AI + ML
China blurs borders with Macau to advance chipmaking and AI plans
Special administrative region to share economic zone located on Chinese soil
07 Sep 01:58 |
7th > September > 2021 Archive
Legal
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
07 Sep 03:58 | 8
Legal
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
07 Sep 06:58 | 18
COVID Logfile III
'It takes a hell of a mental toll' – techies who lost work due to COVID share their stories
Some refined their CVs relentlessly. Others studied. Many wept, more than once. But most see an upside to their changed circumstances
07 Sep 08:01 | 24
Security
Glasgow firm fined £150k after half a million nuisance calls, spoofing phone number, using false trading names
DialADeal is no longer operating
07 Sep 08:29 | 52
Databases
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
07 Sep 09:13 | 12
Security
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
07 Sep 10:01 | 141
On-Prem
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
07 Sep 10:48 | 6
Security
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
07 Sep 11:31 | 115
Security
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
07 Sep 12:20 | 50
Software
Updated Python support in VS Code brings browser editing and ditches open-source language server for Pylance
Proprietary code creep?
07 Sep 13:01 | 7
Updated
HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests
A pause on community-submitted PRs
07 Sep 13:46 | 19
Legal
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'
07 Sep 14:33 | 16
AI + ML
Academics tell UK lords that folk aren't keen on predictive policing, facial recognition, heightened surveillance
Philip K Dick is rolling in his grave
07 Sep 15:20 | 21
PaaS + IaaS
Canonical scales down Anbox Cloud to an appliance on AWS
How many Android apps can you fit on an EC2 instance?
07 Sep 16:10 |
Science
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
07 Sep 17:01 | 16
Interview
Snyk: 50% of security jobs unfilled… any solution predicated on devs 'becoming security experts is doomed'
Guy Podjarny on the challenges of crafting and shipping secure code
07 Sep 19:44 | 7
Security
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?
07 Sep 21:13 | 24
Security
Miscreants fling booby-trapped Office files at victims, no patch yet, says Microsoft
ActiveX and MSHTML, the gift that keeps on giving ... to intruders
07 Sep 22:20 | 31
On-Prem
Samsung offered tax rebates for 30 years to build $17bn chip plant in Texas
'No decision has been made' super-corp reminds El Reg
07 Sep 23:20 | 19
