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16 October 2023

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance Nobody minded for 20 years or so, until another student took action

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Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion

Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation

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A Day in the Life of DevOps Engineer and Security Analysts This webinar is part of Snyk's DevSecOps Masterclass

2022 State of DevOps Report Analyst Report

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India drops plan to place PCs on restricted import list

PLUS: TSMC chips away at export restrictions; Singapore's COVID model challenged; Japan's banking and ID systems wobble

Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder's daughter was killed in festival massacre

And engineer and girlfriend among those held hostage by Hamas

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Canon claims its nanoimprint litho machines capable of 5nm chip production

Probably not a threat to ASML's EUV tech just yet, analyst tells El Reg

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Biden hopes to squeeze loopholes to slow China's devouring of US AI chips

Won't stop supply of nerfed export-friendly accelerators

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Nvidia's accelerated cadence spells trouble for AMD and Intel's AI aspirations

Or it could, just as soon as they figure out how to make the networking work

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UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy

Crumbs compared to the billions thrown about in US and Europe

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UK government embarks on bargain bin hunt for AI policy wonk

Con: You won't get a Menlo Park salary. Pro: You won't have to meet Zuck

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Nutanix, Cisco say buyers will get the best of them both

There's enough overlap that the deal works already. Next: cloud networks and maybe a storage push

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Qualcomm to shed over 1,000 staff in California, plus some Brits, starting in December

Vice-presidents, engineers among those scheduled to have a rotten Christmas

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Samsung nabs contract to produce 3nm server chips for mystery US biz

Parts reportedly geared toward high-performance compute and leverage advanced packaging

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Weather Simulation Can Outpace Moore’s Law With An Ai Boost Whitepaper

Security

530K people's info feared stolen from cloud PC gaming biz Shadow

Will players press start to continue with this outfit?

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Thwarted ransomware raid targeting WS_FTP servers demanded just 0.018 BTC

Early attempt to exploit latest Progress Software bug spotted in the wild

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Calls for Visual Studio security tweak fall on deaf ears despite one-click RCE exploit

Two years on and Microsoft refuses to address the issue

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Building, Training, and Optimizing Models on the HPE Machine Learning Development System

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Software

How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work

Check for 'cr' bubble in pictures if your app supports it, or look in the metadata if it hasn't been stripped, or...

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Microsoft ends its week on a high – after a trying time with tax bills and Copilot costs

Bit of a Blizzard of news for Redmond

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Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build

The bull has escaped Minos' labyrinth, and El Reg follows the thread

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MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall

Strategic DBaaS and distributed back end jettisoned after years of promotion

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GNOME developer proposes removing the X11 session

The suggested change is the first step in desktop environment becoming Wayland-only

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Brit watchdog slams Microsoft as it clears $69B Activision Blizzard buy

'Tactics employed by Microsoft are no way to engage with us'

15 Comments

Gas supplier blames 'rogue' code for Channel Island outage

CEO claims bug had millions-to-one chance of disrupting supply – but it did

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Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

Nobody minded for 20 years or so, until another student took action

149 Comments

Special Features

Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs

Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices

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EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states

What could possibly go wrong?

28 Comments

Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge

68 Comments

Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach

Not quite a pound for every one of the 13.8 million affected UK citizens, and it could have been more

10 Comments

Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance

They know they're being watched and don't mind - maybe because Beijing says it improves safety

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Offbeat

Three dozen plaintiffs join Apple AirTag tracking lawsuit in amended complaint

38 people now accusing Apple of negligence over stalking, assaults and murders enabled by Bluetooth trackers

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BOFH: We've made a big mesh, Boss. That's what you wanted, right?

The signal is strongest in the pub...

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NASA reschedules Boeing's first crewed Starliner flight for mid-April 2024

Given they're still trying to fix the capsule's parachute the astronauts better say their prayers

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Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance [Mon Oct 16 2023]

{* Daily Headlines *}

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

Off-Prem

Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion

A Day in the Life of DevOps Engineer and Security Analysts

2022 State of DevOps Report

On-Prem

India drops plan to place PCs on restricted import list

Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder's daughter was killed in festival massacre

Canon claims its nanoimprint litho machines capable of 5nm chip production

Biden hopes to squeeze loopholes to slow China's devouring of US AI chips

Nvidia's accelerated cadence spells trouble for AMD and Intel's AI aspirations

UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy

UK government embarks on bargain bin hunt for AI policy wonk

Nutanix, Cisco say buyers will get the best of them both

Qualcomm to shed over 1,000 staff in California, plus some Brits, starting in December

Samsung nabs contract to produce 3nm server chips for mystery US biz

Want the latest intel on AI infrastructure?

Weather Simulation Can Outpace Moore’s Law With An Ai Boost

Security

530K people's info feared stolen from cloud PC gaming biz Shadow

Thwarted ransomware raid targeting WS_FTP servers demanded just 0.018 BTC

Calls for Visual Studio security tweak fall on deaf ears despite one-click RCE exploit

Building, Training, and Optimizing Models on the HPE Machine Learning Development System

Software

How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work

Microsoft ends its week on a high – after a trying time with tax bills and Copilot costs

Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build

MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall

GNOME developer proposes removing the X11 session

Brit watchdog slams Microsoft as it clears $69B Activision Blizzard buy

Gas supplier blames 'rogue' code for Channel Island outage

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

Special Features

Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs

EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states

Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?

Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach

Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance

Offbeat

Three dozen plaintiffs join Apple AirTag tracking lawsuit in amended complaint

BOFH: We've made a big mesh, Boss. That's what you wanted, right?

NASA reschedules Boeing's first crewed Starliner flight for mid-April 2024

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