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Mike Lynch extradition: Uncle Sam offered Autonomy founder $10m bail if he stood trial in the US
Plus: Verdict will be delayed for High Court to pass judgment on HPE civil case The US offered to let Autonomy founder Mike Lynch out on bail if he traveled to America to face criminal charges over the $8.8bn writedown of his company after its buyout by HPE – provided he stumped up $10m as bond.…
Micro Focus reports 10% revenue slide, multibillion-dollar impairment charges, but investors give the thumbs-up
Share price rises after no-surprises 2020 prelims announced, CEO says 3-year turnaround doing OK Investors hate surprises. There were, however, no hidden nasties in Micro Focus's preliminary financial results for fiscal 2020 outlined today as the collection of fragmented legacy software assets crossed off year one of its 36-month turnaround strategy.…
Salesforce likes to play the diversity nice guy in public – Black ex-employee claims the reality is quite different
Resignation letter posted to LinkedIn accuses cloudy CRM biz of 'countless micro-aggressions and inequity' A Black former Salesforce employee has accused the global CRM software company of "countless micro-aggressions and inequity".…
Google OS, phone home: Leaked Android 12 screenshots suggest new design, privacy features
Widgets tie in with promise to 'elevate people and conversations in the system surfaces' Early Android 12 screenshots leaked yesterday on XDA have revealed what looks like a major design refresh and new privacy features, though they are unofficial and we cannot guarantee their authenticity.…
Just 2020 things: Miscreants hit remote desktops 700% harder as world's IT teams try to support locked-down staff
Bar the doors lest you get targeted Online criminals have increasingly targeted Remote Desktop Protocol connections over the past year, according to infosec biz ESET.…
Harmed by a decision made by a poorly trained AI? You should be able to sue for damages, says law prof
Let a thousand torts bloom Companies deploying machine-learning systems trained on subpar datasets should be legally obligated to pay damages to victims that have been harmed by the technology under tort law, a law professor has opined.…
CD Projekt Red 'EPICALLY pwned': Cyberpunk 2077 dev publishes ransom note after company systems encrypted
Hackers threaten to release source and docs, but games giant isn't playing ball CD Projekt Red, the Polish developer of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, has disclosed a major security incident in which several company systems were encrypted and confidential data stolen.…
Minister tells the House of Lords it'll be another 12 weeks before UK's deleted criminal records can be restored
99.5% were from before 2011 – so that's OK Data lost because of a scripting error introduced to the UK's Police National Computer (PNC) in November will take another 12 weeks to recover, according to a statement in Parliament.…
Openreach engineers vote to strike amid changes to job grading structure
Overwhelming majority stand up to down tools, BT has days to meet with Communication Workers Union The clock is ticking for BT top brass to meet with the Communications Workers Union (CWU) after repayment project engineers (RPE) in the Openreach division voted for industrial action over a new grading structure.…
A Microsoft bork at the heart of The Oracle? Whatever next?
Going shopping? Hope your pockets are deep enough Bork!Bork!Bork! The enmity between Microsoft and Oracle is the stuff of legend, but it appears The Beast of Redmond may have had the last laugh, at least over its namesake.…
Faced with the sack, Nominet CEO half-apologizes for taking the 'wrong tone,' asks angry members to hear him out
Campaign to oust him and 'carpetbagger' board picks up speed CEO of .uk registry operator Nominet has pleaded with the organisation’s members to hear him out before they consider backing a campaign to fire both him and other non-elected members of the board.…
Ignore that ransomware demand and restore from backup – well... if only it were that easy
Do you really think your safe copies aren’t top of the cyber-crims' hit list? Webcast Ransomware is one of the most insidious forms of cyber-attack, not least because it presents you with a range of highly unpleasant options.…
This Brit biz's seven-screen laptop is something to behold
You read that right. A laptop with seven screens. Plus eight i9 cores, 64GB of RAM, four disks and three NICs An outfit in London, UK, called Expanscape has said it has received a surge in interest in its prototype laptop that sports seven screens.…
Choc horror: The UK's Information Commisioner probes its own mammoth £6,248 Hotel Chocolat spend
Oooh, you're so fancy, Commish! The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has begun a probe of a £6,248 spent on Hotel Chocolat via a corporate charge card made in the days leading up to Christmas, which may have broken internal rules.…
India lifts 550-day Kashmir internet ban, tries to impose new Twitter ban
Twitter flaps about between the law and the right to free speech 4G and wired internet services have been restored to Jammu and Kashmir, the Muslim-majority Indian State that it stripped of semi-autonomous status in 2019.…
‘Quad’ nations sign up for meta think-tank to advance ‘Techno-Democratic Statecraft’
As China bristles, USA, Japan, India, and Australia create forum to explore the intersection of tech and regional security Universities and think tanks from Australia, the USA, Japan, and India have come together in a new group that together hopes to advance discussions on the intersection of information technology, regional security, and internet freedom.…
Web prank horror: Man shot dead while pretending to rob someone at knife-point for a YouTube video
Shooter says he acted in self-defense Nashville Metropolitan Police in Tennessee said on Saturday that detectives are investigating the shooting death of Timothy Wilks, 20. The incident occurred during the filming of a video for the internet in the parking lot of Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park, a family entertainment business.…
US govt drops challenge to California’s net neutrality law, signals shift to once again safeguard connections
New FCC boss Rosenworcel makes it plain she will bring back protections The US Department of Justice has dropped its lawsuit against California’s net neutrality law.…
Linode ponders adding Windows servers to its fluffy clouds of Linux-only boxen
Customers are asking and so spreadsheets are being compiled Exclusive Cloud contender Linode is having a serious think about offering Windows servers, a decision that would change its long-held stance of only renting Linux systems.…
Someone tried to poison a Florida city by hijacking its water treatment plant via TeamViewer, says sheriff
Attempt to flood supply with sodium hydroxide thwarted, safeguards would have kicked in anyway, we're told The sheriff of a small city in Florida warned on Monday that hackers had tried to poison its water.…
Bitcoin surges, exchanges flooded after Tesla says it bought $1.5bn in BTC, hopes to accept it as payment soon
Musk continues public love affair with cryptocurrencies Tesla has plowed $1.5bn (£1.1bn) into buying up Bitcoin, and expects to start accepting the cryptocurrency as a form of payment in the future, it announced on Monday.…
Barcode scan app amassed millions of downloads before weird update starting popping open webpages...
Android software kicked out of Google Play Store, may still be active on many handhelds Barcode Scanner, a popular Android app, slipped undesirable code into an update in early December, an update that had the potential to reach more than 10m devices though actual distribution is believed to be far less.…
SoftBank likens itself to a goose laying 'golden eggs' as Vision Fund boasts best results since 2017
What would that make WeWork then? SoftBank's Vision Fund, the investment vehicle behind Uber and WeWork, is riding high-flying technology stock, posting its biggest profit for years.…
After 7 months and 500 million kilometres, the Emirates Mars Mission has to endure 27 nail-biting minutes of engine burn
Only then will it be known if the UAE's Hope probe was a success The United Arab Emirates' "Hope" probe is due to reach Mars orbit tomorrow (9 February) and give engineers and scientists their very own 27 minutes of tension.…
Terraria dev cancels Stadia port after Google disabled his email account for three weeks
Frustration with bot-like support leads to cancellation of popular game What do you do if Google disables your cloud life? Andrew Spinks, co-author of the Terraria game and president of Re-Logic Games, does not know either, but has declared Google "a liability" and cancelled the port of Terraria to its Stadia platform.…
Foundation thrillogy: Rust programming language gets new home and million-dollar spending account
Mozilla moves Rust under a non-profit foundation Almost six years after it debuted, the Rust programming language is moving out of the Mozilla's house into a foundation of its own.…
EncroChat hack case: RAM, bam... what? Data in transit is data at rest, rules UK Court of Appeal
That's the Snoopers' Charter in action for you British prosecutors can make use of evidence gathered by the French and Dutch police from encrypted messaging service Encrochat’s servers thanks to a legal interpretation of whether RAM counts as data storage, the Court of Appeal has ruled.…
The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now?
Project will share more resources with Fedora and use a single login The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again.…
Xiaomi a Snapdragon 888 flagship for €749: Yep, the Mi 11 is rolling out to world outside China
Hits UK shops in March Xiaomi has launched its first flagship blower of 2021 for the global market: the Xiaomi Mi 11, competing directly with the Galaxy S21, which has a slower processor and smaller screen.…
Square Kilometre Array Observatory has a council now, so building super-sensitive €1.3bn telescope is next on agenda
But then there's the issue of mega-constellations to contend with The long-awaited Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) has continued its march to reality with the launch of an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to radio astronomy.…
You'd have told them they should have used Apple/Google app model, right? NHSX seeks willing humans to fill health tech and data roles
£93k should help interested parties stomach challenge amid tumultuous change England's NHS has advertised for two top tech jobs as the service struggles with an ongoing pandemic, a supposed digital transformation, and imminent central government reform.…
Humble Apple Pie: Cupertino sweetens pot to get its DTK prototype machines returned after developer backlash
Tosses in extra cash 'to recognize the tremendous effort ... put into creating amazing universal apps' Hell hath no fury like a code monkey scorned. Don't believe us? Just ask Apple, which has been forced to dramatically improve the incentive offered to convince its Developer Transition Kit (DTK) users to return the prototype machines.…
Don't scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images
Plus: Check if your Flickr photos are in facial recognition engines and and the list of NSFW words for AI Canada’s privacy watchdog has found Clearview AI in “clear violation” of the country’s privacy laws, and has told the facial-recognition startup to stop scraping images of Canadians and delete all existing photos it has on those citizens.…
Windows' cloudy future: That Chrome OS advantage is Google's to lose
The locked-down world and their Chromebook would like a word... Column Microsoft has changed a lot since Steve Ballmer left. It's hard to imagine Satya Nadella fostering an environment where workers felt they had to hide their iPhones for fear of enraging the boss. Microsoft is contributing so much to open source now it almost feels unfair to mention that Ballmer called open source "cancer". Almost.…
UK college courses show decade-long surging interest in computer science – just as new intake was locked down
Well, what's an English degree gonna do when we're all strapped to PCs? Figures from UK university admissions service UCAS show computer science has seen a steady rise in popularity over the last decade.…
Intel sues former staffer for allegedly stealing Xeon cloud secrets in USB drives and exploiting info at Microsoft
Redmond says it used forensics to find files on its own gear... rather than avail itself of deals for rivals Intel has accused a former staffer of not only leaving the manufacturer with a trove of confidential documents but also trying to use the information they contained to help Microsoft.…
How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use
We’re blinded by our trust of the Search box and its inscrutability Column A friend recently texted me in a panic from Florida, where he’d been consoling relatives following a death in the family. Those relatives had returned a positive COVID-19 test, then a negative test. My friend was exposed to them, so got his own test. It came back negative. His relatives were tested again. Negative.…
DBA heroes don't always wear capes. Sometimes they just have a bunch of forgotten permissions
Just because you could, doesn't mean you should Who, Me? We start the working week with a Who, Me? reminder that in the world of databases, there is a difference between knowing you're right and knowing your rights.…
Brit chip designer Dialog Semi confirms 'advanced discussions' regarding purchase by Japan’s Renesas
Warns €67.50-per-share offer would represent a very tidy premium, but may not happen British chip design company Dialog Semiconductor has confirmed it is in “advanced discussions” with Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corporation regarding a possible acquisition.…
Big tech helpfully offers Pakistan new social-media-friendly content-blocking framework
After minister suggests current rules should be reviewed The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) – big tech’s Asian lobby group – has written to Pakistani attorney general Khalid Jawed Khan with some helpful hints on good ways to frame a new content-blocking regime.…
Microsoft suspends donations to politicians who backed attempt to overturn US presidential election
But for less than two years and while putting distance between staff donors and Microsoft itself Microsoft used the take-out-the-trash time of Friday evening to announce its political action committee (PAC) has suspended donations to US politicians who voted to object to the certification of electors in the 2020 US presidential election, or who “supported such objections or suggested the election should be overturned.”…
Myanmar orders blocks of Twitter and Instagram on top of Facebook ban
Internet traffic dips markedly as protestors take to the streets Myanmar’s military junta has ordered fresh blocks on the internet.…
Linus Torvalds labels Super Bowl ‘violent version of egg-and-spoon race’
Linux quarterback wants you to test hopefully final rc of kernel 5.11 instead of ‘standing around, waiting for the next commercial to come on’ Linus Torvalds has strongly suggested that next week will see the release of a new version of the Linux kernel, assuming nothing odd happens and testers don’t watch too much footy on the telly.…
Hacked by SolarWinds backdoor masterminds, Mimecast now lays off staff after profit surge
Plus: British Mensa in data leak blunder, DARPA are Star Wars fans, Sonicwall patch out, and more In brief Email security biz Mimecast not only fell victim to the SolarWinds hackers, leading to its own customers being attacked, it is also trimming its workforce amid healthy profits.…
NASA offers foodies, boffins $500,000 to find ways for astronauts to make their own dinners on the Moon, Mars
Deep Space Food Challenge could also help solve nosh dilemmas here on Earth NASA has teamed up with the Canadian Space Agency to launch a competition to challenge foodies and engineers to design new food production systems that will feed future astronauts exploring the Moon, Mars, and beyond.…
Oops: Google admits failing to wipe all Android apps with location-selling X-Mode SDK from its Play Store
For best results, take a second dose of privacy cleanse Google on Friday removed 25 Android apps from the Google Play Store after missing them during a prior purge. The apps contained the X-Mode SDK that the Chocolate Factory previously banned for selling location data.…
War on Section 230 begins in earnest as Dem senators look to limit legal immunity for social networks, websites etc
Trio introduce SAFE TECH Act to US Senate US Senators Mark Warner (D-VA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Friday introduced draft legislation to limit the legal protections available to social networks, websites, and anything else that provides an “interactive computer service.”…
SitePoint hacked: Hashed, salted passwords pinched from web dev learning site via GitHub tool pwnage
If you started off there, best change your reused credentials SitePoint, an Australian learn-to-code publishing website, has been compromised while promoting the book Hacking for Dummies on its homepage.…
We’re facing unprecedented change – here’s how others are dealing with it
Feeling less than agile? So is the competition Promo If 2020 has left you reeling, we’ve got some bad news. The seismic changes the past 12 months have had on the economy and society are still playing out, meaning more disruption is on the horizon.…
Samsung seeks to have almost $1bn shaved off property taxes for planned Texas semiconductor fab
Company notes that it can always take its biz elsewhere as tech firms jostle to move to Lone Star state Samsung is seeking a taxpayer bung of almost $1bn for its proposed semiconductor fabrication plant in Texas, according to documents filed with the state.…
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