Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble [Fri Mar 15 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 15 March 2024 ***************************************************************** Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Here's another thing AI can do: Spark a boom in edge infrastructure spending IDC forecasts spend to grow 15.4% in 2024 to $232B – then add another $100B in three years * SAP accused of age discrimination, retaliation by US whistleblower Complainant moved to 'retire in place' role after Sarbanes Oxley Act report, filing alleges On-Prem * NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs * Intel's $699 Core i9-14900KS turbos to 6.2GHz – assuming you can keep it cool If you can live with a measely 6GHz the standard i9 is a $110 cheaper * Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it * Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok SteveTok? TikMnuch? * Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams Australian minister singles out Meta – where Zuck has 600,000 Nvidia GPUs ready to roll * South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites Plans to digitally transform trees * US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks Security * Forget TikTok – Chinese spies want to steal IP by backdooring digital locks Uncle Sam can use this snooping tool, too, but that's beside the point * FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement Imagine trying to trick folks into buying $500 of unnecessary repairs – and they turn out to be federal agents * LockBit ransomware kingpin gets 4 years behind bars Canadian-Russian said to have turned to a life of cybercrime during pandemic, now must pay the price – literally * Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people's data Zut alors! Department for registering and helping unemployed people broken into * International effort to disrupt cybercrime moves into operational phase Will the WEF experiment work? * US to probe Change Healthcare's data protection standards as lawsuits mount Services slowly coming back online but providers still struggling Software * Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? * Google brains plumb depths of the uncanny valley with latest image-to-video tool VLOGGER needs just a still photo and an audio recording to generate footage, but it's far from perfect * Developers beware, Microsoft's domain shakeup is coming soon If you don't pay attention, your lovely little Teams app will stop working * AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers We thought everyone was thrilled about being spied on and having their jobs taken by bots * Exchange Online blocked from sending email to AOL and Yahoo Microsoft IP addresses on the spam naughty step * Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS Thanks to Europe forcing Apple to offer a browser choice screen. Now, about ditching WebKit ... * Microsoft forges One Teams App To Rule Them All Windows preview delivers one app to handle multiple accounts, boosts Copilot's capabilities Offbeat * Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source * Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship Booster hit the water hard and monster rocket lost during re-entry, but otherwise a success! * Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers * Korea's SK Innovation liquidates Chinese battery subsidiary The Chaebol that also runs chipmaker SK hynix lacks energy to run multiple middle kingdom entities ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: