City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout [Fri Apr 26 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 26 April 2024 ***************************************************************** City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns Talk about going round the (South) Bend * IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4B, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints On-Prem * Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls' Cash to go out as refunds to punters * ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts * FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead Law responds again to pings * TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 Watch out Intel ... Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming * City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place * SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech * Atos hopes for lifeline as refinancing saga set to drag on into May Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 results * Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents Security * Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal * Two cuffed in Samourai Wallet crypto dirty money sting Suspects in Portugal and the US said to have laundered over $100M * Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers Google security crew reveal ‘the four Ds’ to be on the watch for * Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank Software * What's up with Alphabet and Microsoft lately? Profits, sales – and AI costs If ML proves an expensive habit in future, these money printers won't have much to worry about ... probably * Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset Pulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company * Spotify claims Apple wants 'tax' for in-app pricing tweak App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules * Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst? * Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison The software redemption * Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble Tech giants confident everything's in order * BMW calls for vendor openness in quest to mine its own processes 'Software companies try to extend their reach and their usage, but this can't be by locking in users,' says process mining lead * Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters Offbeat * DARPA's latest toy is a 20-foot, 12-ton tank that drives itself Crew entirely optional * Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night What do we say to the God of Death? Not today ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: