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Hi The Register Subscriber | Log in {* Daily Headlines *} 20 January 2023 If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it's not a ransom note, it's a security improvement It’s not Google's plan. There’s no way it’s Google's plan. It was Google's plan OFF-PREM Oh dear, AWS. Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality Bit factory giants see sales slimming in economically challenged times, party still far from over 20 Comments What's driving multicloud? War, regulation, plague, says Acronis CEO All y'all want data near you, but that doesn't mean you're going back on prem 2 Comments Observability from Code to Cloud Whitepaper How to find and fix the weakest points in your cybersecurity Identify and remediate the risks of human error in your digital defences ON-PREM We blew too much money hiring like crazy so we gave you the boot – Amazon Meanwhile, layoffs continue at Twitter, Meta, WeWork, many others 2 Comments Activision prevails as court tosses 'frat house' culture lawsuit Investors use up all their continues, game over 1 Comments Warehouse safety citations could cost Amazon seconds in revenue That'll definitely teach them to look out for their workers 1 Comments Nuclear-powered datacenter throws open doors to tenants this year Hit up Cumulus Data if you want your racks running on low-cost, zero-carbon energy 6 Comments LUMI supercomputer puts GPU partition through its paces with hardcore science Simulates the Sun's atmosphere, peers deep into Earth's interior, and can probably run Crysis 6 Comments Intel, AMD just created a headache for datacenters Server silos didn't see today's watt-gobbling, space-heater chips coming 17 Comments Time to buy a phone as shops use discounts to clear out inventories More stock is NOT wanted as shipments plunge to lowest point in decade, Apple floats to top 36 Comments If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it's not a ransom note, it's a security improvement It’s not Google's plan. There’s no way it’s Google's plan. It was Google's plan 74 Comments Like Uber, but for China: Beijing creates state-owned meta rideshare service Private services smeared for 'disorderly expansion and data security problems' 6 Comments FTX audit finds $415m in crypto mysteriously vanished Meanwhile SBF proclaims he's both innocent and solvent 37 Comments As if Elon didn't have enough problems – Twitter sued over leaky servers Damages and security improvements? Or maybe settle for a neon bird light 5 Comments Ransomware Defense and Remediation With Pure Storage Whitepaper Use the Power of the Cloud to Keep Your Data Safe from Ransomware Sponsored by Rubrik SECURITY PayPal says crooks poked around 35,000 accounts in credential stuffing attack That passwordless option is looking really good right about now 3 Comments Finally, ransomware victims are refusing to pay up Near 50% drop in extorted dosh ... or so it says here 4 Comments University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok Great, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work 15 Comments Mailchimp 'fesses up to second digital burglary in five months Social engineering helped intruders break into customers' inboxes again 7 Comments Ransomware severs 1,000 ships from on-shore servers Get your eyepatch out: Cyber attacks on the high seas are trending 8 Comments Trade toil for innovation: IT leaders’ guide to leveling-up your infrastructure eBook SOFTWARE Arca Noae is modernizing OS/2 Warp for 21st century PCs Lewis Rosenthal talks about why some companies still need to run OS/2 today – including on UEFI and GPT hardware 9 Comments Six years later, HPE and Oracle quietly shut door on Solaris lawsuit Bunfight over support for proprietary Unix operating system ends with a confidential whimper 1 Comments Adobe: Take user data to train generative AI models? We'd never do that Controversial policy change forces chief product officer to speak out 10 Comments Indian official reveals 'plan' to build a national mobile OS History tells us it will flop. But success might not be the real goal, so much as poking Big Tech 28 Comments Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories Worse still, human editors appear not to have caught the mistakes 39 Comments Azure Stack HCI gets extra protection with 'long-requested feature' Kerberos support in WAC and a host of other goodies also added 1 Comments OFFBEAT Punch-drunk Apple Watch called 15 cops to a boxing workout when it heard 'shots' Hey Siri, did you know know that swatting is a bug, not a feature? 26 Comments