Worried about occasional npm malware scares? It's more common than you may think (2022/02/03) WhiteSource says it spotted 1,300 malicious JavaScript packages in 2021 alone
Absolutely fabless: Chip startup funding reaches record $20bn in 2021 (2022/02/03) America focuses on AI and emerging tech, China on the gaps left by US sanctions
Right-to-repair laws proposed in the US aim to make ownership great again (2022/02/02) Bills seek to legalize digital lock breaking when mending stuff, ensure farmers can fix their machines
Prince of Packaging HP Inc snaps up zero-plastic bottle maker (2022/02/02) Patented plastic-free tech from Choose Packaging
Another Massive Display as AMD hails 'outstanding' 2021, teases Genoa and Bergamo chips (2022/02/02) Semiconductor giant sees growth across the board
Telecoms consulting outfit Sentaca disappears inside IBM's Hybrid Cloud Services (2022/02/02) Big Blue wants to 'bring edge and 5G to life for enterprises'
UK think tank proposes Online Safety Bill reviewer to keep tabs on Ofcom decisions (2022/02/02) Terror watchdog is a bad model to follow, though
European watchdog: All data collected about users via ad-consent popup system must be deleted (2022/02/02) Decision to affect Google's, Amazon's and Microsoft's online ads biz
50 lines of Bash to bring a Wordle fan out of their shell (2022/02/02) Solved today's in two? Now try and exit Vim
Court of Appeal ruling offers hope for UK umbrella firm workers chasing holiday pay (2022/02/02) Plumber's right did not lapse 'but carried over and accumulated until termination of the contract'
UK to splash another £1.4bn on protecting non-existent 'national interests in space' (2022/02/02) But what of the domestic launchers?
Brocade wrongly sacked award-winning salesman who depended on company insurance for cancer treatment (2022/02/02) 'Global benefit' chief: Broadcom buyout means pay your own way
Breath of fresh air: v7.3 of LibreOffice boasts improved file importing and rendering (2022/02/02) And better compatibility with some more proprietary word processors
DMCA-dot-com XSS vuln reported in 2020 still live today and firm has shrugged it off (2022/02/02) Researcher tells world after being stonewalled
Second Trojan asteroid confirmed to be leading our planet around the Sun (2022/02/02) Good candidate for fly-by, say scientists, and we’ve got 4,000 years to do it
Oracle Linux appears somewhere unexpected: The Windows Store (2022/02/02) A familiar face in an unfamiliar place
What are real organisations doing with zero trust? (2022/02/02) Take part in this short survey and let's find out together
Google Cloud started running its servers for an extra year, still loses billions (2022/02/02) Parent company Alphabet hails first year of revenue above $250B
German regulators nix Taiwanese titan GlobalWafers' acquisition of Siltronic (2022/02/02) China's slow signoff didn't help matters one bit