Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home [Thu Nov 17 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 17 November 2022 ***************************************************************** Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home Divisive CEO becomes a prisoner of his own device ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Investor tells Google: Cut costs now and stop paying staff so much Also wants Alphabet to slash losses in Waymo division, buy back shares, lots of them * tsoHost pulls plug on Gridhost service with just 45 days' notice Company claims to have emailed customers repeatedly, but many say they didn't receive any * NHS tech chief dismisses concerns over loss of statutory power to protect patient data Outgoing CEO of NHS Digital says merger with NHS England is needed to 'provide clarity' in tech leadership On-Prem * Qualcomm teases custom Arm-compatible Oryon CPU cores designed by Nuvia Snapdragon giant flips off Softbank, promises processors within next two years * Micron double decimates production as sales stall DRAM and NAND wafer production cut 20% * Intel hit with $948.8 million VLSI infringement verdict Cascade Lake and Skylake prove even more expensive than expected * Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home Divisive CEO becomes a prisoner of his own device * Worried about your datacenter carbon footprint? Why not put it in orbit? No atmosphere to pollute, but who's going to go up and change that failed drive? * Croatian EV maker Rimac claims 412km/h speed record You can go (nearly) that fast too, if you have a spare €2 million lying around * NASA's Artemis mission finally launches after faulty Ethernet switch delayed countdown Should've used Fibre Channel, although some leaky valves didn't help either * Arm shells Qualcomm's Snapdragon launch party with latest salvo in license war Softbank's chip designer warns US giant may lose all of its CPU licenses at this rate Security * Iranian cyberspies exploited Log4j to break into a US govt network It's the gift to cybercriminals that keeps on giving * Germany says nein to Qatari World Cup spyware, err, apps Norway, France also sound data privacy alarms * WASP malware stings Python developers Info-stealing trojan hides in malicious PyPI packages on GitHub * Cloud vendors should take some responsibility for stolen compute, says Canalys CEO Crypto winter also attributed to semiconductor slumps in recent quarters * Swiss bankers warn: Three quarters of retail Bitcoin investors are in the red Little fish lured into the market help whales cash out Software * Open source community split over offer of 'corporate' welfare for critical dev tools Linux Foundation presents IT and help to key volunteers – and some wonder if this is a deal with the Devil * Tesla reports two more fatal Autopilot accidents to the NHTSA Not a great look for the electric car company as drivers urged to remain alert * Broadcom looks for EU approval of VMware takeover If antitrust regulators aren't happy, the deal won't go through Offbeat * Dell agrees to pay $1b to settle claims it shortchanged stockholders during EMC acquisition Drawing a line under the share swap drama of 2018, or trying to... * Spent Chinese Long 6A rocket spews over 50 pieces of space junk Tiangong, ISS, and SpaceX satellites will not be affected, according to China's Foreign Ministry * AI analysis of dinosaur tracks suggests 'predator' may have been a herbivore Human scientists can't agree, but computers … uh … find a way * After 47 years, Microsoft issues first sexual harassment and gender report Faint praise: Windows giant tries to follow best practices and wants to improve ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2022 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: