Business
Heir today, in the slammer tomorrow: Samsung head honcho Lee Jae-Yong back in jail on bribery charges
Only been out 2 years
18 Jan 14:01 | 1
Business
Policy
Back to the office with you: 'Perhaps 5 days is too much family time' – Workday CEO
Zoom is great for status update meetings, says big cheese, but as for inspiring a workforce...
18 Jan 11:30 | 134
Column
The hour grows late, the enemy are at the gates... but could Intel's exiled heir apparent ride to the rescue?
Pat Gelsinger returning to Chipzilla as CEO is another extraordinary stroke of luck for the company
18 Jan 09:30 | 53
Policy
Xiaomi hit by US sanctions: Can't list on stock exchanges and investors can't invest
Parting shot by Trump – but 'bi-partisan' push against China will continue, says analyst
15 Jan 21:02 | 26
Business
Dell CTO shares his hottest trends for 2021: Four interesting technologies, one of which is still borderline sci-fi for now
Spoiler: It's quantum. And who knew? 5G isn't for the peasants
15 Jan 14:15 | 21
Business
Infosys follows flag-waving US hiring spree with quieter Canadian and Mexican hiring spree
Record low onshore work as pandemic teaches clients they need not fear off-site workers
15 Jan 08:43 | 7
Business
Cor, get a load of moneybags Northamptonshire: Eight resellers win places on £5bn police framework
Before you choke on your tea, authority likely won't splash anything near that
14 Jan 11:43 | 2
Policy
Gloucestershire IT pro faces court over £30k Amazon voucher theft allegations
Accused pinched them from employer, sold them on eBay, prosecutors claim
14 Jan 10:16 | 10
Business
Offshoring is kind of over, says Wipro, as financials surge thanks to offshoring
Working from home means lots of us might as well be offshore now, suggests CEO
14 Jan 08:31 | 19
Business
Four women seek release from forced arbitration to sue Infosys for widespread gender discrimination
IT consultancy favors male and Indian workers, watchdog told in complaint
14 Jan 00:16 | 50
Policy
Boss behind 'reset' of delayed, overbudget Emergency Services Network shifts to new 'digital' Cabinet Office role
Three years at ESN would have been three years too many for most
13 Jan 16:59 | 21
Business
Intel CEO Bob Swan is stepping down to be replaced by VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger
Someone with technical nous could be good for Chipzilla – the markets certainly think so
13 Jan 15:44 | 8
Business
Trump tries one more time to limit H-1B work visas with new minimum salary requirements
With just a week left of the administration, here we go again
12 Jan 22:06 | 33
Business
Paperless what? Pah! UK government looks to ink £900m in printer deals
Crown Commercal Services must be rubbing hands together
11 Jan 11:50 | 10
Feature
Dusty passports, smart tops and tracksuit bottoms: Are virtual events better or worse than the real thing?
Event sponsors: 'They got rinsed' in 2020, says analyst
11 Jan 10:18 | 16
Policy
Social network Parler dumped by AWS, says it prepared for this by only using bare metal
Says it'll rebuild in a week, but evidence of DR plan is scant
11 Jan 04:00 |
Policy
US backs down from slapping import taxes on French goods over Macron's web giant tax
Officials instead probe similar levies mulled by UK, India, Europe
08 Jan 10:32 | 18
Business
UK competition watchdog calls for views on Nvidia's prospective $40bn acquisition of Brit chip designer Arm
Ahead of a formal probe, CMA want to ascertain risks to licensing, price gouging, and product cancellations
06 Jan 16:14 | 25
Business
Consultants bag £375m for their role in developing the UK's faltering COVID-19 Test and Trace system
Nice work if you can get it...
06 Jan 13:18 | 60
Business
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf retiring, sceptre passes to president Cristiano Amon
So long, and thanks for all the fish
05 Jan 19:31 |
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Cloud
On his way out, Trump emits exec order suggesting US cloud giants must verify ID of all foreign customers
Know-your-client demand may just be ignored by incoming Biden admin
Software
If my calculations are correct, when Google Chrome hits version 88, you're gonna see some serious... security
Manifest v3 plus JavaScript timer throttling, vuln fixes, FTP killed off, etc
Security
FireEye publishes details of SolarWinds hacking techniques, gives out free tool to detect signs of intrusion
Instructions for spotting and keeping suspected Russians out of systems
Software
Windows Product Activation – or just how many numbers we could get a user to tell us down the telephone
A confession from ex-Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer. Also: WPA fun in the Registry
Science
Engineers blame 'intentionally conservative' test parameters for premature end to Space Launch System hotfire
'If this scenario occurred during a flight, the rocket would have continued to fly'
Analysis
With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds... and a giant middle finger to America
A last gasp for the era of alternate facts
Security
Malwarebytes says its Office 365, Azure tenancies invaded by SolarWinds hackers, insists its tools are still safe to use
Points finger at privilege escalation via application rights in Azure AD, which Microsoft says is as designed
Security
Dnsmasq, used in only a million or more internet-facing devices globally, patches not-so-secret seven spoofing, hijacking flaws
Get your updates when you can for gear from scores of manufacturers
DevOps
Over long US weekend, GitHub HR boss quit after firing Jewish staffer who warned Nazis were at the Capitol
Microsoft-owned code silo admits 'significant errors of judgment and procedure'
Personal Tech
Raspberry Pi Foundation moves into microcontrollers with the $4 Pi Pico using homegrown silicon
Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ board for hobbyists and power users alike
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Business
Trump pushes anti-immigrant policy into Biden term with extended freeze on H-1B and other work visas
Applicants will need to hold off until March at the earliest
04 Jan 21:15 | 12
12BoC
It's just a pair of arrows. What could be more innocent than that?
Crossing the LogoWatch and Borkage streams: A Bork averted
04 Jan 09:30 | 18
Policy
New York Stock Exchange bins China’s three biggest telcos
As China launches Alibaba antitrust probe, warns Tencent, and the clock keeps TikTok-ing for Oracle
04 Jan 04:57 | 13
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
What can the 1944 OSS manual teach us before we all return to sabotage the office?
Tell you what, let’s have a meeting about it
01 Jan 11:30 | 73
Policy
Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA
A simple cut-and-paste text job from a 2008 EU treaty for genetic databases
31 Dec 06:04 | 182
Policy
Hong Kong's Hutchison Group, which runs mobile carrier ‘3’, protests as USA puts it on new China ban list
Trump administration is behind the times: used old name for Chinese company Hutchison sold ages ago
23 Dec 03:03 | 54
Business
North of England NHS buyers name IT consultants who got in on £200m framework deal
Hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of consultancy work farmed out
22 Dec 16:28 | 21
Policy
Australia wants Google to jump higher and sweat before it can buy Fitbit
Ad giant’s promise to play nice with other exercise gadgets accepted in Brussels, deferred down under
22 Dec 03:01 | 4
Business
Taiwan’s Wistron says iPhone factory riot won’t cause significant impact to its business
Dodges reports alleging Apple has put it on probation
22 Dec 00:42 | 5
Policy
NHS awards £23m two-year deal to controversial Peter Thiel AI firm Palantir
Legal challenges? Scrutiny? Ah, never mind those
21 Dec 16:02 | 39
Policy
'Following the science' rhetoric led to delay to UK COVID-19 lockdown, face mask rules
Also: Would have been great if they'd chatted to an epidemiologist about Eat Out to Help Out project
21 Dec 14:15 | 213
Policy
Chinese chipmaker SMIC says US sanctions mean it will struggle to develop 10nm products
As India shouts out to world+dog: Anyone fancy building a fab here?
21 Dec 02:02 | 6
Policy
Let the chips fall where they may: US Commerce dept whacks Middle Kingdom firm SMIC on naughty list
At the SMIC of a flitch, biggest China semi foundry's on the entity list
18 Dec 17:45 | 35
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Business
Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines
Who remembers that Army recruitment calamity? Not the salty sea dogs running the naval forces
18 Dec 16:20 | 91
Business
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna needs new business cards already after appointment as board chair
Ginni Rometty’s retirement confirmed tho Big Blue’s keeping her on as a part-time $20k/day consultant
17 Dec 06:03 | 23
Policy
Googlers will be working from home until September 2021, says Sundar Pichai, followed by 'flexible' work weeks
Chocolate Factory hopes it will 'lead to greater productivity, collaboration and well-being' for staffers
14 Dec 19:31 | 6
Business
What's the price of failure? For Capita, it's a £140m extension to its MoD recruiting contract
Yes, the one that cost the British Army 25,000 new soldiers when IT went live
14 Dec 16:15 | 11
Business
Capita finally finds buyer for education software biz, private equity Montagu to pay £400m
Price believed to be £100m lower than initial estimates
14 Dec 13:36 | 7
