Cops turn LockBit ransomware gang's countdown timers against them [Wed Feb 21 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 21 February 2024 ***************************************************************** Cops turn LockBit ransomware gang's countdown timers against them Authorities dismantle cybercrime royalty by making mockery of their leak site ***************************************************************** On-Prem * Hackers mod a Sony PlayStation Portal to run PSP games Modders claim GTA: Liberty City Stories and Tekken 6 are running 'very smoothly' * Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and bosses' inability to tell them which offices are open * Italy's military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms * Persistent memory to replace DRAM, but it could take a decade Wham, bam, hello MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM * GlobalFoundries scores $1.5B in Uncle Sam's semiconductor subsidy bonanza Meanwhile, Intel looks set to bag more than $10B * Euro shoppers popping more and more premium phones in the basket Apple ousts Samsung as the people's choice in Q4, and the words 'refresh' and 'cycle' are whispered for 2024 * Europe's datacenter dilemma is that hyperscalers are hogging them all Space scarcity and soaring build costs send rent through the roof * Two days into the Digital Services Act, EU wields it to deepen TikTok probe Bloc isn't happy with made-in-China network's efforts to protect kids and data * Square Kilometre Array precursor looks to filter out satellite interference Starlink isn't the biggest problem, but increasing numbers of orbiting transmitters isn't helpful * Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database * Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can't fill the gap Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers Security * Singapore's monetary authority advises banks to get busy protecting against quantum decryption No time like the present, says central bank * Cops turn LockBit ransomware gang's countdown timers against them Authorities dismantle cybercrime royalty by making mockery of their leak site * Wyze admits 13,000 users could have viewed strangers' camera feeds Customers report feeling violated following the security snafu * Insider steals 79,000 email addresses at work to promote own business After saying they're very sorry, they escape with a slap on the wrist Software * Reported $60M Reddit deal signed to train AI models with user data Training machine learning on Redditors' musings - what could go wrong? * Top five reasons to move from CentOS to RHEL (according to Red Hat) Feeding IBM's bottom line not in the list * Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026 Venerable desktop publisher not going to get a Copilot any time soon * MariaDB receives offer to go private more than year after disastrous IPO $37.3M bid significantly down from SPAC flotation valued at $672M * Preview edition of Microsoft OS/2 2.0 surfaces on eBay Discounted from $2,600 down to just $650. What a bargain! * Legal campaigners challenge UK.gov decision to redact NHS-Palantir contract Federated Data Platform agreement merits pre-action letter from Good Law Project * Superapp Gojek fine-tunes each new error message for a week. What? Why? Multilingual service spans five nations and finds fancy graphics improve engagement Offbeat * Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed Brain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: