China blurs borders with Macau to advance chipmaking and AI plans Special administrative region to share economic zone located on Chinese soil AI + ML07 Sep 2021 |
Chinese e-commerce tycoon Richard Liu to step away from the spotlight Rural revitalisation and long-term strategy await founder of mega e-tailer JD.com Legal07 Sep 2021 | 8
Kim Kardashian and Big Tech slapped for spruiking craptocurrency – and holding back useful crypto Chair of UK Financial Conduct Authority says more regulation will help innovation to flourish Legal07 Sep 2021 | 18
'It takes a hell of a mental toll' – techies who lost work due to COVID share their stories COVID Logfile III Some refined their CVs relentlessly. Others studied. Many wept, more than once. But most see an upside to their changed circumstances SaaS07 Sep 2021 | 24
Glasgow firm fined £150k after half a million nuisance calls, spoofing phone number, using false trading names DialADeal is no longer operating Security07 Sep 2021 | 52
Met Office signs 32 vendors to £30m framework to put the wind up data platform Deloitte, Computacenter, KPMG, E&Y among listed suppliers hired by local weather watcher Databases07 Sep 2021 | 12
Guntrader breach perp: I don't think it's a crime to dump 111k people's details online in Google Earth format Plus: Police aren't treating breaches as terror offence Security07 Sep 2021 | 141
UK tech investors buy data centre from the land of ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow Verne Global site claimed to be 'one of the most efficient' globally On-Prem07 Sep 2021 | 6
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested Cops can read the SMTP spec too, y'know Security07 Sep 2021 | 115
British data watchdog brings cookies to G7 meeting – pop-up consent requests, not the delicious baked treats Why are they asking G7 to do their job for them, muses critic Security07 Sep 2021 | 50
Updated Python support in VS Code brings browser editing and ditches open-source language server for Pylance Proprietary code creep? Software07 Sep 2021 | 7
HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests Updated A pause on community-submitted PRs Off-Prem07 Sep 2021 | 19
UK gov blocks the acquisition of Welsh graphene fiddler Perpetuus Group over national security concerns Concerns like 'who is Taurus International,' and 'what is Dr. Zhongfu Zhou's relationship with it' Legal07 Sep 2021 | 16
Academics tell UK lords that folk aren't keen on predictive policing, facial recognition, heightened surveillance Philip K Dick is rolling in his grave AI + ML07 Sep 2021 | 21
Canonical scales down Anbox Cloud to an appliance on AWS How many Android apps can you fit on an EC2 instance? PaaS + IaaS07 Sep 2021 |
Astronomers detect burps of interstellar cannibal from 480 million light years away In space, everyone can see you emit brightly shining gas, X-rays, and radio waves Science07 Sep 2021 | 16
Snyk: 50% of security jobs unfilled… any solution predicated on devs 'becoming security experts is doomed' Interview Guy Podjarny on the challenges of crafting and shipping secure code Devops07 Sep 2021 | 7
Can WhatsApp moderators really read your encrypted texts? Yes ... if you forward them to the abuse dept Where did people think spam and harassment reports were going? Security07 Sep 2021 | 24
Miscreants fling booby-trapped Office files at victims, no patch yet, says Microsoft ActiveX and MSHTML, the gift that keeps on giving ... to intruders Security07 Sep 2021 | 31
Samsung offered tax rebates for 30 years to build $17bn chip plant in Texas 'No decision has been made' super-corp reminds El Reg On-Prem07 Sep 2021 | 19