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£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit Lack of recognition and support for quality engineering part of science's reproducibility problem, MPs hear

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US grounds investors in Chinese drone maker DJI over 'Xinjiang human rights abuses'

Alleges it and seven other Middle Kingdom tech outfits aid systematic oppression of Uyghur minority

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Cryptocurrency 'rug pulls' cheated investors out of $8bn in 2021 – report

Somehow people keep buying into dodgy crypto projects that vanish with investor funds

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Barclays snubs public cloud giants and hardware rivals for HPE GreenLake private cloud

Bank migrating thousands of apps and 100k+ workloads to new platform

5 Comments

Samsung gets two-year contract extensions to provide rugged handsets for UK's troubled Emergency Services Network

Fiasco replacing fire, police and ambulance comms already costing £550m for each year of delay

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India makes $10B bid to grow local semiconductor industry to serve – and challenge – the world

Which isn't a lot – a single fab can cost more than the entire subsidy pool. India wants four built soon

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East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries

App runs off a database, and databases are run by humans

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National Cyber Strategy will lead to BritChip for mobile devices by 2025, claims UK.gov

And potentially an increase in UK state-backed hacks

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Japan draws a LINE: web giants must reveal where they store user data

Looks a lot like a response to messaging services passing data through China

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Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard

But still allows limited harvesting

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Storage innovations that meet the challenges of the new normal How Huawei products and technologies let you support the workloads that matter

Modernise applications with document databases The advantages of Amazon DocumentDB

Software

Pop!_OS 21.10: Radical distro shows potential but does not play nicely with others

You can really tell System76 is a hardware vendor

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What does 2022 have in store for Asahi Linux on Apple chips? Drivers aplenty, but that GPU still needs tackling

Handily, the team spotted a bug in Linux's ARM SMMU support too

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Database company Cockroach Labs more than doubles in value to $5bn

'Cloud-native' outfit munches up $278m in new funding

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£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

Lack of recognition and support for quality engineering part of science's reproducibility problem, MPs hear

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Gnu Nano releases version 6.0 of text editor, can now hide UI frippery

First five full releases took 20 years, this one arrived in 18 months

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Why your email encryption solution is doomed | Slide Deck

(And what you can do about it)

Offbeat

A festive gift to astronomers: James Webb Space Telescope may launch this Xmas Eve after data cable fix

Have all those scientists been naughty ... or nice?

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Newly discovered millipede earns its name by being the first to walk on one thousand legs

Millipede? Has something been bugging you about the name? Not any more

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SMACKDOWN! Reddit hires wrestling's investor relations head to helm IPO

Both WWE and Reddit have cult-like followings, so why not?

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British Mensa arm pays libel damages to former CTO and director Eugene Hopkinson

Settles claims relating to cyber attack and data leak, court hears

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter planning move to blockchain. How will it work? Your guess is as good as ours

Don't worry, it'll be carbon neutral ...

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Mars helicopter (yes, the one with the Log4j bug) overcomes separate network glitch to confirm new flight record

Ingenuity clocks up 30 minutes flying in the Martian skies

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£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit [Fri Dec 17 2021]

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£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

On-Prem

US grounds investors in Chinese drone maker DJI over 'Xinjiang human rights abuses'

Cryptocurrency 'rug pulls' cheated investors out of $8bn in 2021 – report

Barclays snubs public cloud giants and hardware rivals for HPE GreenLake private cloud

Samsung gets two-year contract extensions to provide rugged handsets for UK's troubled Emergency Services Network

India makes $10B bid to grow local semiconductor industry to serve – and challenge – the world

Software-defined Storage For Modern Workloads

Slide Deck | End User Computing in 2022 and Beyond

Security

East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries

National Cyber Strategy will lead to BritChip for mobile devices by 2025, claims UK.gov

Japan draws a LINE: web giants must reveal where they store user data

Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard

Storage innovations that meet the challenges of the new normal

Modernise applications with document databases

Software

Pop!_OS 21.10: Radical distro shows potential but does not play nicely with others

What does 2022 have in store for Asahi Linux on Apple chips? Drivers aplenty, but that GPU still needs tackling

Database company Cockroach Labs more than doubles in value to $5bn

£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

Gnu Nano releases version 6.0 of text editor, can now hide UI frippery

Why your email encryption solution is doomed | Slide Deck

Offbeat

A festive gift to astronomers: James Webb Space Telescope may launch this Xmas Eve after data cable fix

Newly discovered millipede earns its name by being the first to walk on one thousand legs

SMACKDOWN! Reddit hires wrestling's investor relations head to helm IPO

British Mensa arm pays libel damages to former CTO and director Eugene Hopkinson

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter planning move to blockchain. How will it work? Your guess is as good as ours

Mars helicopter (yes, the one with the Log4j bug) overcomes separate network glitch to confirm new flight record

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