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Successful applicant must 'change existing thinking', which is odd as it's all been going so well up to now No 10 Downing Street - the home of the UK Prime Minister - is looking to hire a big cheese at the Brexit Opportunities Unit to bring a fresh new oomph and zing to Whitehall.…

Hear how real-world users have switched to DBaaS with the Nutanix Database Summit on-demand Promo If your organisation still relies on a creaking, legacy database, it’s not just your data administrators who are suffering.…

First 'AMpLe' concept proves worryingly simple to implement with success Researchers at the Ubiquitous System Security Lab of Zhejiang University and the University of Michigan's Security and Privacy Research Group say they've found a way to blind autonomous vehicles to obstacles using simple audio signals.…

How did I love thee? Let me count the email redirections Something for the Weekend, Sir? How many websites do I have? Go on, take a guess. Well done! You might be correct… or perhaps not. Honestly, I have no idea.…

Switchzilla adds 5G options to edge routers and gateways, bets you'd rather buy its kit than run multiple networks Cisco has announced industrial routers and internet gateways with baked in 5G as it tries to extend the enterprise network and SD-WAN to the edge.…

Choose Your Own On Call On Call You can never be sure who is on the other end of the on-call phone. It might be a minion... but sometimes it might be the master. Or maybe not.…

4000 service provider clouds are based on vSphere — now they’re all capable of running Kubernetes too VMware has shipped Tanzu Basic for service providers, making it possible to run Kubernetes on over 4000 clouds, and thereby given itself a better chance at having its containerised stack succeed.…

Plans to roll 1,000 of 'em off the production line in three years Chinese tech giant Baidu and state-owned BAIC Group's ARCFOX Brand have teamed to build 1000 autonomous electric vehicles (EVs) for use as taxis over the next three years — and claim they’ve cut manufacturing costs to just $75,000 apiece.…

Fragfest adds green blood, Azure cloud, shirts, and detailed rules about how to kill people politely to satisfy regulators PUBG, one of the highest-profile China-linked apps India banned in 2020, has been allowed back into Google’s Indian Play store despite India's previous insistence its bans are permanent.…

Huawei, Cisco, and Samsung caught out as US-based testing labs allegedly sent work to China South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has revoked safety certification for 1696 communications products after discovering that test results attesting to their safety were misrepresented.…

Heat and humidity are horrible, and your server can’t quaff a cocktail to cool off Singapore’s two major universities — Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) — have announced they are establishing a US$17.2M research program to develop data centre cooling tech that works in tropical environments.…

It'll be absolutely FABS-ulous, Wyden and Crapo promise US senators introduced a law bill on Thursday offering semiconductor manufacturers tax credits to encourage them to build more fabrication plants on American soil as well as specialized equipment for chips.…

Try it with phish'n'chips Google has proposed a framework called SLSA for dealing with supply chain attacks, a security risk exemplified by the recent compromise of the SolarWinds Orion IT monitoring platform.…

Follow this Plymouth to Plymouth trip online A 15-metre-long autonomous human-free ship has begun a 3,000-odd-mile trip from the UK to the US to recreate the historic Mayflower voyage of 1620.…

And did a code bug throw a spanner in the works for IRON investors? A cryptocurrency token called TITAN collapsed on Wednesday, going from about $60 apiece to near zero in a matter of hours. The sales frenzy, attributed to a sell-off driven by whales – people who hold large amounts of a cryptocurrency in this context – also destabilized a so-called stablecoin known as IRON.…

Privacy browser's former chief policy officer calls web advertising ecosystem 'the Biggest. Data. Breach. Ever' Former Brave chief policy officer Johnny Ryan is continuing his crusade against the online advertising industry by filing a lawsuit against Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and US telco AT&T in Germany.…

Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world' Grouchy former Pink Floyd bassist/vocalist Roger Waters launched an expletive-laden attack on human-impersonating Facebook CEObot Mark Zuckerberg after receiving a request from Instagram to use one of his songs in a promotional film.…

Google knows best Google's Chrome team has introduced projects to assist framework authors with what it considers best practice, starting mainly with the React-based Next.js.…

ISS solar array installation overran after a good old 'off and on again' There are two things a spacewalker doesn't want to hear: "Can you turn it off and turn it on again?" and "What's that hissing sound?"…

30kg stash lost overboard by smugglers enough to get anyone out of their shell A member of the newly inaugurated US Space Force discovered more than she bargained for as she conducted a survey of turtle nests on the coast around Cape Canaveral last month.…

Also touts sharded graph application running on 1,000 servers Neo4j has secured another $325m in a funding round and said it was ready to demo a distributed graph database with a trillion relationships, sharded across 1,000 servers, returning queries in a matter of milliseconds.…

Let's 'free up data for innovation and in the public interest,' says paper A UK government taskforce chaired by the architect of the disastrous £700m "one dole-to-rule-them-all" Universal Credit IT project, Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP, has published a wish list of regulatory proposals it wants to see adopted by a post-Brexit administration.…

Apple CEO stays on message during interview while Epic case rumbles along Tim Cook has claimed that proposed reforms to the App Store are "not in the best interests of the user" and would "destroy the security of the iPhone."…

Ubuntu fans report 404 errors amid 'space issues' TITSUP* Microsoft demonstrated its deep and meaningful affection for all things penguin overnight by borking packages.microsoft.com and leaving some Linux fans bereft of the company's wares.…

New 60 vCPU VMs come with some bold price-performance claims, but AMD needs to stay on its toes Google's cloud arm has hooked up with AMD, tapping up its latest EPYC processors for a new family of virtual machines, Tau VMs, aimed at scale-out applications - but the company isn't keen on tying itself down to just one chip-slinger.…

Glitch leaves punters unable to pay for their goods and services Opayo, the payment processor formerly known as Sage Pay, has not been having a great Thursday, as an unknown systems failure took its systems offline - preventing customers from accepting any payments.…

Though it's mostly just looking to make its cars safer, rather than hide them A team of researchers have detailed a range of techniques which they suggest could one day lead to a genuine cloak of invisibility - although, thanks to Toyota's involvement, they're looking to start by making the windscreen pillars disappear from your next car.…

Prototype system designed to uncover, say, coordinated bot accounts with bogus profile pictures Computer scientists have built prototype software capable of not only detecting fake images forged by neural networks but also estimating the properties of the model used to generate these so-called deepfakes.…

'I loved the idea of FrontPage, and learnt so much' confesses Utopia founder Looking for a design and coding tool for React? A new effort, Utopia, was released in alpha this week.…

So the National Audit Office found in report on the Office of Product Safety and Standards, anyway A report into the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has highlighted “gaps in regulators' powers”, with major risks found in oversight of online marketplaces, “smart” Internet of Things devices — and, oddly, artificial intelligence.…

Major banks, websites, gaming services, and more taken down A wide range of internet-connected services in Australia, including banking systems, are experiencing an outage – and it looks like a hiccup at Akamai was at the heart of the problem.…

To boldly zoom Stob Exterior: model shot. The Enterprise is seen parked above the equator of a planet. As usual, it is at a peculiar, inward-shifting angle relative to its background. It gives the impression that, far from being captured by gravitational pull, it can only sustain its orbit by continually bearing hard to the left, as though the modelmakers were unaware of the comparative scale of planets and spaceships.…

Gates did both jobs, Ballmer didn’t. And of course there’s a handbrake in the form of a new lead independent director Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been appointed Chair of the company’s board.…

Japan Supersonic Research wants to be in the air by 2030 Japan has a assembled a supergroup of aviation, industrial, and space organisations to build a supersonic passenger jet.…

Putin to Biden: чушь! You already attack us way more than we attack you! US President Joe Biden and his Russian Federation counterpart Vladimir Putin have traded barbs over cyber-attacks at a summit meeting staged yesterday in Switzerland.…

Seeks extra decision-making bandwidth “to lead next phase of growth” by appointing two co-chief operating officers Dell has appointed a new member of its senior leadership team: former Bain & Company director Chuck Whitten.…

Big tech and local authorities are both far from helpful when victims try to delete unauthorised images or prosecute creeps International non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday describing digital sex crime in South Korea as rampant and pervasive, with the nation leading the world in use of spycams to capture women in vulnerable moments. The author calls on governments and companies to do more.…

Report says robotic process automation to shrink headcount by 30 per cent and boost profits — yet the outsourcers keep talking about hiring sprees The Bank of America’s global research team has predicted that India’s IT outsourcers are planning three million job cuts by 2022, with "low-skill" humans to be replaced by robotic process automation.…

Just in case you travel back in time to 1998 The GEA/1 encryption algorithm used by GPRS phones in the 1990s was seemingly designed to be weaker than it appears to allow eavesdropping, according to European researchers.…

Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control? Amazon, which for years has struggled to curb fakery and fraud on its e-commerce platform, has blamed social media companies for undermining its integrity efforts.…

Fast forward your transition with this highly concentrated Nutanix Database Summit Promo If you are responsible for enterprise infrastructure, you should know that exploiting the hybrid cloud is not just an option but will very likely be a necessity over the next few years.…

Imagine the service ticket Computer scientists at NASA are trying to fix the Hubble Space Telescope’s payload computer after the hardware froze due to what's believed to be a degraded memory module.…

One of six guys charged over Infinera, Fortinet securities A teacher who knew too much about some of Silicon Valley's financial figures has been charged with insider dealing by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, along with five alleged accomplices.…

For those who like a bit of oomph under the bonnet Lenovo has spruced up a significant chunk of its workstation-class lineup with the ThinkPad P1, P15, and P17 all seeing significant upgrades.…

Jeff's younger brother and mystery hyper-rich paying passenger may end up as unfortunate collateral damage A campaign has been started on the Change.org petition website to prevent Amazon founder Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth after his upcoming jaunt into space on 20 July.…

Viasat's 'newfound environmentalism is belied by its actions at every turn' SpaceX has accused a satellite telecommunications rival of trying to a weaponise environmental legislation to hamper the expansion of its Starlink internet service.…

Spreadsheet breaks down spend on staving off future badness An organisation whose network was infected by Ryuk ransomware has spent $8.1m over seven months recovering from it – and that’s still not the end of it, according to US news reports.…

Like the massive ships with miniguns The UK is to splash £36m on 18 new vessels to help protect Royal Navy bases around Britain and Gibraltar.…

Scream if you wanna go raster: Vulnerability uncovered in unloved software As Microsoft preps the next version of Windows, a hole has been spotted in an earlier Great Hope for the company: MS Paint 3D.…

Along with a slew of other new features Systemd maintainer Lennart Poettering has committed code for RC1 including a huge number of new features.…