iFixit tears Apple's Vision Pro to pieces [Tue Feb 6 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 6 February 2024 ***************************************************************** iFixit tears Apple's Vision Pro to pieces It isn't just the price that makes your eyes look so weird ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble Paytm's bank has been locked out, edtech darling Byju's faces bankruptcy On-Prem * Faraday plots a 64-core Arm chip with Intel inside The melding of Neoverse cores and x86 giant's latest process tech was bound to happen eventually * Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries Supplier to beleagered US aerospace giant spots problem, which would not be an 'immediate flight safety issue' * When it comes working from home, Register readers are bucking national trends Our survey shows you like your away-from-office comforts * Where there's a will, there's a way to get US chips into China Buy 'em, rent 'em, smuggle 'em – export restrictions don't cover illegitimate means * iFixit tears Apple's Vision Pro to pieces It isn't just the price that makes your eyes look so weird * Atos talks to banks over refinancing after rights issue falls through Shares in French IT giant plummet 25% * IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS You were warned Security * Ivanti devices hit by wave of exploits for latest security hole At this point you might be better off just shutting the stuff down * Ignore Uncle Sam's 'voluntary' cybersecurity goals for hospitals at your peril What is on HHS paper will most likely become law, Google security boss says * AnyDesk revokes signing certs, portal passwords after crooks sneak into systems Horse, meet stable door * Lurie Children's Hospital back to pen and paper after cyberattack It's the second Chicago hospital to disclose a major incident in the same week Software * Singapore finally deletes its COVID-era contact tracing data Except for the data used for a controversial murder investigation. That stays. Forever * Google throws $1M at Rust Foundation to build C++ bridges Chocolate Factory matches Microsoft money for memory safety * Attempts to demolish guardrails in AI image generators blamed for lewd Taylor Swift deepfakes Creeps on notorious bulletin board 4Chan reportedly decided to humiliate prominent women * Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts Five months after cloud love-in, critics worry about costs of deploying Oracle hardware and DBs in Microsoft’s cloud * Survey: Over half of undergrads in UK are using AI in university assignments Plus: Another lawyer is in trouble for citing fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT, and more * Whether to move off Oracle is the $100M+ question for Europe's largest public body After car-crash implementation, Birmingham City Council must weigh up options after current problems are fixed * That's not the web you're browsing, Microsoft. That's our data The one thing you don't want your data security to be is, er, edgy * Developer's default setting created turbulence in the flight simulator What is it? It's an instrument used to train pilots, but that's not important right now * Google flushes cached search results forever Chap in charge hopes the Internet Archive is willing to pipe in historical search results as a substitute * Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25 million Recordings of past vidchats suspected as source of fakery – so there's another class of data you need to lock down Special Features * 40 years ago, an astronaut first took flight from the Space Shuttle Look Ma: no tether! * Rocket Lab is a David among Goliaths in the space race CEO Peter Beck on the future of commercial launches and not raining debris over national reserves ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: