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Now that's a Finnish-ing move: Finland offers free 90-day tryout of Helsinki tech scene with childcare thrown in
Just don't think about winter In a bold headhunting effort, the Finnish capital city of Helsinki is offering a sabbatical in the Suomi state for Silicon Valleyites.…
India and UK strike tech co-operation pact and plot deeper links once Brexit's done
Details vague, but ambitions cover 5G, security of comms infrastructure and sharing R&D India has signalled it will sign up to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom, covering "cooperation in the field of Telecommunications/Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)."…
Qualcomm hints at future data centre and edge compute products
Strong-arms Q4 and the year as China fuels 5G sales Qualcomm has hinted at future compute-centric products for the network edge and even the data centre.…
Revamped DLL side-load attack hits Myanmar
Sophos reckons Chinese gangs are behind attack it's charmingly chosen to name ‘KillSomeOne’ Security vendor Sophos has suggested Chinese purveyors of advanced persistent threats (APTs) are behind a recent wave of attacks on non-governmental organisations and other commercial entities in Myanmar.…
FYI: Someone wants to launch mobile broadband satellites into space used by scientific craft – and NASA's not happy
Choo choo! Mind the incoming 'A-train' orbital spacecraft A proposed constellation of 243 satellites, designed to beam internet connectivity to smartphones and under consideration by America's comms watchdog, will triple the existing risk of a potential collision with ten Earth science spacecraft in low-Earth orbit, NASA warned.…
Feds throw book at eBay execs who deny they had anything to do with cyberstalking of site's critics
James Baugh, David Harville hit with several new counts Two senior eBay executives who have refused to join their colleagues and plead guilty to charges of cyberstalking have been hit with a string of fresh charges.…
California backs Proposition 22: Great news for Uber, Lyft as their drivers can work as indie contractors
And bad news for Facebook, Google after Golden State favors online privacy measures Californians have overturned lawmakers in two critical ballot measures covering the gig economy and online privacy, with broader implications for the whole country.…
If you're an update laggard, buck up: Chrome zero-days are being exploited in the wild
Desktop and Android versions both at risk Patch Google Chrome with the latest updates – if you don't, you're vulnerable to a zero-day that is actively being exploited, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned.…
DRAM and NAND demand is up, but it's not enough to buoy SK Hynix profits as prices plummet amid supply glut
Thanks for the memory An industry-wide supply glut of NAND and DRAM forced prices down over the summer leading to a steep decline in operating profit at SK Hynix, the South Korea memory maker reported today.…
SEC: If you want to easily crowdfund investment in your business, knock yourself out, all the way to $5m
Rules loosened by regulator, concerns raised they favor the rich The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given a big boost to companies seeking crowdfunded investment – think Kickstarter but securities rather than physical stuff you buy. Organizations are now exempt from various regulatory requirements if they raise at most $5m, up from the previous cap of $1m.…
Black Lives Matter protester ID'd from Twitter photo via facial-recog system secretly used by US law enforcement
NCRFRILS had never been disclosed publicly – until court case A protester accused of punching a police officer was arrested after he was identified by facial-recognition software that has not been publicly disclosed before: the National Capital Region Facial Recognition Investigative Leads System (NCRFRILS).…
There's no love lost as AWS lures Oracle exec over to lead its Americas sales team
That's going to smooth relations between Larry and Jeff Cloud computing superpower AWS has secured the services of Oracle veteran Rich Geraffo as veep for its Americas sales team amid the ongoing market tussle with Big Red.…
Huawei sues US govt over claims Trump administration ignored company's Freedom of Information requests
Suit pushes Uncle Sam to release documents comms giant alleges were suppressed due to 'policy objectives' Embattled Chinese telecoms outfit Huawei has filed suit against the US government over allegations it is "stonewalling" legitimate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.…
Bank IT support bod cops suspended sentence after hacking boss's webcam because he didn't get payrise
Savage judge condemns crim's behaviour as 'utterly stupid' An Essex IT worker has walked free from court after screwing with the British Business Bank's systems in revenge for not getting a payrise.…
BBC makes switch to AWS, serverless for new website architecture, but observers note HTML is no longer clean
News aggregator says it's 'way more complicated and much harder to parse' The BBC website, the sixth most popular in the UK, has mostly migrated from bit barns to Amazon Web Services (AWS) with around half the site now rendered on AWS Lambda, a serverless platform.…
Heck yeah, we should have access to our own cars' repair data: Voters in US state approve a landmark right-to-repair ballot measure
It has been Biden its time Voters in Massachusetts have approved a ballot measure that is widely being interpreted as a major win for the right-to-repair movement.…
Whoa, humans have been hanging out and doing science stuff in freaking space aboard the ISS for 20 years
Orbital lab emerges from teens to an uncertain future. How very 2020 The world's space agencies (at least those involved in the International Space Station) popped the Champagne corks this week to celebrate 20 years of continuous human occupation of the orbiting laboratory.…
Please, tell us more about how just 60 hydrogen-powered 5G drones could make 400,000 UK base stations redundant
Gartner's finest – a former vulture – draws clouds over eyebrow-raising connectivity plan A company working with a hydrogen-powered 5G drone maker claims to have built an airborne 5G base station antenna "unlike anything ever seen before" – and that just 60 of them could replace Britain's terrestrial 5G networks.…
Vivo pushes out X51 5G: Chipper whippersnapper, quite a battery-sapper, but at least the wrapper's dapper
Hip to be square and aimed at the Euro crowd Review First impressions are important, and the X51 5G is Vivo's inaugural device for the crowded European smartphone market.…
With less than two months left, let's check in on Brexit: All IT systems are up and running and ready to go, says no one
Oh sorry, did you expect this headline to work out differently? There are less than two months to go before the UK departs its 40-year relationship with the EU and it is still working on the IT systems needed to make the new arrangement work.…
AI me to the Moon... Carbon footprint for 'training GPT-3' same as driving to our natural satellite and back
Get ready for Energy Star stickers on your robo-butlers, maybe? Training OpenAI’s giant GPT-3 text-generating model is akin to driving a car to the Moon and back, computer scientists reckon.…
Remember so-not-a-pirate Kim Dotcom? New Zealand’s highest court has just said the USA can extradite him for copyright naughtiness
But first, he gets a judicial review and chance to extend eight-year legal saga New Zealand’s highest court has ruled that Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the United States of America to face charges of copyright infringement.…
Was that November's Patch Tuesday? Already? Oh, no, it's just Adobe issuing 14 emergency security fixes
Critical Acrobat, Reader flaws evidently couldn't wait until next week Adobe on Tuesday published updated versions of its Acrobat and Reader software to fix fourteen flaws, four of which have been designated "critical." These updates should be installed as soon as possible to close off their vulnerabilities.…
The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage. Robo-taxis might need 11TB
And it’ll be in proper SSDs, not cheap NAND muck that drives infotainment systems today, say analysts Passenger cars on sale in 2025 will ship with a terabyte of storage, according to analyst firm Counterpoint, and fully autonomous cabs might need 11TB of capacity.…
Microsoft flips big Indonesian e-tailer Bukalapak into Azure from Google cloud
Taking a strategic stake in the biz probably helped and shows how big tech is buying into Asia Microsoft has taken a “strategic stake” in Indonesian e-tailer Bukalapak and will run the service in its Azure cloud.…
Automation software slinger SaltStack warns of stop-watching-the-election-and-patch-now bugs
Fixes look to have landed in GitHub well ahead of disclosure SaltStack has officially revealed three bugs in its code – two of them seemingly critical – and told users: “We strongly recommend that you prioritize this update.” But the biz appears to have known about the bugs for months and quietly patched them over the summer.…
Big Panda China squishes Ant Group: Beijing suspends world's largest-ever IPO in fintech regulatory brouhaha
That or Jack Ma mouthing off about the nation's financial watchdogs The Chinese government on Tuesday halted Ant Group's $35bn stock-market debut, which would have been the world's largest-ever IPO had it happened. The move is being interpreted as Beijing punishing one of the planet's richest men, Jack Ma, for earlier running his mouth.…
Malicious backdoored NPM package masqueraded as Twilio library for three days until it was turfed out
Dodgy JavaScript code downloaded hundreds of times GitHub's NPM on Monday removed a JavaScript library called twilio-npm because it contained malicious code, which has become something of a recurring theme for the open-source JavaScript code registry.…
Trump H-1B visa crackdown hit with legal double whammy: Tech giants, Chamber of Commerce challenge rules
'Foreign-born scientists, engineers, developers of emerging technology, other highly skilled workers' locked out of America The battle between the tech industry and the Trump administration over work visas continues apace, with no less than 46 tech companies challenging new rules in court, while the US Chamber of Commerce has accused the government of ignoring an injunction against an earlier set of changes.…
Google Project Zero to GitHub: You've had 104 days to sort out injection vuln – now we're telling world-plus-dog
Code shack describes issue as 'moderate' security flaw, plans to disable risky commands gradually Google's bug-hunting Project Zero team has posted details of an injection vulnerability in GitHub Actions after refusing a request to postpone disclosure.…
What's for Christmas, Google? Oh, you're taking away free phone calls from our Nest speakers
Reach out to your loved ones - but in Great Britain you'll have to use your phone A handy feature in Google's Nest speakers allows users to place calls to mobiles and landlines free of charge without a subscription or dedicated handset. Sadly, that particular benefit is coming to an end in the UK.…
Mozilla's MDN web standards reference platform makes move to GitHub, now in beta
Jamstack, Kubernetes, community contributions, and automatic translation – what could go wrong? Mozilla's MDN JavaScript and web technology reference documentation is migrating to a new GitHub-based platform, codenamed Yari, which is now in beta and taking contributions.…
None of our apps (except those 3) could secretly slurp Facebook user details, devs rage to High Court of England and Wales
Small Brit firm pushes back against Zuckerborg sueball Mobile app developers accused by Facebook of deploying “malicious” SDKs to scrape users’ data from the social network have hit back, telling London’s High Court that nearly all their apps were “not capable” of harvesting data from Facebook itself.…
How's this for the ultimate gaming achievement? Half-Life 2's Gnome Chompski is going to space – in real life
Drag racing in orbit with Rocket Lab Rocket Lab is planning a 30-satellite launch via its 16th Electron launch from New Zealand. The payload will include a statue of Gnome Chompski*, presumably in an attempt to unlock hitherto unknown Half-Life achievements.…
Third event in 3 months, Apple. There better be some Arm-powered Macs this time
Just One More Thing, eh? Apple has set a date for the next emission of its inevitably overpriced gear. The socially distanced (and likely pre-recorded) affair will be Cupertino's third event in as many months, and is expected to introduce the inaugural cohort of Arm-powered Macs.…
Noooooo, my theme-aware splash screen! Windows 10 Dev Channel sheds features as Microsoft jumps branches
Also: HoloLens 2 Dev Edition out, .NET 5 prepares debut, and PowerToys Mute gets experimental In Brief It is said that Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away.…
Oracle patches severe flaw in WebLogic Server that could be exploited 'without the need for a username and password'
D'oh! If only they'd seen bug before issuing those 402 other fixes Oracle has released an emergency patch after a security vulnerability was revealed in its WebLogic middleware last week.…
We'll get you later: SAP CEO promises help for customers in 'financial distress'
Just don't leave. Plus: Cloud subscription model is 'increasing customer lifetime revenue' SAP CEO Christian Klein has committed to extending customer payment terms and helping partners struggling as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic grips Europe and governments enforce further lockdowns.…
H? Oh! New water-splitting technique pushes progress of green hydrogen
It's really dope. Yep it's an energy-efficient process kicked off by gadolinium-doped cerium dioxide Researchers in Spain have uncovered a new approach to producing hydrogen via water splitting which could help overcome some of the drawbacks to this promising alternative fuel source.…
Protecting the NHS: NCSC fended off lots of meddling aimed at UK health orgs while ransomware ramped up
But annual report doesn't mention China once The National Cyber Security Centre fended off more than 700 cyber attacks directed against the British state over the last year, of which about a quarter were COVID-19 related.…
AWS to create its own public container registry in response to Docker pull rate limit
Plus: Faster on-demand supercomputing. P4d VMs with Nvidia A100 and GPUDirect RDMA AWS will deliver a new public container registry "within weeks" in response to Docker's introduction of pull rate limits for Docker Hub.…
Japanese eggheads strap AI-powered backpacks to seagulls
Why? Because it's 2020. Oh OK, the real reason is: More efficient use of on-board cameras Tiny monitoring devices, strapped to birds, used artificial intelligence to work smarter, it is claimed.…
I'll give you my passwords if you investigate police corruption, accused missile systems leaker told cops
Ex-BAE Systems bod's letter read to Old Bailey A former BAE Systems engineer accused of failing to hand over his device passwords to Merseyside Police vowed not to give them up until a watchdog investigated his allegations that police workers had perverted the course of justice, the Old Bailey heard.…
City of Edinburgh Council selects services-slinger CGI for £102m contract despite abandoned Unit4 ERP project
Oh never mind, the project was 'reset' It was all smiles when the City of Edinburgh Council announced the extension of its managed IT services contract with supplier CGI in September. But talk of smart city services using artificial intelligence and IoT belied a sorry tale of an abandoned Unit4 ERP project which led two suppliers to the courtroom door.…
Lenovo data centre group still struggling despite big clouds' COVID-catchup shopping spree
Air freight costs grounded mobile profits, but PC sales and overall profits keep rising Lenovo has posted interim results for Q2 and the first half of 2020 and revealed that while clouds builders went on a spending spree, the company’s data centre group (DCG) is still making losses.…
GitHub warns devs face ban if they fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool... while hinting how to beat the RIAA
No, no, no, you hit it like this *whack* GitHub has warned it may ban users who fork a DMCA'd YouTube download tool on its platform – while at the same time hinting at how netizens can continue distributing the software without drawing fire.…
CERT/CC: 'Sensational' bug names spark fear, hype – so we'll give flaws our own labels... like Suggestive Bunny
Officials go with randomly selected words with unintentionally hilarious results. Filthy Python, anyone? Many memorable events get named, whether they're hurricanes, political events, or security incidents like the Morris Worm, which surfaced 32 years ago yesterday.…
Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence
Australian antenna upgrade appears to have worked, should be ready to help with imminent Mars landings NASA has successfully communicated with the Voyager 2 probe after an eight-month hiatus.…
Alibaba trying to take China’s Singles Day shopping frenzy global to make Bezos & Co look like sales small fry
11.11 event should be four times bigger than Amazon Prime Day Chinese digital tat bazaar Alibaba is trying to take its multi-billion-dollar “Singles' Day” online shopping frenzy global.…
US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year, more than startups can hope to afford, say VCs
Yeah, take that, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, and everyone else who pays that much anyway The decision by the Trump administration to raise the minimum wage that H-1B visa holders must earn in America before they are eligible to work stateside is going to destroy startup culture, business leaders have warned.…
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