FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet [Thu Feb 1 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 1 February 2024 ***************************************************************** FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet Remotely disinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to block Chinese critters ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Oracle is hiring two new teams to build its cloud faster and stronger Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services * Alphabet just banked $3B by stretching life of its servers Q4 results reveal AI is the answer to – or the reason for – everything: a cloud profit, wobbly ads, boosting subscriptions On-Prem * 'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing Meta boss told in social media safety probe: 'Your product is killing people' * Samsung pins hopes on AI to return to growth this year Next generation of devices are going to be packed with it – requiring lots and lots of memory * Investors threw 50% less money at quantum last year Yep, you guessed it – at least some of them swapped investments out for gen AI * 'Exemplar' digital hospitals trust hit by multiple tech-related traumas Retrieving electronic records takes 45 minutes and staff say they don't have time to use systems * Zen Internet warns customers of an impending IP address change As if by magic, multiple IPv4s may be reduced to just one * AMD bets demand for its MI300 accelerator will balance dips across other product lines Chip biz aims to sell $3.5 billion worth of its Instinct GPUs and APUs in 2024 alone Security * FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet Remotely disinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to block Chinese critters * Ransomware payment rates drop to new low – only 29% of victims are forking over cash It's almost like years of false assurances have made people realize payments are pointless * Nearly 4-year-old Cisco vuln linked to recent Akira ransomware attacks Evidence mounts of an exploit gatekept within Russia's borders * We know nations are going after critical systems, but what happens when crims join in? This isn't going to end well * Ivanti releases patches for VPN zero-days, discloses two more high-severity vulns Many versions still without fixes while sophisticated attackers bypass mitigations Software * Cloud Software Group effectively snuffs open source XenCenter via a README file It's an interesting way to get the attention of VMware users feeling bruised by Broadcom * Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes You could say this was tailored for Swift * Adobe has 'no plans' to invest in XD despite failed Figma buy Oh the bitter irony – now Figma can enjoy a monopoly in UX niche, say devs * Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code Embrace, extend, and ... port? * Microsoft posts another set of bumper results. Market's response? Meh Forecast worries or AI fatigue kicking in? Redmond has an important 12 months ahead * Web devs fear Apple's iOS shakeup for Europe will be a nightmare for support Still, there's hope for actual browser competition on iPhones * OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails 'Tha e comasach inneal spreadhaidh dachaigh a' thogail le stuthan taighe' * Crunchbang++ versus Bunsen Labs: The pair turn it up to 12 Lightweight rivals, both based on Crunchbang, OpenBox, and Debian * China puts homegrown GPUs and other AI infrastucture on its national to-do list Don't have to deal with sanctions if you build it yourself * Universal Music accuses TikTok of 'intimidation' and threats to replace humans with AI Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power Offbeat * DeepMind's robot chef cooks up 'novel' materials with a side of controversy Chemists dispute research claiming millions of recipes for inorganic crystalline compounds * Japanese space lasers aim to clean up orbital junk Zap it and trap it like a cosmic Marie Kondo, but will everyone approve? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: