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A man in California faces up to a year behind bars and a fine for crashing his drone into a police helicopter, forcing an emergency landing.…
Posted on 16 January 2021 | 11:09 am
Renowned Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo reckons the iGiant is bringing back its beloved MagSafe charging standard with the next generation of MacBook Pro machines.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 11:07 pm
The compatibility layer for Windows applications, Wine, has celebrated the start of 2021 in the traditional manner – with a substantial update.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 9:59 pm
With five days left before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration has delivered a parting blow to China's tech industry by designating Xiaomi as a "Communist Chinese military company" and placing it on a financial ban list.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 9:02 pm
Hot on the heels of a mission extension comes news that scientists have now given up on attempts to persuade the NASA InSight lander's "mole" to burrow more than a few centimetres beneath the Martian surface.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 8:06 pm
Updated Signal is experiencing a partial outage as tens of millions of netizens flood the free secure messaging service.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 7:30 pm
Interview Content management system Drupal is 20 years old, prompting its founder to talk to about its evolving role, why it shifted from a policy of breaking compatibility with each release, and concerns about JavaScript bloat causing issues for those with poor connectivity.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 6:12 pm
Epic Games intends to file a competition lawsuit against Google in the UK as part of the ongoing Fortnite-kicked-off-platforms saga, according to documents lodged with the Competition Appeal Tribunal.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 5:19 pm
SAP today reported preliminary results for 2020, showing the German enterprise software vendor serving up flat revenue and slightly improving profits, along with a worryingly notable drop in licence sales.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 4:24 pm
Dell's global chief technology officer, John Roese, shared his thoughts on where technology will go in 2021 at a roundtable event this week. Short version? Anywhere it likes – so long as it's on Dell kit.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 2:15 pm
IBM is to snaffle San Jose-based consulting outfit Taos as it seeks to bolster its cloud biz.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 1:10 pm
An "error" in a "standard housekeeping process" on the UK’s controversial Police National Computer (PNC) database has led to the deletion of more than 150,000 DNA, fingerprint and other records, the Home Office has confirmed.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 12:09 pm
Games Workshop, the fantasy model maker and table-top wargames retailer, has ingested a dose of reality as it delays its high-risk ERP project and appoints a new integrator.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 11:27 am
We can exclusively reveal that any grumbles regarding Intel's Lakefield chippery might be down to it being made out of plastic Lego parts. At least, that's if the marketing kit is anything to go by.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 10:29 am
Something for the Weekend, Sir? What was the big story of 2020? With the luxury of two weeks' hindsight, I think we can all agree: it was, of course, the year autonomous vehicles failed to go mainstream again.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 9:30 am
Infosys has revealed “dramatic growth” of its workforce in Mexico and Canada, which are being used as “near-shore bases” for its US operations despite the company last year announcing 12,000 hires in the Land of the Free.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 8:43 am
On Call A seemingly innocent uplighter looms large in today's On Call tale of NetWare nefariousness in which a reader takes observability to new lengths.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 8:15 am
The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), a government agency tasked with detecting and preventing financial crimes, has admitted that software errors led it to allege that the Vatican had inexplicably shipped AU$2.3bn to Australia.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 7:06 am
Extreme Networks has updated the WiNG-Man software that left some users unable to manage their networks with a GUI after it failed to deliver an upgrade before Adobe’s Flash plug-in reached end of life.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 5:50 am
Taiwan’s silicon manufacturing titan TSMC has revealed it should be ready to produce chips using a three-nanometre process in 2022.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 3:38 am
An MIT professor has been arrested and charged with federal grant fraud and failing to disclose contacts with the Chinese government, the US Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts said on Thursday.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 1:51 am
Cisco’s merger with Acacia Communications is set to go ahead after the Silicon Valley giant raised its offer to $4.5bn, an increase of nearly $2bn or 64 per cent.…
Posted on 15 January 2021 | 12:28 am
The US Department of Transport has recommended Tesla recall 158,000 Model S and Model X vehicles after an investigation found worn-out NAND flash memory can cause the cars’ rearview cameras to fail.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 11:40 pm
In 2010, Austin Sendek, then a physics student at UC Davis, created a petition seeking recognition for prefix "hella-" as an official International System of Units (SI) measurement representing 1027.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 10:27 pm
Around the world, office blocks sit empty. Official government guidance says if you can work remotely, you should. However, it seems like nobody told Logitech, which just expanded its B2B video conferencing portfolio with three new devices aimed at the workplace.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 9:00 pm
SAP is trying to tease the market with new features headed to the core database underpinning its enterprise applications.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 8:10 pm
It's flagship Thursday at Samsung, which for the better part of a decade has squatted over the premium sector of the Android market.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 7:21 pm
Out of the top five vulnerabilities for 2020 three dated back to 2019 or earlier, according to infosec firm Tenable's annual threat report.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 6:37 pm
A couple of news items about what we'll call "cryptidiots" wriggled into the mainstream media this week, momentarily shedding light on the important topics of e-waste and password hygiene for the masses.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 5:59 pm
Webcast There’s been a lot of talk about resilience lately. But while it’s one thing working through mid-pandemic self-care and wellness prescriptions for the individual, what does resilience mean when it comes to your company and its data?…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 5:00 pm
SpaceX hit another milestone overnight with the return of the upgraded cargo Dragon capsule from the International Space Station (ISS), which splashed down off the Florida coast.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 4:18 pm
Debian 11, codenamed "Bullseye", has entered the first freeze stage, meaning no large or disruptive changes, or new package transitions (merging, splitting, renaming or removing) are allowed. The 32-bit i386 architecture is part of the release but may not be in Debian 12, codenamed "Bookworm".…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 3:35 pm
The Ministry of Defence's multibillion budget overrun has been caused in part because of its spending splurge on flashy new "cyber" capabilities, according to the National Audit Office.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 2:56 pm
The 2020 State of JavaScript report, a survey of over 23,000 developers globally, has revealed growing use of WebPack and Jest, continuing high use of React, Express and TypeScript, and that top of the wishlist is no longer better browser compatibility, but rather static typing.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 2:01 pm
The Raspberry Pi OS plunged another knife into the dark heart of Flash this week while adding drivers for Epson printers.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 1:18 pm
South Korean memory biz SK Hynix has issued a $1 billion “green bond” with the funds intended for pay for projects designed to reduce the ecological impact of its manufacturing activities.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 12:29 pm
Eight resellers have been awarded places on a £5bn framework contract led by the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire, a county in England's East Midlands.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 11:43 am
Rust, a modern system programming language focused on performance, safety and concurrency, seems an ideal choice for creating a new operating system, and several such projects already exist. Now there is a new one, Theseus, described by creator Kevin Boos as "an Experiment in Operating System Structure and State Management."…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 11:03 am
A 23-year-old Gloucester IT worker is to stand trial after allegedly stealing more than £30,000 worth of Amazon vouchers before selling them on eBay.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 10:16 am
Exclusive Fujitsu is looking for hundreds of volunteers in its UK Delivery organisation to leave with an enhanced payoff, though only employees with at least five years' service can currently apply. At the same time it is running a small redundancy process in other areas of the business where contracts are running off.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 9:30 am
Wipro has both celebrated customers’ use of offshoring for its positive impact on its finances and suggested the concept may have been made obsolete by the pandemic-induced surge in working from home.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 8:31 am
If you’re looking for a modest RISC-V computer capable of running Linux, with AI and other acceleration thrown in, to evaluate the architecture, the people behind the BeagleBoard have teased such a thing: the BeagleV board, starting from $119 (£87).…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 8:06 am
Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey has posted a long thread in which he laments having to permanently suspend US president Donald Trump’s personal twitter account.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 7:32 am
Webcast Last year your bosses embraced remote working because, let’s face it, none of us had a choice.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 7:00 am
One of the co-creators of notorious BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay has criticised free speech social network Parler for the lack of resilience that saw it go dark after Amazon Web Services booted it out of its cloud.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 5:57 am
Qualcomm has announced it will pay $1.4bn for Arm data-center chip design biz Nuvia, a startup only established in 2019.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 4:06 am
India’s tech self-reliance push has spawned a new group that aims to fight big US tech companies,…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 3:56 am
GitHub is under fire for apparently sacking an employee two days after warning colleagues in Washington DC that “Nazis are about” during the ransacking of the US Capitol last week.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 1:52 am
Analysis A VMware employee of my acquaintance once told me a story about a customer meeting he attended alongside departing CEO Pat Gelsinger, who has just been revealed as the new CEO of Intel.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 1:04 am
Four female former employees of IT consultancy Infosys on Wednesday filed a claim with the US Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that they were subject to pervasive discrimination at the company.…
Posted on 14 January 2021 | 12:16 am