news The Week’s top Headlines Friday January 19 alisa January 19, 2024 4 min read Hi tiatira com | Log in Table of Contents {* The Week's top Headlines *}WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused managerMusk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosionHow Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all oddsThe 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytesTesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVsYouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animusMicrosoft touts migration to Windows 11 as painless, though wallets may disagreePost Office boss unable to say when biz knew Horizon could be remotely alteredAt last: The BBC Micro you always wanted, in Mastodon formCan solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yetResearchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worseWill AI take our jobs? That's what everyone is talking about at Davos right nowFujitsu gets $1B market cap haircut after TV disaster drama airsTech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessingMicrosoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customersWhat makes a hard error hard? Microsoft vet tells allFujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closesIT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy securityJunior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situationWHITEPAPERSBreak free from endless upgrade cycles with Windows on AWSWAAP buying guide: End-to-end protection for Apps, APIs, and infrastructureHarnessing AI and Machine Learning to Improve Identity SecurityWAAP buying guide: End-to-end protection for Apps, APIs, and infrastructureRed Hat Enterprise Linux: $1.7 Trillion a Year Boost for Customers {* The Week's top Headlines *} 19 January 2024 WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager Who's going to complain about free labor? 146 Comments Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved the problem. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be 122 Comments How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch 117 Comments The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers …though bonkers conspiracies on solving date-field problem never died down 116 Comments 40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what's under the cobra's hood 77 Comments Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs Not all batteries like subzero temperatures 316 Comments YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus Slowdowns apparently due to a bug afflicting browser extensions, not retaliation against filters 92 Comments Microsoft touts migration to Windows 11 as painless, though wallets may disagree Millions have perfectly serviceable PCs running Windows 10 at home 78 Comments Post Office boss unable to say when biz knew Horizon could be remotely altered CEO stays tight-lipped in front of MPs while Fujitsu admits moral responsibility for compensation 122 Comments At last: The BBC Micro you always wanted, in Mastodon form 10 PRINT “Retro Awesome”:20 GOTO 10 49 Comments Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project 85 Comments Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study 93 Comments Will AI take our jobs? That's what everyone is talking about at Davos right now CEOs believe generative AI will make their companies more efficient, but more energy is needed to power the tech 53 Comments Fujitsu gets $1B market cap haircut after TV disaster drama airs UK political and media storm following dramatization of Post Office Horizon scandal 57 Comments Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing They paved paradise, put up grocery stores, bars, restaurants, hotels, hospitals … 30 Comments Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra 29 Comments What makes a hard error hard? Microsoft vet tells all A peek back at the wobbly Windows of yesteryear 5 Comments Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes Pause comes after controversial supplier wins another 9-figure deal paid for by taxpayers 11 Comments IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime 27 Comments Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation Disrespect for physics saw the datacenter, and a career, come tumbling down 32 Comments WHITEPAPERS Break free from endless upgrade cycles with Windows on AWS On-demand webinar WAAP buying guide: End-to-end protection for Apps, APIs, and infrastructure Ebook Harnessing AI and Machine Learning to Improve Identity Security An introduction to identity outliers and autonomous identity security WAAP buying guide: End-to-end protection for Apps, APIs, and infrastructure Ebook Red Hat Enterprise Linux: $1.7 Trillion a Year Boost for Customers White Paper This email was sent to gjjtuyu768@gmail.com You can update your preferences or unsubscribe Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2024 Situation Publishing. 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