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There is no escape: Atlassian to send Jira into places only Excel dares to tread
HR, finance, marketing and more in the crosshairs for Jira Work Management Atlassian has released Jira Work Management, which it plans to slip into fields beyond the usual IT and software suspects.…
Ransomware crooks who broke into Merseyrail used director's email address to brag about it – report
Hasn't stopped the trains, though Brit railway company Merseyrail is understood to have suffered a ransomware attack – and the crooks responsible reportedly pwned a director's Office 365 account to email employees and journalists about it.…
33 'unsustainably loss-making' Dixons Travel outlets set to be shuttered affecting 400 staff
Electronics retailer 'confident' workers can be offered opportunities elsewhere in the business Dixons Carphone is to permanently ground its airport stores that employ 398 staff, amid mounting losses and following the British government's discontinuation of airside tax-free shopping at the start of 2021.…
Brit MPs and campaigners come together to oppose COVID status certificates as 'divisive and discriminatory'
Transport minister confirms use of the NHS app for just that when citizens travel abroad With Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove expected to announce app-based "COVID status certificates," the UK's post-lockdown plan looks set to come under fierce attack.…
Show me the Monet: Late Samsung chairman's family settles inheritance tax bill, massive art donation
Highly anticipated details of stock division still unavailable Heirs of Samsung patriarch billionaire Lee Kun-hee issued a statement today partially detailing their inheritance tax strategy alongside financial and art charity contributions.…
Microsoft joins Bytecode Alliance to advance WebAssembly – aka the thing that lets you run compiled C/C++/Rust code in browsers
Maybe we can make software modular, secure, speedy all at the same time The Bytecode Alliance, formed by Fastly, Intel, Mozilla, and Red Hat to move WebAssembly beyond the browser, has created a non-profit organization with the help of Microsoft to further their cause.…
Bumper third quarter for Microsoft as Azure revenue grows 50% year on year
Cloud migration and winner-takes-all integration drive more coins into Redmond's pocket Microsoft has reported a 19 per cent year-on-year revenue jump in Q3 financial results covering January to March 2021, driven by Azure and Microsoft 365 subscriptions.…
UK's Competition and Markets Authority sticks probe in SK Hynix's $9bn proposed buy of Intel's NAND and SSD units
Regulator inviting comments on implications for local goods and services Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating SK Hynix's agreed $9bn purchase of Intel's NAND and SSD businesses to ascertain if the deal would negatively impact the local buyers.…
Ofcom 5G auction ends with UK carriers spending £23m for choice spectrum positionings
What's £23m compared to £1.35bn? The three most important words in any estate agent's lexicon are: "Location, location, location." The same is true for the UK's mobile carriers, who have just spent £23m to get their choice positions for their recent spectrum purchases.…
The Fast and the Curious: Safety-conscious Red Hat eyes continuously certified Linux platform for motors
Can open innovation work in the automobile industry? IBM tentacle Red Hat has waded into the world of automobiles with the intent of attaching wheels to a continuously certified Linux platform.…
Helsinki Syndrome: Ubuntu utterly fails to boot on metro
Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I want to bork Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork knows no borders, be they geographical or technological, as demonstrated by this Ubuntu installation getting funky on the Helsinki metro.…
FreedomFi's 5G gateways will mine HNT cryptocurrency for owners who dole out coverage to passing users, IoT devices
Traffic + Demand * Bandwidth = $$$ (maybe) If you had 5G and cryptomining on your buzzword bingo cards, crack open the bubbly – FreedomFi gateways will mine the HNT cryptocurrency in exchange for providing 5G cellular coverage to IoT devices and passing users.…
Singapore goes Cray-cray in the best way, picks HPE for new 10 PFLOPS super 'puter
$30m, 100,000-core beast will use third-gen AMD EPYCs and 352 – count 'em – Nvidia A100 GPUs Singapore has picked Hewlett Packard Enterprises to build a new S$40m ($30m) supercomputer for its petascale National Supercomputing Center (NSCC).…
Chaos, climate... and Kubernetes top the agenda of our Continuous Lifecycle Online 2021 conference
Must see: Dr Holly Cummins and Liz Fong-Jones to deliver keynotes Event We’re really thrilled to announce the first two keynotes for Continuous Lifecycle Online, our three-day – 10-12 May, 2021 – virtual event bringing together some of the DevOps, Containers and CI/CD world’s brightest thinkers and doers.…
India's open-source advocacy org assists lawsuit opposing COVID-19 vaccine policy
Calls for jabs market to be abandoned, and local vaccine IP to be freed India's Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC), an organisation that aims to "to protect freedom in the digital world" and advocates for the development and use of open-source software, has helped to prepare a lawsuit that calls for changes to the nation's vaccine pricing policy and rollout plans.…
A trip to the dole queue: CEO of $2bn Bay Area tech biz says he was fired for taking LSD before company meeting
Micro-dosing among Cali techies ... suddenly it's all starting to make sense The co-founder and CEO of Iterable, a San Francisco marketing tech biz valued at over $2bn, claims he was fired after admitting to micro-dosing LSD at work.…
Boffins stumble upon method to make silicon control lasers
Quantum experiment may clear the way for viable silicon photonics – chips with electronic and photonic interconnects Researchers in a team led by the University of Surrey reckon they have accidentally found a new way to use silicon as a powerful photonic informational manipulation material, potentially making it possible to produce viable silicon devices that can control multiple lasers.…
In case you were wondering, no, AMD hasn't managed to fsck everything up. It's still making lots of money
Turns out people, orgs are still buying truck loads of kit a year into the pandemic AMD beat Wall Street's expectations for the first quarter of this year as demand for gaming PCs, notebooks, and servers using its x86-64 processors remained high during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Australia probes app stores, politely suggests Apple and Google could try being nicer and more careful
Down Under watchdog doesn't call for commission cuts nor suggest major interventions Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has decided that Apple and Google have a duopoly on mobile operating systems and probably harm third-party developers ... but has proposed only modest changes to the operations as remedies.…
Beijing offers tax credits to patent-packing, R&Ding chip outfits great and very small
Big list of requirements to get the financial boost – and no mention of 'cut and paste from the West' China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has defined type of silicon companies it is willing to offer tax credits – and even small outfits are invited to apply if they have some patents in their pockets.…
It doesn't really matter how many of us gripe about Google, nothing can stop it printing billions of dollars
Profit, sales soar as giant seemingly scales beyond our perception of reality and scrutiny of society Google-parent Alphabet generated $55.3bn in the first three months of 2021, a 34 per cent increase from the year-ago quarter that exceeded financial analysts' expectations and lifted company shares in after-hours trading today.…
First Coinbase, now Basecamp: Should workplaces ban political talk on internal corporate platforms?
'You shouldn't have to wonder if staying out of it means you're complicit, or wading into it means you're a target' Poll Project management software maker Basecamp has come under fire for banning its employees from having “societal and political discussions” using their work accounts.…
State of Maine lays off 15 independent consultants on $13k a month amid efforts to implement troubled Workday system
Vendor claims government failed to provide 'clear direction' for the project The US State of Maine has laid off 15 independent IT contractors, each paid $13,000 a month, who were working on its paused project to implement a new Workday HR and finance system, which is at least two years late and millions of dollars over budget.…
Don't blame rural carriers for buying Huawei, says FCC Commissioner. They couldn't afford the top-shelf stuff
Cites extremely nascent OpenRAN as country's great hope Smaller carriers and networks are the weakest link in America’s telecommunications supply chain, FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks claimed while speaking at a supply chain integrity workshop.…
Virtual desktops could fix a lot of today’s problems – if someone could just fix the virtual desktop
Join us and Nutanix to find out how Webcast There are some technologies that always appear to be the next big thing, but never quite arrive. At least not in the way you think.…
Here's what Russia's SVR spy agency does when it breaks into your network, says US CISA infosec agency
Email provider cock.li called out for harbouring snooping personas Following attribution of the SolarWinds supply chain attack to Russia's APT29, the US CISA infosec agency has published a list of the spies' known tactics – including a penchant for using a naughtily named email provider.…
UK government resists pressure to hold statutory inquiry into Post Office Horizon scandal
MPs unite behind call to hold those responsible to account, but minister says it would take too long The UK government has resisted calls for statutory public inquiries into the Post Office Horizon scandal in which subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted over accounting flaws in Fujitsu-built software.…
Shadow over Fedora 34 as maintainer of Java packages quits with some choice words for Red Hat and Eclipse
But hey, the release looks OK Fedora 34, a feature-packed new release of Red Hat's leading edge Linux distribution, was released today, though the main Java package maintainer has quit, urging "affected maintainers to drop dependencies on Java."…
Terror of the adtech industry iOS 14.5 has landed, and Siri can answer your calls ... though she/he can't hang up
Good news for users with disabilities, though there's room for improvement Point releases typically come and go without much fanfare. By their very nature, they're incremental, bringing modest performance and security updates, and not much else. The latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 14.5, released yesterday, is different.…
Traffic lights, who needs 'em? Lucky Kentucky residents up in arms over first roundabout
Is it yield to the left or just ram my way through any which way? From Swindon's insane five circles in a circle to the insurance-clause-generating 12-lane monster around the Arc de Triomphe, the roundabout has been easing congestion helping local governments across Europe save their pennies for decades.…
You're V1 for me, says Arm: Chip biz's 'highest-performance core' takes aim at supercomputers, AI, anything relying on vector math
Plus the N2, its first Armv9 blueprint Arm today publicly added two more CPU cores to its Neoverse family of data-center and server-grade processors: the V1 aimed at demanding workloads and vector math, and the N2 for lighter, scale-out systems.…
Washington DC police force confirms data breach after ransomware upstart Babuk posts trophies to Tor blog
Newish criminal gang 'trying to make a name for themselves' Ransomware criminals have posted trophy pictures on their Tor blog after attacking the police force for US capital Washington DC.…
Where meetings go to die: Microsoft Teams outage lets customers skip that collaboration call they've been dreading
Another month, another Teams TITSUP* Updated When the sun is out, thoughts can turn to taking an impromptu day's vacation. Microsoft Teams appears to be no exception to this rule as users noted problems with the collaboration platform this morning.…
Words to strike fear into admins' hearts: One in five workers consider themselves 'digital experts' these days
So clever that more than half are using their own gear for work, says Gartner In what sounds like an introduction to an episode of Who, Me? Gartner has published the results of a survey showing nearly one in five workers "consider themselves to be digital technology experts".…
Transport Scotland has £47m to drag its traffic management systems into the 21st century
Existing supplier was first contracted back in the 1990s Transport Scotland is on the hunt for an IT vendor to support and update traffic management systems in a £47m move that could see the end of a relationship dating back to the 1990s.…
Half-metre pizza or an upgrade from Windows 7? We know what we'd choose
Cheese, pepperoni, and a generous topping of bork Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's bork comes from the fine Croatian town of Opatija, located on the coast and reminding us of those happy days when overseas holiday were allowed.…
UK Court of Appeal rules Tiny Computers' legal remains can sue Micron and Infineon over 2002 DRAM price-fixing cartel
The dead can't see – until you reanimate them The legal remains of one-time PC maker Tiny Computers can sue RAM manufacturers Micron and Infineon for damages over a 2002 price-fixing cartel, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled.…
Pssst! Wanna rent a cheap, off-the-books, third-gen Xeon Scalable? No SLA attached? We know a cloud that can help
A cloud called Azure, which appears to be previewing a Chipzilla special Microsoft has started a preview of Intel’s third-generation Xeon Scalable processors in its Azure cloud.…
Patched Exchange to head off Hafnium? You might only be halfway to safety
Office 365 shop? You may be exposed too. Here’s why – according to Sophos Promo If you’re running Microsoft Exchange anywhere in your organisation and you’re not extremely concerned about the threat from Hafnium, you haven’t been paying attention this year.…
NASA comes up with COVID-19 infection detector that's out of this world – E-Nose built from space station gear
Machine-learning algorithms to spot telltale particles in human breath NASA is trying to adapt an air-quality monitor normally found on the International Space Station to detect COVID-19 from people's breath here on Earth.…
Toyota buys Lyft’s autonomous car group for $550m
Oh what a dealing Toyota has announced that its brand-new Woven Planet Group will buy ride-share company Lyft's self-driving technology unit, "Level 5", for $550m.…
VMware is 'a few months away' from M1 release of Fusion macOS desktop hypervisor
Test code is apparently blazingly fast, but for now Parallels has VMs on Apple silicon to itself VMware is "a few months away" from releasing its macOS desktop hypervisor, Fusion, in a native version for Apple's new M1 silicon.…
China claims it has stolen a march on 6G with colossal patent portfolio
The standard is nascent and won’t land for almost a decade. But the jockeying for position is already fierce China's State Intellectual Property Office has proclaimed the nation already dominates the world in development of patents pertinent to sixth-generation mobile networks.…
JavaScript developers left in the dark after DroidScript software shut down by Google over ad fraud allegations
Creator suspects his app's ad identifier was copied but Google keeping quiet On the last day of March, DroidScript, a popular Android app for writing JavaScript code, had its Google advertising account suspended and a week later was removed from the Google Play Store for alleged ad fraud.…
GlobalFoundries shifts HQ from Silicon Valley to join its tip-top chip fab in New York
Empire State plant pledges to alleviate semiconductor shortage US chip maker GlobalFoundries will move its headquarters from Santa Clara, California, to Malta, New York, to be closer to its most advanced plant, Fab 8.…
Cloudflare offers $100,000 for prior art to nuke networking patents a troll has accused it of ripping off
Picking intellectual property fights with internet backbone biz seldom ends well Cloudflare today offered $100,000 for evidence of prior art to kill off a bunch of patents it is accused of infringing.…
OK so what's going with these millions of Pentagon-owned IPv4 addresses lighting up all of a sudden?
Network advertisement of military addresses by obscure corporation not so exciting after all The unexplained awakening over the past four months of more than 100 million previously dormant US Department of Defense (DoD) IPv4 addresses now has an explanation.…
HashiCorp reveals exposure of private code-signing key after Codecov compromise
Among the first of many? Software tools biz reports internal use of credential-stealing script HashiCorp, an open-source company whose Terraform product is widely used for automated cloud deployments, has revealed a private code-signing key was exposed thanks to the compromised Codecov script discovered earlier this month.…
Apple's macOS Gatekeeper asleep on the job: Exploited flaw put users 'at grave risk' of malware infection
Bug that let malicious files slip past defenses now fixed in Big Sur 11.3 Apple has released macOS 11.3, fixing a serious flaw that allowed an attacker to sneak malicious files past the operating system's Gatekeeper security mechanism.…
Dam it: Beaver ate our internet, says tiny Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge
Then made a house out of it The Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge – population 2,000 – had its internet-bearing cable chewed through in the early hours of Saturday.…
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