US President Joe Biden reminds the White House he is serious about repairability [Thu Jan 27 2022]

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US President Joe Biden reminds the White House he is serious about repairability

Tech giants will voluntarily do the right thing because of course they always do

 
 

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Head of Big Tech Expertise? Believe it or not, it's a UK.gov vacancy for a Whitehall job

What happened to loosening stranglehold of major tech firms on the public sector?

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Modernise applications with document databases

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In a first, FTC extracts millions of dollars from online store accused of blocking bad reviews on its website

Glad rags merchandiser denies wrongdoing, says it coughed up $4.2m to 'avoid distraction'

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5nm? Pah. Texas Instruments focuses on 45nm+ analog, embedded electronics – and makes bank

Most electronics in the things you use are on old-school-gen process nodes, after all

Refresh? No, F5 says supply of networking chips is still awful, getting worse...

More than 400 orders for components cancelled by suppliers, says CEO

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US President Joe Biden reminds the White House he is serious about repairability

Tech giants will voluntarily do the right thing because of course they always do

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IR35 is the biggest threat to the contractor working model, survey finds

Brexit, COVID-19 and tax rises all eclipsed by the omnipresent rule change, study of contractors finds

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Google dumps interest-based ad system for another interest-based ad system

For FLoC's sake, people

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Watchdog clears 90 per cent of US commercial aircraft to land in low visibility at nation's 5G C-band airports

Don't start celebrating just yet if you own a Boeing 747-8, 747-8F, 777

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Cloud Or Colo? The Point When AI Startups Need To Make The Switch

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Alert: Let's Encrypt to revoke about 2 million HTTPS certificates in two days

Relatively small number of certs issued using a verification method that doesn't comply with policy

Infosec big dogs break out the bubbly over UK government's latest cyber strategy emission

See that? That's a promise of fat contracts, that is

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Infosec chap: I found a way to hijack your web accounts, turn on your webcam from Safari – and Apple gave me $100k

Now you see a harmless PNG. Now it's a malicious payload. Look into my eyes

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Why-your-email

Why your email encryption solution is doomed

(And what you can do about it)

Software

Indian government floats idea of home-grown challenger for Android and iOS

May not be the smartest move seeing as alternative OSes crater – and Google promised to spend billions in India

Windows boss Panos Panay talks up 'new era of the PC' – translation: An era of new PCs

1.4 billion devices running Redmond's OS, Android apps coming, and more

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Korea gives a $7.5bn nod to the metaverse and AI projects

Move over K-pop, the K-metaverse is coming

SCC bags £91m deal after contract to support HMRC system initially set at £85m

Take a hike

OpenShell has been working on a classic replacement for Windows 11's Start menu

It's still early days, though

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Microsoft revenue up by a fifth as world shuffles through the pandemic into the metaverse

Cloud the top earner as usual but Redmond is doubling down on gaming

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ESA's Solar Orbiter sneaks in bonus science by choking on the dust of a comet tail (again)

Plucky probe due to make closest pass to the Sun in March

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How to polish the bottom line? Microsoft makes it really hard to claim expenses, say staffers

If even Captain PowerShell can't automate this, what hope is there for the rest of us?

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Mike Lynch loses US extradition delay bid: Flight across the Atlantic looks closer than ever

Autonomy founder set for criminal trial on multiple counts of fraud over sale of biz to HPE

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It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy

Anyone fancy a spherical tokamak in their backyard?

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