US grounds investors in Chinese drone maker DJI over 'Xinjiang human rights abuses'
(2021/12/17)
Alleges it and seven other Middle Kingdom tech outfits aid systematic oppression of Uyghur minority
Confirmed: James Webb Space Telescope team plans launch for this Xmas Eve after data cable fix
(2021/12/17)
Have all those scientists been naughty ... or nice?
Cryptocurrency 'rug pulls' cheated investors out of $8bn in 2021 – report
(2021/12/16)
Somehow people keep buying into dodgy crypto projects that vanish with investor funds
Newly discovered millipede earns its name by being the first to walk on one thousand legs
(2021/12/16)
Millipede? Has something been bugging you about the name? Not any more
Pop!_OS 21.10: Radical distro shows potential but does not play nicely with others
(2021/12/16)
You can really tell System76 is a hardware vendor
Barclays snubs public cloud giants and hardware rivals for HPE GreenLake private cloud
(2021/12/16)
Bank migrating thousands of apps and 100k+ workloads to new platform
East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries
(2021/12/16)
App runs off a database, and databases are run by humans
Samsung gets 2-year contract extensions to provide rugged handsets for UK's troubled Emergency Services Network
(2021/12/16)
Fiasco replacing fire, police and ambulance comms already costing £550m for each year of delay
What does 2022 have in store for Asahi Linux on Apple chips? Drivers aplenty, but that GPU still needs tackling
(2021/12/16)
Handily, the team spotted a bug in Linux's ARM SMMU support too
SMACKDOWN! Reddit hires wrestling's investor relations head to helm IPO
(2021/12/16)
Both WWE and Reddit have cult-like followings, so why not?
Database company Cockroach Labs more than doubles in value to $5bn
(2021/12/16)
'Cloud-native' outfit munches up $278m in new funding
British Mensa arm pays libel damages to former CTO and director Eugene Hopkinson
(2021/12/16)
Settles claims relating to cyber attack and data leak, court hears
£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit
(2021/12/16)
Lack of recognition and support for quality engineering part of science's reproducibility problem, MPs hear
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter planning move to blockchain. How will it work? Your guess is as good as ours
(2021/12/16)
Don't worry, it'll be carbon neutral ...
Move fast, break security: Why CISOs must push back against Agile IT
(2021/12/16)
The Vectra Masked CISO series gives security leaders a place to expose the biggest issues in security and advise peers on how to overcome them
Gnu Nano releases version 6.0 of text editor, can now hide UI frippery
(2021/12/16)
First five full releases took 20 years, this one arrived in 18 months
National Cyber Strategy will lead to BritChip for mobile devices by 2025, claims UK.gov
(2021/12/16)
And potentially an increase in UK state-backed hacks
Japan draws a LINE: web giants must reveal where they store user data
(2021/12/16)
Looks a lot like a response to messaging services passing data through China
Mars helicopter mission (which Apache says is powered byLog4j) overcomes separate network glitch to confirm new flight record
(2021/12/16)
Ingenuity clocks up 30 minutes flying in the Martian skies
India makes $10B bid to grow local semiconductor industry to serve – and challenge – the world
(2021/12/16)
Which isn't a lot – a single fab can cost more than the entire subsidy pool. India wants four built soon