Intern with superuser access 'promoted' himself to CEO [Tue Mar 12 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 12 March 2024 ***************************************************************** Intern with superuser access 'promoted' himself to CEO Older and wiser colleagues couldn’t see the funny side ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content On-Prem * Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction No more creepy snooping? Be my guest * Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit Time to start spamming those reposts: Top users are getting early access to 1.76 million shares * European Commission infringed data protection law with Microsoft 365 Commission has until December 9, 2024, to put its house in order Security * White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers' pain US senator calls cyber attack 'inexcusable,' calls for mandatory security rules * Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems Don't worry, we have a strong suspicion Putin's still gonna win * British Library pushes the cloud button, says legacy IT estate cause of hefty rebuild Five months in and the mammoth post-ransomware recovery has barely begun * How do you lot feel about Pay or say OK to ads model, asks ICO And does it count as consent? * Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability PLUS: NSA shares cloud security tips; Infosec training for Jordanian women; Critical vulnerabilities Software * GPT-4 won't run DOOM but will play the game poorly And perhaps we should be worried that this model is happy to grab a gun and start blasting, says Microsoft bod * Filing NeMo: Nvidia's AI framework hit with copyright lawsuit Claims allegedly pirated content from Books3 dataset trawled by its models * Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0 It fell through a timewarp from an alternate and very different computing universe * PlanetScale ends free tier bid, sheds staff in profitability bid CEO defends decision in difficult tech market * AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide * Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system Good news, everyone! The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones. * How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not * Intern with superuser access 'promoted' himself to CEO Older and wiser colleagues couldn’t see the funny side * China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too * OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW Offbeat * Stratolaunch's air-launched test vehicle hits supersonic speed TA-1 test ticks off all the primary objectives, but hypersonic flight will have to wait * Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident Plus: Pilots on Lion Air’s Batik fall asleep and miss Jakarta * Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery Water? Like from the toilet? * UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers Damage to DNA, mutations, uncontrolled cell division and malignancy. Is space tourism worth the risk? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: