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Toxic: Intel ordered to pay chip fab worker almost $1m after he was gassed at its facility in 2016
Spouse to receive $250k over 'loss of consortium' following Arizona incident Intel must pay nearly $1.2m after a ruling in a lawsuit alleging injury caused by a toxic gas emission at one of its facilities.…
NHS Digital hands Deloitte £51m contract for tech supporting UK COVID-19 testing without competition
Just as legal challenge launched at government for doing the same thing NHS Digital has awarded a £51m IT contract to global consultancy Deloitte without prior notice or competition – just as the UK government faces a legal challenge for doing the same thing with a hugely expensive "management" contract.…
Microsoft pulls the sheets off first .NET 6 preview and... it's still a mess. Native Apple Silicon support, though
Unified? Kind of, but now there are two .NET runtimes in the official SDK Microsoft has shipped the first preview of .NET 6.0, the first long-term support release of its newly unified application platform, promising native Apple Silicon support, desktop applications on ARM64, and a ton of updates to key frameworks like ASP.NET Core.…
Microsoft drives up in a LXSS: Hop in, we're taking the Windows Update offramp to Linux 5.4 town
Also: Windows 10 21H1 sent to the beta channel The two sides of Microsoft were on show this week as a major update to the Linux kernel turned up on Windows Update for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) users and the next version of Windows finally found its way to the company's loyal Insiders.…
Nurserycam horror show: 'Secure' daycare video monitoring product beamed DVR admin creds to all users
Company has a habit of reacting badly to vuln disclosures Updated A parental webcam targeted at nursery schools was so poorly designed that anyone who downloaded its mobile app gained access to admin credentials, bypassing intended authentication, according to security pros – with one dad saying its creators brushed off his complaints about insecurities six years ago.…
Has Amazon finally gone cuckoo? Bezos' behemoth turns to crowdfunding for Alexa-powered timepiece
If you 'Build It', they will come In less than three decades, Amazon has taken a wrecking ball to dozens of industries from retail and groceries, to logistics and web hosting. And now it's settled on its next victim: the Swiss cuckoo clock industry.…
Kinoite: Immutable Fedora variant with KDE Plasma desktop on the way
Better security and application management, but compatibility can be an issue Red Hat's Fedora project is to add a new variant called Kinoite, an immutable desktop operating system alongside the existing Silverblue, which runs GNOME desktop.…
Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer
Well, that's a new one Anyone familiar with contacting a tech support helpdesk has heard the groan-inducing line: "Have you turned it on and off again?" For that reason, we can't help but doff our cap to indie ISP Zen Internet, which instructed one customer beset by connectivity drops to contact his MP.…
Mobile World Congress to run this year's Barcelona event in June with 50,000 attendees. We're speechless
And the COVID-19 precaution? A negative test 72 hours before In what is either going to be seen as hopeless optimism or a heavily telegraphed super-spreader event, the CEO of the Mobile World Congress has said he intends to run its annual mega tech conference in Barcelona as an in-person event.…
Has your cloud app suite left you feeling insecure? There’s a reason for that
Tune in next week and discover how to tighten that gap in your remote worker security Webcast You’ve seen large parts of your workforce take to the hills over the past year with nothing but a laptop and a Microsoft 365 account for company.…
Cred-stealing trojan harvests logins from Chromium browsers, Outlook and more, warns Cisco Talos
Masslogger evolution rears its ugly head, $30 gets you three month license to cause carnage Cisco Talos has uncovered a credential-stealing trojan that lifts your login details from the Chrome browser, Microsoft's Outlook and instant messengers.…
Microsoft kills broad entry-level IT certifications, replaces them with all-Microsoft curriculum
‘Technology Associate’ exams that taught general skills like Python, HTML and Java are on the way out. No refunds offered Microsoft has retired the exams for Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certifications, its broad entry-level tech certifications, and replaced them with a heavily Microsoft-centric curriculum.…
FortressIQ just comes out and says it: To really understand business processes, feed your staff's screen activity to an AI
Everything will be anonymised, promises vendor In a sign that interest in process mining is heating up, vendor FortressIQ is launching an analytics platform with a novel approach to understanding how users really work – it "videos" their on-screen activity for later analysis.…
Cambodia to force all internet traffic through national 'Internet Gateway'
De facto one-party state decrees censorship scheme that sounds a lot like China's Great Firewall Cambodia has formally announced a National Internet Gateway that will filter all traffic coming into the country, or traversing networks within its borders.…
India splashes cash to lure telecoms and network kit-makers in need of manufacturing muscle
Wants big players to build locally for locals, then build export capability India has created a new tech manufacturing investment attraction fund, this time for telecom equipment and enterprise networking kit.…
Groupware is not dead! HCL drops second beta of Notes/Domino version 12 and goes all low-code and cloudy
26 years after IBM paid Lotus $3.25bn, the Notes email client might be getting useful India’s HCL, the new owner of groupware combo Notes/Domino, continues to evolve the products for the faithful and maybe, just maybe, the occasional new buyer.…
New FCC boss leaps into action by… creating three committees to look at longstanding problems and come back at some point
Nothing says urgency like non-binding future reports The new acting head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Jessica Rosenworcel has emerged from her first meeting in charge of America's telecoms regulator stressing urgency and the need to act at a “critical time.”…
Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan
As News Corp and Google strike global news payments deal and bill passes lower house Analysis + Update Facebook has barred the sharing of news articles in Australia, effectively immediately, because it thinks Australia’s pay-for-news plan is unworkable.…
Uncle Sam accuses three suspected North Korean govt hackers of stealing $1.3bn+ from banks, crypto orgs
Oh yes, and hacking Hollywood, allegedly Three suspected North Korean military intelligence hackers have been charged with, among other things, conspiring to loot more than $1.3bn (£938m) from banks, ATMs, and cryptocurrency companies, according to an indictment unsealed by the US Department of Justice on Wednesday.…
New York AG sues Amazon for putting 'profit over people' when it comes to COVID-19
State legal filing answers Amazon's preemptive federal lawsuit last week Five days after Amazon filed a federal lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James to preempt anticipated state legal action, James has answered with a complaint against the e-commerce giant alleging labor law violations.…
Trello moved 'Facelift' card to Completed on Go Live board
New views, card types, and branding as 10th anniversary nears Australian dev tools supplier Atlassian has unveiled a new look and new views for its Kanban-bothering application, Trello.…
Microsoft's most useful open-source project for Kubernetes, Dapr hits the 1.0 primetime
API now stable, more on the way Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), aimed at providing building blocks to simplify application development for Kubernetes.…
Microsoft Teams still on mute: Vid conf system crashes, 'potential networking issue' blamed
So, Zoom again then? Updated Microsoft’s video conferencing service Teams has suffered a massive outage causing widespread disruption as people in the United States logged in to start work on Wednesday.…
Now this is Epic: Fortnite maker takes Apple fight to the European Commission and... er... Bismarck, North Dakota
Doesn't matter which court, Cupertino vociferously defends App Store terms Bismarck in North Dakota (population 128,949) and Brussels in Belgium (population 1.2 million) couldn't be more different. Except for one thing. Both cities are venues where Apple's App Store governance policies have faced, or are facing, intense scrutiny from lawmakers.…
Hitting the mother-node: TigerGraph devours $105m funding in Series C round
Everyone wants to be the 'Snowflake of X' – in this case, the graph DB world Graph database purveyor TigerGraph has announced £105m in funding to add to the $65m stash already raised.…
You don't have clearance for that: Microsoft ups the paranoia with a preview of Azure Firewall Premium
Reassuring the regulators Microsoft has unveiled a preview of Azure Firewall Premium, aimed at highly sensitive and regulated environments.…
Linux as root partition on Hyper-V: Microsoft submits patches for kernel 5.12
Next step in Redmond's 'complete virtualization stack with Linux' Patches submitted by Microsoft for the next version of the Linux kernel, 5.12, add the ability to boot the OS as the root partition on its Hyper-V hypervisor.…
Think your backups will protect you from ransomware? What do you think the malware attacked first?
Immutablity or vulnerability – it’s your choice Webcast If you think your backup strategy means you’re protected from the worst that cyber-criminals can throw at you, we’ve got some bad news. Ransomware creators know all about backups, too.…
Another reprieve for exhausted IT admins: Looks like there are no whizzbangers in Windows 10 21H1
Still Missing In Action for Windows Insiders Windows 10 21H1 is on its way, and seemingly without the major new features we've come to expect in a Microsoft spring rollout, if a post on Redmond's Windows Hardware Certification blog is anything to go by.…
Uncle Sam's Department of Justice isn't Slacking over $28bn Salesforce merger
Hold up, just a few more questions... The US Department of Justice has written to Salesforce and Slack to ask a few questions about December's $28bn merger announcement.…
Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction
James Bond? Inspector Gadget? Yup, all here A Soviet equivalent of Nazi Germany's Enigma cipher machine has sold for more than double its auction asking price – while a secret camera disguised as a pack of cigarettes went for nearly $20,000.…
Machine-learning software scours database of already available drugs that could treat COVID-19 infections
Next up: Clinical trials to test the code's suggestions Machine-learning algorithms may help pharmaceutical companies identify old drugs that can be rehashed to treat the COVID-19 coronavirus in elderly patients, according to a study published in Nature Communications.…
Palo Alto Networks drops $156m to absorb DevSecOps firm Bridgecrew
Open-source stuff stays for now, company promises Palo Alto Networks (PAN) has described its $156m buy of cloudy DevSecOps biz Bridgecrew as a "key bet" at a time when the world has never been more reliant on off-premises computing.…
UK tax collector won't probe businesses for compliance with IR35 rules unless there's reason to suspect naughtiness
No penalties for contractor oopsies in first year, but you'll still have to pay what HMRC thinks you owe An IR35 snooper squad sniffing out contractors won't be coming to a town near you anytime soon unless there is a strong reason to suspect "criminal" behaviour.…
Fujitsu scrapping fuel card benefit to cut costs, threatens dissenters with fire and rehire
Going green or just plain mean? Exclusive Fujitsu wants to tighten the group's corporate belt by removing the benefit fuel card afforded to hundreds of UK staff, and anyone resisting could potentially be fired and rehired on new contractual terms.…
Texas blacks out, freezes, and even stops sending juice to semiconductor plants. During a global silicon shortage
Do y'all think Samsung might rethink plans to spend $20bn down there? As winter storms cause power outages across the United States, a lack of juice in Texas has led Austin's fabs to shut down.…
Nominet claims effort to replace its board with 'safe hands' is invalid, refuses to put it to member vote
Having apparently lost, UK registry operator tries desperate legal gambit The UK’s internet registry operator Nominet has claimed that an effort to remove members of its board and replace them with two caretaker directors is not legal and is refusing to put it to a member vote.…
European Space Agency open to hiring astronauts with a physical disability
‘Help Wanted … in Space’ signs go up for first time in over a decade The European Space Agency is about to advertise for astronauts for the first time since 2008 and is open to candidates with a physical disability under a new “Parastronaut feasibility project”.…
UK dev loses ownership claim on forensic software he said he wrote in spare time and licensed to employer
Ex-copper signed over copyright to bosses, judge rules A British developer has lost his fight to claim ownership over software he wrote while working for digital forensics firm MD5.…
Pat Gelsinger promises Intel can go back to the future – in memo to staff shared with world+dog
New CEO pledges 'aggressive targets' to regain market share and leadership After completing nine years as CEO of VMware last week, Pat Gelsinger on Tuesday started work in the same job at Intel and prioritized delivering on promises and innovating quickly.…
Amazon to build its own consumer hardware in India, starting with Fire TV sticks
Minister claims investment attraction regime is working, also asks for help getting products from villages into Marketplace Amazon.com will make some of its own-brand electronic in India.…
Google Cloud forges new passage to India with Tata Communications
Azure and AWS already have same cloud deal, but hey - new friends! Google and Tata Communications have teamed to spread the G-Cloud further inside India.…
Co-founder of coronavirus vaccine biz holds in-person tech event... 20+ attendees later test positive for COVID-19
Serial entrepreneur regrets the error Attendees of the Abundance 360 Summit in January paid $15,000 or more to attend an in-person event that arguably shouldn't have happened under California's December 5, 2020, stay at home order. And for that price, 12 of the 30 who showed up left with a COVID-19 infection.…
LastPass to limit fans of free password manager to one device type only – computer or mobile – from next month
Cough up if you want to use it with your laptop and phone Password manager LastPass has changed its terms and conditions to limit the free version of its code work on a single device type only per user, seemingly in an effort to force free folks into paying for its service.…
SHAREit app for Android said to share way too much: Billion-download code with holes no one wants to fix
Trend Micro claims software is full of security flaws that allow data out and malware in Trend Micro has published a report claiming that data-sharing Android app SHAREit, which has over a billion downloads, contains multiple vulnerabilities after the app's maker ignored advice to fix the flaws.…
Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster
'Every country will need to change its ways' says Microsoft billionaire Review Bill Gates' book How to avoid a climate disaster is a sombre but informative read.…
Virgin Media adds 200% to its new broadband contracts in 2020, slips back in black (just)
But the growth can't last forever... The pandemic has been relatively kind to the UK arm of Virgin Media, which reported [PDF] growth in its broadband and contract mobile business units during 2020.…
People actually write novels about DevOps – and an author spoke about his take at Dynatrace's Perform event
Be honest, what's YOUR 'bus factor'? DevOps writer Gene Kim spoke at the Dynatrace Perform event last week, saying not a word about Dynatrace but focusing on technical debt and developer productivity.…
No egrets: Ardent twitchers fined for breaking lockdown after bloke spots northern mockingbird in his garden
'Don't give out the location!!' Everyone has a quirky personal interest or two, but few have pursuits that would move us to drive to Exmouth amid a national lockdown that dishes out fines for non-essential travel.…
Watch this space: Apple offers free repairs for the self-bricking Apple Watch SE and Series 5 wearables
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage: Wearable Brick Apple Watch Series 5 or Apple Watch SE owners can now send their devices for a free service after multiple units of the fancy wristwear refused to charge once entering Power Reserve mode.…
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