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Governments directly policing online content will put free speech at risk The UK government has dropped the requirement forcing social media companies to remove "legal but harmful" content from its Online Safety Bill, a week before the proposal is set to return to Parliament.…

Four participating banks, four cities, expansion to come The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced its first retail digital Rupee pilot will commence on December 1, 2022.…

Teams with locals to allow consistent security policy to make it through the Great Firewall Cloudflare has found a way to extend some of its services across the Great Firewall and into mainland China.…

Immersion has different problems: datacenters aren't strong enough to hold lots of liquids Datacenter giant Equinix knows it needs to offer liquid cooling to its clients, but is struggling to deliver because there are no standards for the design of servers.…

SEA-ME-WE-5 severed on land in Egypt Internet users across Asia appear to be suffering from degraded performance after a major submarine cable was severed.…

You might say they've Arm-ed their security suite for battle For years, Fortinet has leaned on its custom security and networking ASICs to compete against rival vendors like Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco in the firewall space.…

The kids aren't alright US legislation that aims to protect kids' online safety and data privacy will have "damaging unintended consequences for young people," according to more than 90 privacy and civil rights groups.…

ICON will have to figure out how to build a machine that uses lunar regolith and operates in lunar gravity NASA has awarded a $57.2 million contract to ICON, a Texan 3D-printing startup, to build "space-based construction systems" on the surface of the Moon.…

Move towards applications could bring cloud giant further into competition with its customers RE:INVENT AWS CEO Adam Selipsky promised a "zero ETL future" in his re:Invent keynote on Tuesday in Las Vegas, introducing new integration between the Redshift data warehouse service and the Aurora relational database service.…

PSA: Don't download unknown apps even if they promise naked people Malware-slinging miscreants are taking advantage of a trending TikTok challenge — and viewers' dirty minds — to spread data-stealing malware via a phony app that's had more than one million views so far.…

Millions of people who bought apps since 2016 eligible for payout A California judge has cleared the way for a potentially massive class-action lawsuit against Google, which stands accused - again - of anticompetitive practices surrounding its Play store.…

Work to with Uncle Sam? Then source your hardware outside of the Middle Kingdom Two top US Senators are pushing a proposal that would bar the federal government from working with companies that use semiconductors made by firms deemed to be Chinese military contractors. …

Army civilian employees, that is, but aerospace biz says it could be used in the private sector, too Locheed Martin has bagged a government contract to train 17,000 remote US Army civilian employees on security readiness, and wants to also extend the offer to private entities.…

'Experimental operating system' it may be, but it's still Unix/Linux-like If the words "experimental operating system" don't scare you off, Redox OS is an impressive demonstration of both homegrown OS development and the Rust language itself.…

CEO claims platform threatened with expulsion from App Store, asks if device maker hates free speech Apple is the new target of billionaire Elon Musk's ire after the Twitter owner and CEO outlined his frustrations with the company in a series of tweets about it stopping advertising on the platform and more.…

Want to kick the tires early? You'll have to ask for an invitiation AWS has announced its first virtual machine instances powered by Intel's "Sapphire Rapids" silicon despite the chipmaker telling the world just a few weeks ago that its fourth generation Xeon Scalable CPUs would launch in January.…

Sustainable aviation will require something lighter than batteries An aviation first has been reached in the UK, with Rolls-Royce and easyJet saying they have conducted the "world's first run of a modern aero engine on hydrogen." …

It's about small teams, microservices, bias towards serverless, and having the creator of Java on standby re:Invent How does AWS develop software? It is all about small teams, according to a low-key but revealing session at the re:Invent conference under way in Las Vegas.…

While Justin Zhu admits to micro-dosing, he alleges that his ethnicity was an issue for investors The co-founder and former CEO of marketing tech startup Iterable is suing the company and some of its backers, claiming that losing his job was less about micro-dosing LSD at work and more about racial discrimination.…

Make a big FOSS for Ubuntu Touch OTA-24, Mir 2.10, and the return of Unity on Arch Linux Various parts of Ubuntu's cancelled desktop/fondleslab convergence project are all still ticking away – some officially and some thanks to user communities.…

Space agency releases report alleging falsified data, researchers who weren’t there, and improper data management The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released details of an investigation that alleged the results of an experiment simulating life on board the International Space Station were fabricated with large amounts of altered data.…

Workers ignoring calls to get back in swivel chair. Plus: more UK orgs sign up for 4-day work week Workers are now simply ignoring executive mandates to return to the office, according to a recent report that suggested employers should focus on "reducing ill-being" rather than "improving wellbeing" among staff.…

Cost of Living Pay Rise due in January, if unionised workers vote for it in consultative ballot BT has offered the majority of its workforce a "Cost of Living Pay Rise" in the hope it settles long-running industrial action that saw thousands of engineers and call center personnel repeatedly down tools in recent months.…

The RansomBoggs campaign is the Russia-linked group’s latest assault on the smaller country The Russian criminal crew Sandworm is launching another attack against organizations in Ukraine, using a ransomware that analysts at Slovakian software company ESET are calling RansomBoggs.…

Decision is unrelated to recent crypto crashes, presages pivot to some kind of tokenised chat Popular Japanese messaging app Line on Monday announced the closure of its US cryptocurrency exchange business, Bitfront, citing an increased focus on blockchain-related business.…

iCAD will have five years to bring a product to market Google has licensed its AI breast cancer screening model to a commercial medical technology company, paving the way for the system developed by researchers to be tested in real clinical settings for the first time.…

'Scalable Reliable Datagram' uses multi-path topography to smoke TCP Amazon Web Services has introduced a CPU customized for high-performance computing, an updated Nitro system capable of handling more traffic, and a network protocol that can make both sing.…

$155,000-a-month lifestyle ends in cuffs for suspected crim Europol has arrested hundreds of fraudsters, money launderers and cocaine kingpins, and shut down thousands of websites selling pirated and counterfeit products in a series of raids over the past month.…

Like Clippy, but for snacks, booze, and cigarettes Lawson, a Japan-based chain of convenience stores with 17,600 outlets – 14,000 of them in the land of the Rising Sun – has opened its first store staffed almost entirely by avatars.…

Tiangong's population to double for a week after very, very, long commute, if rare very cold launch succeeds China's Tiangong space station will host six taikonauts for the first time, after a fresh crew reaches the orbital habitat this week.…

Maybe – just maybe – messages and calls from +91 might become more trustworthy India's Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has announced a fresh crackdown on TXT spam – this time using artificial intelligence, after a previous blockchain-powered effort delivered mixed results.…

Elon Musk meanwhile muses whether Apple 'hate[s] free speech in America' because the company mostly stopped advertising on Twitter Twitter over the weekend was flooded with spam and suggestive ads in what appears to be an attempt to help the Chinese government hide news about rioters protesting coronavirus restrictions in China.…

x86 giant says it will tweak spending for Ohio, Germany plants based on ‘market needs’ Intel said it will continue building new chip manufacturing plants in the West despite a shrinking global economy because it's important to diversify supply chains and expand capacity for when it expects semiconductor demand to rebound.…

Company accused of allowing landlords to collude and artificially inflate rental prices AI rent-pricing software biz, RealPage, is reportedly being investigated by the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division over claims its algorithms allow landlords to collude with another to inflate prices.…

Pioneer Amazon union gets a boost, staffer still get the sack A federal judge has told Amazon to stop firing employees for engaging in protected activity at JFK8, the Staten Island distribution center that was the company's first - and so far only - to unionize. …

The US chip war on China could give India’s chip-making dreams a boost India's first chip manufacturing plant should start construction in February of next year as part of the country's drive to become a bigger semiconductor hub.…

Crypto lending biz wants its money back "as promptly as practicable" Crypto lending firm Block Fi declared bankruptcy on Monday, citing the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. and affiliates two weeks ago.…

Irish eyes aren't smiling Ireland's data privacy agency today said it fined Meta €265 million ($275 million) for failing to protect users' data after millions of Facebook users' phone numbers and other private info was given away online for free. …

That basically means more HO returned to the environment than is supplied AWS has joined the ranks of tech companies making commitments to become "water positive" – meaning they aim to return more precious HO to communities than is consumed in business operations.…

If we're going to go beyond the Moon, we'll need food, a way to build stuff, and health diagnostic technology SpaceX's 26th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station arrived this weekend, bringing with it a bundle of scientific experiments to further prepare humans for life beyond Earth.…

Turing Award winner who helped spread the eight-bit byte Obit Dr Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr, leader of IBM's OS/360 project and the man chiefly responsible for the prevalence of the eight-bit byte, has died at the age of 91.…

Microsoft outlines a workaround while pulling together a fix to LSASS memory leak Updates to Windows Server released as part of this month's Patch Tuesday onslaught might cause some domain controllers to stop working or automatically restart, according to Microsoft.…

Meanwhile reports say more ad buyers are staying away Call it blind optimism, deployment of a reality distortion field or pure conviction that Twitter will ultimately flourish, but Elon Musk reckons his social media platform will have 1 billion monthly users within 18 months.…

Nine Chinese semiconductor companies have had IPO applications approved The US battle to halt China's growing semiconductor industry is having an effect, but risks hurting Western industries as well. Meanwhile, China is fighting back with new investments aimed at making its own industries more self-sufficient.…

You gotta fight... for your right... to not be an idiot "Fun" may not be a word many associate with the IT coalface but in the glamorous world of consulting it is mandatory, according to French court papers that absolve an employee of being an alleged party pooper.…

Manipulating users' feelings on a social media platform? That's our job! Meta scored a default judgment last week against a Belarusian developer who was alleged to have used a network of bots and Instagram accounts he controlled to deliver millions of automated likes to his customers' accounts.…

Decimeter-level uncertainty, sub-nanosecond time synchronization – but what happens when there's no signal? A recently published research paper proposes a system for terrestrial positioning that could give greater accuracy than the existing satellite-based systems, and could potentially be incorporated into future mobile networks.…

QC: Still not actually useful, but it's increasingly intriguing Opinion The UK's national broadcaster, the BBC, its R&D team and its entire 100-year, 15 million item archive are part of a new consortium investigating QNLP, Quantum Natural Language Processing, with the ultimate aim of automating the extraction of meaning from humanity's babble.…

Inkjet is the future, claims Japanese printer maker Japanese electronics and printer maker Epson announced this month that it will end the sale and distribution of laser printer hardware by 2026, citing sustainability issues.…

LiDAR, AI and sensors manage millions of plants, and have greatly reduced accidents Singapore is obsessed with trees. The island nation, population 5.45 million people, is home to around seven million trees – and manages many of them with an enormous Internet of Things monitoring scheme.…