 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 22 January 2024 ***************************************************************** HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies Malware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP's bottom line ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment Land of the rising profit? * Foxconn’s latest Indian foray is a chip packaging JV with HCL Group Fending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductors * Google to bring India’s Unified Payments Interface to the world Including for cross-border remittances, which could shake things up nicely * Equinix bids for more of your multi-cloud network with homebrew hosted router VMs are slow. And who can arrange remote hands wherever your traffic needs to flow? On-Prem * Tencent, Meta, alliance reportedly strains over differing VR visions PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets * Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs All those neural network weights aren't much without ample decent silicon * US cities are going to struggle to green up their act by 2050 Instead of 100% renewables, most will reach around a tenth of that * HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies Malware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP's bottom line * Post Office threatened to sue Fujitsu over missing audit data More details emerge as Horizon IT scandal inquiry continues * Businessman faces 20 years in prison over accusations of illicit chip exports to Russia Shipments alleged to have gone to a sanctioned company * University chops students' Microsoft 365 storage to 20GB Sacrificing its academic backups for the sake of the environment * ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned El Reg talks to the project's founder * Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes Pause comes after controversial supplier wins another 9-figure deal paid for by taxpayers * Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation Disrespect for physics saw the datacenter, and a career, come tumbling down * Intel finds a friend in fight against $1.2B EU antitrust fine Advocate general kicks holes in some of the European Commission's arguments about ancient rebate program Security * Russians invade Microsoft exec mail while China jabs at VMware vCenter Server Plus: Uncle Sam says Ivanti exploits 'consistent with PRC' snoops * Five ripped off IT giant with $7M+ in bogus work expenses, prosecutors claim Account manager and pals blew it on hotels, cruise, fancy meals and more allegedly * Thieves steal 35.5M customers’ data from Vans sneakers maker But what kind of info was actually compromised? None of your business * IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime * US agencies warn made-in-China drones might help Beijing snoop on the world It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s a flying menace out to endanger national security Software * How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you * Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence with 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs Maybe the AGI can finish that Metaverse, haha – oh wait, they're serious * For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed Now its functions are shattered between innumerable vendors * What makes a hard error hard? Microsoft vet tells all A peek back at the wobbly Windows of yesteryear Offbeat * Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon The real SLIM's shady ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: