The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready? [Thu Mar 14 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 14 March 2024 ***************************************************************** The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready? Microsoft prepares to replace an old faithful with something shiny, new, and lacking key features. Sound familiar? ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators * Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised On-Prem * From quantum AI to photonics, what OpenAI’s latest hire tells us about its future What's good for quantum optimization could help make models leaner * First Armv9 automotive CPUs aim to power AI-enabled vehicles Vehicle electronics and software becoming ever more complex * Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant Plus: Trump reportedly gave chipmaker license to sell to Huawei back in the day... * Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips * Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession * Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC Language models are entirely happy on the desktop * Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings 100,000 Chinese drivers join queue just to check out the 'SU7' in a showroom * South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too * Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills Extra zeroes added to transaction values, just a handful of days before a payment deadline Security * Nissan to let 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis know their data was stolen in cyberattack Akira ransomware crooks brag of swiping thousands of ID documents during break-in * Poking holes in Google tech bagged bug hunters $10M A $2M drop from previous year. So … things are more secure? * Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff Automated AI helper intended to make security more manageable * Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months 27,000 individuals had data stolen, which for some included names and social security numbers Software * Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least * European Union lawmakers line up to defend world's first AI Act Rules were not bent for Big Tech, politicians say * New York Times: OpenAI’s claim we 'hacked' its products both 'irrelevant' and 'false' Media giant's counterfiling accuses AI darling of 'spin' in copyright infringement case * The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready? Microsoft prepares to replace an old faithful with something shiny, new, and lacking key features. Sound familiar? * Fedora 41's GNOME to go Wayland-only, says goodbye to X.org Don't worry, you can still put it back, but it's an accessibility snag * Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets * GitHub fixes pull request delay that derailed developers Went down yesterday, too, longer and harder. Maybe we should call it GitFlub? Offbeat * Cryptocurrency laundryman gets hung out to dry Bitcoin Fog washed hundreds of millions for criminals * Oracle AI buzz means Larry Ellison's worth $15B more today And here you were saying tech hadn't yet made a difference to someone special * Japan's first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX's giant explosions KAIROS detonated a few seconds after clearing the launchpad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: