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Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say Welcome to 'The First Rust Governance Crisis'

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A bug introduced 6 months ago brought Google's Cloud Load Balancer to its knees

Another 30 minutes and there would have been nothing to see

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Economy class: AWS points set-your-own-cap Fleets service at cloudy desktop apps

Do users dream of Elastic fleets?

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AI Training Systems With High Performance And High Efficiency Solution Brief

The Bypass Around Database Sprawl The Fast Track to Focusing Data Assets with MariaDB

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Should be easy to win the rights to .tv when you're name-checked in the contract's tech reqs – right, Afilias?

Funny how this has happened again

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UK Test and Trace finding consultant habit hard to break: More contracts go to Deloitte and Accenture

New agency in charge, still outsourcing like the clappers

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Qualcomm kinda spins out Snapdragon – as a brand, not a business

Marketing jargon alert: Modernized, streamlined, brand iconography and more prominent fireballs inside

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Hybrid learning is a good thing How do you make it 'your' good thing?

Modernise applications with document databases The advantages of Amazon DocumentDB

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Apple sues 'amoral 21st century mercenaries' NSO for infecting iPhones with Pegasus spyware

iGiant pledges any damages plus $10m to anti-cybersurveillance groups

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Zero-day proof-of-concept exploit lands for Windows make-me-admin vulnerability

InstallerFileTakeOver code pops up on GitHub

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Crypto for cryptographers! Infosec types revolt against use of ancient abbreviation by Bitcoin and NFT devotees

Complaints abound that yoof use it to mean 'digital currency'

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UK Ministry of Justice secures HVAC systems 'protected' by passwordless Wi-Fi after Register tipoff

There's a default admin password online too

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Infosec bods: After more than a year, Sky gets round to squashing hijacking bug in 6m home broadband routers

Plus: DNS cache poisoning again, cops probe property conveyancing group's IT outage, Azure hole addressed, and more

14 Comments

Indian bank smacks down allegation it exposed 180 million customers' accounts

Infosec firm says it found unpatched software, Bank admits Exchange may not have been in the best shape

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Why your email encryption solution is doomed | Slide Deck

(And what you can do about it)

Software

PHP Foundation formed to fund core developers, vows to pay 'market salaries'

Scripting language's dependency on two contributors sparks worries about its future

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Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say

Welcome to 'The First Rust Governance Crisis'

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UK data guardian challenges government proposals on automated decision-making

Plans to change UK regulations could mean a 'significant departure' from EU law, watchdog says

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Patching Windows Server without needing to reboot is a handy feature – but it's only available on Azure

Trampolines and Retpoline: Applying patches at the function level

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AWS commits to update its own Linux every other year

Starting with a release called Amazon Linux 2022 that just hit preview

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Microsoft quietly delivers Windows 11 Enterprise VMs for devs

Loaded with all the goodies coders need to run wild with new OS, and packaged for four hypervisors

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Offbeat

Genetically modified E coli bacteria produce ink for 3D printing programmable objects

Drug delivery, environmental clean up, building in space among possible applications

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Alleged Brit SIM-swapper will kill himself if extradited to US for trial, London court told

'Exceptional' case involves 100 BTC payoff, judge told

37 Comments

Joint venture: Uber Eats to offer weed orders in Ontario

O Cannabis! Meanwhile, ride biz back to court in the UK over driver contracts

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James Webb Space Telescope gets all shook up – launch delayed again

Space agencies have been planning this thing since 1996, so what's four more days?

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Fancy being an astronaut but didn't go to uni? Your time may have finally come

Japanese space agency wants 'nauts with good eyesight and work experience – no degree required

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In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done [Thu Nov 18 2021]

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Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say [Wed Nov 24 2021]

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Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say

Off-Prem

A bug introduced 6 months ago brought Google's Cloud Load Balancer to its knees

Economy class: AWS points set-your-own-cap Fleets service at cloudy desktop apps

AI Training Systems With High Performance And High Efficiency

The Bypass Around Database Sprawl

On-Prem

Should be easy to win the rights to .tv when you're name-checked in the contract's tech reqs – right, Afilias?

UK Test and Trace finding consultant habit hard to break: More contracts go to Deloitte and Accenture

Qualcomm kinda spins out Snapdragon – as a brand, not a business

Hybrid learning is a good thing

Modernise applications with document databases

Security

Apple sues 'amoral 21st century mercenaries' NSO for infecting iPhones with Pegasus spyware

Zero-day proof-of-concept exploit lands for Windows make-me-admin vulnerability

Crypto for cryptographers! Infosec types revolt against use of ancient abbreviation by Bitcoin and NFT devotees

UK Ministry of Justice secures HVAC systems 'protected' by passwordless Wi-Fi after Register tipoff

Infosec bods: After more than a year, Sky gets round to squashing hijacking bug in 6m home broadband routers

Indian bank smacks down allegation it exposed 180 million customers' accounts

Why your email encryption solution is doomed | Slide Deck

Software

PHP Foundation formed to fund core developers, vows to pay 'market salaries'

Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say

UK data guardian challenges government proposals on automated decision-making

Patching Windows Server without needing to reboot is a handy feature – but it's only available on Azure

AWS commits to update its own Linux every other year

Microsoft quietly delivers Windows 11 Enterprise VMs for devs

Offbeat

Genetically modified E coli bacteria produce ink for 3D printing programmable objects

Alleged Brit SIM-swapper will kill himself if extradited to US for trial, London court told

Joint venture: Uber Eats to offer weed orders in Ontario

James Webb Space Telescope gets all shook up – launch delayed again

Fancy being an astronaut but didn't go to uni? Your time may have finally come

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