In brief Twitter's top security staff out after incoming CEO shakes things up Plus: Nigerian BEC gang bust, NSO woes, and more 25 Jan 2022 | 3
Software Farm machinery giant John Deere plows into two right-to-repair lawsuits It's Deere hunting season in Illinois and Alabama 25 Jan 2022 | 80
AI + ML Meta says it's building world's largest AI supercomputer out of Nvidia, AMD chips Facebook owner needs 16,000 GPUs, 4,000 Epyc processors – good luck, everyone else 25 Jan 2022 | 20
Channel Pakistan considers ten-year tax holiday for freelance techies Could clean up dispute over who collects tax and when, but unlikely to worry outsourcing rivals 25 Jan 2022 | 11
On-Prem Earthquake halts operations at two of Toshiba's chip factories 6.6-rated rumble joins fire, snow, plague, and trade war as source of recent semiconductor supply chain SNAFUs 25 Jan 2022 | 6
HPC IBM confirms new mainframe to arrive 'late in first half of 2022' Hybrid cloud is Big Blue's big bet, but big iron is predicted to bring a welcome revenue boost 25 Jan 2022 | 35
Personal Tech LG promises to make home appliance software upgradeable to take on new tasks Kids: empty the dishwasher! We can’t, Dad, it’s updating its OS to handle baked on grime from winter curries 25 Jan 2022 | 40
Science James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth Funnily enough, that's where we want to be right now, too 25 Jan 2022 | 54
Review Microsoft's do-it-all IDE Visual Studio 2022 came out late last year. How good is it really? Top request from devs? A Linux version 25 Jan 2022 | 89
Security UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit infosec pros Are you competent? Ethical? Welcome to UKCSC's new list 25 Jan 2022 | 53
OSes Saved by the Bill: What if... Microsoft had killed Windows 95? Now this looks like a job for me, 'cos we need a little, controversy... 'Cos it feels so NT, without me 25 Jan 2022 | 92
Off-Prem Employers in denial over success of digital skills training, say exasperated staffers Large disparities in views from bosses vs workers on 'talent transformation initiatives,' says survey 25 Jan 2022 | 26
Databases Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool' 'Most of it – if not all of it – really amounts to fear, uncertainty and doubt' 25 Jan 2022 | 51
Bootnotes Behold! The first line of defence for 25% of the US nuclear stockpile: Dolphins Erm... should we be concerned? 25 Jan 2022 | 52
Virtualization Parallels: Purveyors of decent virtualization software... and occasionally iffy checksums La la la, we're not listening 25 Jan 2022 | 11
Networks Shut off 3G by 2033? How about 2023, asks Vodafone UK Says it'll be 'asking customers' to make sure own phones support 4G, and to check on friends, family 25 Jan 2022 | 78
Security Sophos: Log4Shell would have been a catastrophe without the Y2K-esque mobilisation of engineers Anti-malware biz weighs in on one of the worst security flaws of recent times 25 Jan 2022 | 19
Offbeat Do you know what TikTok is? Then you might make a good magistrate, says Ministry of Justice 82% of volunteers in England and Wales are aged 50 and above 25 Jan 2022 | 28
Legal 22-year-old Brit avoids US extradition over SIM-swapping conspiracy after judge deems him to be high suicide risk Accused said to have suffered mental health problems from childhood 25 Jan 2022 | 27
Storage Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement If you're unable to share documents, this may be why 25 Jan 2022 | 83
On-Prem Nvidia reportedly prepares for un-Arm'd combat with rivals: $40bn takeover may be abandoned Softbank, meanwhile, remains 'hopeful' it can offload Brit chip designer 25 Jan 2022 | 9
AI + ML Baidu's AI predictions for 2022: Autonomous driving! Quantum computing! Space! Human-machine symbiosis! Did a computer program tell them to write this? 25 Jan 2022 | 5
On-Prem Now that's wafer thin: Some manufacturers had less than five days of chip supplies, says Uncle Sam Components fabbed using 40nm-plus process nodes hit hard 25 Jan 2022 | 34