Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction [Thu Feb 18 2021]

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Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction

James Bond? Inspector Gadget? Yup, all here

 
 

Business

Now this is Epic: Fortnite maker takes Apple fight to the European Commission and... er... Bismarck, North Dakota

Doesn't matter which court, Cupertino vociferously defends App Store terms

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UK tax collector won't probe businesses for compliance with IR35 rules unless there's reason to suspect naughtiness

No penalties for contractor oopsies in first year, but you'll still have to pay what HMRC thinks you owe

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Fujitsu scrapping fuel card benefit to cut costs, threatens dissenters with fire and rehire

Going green or just plain mean?

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Google Cloud forges new passage to India with Tata Communications

Azure and AWS already have same cloud deal, but hey - new friends!

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New FCC boss leaps into action by… creating three committees to look at longstanding problems and come back at some point

Nothing says urgency like non-binding future reports

New York AG sues Amazon for putting 'profit over people' when it comes to COVID-19

State legal filing answers Amazon's preemptive federal lawsuit last week

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Linux as root partition on Hyper-V: Microsoft submits patches for kernel 5.12

Next step in Redmond's 'complete virtualization stack with Linux'

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Uncle Sam's Department of Justice isn't Slacking over $28bn Salesforce merger

Hold up, just a few more questions...

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Texas blacks out, freezes, and even stops sending juice to semiconductor plants. During a global silicon shortage

Do y'all think Samsung might rethink plans to spend $$$ down there?

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Nominet claims effort to replace its board with 'safe hands' is invalid, refuses to put it to member vote

Having apparently lost, UK registry operator tries desperate legal gambit

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Pat Gelsinger promises Intel can go back to the future – in memo to staff shared with world+dog

New CEO pledges 'aggressive targets' to regain market share and leadership

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Gartner: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations Delivers Improved Business Outcomes

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Machine-learning software scours database of already available drugs that could treat COVID-19 infections

Next up: Clinical trials to test the code's suggestions

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Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

As News Corp and Google strike global news payments deal and bill passes lower house

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Amazon to build its own consumer hardware in India, starting with Fire TV sticks

Minister claims investment attraction regime is working, also asks for help getting products from villages into Marketplace

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Security

Uncle Sam accuses three suspected North Korean govt hackers of stealing $1.3bn+ from banks, crypto orgs

Oh yes, and hacking Hollywood, allegedly

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You don't have clearance for that: Microsoft ups the paranoia with a preview of Azure Firewall Premium

Reassuring the regulators

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Think your backups will protect you from ransomware? What do you think the malware attacked first?

Immutablity or vulnerability – it’s your choice

Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction

James Bond? Inspector Gadget? Yup, all here

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Palo Alto Networks drops $156m to absorb DevSecOps firm Bridgecrew

Open-source stuff stays for now, company promises

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Software

Trello moved 'Facelift' card to Completed on Go Live board

New views, card types, and branding as 10th anniversary nears

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Microsoft's most useful open-source project for Kubernetes, Dapr hits the 1.0 primetime

API now stable, more on the way

Microsoft Teams still on mute: Vid conf system crashes, 'potential networking issue' blamed

So, Zoom again then?

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Hitting the mother-node: TigerGraph devours $105m funding in Series C round

Everyone wants to be the 'Snowflake of X' – in this case, the graph DB world

Another reprieve for exhausted IT admins: Looks like there are no whizzbangers in Windows 10 21H1

Still Missing In Action for Windows Insiders

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UK dev loses ownership claim on forensic software he said he wrote in spare time and licensed to employer

Ex-copper signed over copyright to bosses, judge rules

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Science

European Space Agency open to hiring astronauts with a physical disability

‘Help Wanted … in Space’ signs go up for first time in over a decade

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Co-founder of coronavirus vaccine biz holds in-person tech event... 20+ attendees later test positive for COVID-19

Serial entrepreneur regrets the error

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