Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8 million [Thu Feb 29 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 29 February 2024 ***************************************************************** Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8 million Stock awards front loaded, get five years in one go ***************************************************************** On-Prem * Chinese chip slinger found not guilty of stealing memory secrets from Micron Fujian Jinhua escapes prosecution tho remains on the US sanctions list * Chip fab supplier Applied Materials gets subpoenaed over China sales Comes after US probe into biz's dealings with SMIC * Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8 million Stock awards front loaded, get five years in one go * Atos confirms sale talks for datacenter and hosting biz have failed Czech billionaire buyer walks away from ailing Tech Foundations division * City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save 'bankrupt' council money * Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right * Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not, thankfully, its chainsaws Seminal game runs on everything, so why not pay €2,199 to run it on a tiny screen? * EU sanctions Indian tech outfit that has partnered with New Delhi's IT Ministry Si2 Microsystems was tapped for silicon photonics expertise, but has Russian ties that worry Washington and Brussels Security * ALPHV/BlackCat claims responsibility for Change Healthcare attack Brags it lifted 6TB of data, but let's remember these people are criminals and not worthy of much trust * Palo Alto investor sues over 28% share tumble Lawsuit alleges it misled investors with claims new AI products were 'facilitating greater platformization' and more * Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans' personal data Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals * That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow's probably going to try again Non-techies told to master firmware upgrades and firewall rules. For the infosec hardheads: have some IOCs Software * OpenAI sued, again, for scraping and replicating news stories The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet want damages and to have their content removed from models * BEAST AI needs just a minute of GPU time to make an LLM fly off the rails Talk about gone in 60 seconds * FOSS replacement for Partition Magic, Gparted 1.6 is here to save your data But beware – Gparted Live hasn't been updated yet * On-disk format change beckons for brave early adopters of Bcachefs New versions of both Overstreet's baby and OpenZFS will hit the street soon * Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral Cash-for-Azure-access deal went through just as latest LLM landed * Nvidia lures autonomous car boss from China's Baidu Jensen Huang's automotive engineering team has now pinched two top Middle Kingdom talents * Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly * OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT Super lab alleges 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed Offbeat * New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution * FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix serious safety shortcomings found in report Expert panel finds 'a lack of awareness of safety-related metrics at all levels,' and more, at plane maker * Nikola founder faces ranch forfeiture following fraud conviction Trevor Milton bought it for cash and stock options, and he wants the cash back ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: