If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? [Thu Apr 25 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 25 April 2024 ***************************************************************** If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison On-Prem * Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks * Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y'all buying it this time, too? * Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done' * Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop The SODIMM replacement finally arrives * US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone else * Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street * European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval * Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators * China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines * Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA! * US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics Security * Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too * Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers? Secure-by-default... if your pockets are deep enough * Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability * Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities * US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies Their holiday options are now far more restricted * If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all Software * With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs * Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything * Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again' And you thought the Bing begging was annoying * Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing' * Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape * Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors * Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles Offbeat * Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares * Strong electric car sales expected for 2024, but charging grid needs work International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: