Legal Trump administration proposes H-1B visas go to highest-paid workers first Scheme to encourage hiring pricey brainiacs instead of cheap footsloggers 29 Oct 01:01 | 68
Software Indian government labels itself ‘evasive’ over privacy details of national COVID-19 contact-tracing app Smacks down Information Commission by pointing to policy and data revealing the app has probably helped quite a lot 29 Oct 02:45 | 1
Science Cambodia launches blockchain-powered peer-to-peer payments, hopes it crushes cash Kind-of digital currency can shift US Dollars or the Cambodian Riel 29 Oct 05:02 | 17
Security French services outfit Atos told to pay $855m in trade secret pinching case Challenges jury verdict immediately and offers to pay one percent of damages 29 Oct 07:02 | 6
Personal Tech Samsung profits surge as the world starts buying smartphones again Huawei stockpiling components helps too, but server memory sales go soft 29 Oct 07:44 | 1
SaaS A cloud server with no network, no persistent storage, and no user access – what is AWS thinking? Security, that's what, for those of you who like your clouds very isolated 29 Oct 08:33 | 17
Interview Can we stop megacorps from using and abusing our data? That ship has sailed, ex-NSA lawyer argues in new book Companies are a bigger threat than governments – because they're less regulated 29 Oct 09:30 | 41
Software Devs strung up about .NET 5.0 string changes that may break working code are told: It's not a bug, it's a feature 'I'm just not excited at the prospect of a new crop of unknown unknowns' 29 Oct 10:15 | 55
On-Prem Watch as UK government magically makes value of £500m framework contract swell to four times the size And for my next trick... behold! Digital transformation! 29 Oct 11:00 | 8
Personal Tech AMD claims high-end Big Navi Radeon GPUs leave Nvidia's ray-tracing cards in the dust If you don't want to wait for new stock or splash out on the RTX 30 series, consider AMD's RX 6000s 29 Oct 11:45 | 25
Software Microsoft to rethink crash-prone Visual Studio extension model, shift towards cloud Why not just use Visual Studio Code, which has 5 times as many extensions and is designed for cloud? 29 Oct 12:32 | 21
Security Lenovo to slap ThinkShield security standard for laptop line-up on its Motorola mobiles Scheme to roll out across firm's device portfolio in coming months 29 Oct 13:41 | 8
Updated SiFive inches closer to offering a true RISC-V PC: Latest five-core dev board includes PCIe, SSD interfaces Plus 8GB RAM, USB, gigabit Ethernet, mini-ITX form, etc... and competition from Microchip 29 Oct 15:30 | 27
SaaS Nice for some: ServiceNow margins swell 83% as post-COVID market wolfs down subscriptions Makes several consumer-industry appointments 29 Oct 16:15 | 2
SaaS Canadian uni blames users, 'isolated technical problems' as new Workday system fails to pay 700 temps on time Don't suppose that factored into the '10 Reasons to be Excited About Workday at McGill!' 29 Oct 17:30 | 6
Security Ryuk this for a game of soldiers: Ransomware-flingers actively targeting hospitals in the US, cyber agencies warn And infosec firms say it's only got worse over this year 29 Oct 18:15 | 14
Software Update to NHS COVID-19 app brings improved warnings, end to 'ghost' notifications It's all about timing, apparently 29 Oct 19:00 | 32
Security Google Safari Workaround case inspires campaign to sue Facebook in UK's High Court over Cambridge Analytica app 'Facebook You Owe Us' wants to run a not-quite-class-action-style lawsuit 29 Oct 20:00 | 14
Security Days before the US election, phishers net $2.3m from Wisconsin Republicans Big money in American politics proves chum in the water for online sharks 29 Oct 20:58 | 33
Security If you haven't patched WebLogic server console flaws in the last eight days 'assume it has been compromised' Stark warning from SANS' Johannes Ullrich - RCE's gonna GET 'ya 29 Oct 22:35 | 12
On-Prem Amazon blasts past estimates, triples profits to $6.2bn but says COVID will cost it $4bn over the next quarter Bezos predicts a very Merry Christmas 29 Oct 23:42 | 18