Might Be Entertaining
A little refreshment, an interlude, if you will
Might Be Entertaining
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble
Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1K?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=top-article
* 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
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c2d?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* SAP accused of age discrimination, retaliation by US whistleblower
Complainant moved to 'retire in place' role after Sarbanes Oxley Act
report, filing alleges
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1z?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
On-Prem
* NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and
out-of-date supercomputers
Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c2h?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* 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
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c2b?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* 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
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c23?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying
TikTok
SteveTok? TikMnuch?
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1H?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* 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
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1s?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites
Plans to digitally transform trees
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1n?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* 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
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1k?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
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
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c2f?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* 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
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c29?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* 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
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c25?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people's
data
Zut alors! Department for registering and helping unemployed people
broken into
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1X?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* International effort to disrupt cybercrime moves into operational
phase
Will the WEF experiment work?
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1R?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* US to probe Change Healthcare's data protection standards as lawsuits
mount
Services slowly coming back online but providers still struggling
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1M?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
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?
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c21?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* 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
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1Z?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* Developers beware, Microsoft's domain shakeup is coming soon
If you don't pay attention, your lovely little Teams app will stop
working
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1P?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* 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
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1F?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* Exchange Online blocked from sending email to AOL and Yahoo
Microsoft IP addresses on the spam naughty step
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1D?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* 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 ...
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1x?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* Microsoft forges One Teams App To Rule Them All
Windows preview delivers one app to handle multiple accounts, boosts
Copilot's capabilities
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1v?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
Offbeat
* Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage
Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c27?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* 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!
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1U?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble
Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1K?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
* Korea's SK Innovation liquidates Chinese battery subsidiary
The Chaebol that also runs chipmaker SK hynix lacks energy to run
multiple middle kingdom entities
https://go.reg.cx/tdml/18dcb5/661c6dff/ff25ea81/4c1q?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article
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