UK civil courts award £10m contract to Version 1 Solutions for end-to-end online processing (2021/09/22) Digitisation of the justice system still delivering value for money
Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship (2021/09/22) Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response
An easier way to Flutter? Custom functions improve visual code builder but devs may still be frustrated (2021/09/22) FlutterFlow is a visual application builder for the popular framework
UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones (2021/09/22) Project wins £50k from government
Nutanix reckons cloud is a concept, not a place – and guess who it reckons has nailed the concept? (2021/09/22) Adds security and networking to platform, hoping you use it to repatriate apps
Would you like to clone your best programmer? (2021/09/22) Now you can. By using OutSystems on AWS, as this webinar shows
Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor (2021/09/22) 'A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person'
Swift 5.5 unleashed with async keyword to fix 'pyramid of doom', plus other changes in 'massive release' (2021/09/22) Full concurrency model at last
Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS (2021/09/22) Digital imports aren't currently taxed at all, and COVID means the government is keen to find new revenue sources
Japan, Singapore, perhaps the whole world.... Get ready for robot waiters from Softbank and Keenon (2021/09/22) Automation is the answer to labor shortages, social distancing, apparently
Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware (2021/09/22) File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server
Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report (2021/09/22) Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed
Now America's financial watchdog probes 'frat house' Activision Blizzard (2021/09/21) Plus: Chief Legal Officer exits as court battles loom
Suex to be you: Feds sanction cryptocurrency exchange for handling payments from 8+ ransomware variants (2021/09/21) Russia-based biz targeted in Uncle Sam's crack down on cyber-extortion
SEC takes legal action after crowdfunded marijuana investment scheme appears to go up in smoke (2021/09/21) Platform and individuals charged in first case of its kind
Canonical gives administrators the chance to drag their feet a bit more on Ubuntu upgrades (2021/09/21) Two more years! Two more years!
US Congress ponders setting up permanent UFO investigation office (2021/09/21) Nothing to do with little green men, mind, unless they can be defined as state or non-state actors
Open Source Jobs Report: Explosive cloud growth knocks Linux off top spot for desired skillsets (2021/09/21) 455% hike in demand for Kubernetes qualifications causes a stir
JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal (2021/09/21) Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the courtroom
Fivetran snags $565m funding round as Snowflake attempts to eat its lunch with in-house data integration tools (2021/09/21) Also buys data replication company HVR for $700m