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Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw 9.8-rated bug allows arbitrary code execution – possibly without authentication

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UK government names suppliers on £3.5bn contact centre, shared services, and outsourcing framework

The usual suspects

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Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies The Register takes you through the event’s keynotes

Webcast Slide Deck \| Zero trust data management Fighting back and recovering from ransomware

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TSMC to hike chip prices 'by as much as 20%'

If you want all these new fabs, you're gonna pay for 'em, pal

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Apple wants to scan iCloud to protect kids, can't even keep them safe in its own App Store – report

Tech Transparency Project accuses iGiant of lip service to child safety

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Video game curfew for South Korean teens to be more permissive by end of 2021

Decade-old policy starting to look silly amid myriad of online late-night vices available to them

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UK promises big data law shake-up... while also keeping the EU happy, of course. What could go wrong?

New Information Commissioner to be given licence to promote 'innovation and growth'

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Bumble fumble: Dude divines definitive location of dating app users despite disguised distances

And it's a sequel to the Tinder stalking flaw

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Webcast Slide Deck \| Engineering metrics that matter Why is it so hard for engineering teams to measure their value?

Webcast Slide Deck \| Modern ransomware How did we get here (and where are we going)?

Security

Surveillance tech company sues Police Digital Service over 'flawed' scoring of bids on £18m contract

Excession chief exec testifies in High Court of England and Wales

Big tech proud as punch about cameos in Joe Biden's security theatre

After White House summit, AWS promises MFA tokens, Google and Microsoft spray money, IBM 'announces' snapshots against ransomware

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Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw

9.8-rated bug allows arbitrary code execution – possibly without authentication

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Israeli firm Bright Data named as enabler of Philippines government DDOS attacks on opposition groups

Bright denies all in this odd tale of a leaky VPN, creepy proxy networks, 8Chan, clouds hosting wonky workloads, and Swedish digital rights org Qurium

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It’s not if you embrace AI, it’s when

(and when is probably now)

Software

'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim

Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud

South Korea may ban Apple, Google from forcing store payment systems on app devs

Korean firms also keen to be your Seoul provider, says expert

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Machine learning data pipeline outfit Splice Machine files for insolvency

That went well

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Start or Please Stop? Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

'People wanted a cleaner and simpler Start' said Microsoft, but not everyone's happy

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Microsoft reminds Azure App Service users that community support for Java 7 ends soon – shift to version 8 or beyond

This is your one-year warning

Pakistan's tax office denies pirated software caused outage – admits it sometimes runs unsupported software

Can't keep up with software licence payments but says it's been on top of VMware payments for at least a whole year now

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America's Argonne lab buys AI super from HPE, AMD, Nvidia while waiting for Intel

44-PFLOPS Polaris 'testbed' ordered ahead of Chipzilla-powered Aurora

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Offbeat

'No peeing towards Russia' sign appears on country's Arctic border with Norway

Don't poke the bear! Or urinate on it

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Brit says sorry after waving around nonce patent and leaning on sites to cough up

Using that CSP 2.0 feature? You may have received a worrying missive

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Think you can solve the UK's electric vehicle charging point puzzle? The Ordnance Survey wants to hear about it

Two-day hackathon to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe, and where to put them

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Facebook used facial recognition without consent 200,000 times, says South Korea's data watchdog

Hands Zuck its second-largest fine ever, also makes Netflix pay up and warns Google to be more obvious about privacy

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Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw [Fri Aug 27 2021]

{* Daily Headlines *}

Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw

Off-Prem

UK government names suppliers on £3.5bn contact centre, shared services, and outsourcing framework

Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies

Webcast Slide Deck | Zero trust data management

On-Prem

TSMC to hike chip prices 'by as much as 20%'

Apple wants to scan iCloud to protect kids, can't even keep them safe in its own App Store – report

Video game curfew for South Korean teens to be more permissive by end of 2021

UK promises big data law shake-up... while also keeping the EU happy, of course. What could go wrong?

Bumble fumble: Dude divines definitive location of dating app users despite disguised distances

Webcast Slide Deck | Engineering metrics that matter

Webcast Slide Deck | Modern ransomware

Security

Surveillance tech company sues Police Digital Service over 'flawed' scoring of bids on £18m contract

Big tech proud as punch about cameos in Joe Biden's security theatre

Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw

Israeli firm Bright Data named as enabler of Philippines government DDOS attacks on opposition groups

It’s not if you embrace AI, it’s when

Software

'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim

South Korea may ban Apple, Google from forcing store payment systems on app devs

Machine learning data pipeline outfit Splice Machine files for insolvency

Start or Please Stop? Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

Microsoft reminds Azure App Service users that community support for Java 7 ends soon – shift to version 8 or beyond

Pakistan's tax office denies pirated software caused outage – admits it sometimes runs unsupported software

America's Argonne lab buys AI super from HPE, AMD, Nvidia while waiting for Intel

Offbeat

'No peeing towards Russia' sign appears on country's Arctic border with Norway

Brit says sorry after waving around nonce patent and leaning on sites to cough up

Think you can solve the UK's electric vehicle charging point puzzle? The Ordnance Survey wants to hear about it

Facebook used facial recognition without consent 200,000 times, says South Korea's data watchdog

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