Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner [Mon Feb 19 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 19 February 2024 ***************************************************************** Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner The lessons of yesteryear's OS are getting lost in translation ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Microsoft says it'll throw €3.2B at AI ops in Germany What's the wurst that could happen? On-Prem * India buys a third of the world's wearable devices PLUS: Australian Parliament calls for Assange release; Japan's H3 rocket soars; LINE leak worsens * Election security threats in 2024 range from AI to … anthrax? Unsettling reading as Presidents' Day approaches * Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 3,000-pound blade server? Rackscale system can be had with up to 2,048 cores, 32TB of RAM, and nearly a petabyte of flash * Japan's Rakuten plans satellite cell service across its islands from 2026 Launch delays persist, but test space-based voice calls work * IonQ opens first US quantum factory amid VC cash crunch Who knows where they'll get the funds for $1B investment plan, though * Dell staff not alone in being squeezed to reduce remote work 3 in 5 workers getting strict orders to return to office and something is going to give * Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived Ganja believe it? The customer couldn't when their box went up in smoke * India seeks Artificial Wisdom and plans city-scale digital twin Calls for collaborators willing to play buzzword bingo on project – 5G, IoT, AI, AR/VR, blockhain, Web3, and plenty more besides * India won't become a semiconductor superpower anytime soon, says think tank $10 billion subsidies predicted to deliver just five modest fabs by 2029 Security * Feds post $15 million bounty for info on ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware crew ALSO: EncroChat crims still getting busted; ransomware takes down CO public defenders office; and crit vulns * How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites We speak to professor who with colleagues tooled up OpenAI's GPT-4 and other neural nets * Google open sources file-identifying Magika AI for malware hunters and others Cool, but it's 2024 – needs more hype, hand wringing, and flashy staged demos to be proper ML * Zeus, IcedID malware kingpin faces 40 years in slammer Nearly a decade on the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List after getting banks to empty vics' accounts * Cutting kids off from the dark web – the solution can only ever be social Expert weighs in after Brianna Ghey murder amid worrying rates of child cybercrime Software * FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too Fakers face the wrath of Khan * Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? But where's the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying? * Nginx web server forked as Freenginx to escape corporate overlords Project hails from its original motherland of Russia * Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too * Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner The lessons of yesteryear's OS are getting lost in translation * Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union iBiz expresses regret for the impact of its entirely avoidable decision Offbeat * Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G One giant leap for astronaut medicine * OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped 121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once * NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: