New Zealand DDoS wave targets banks, post offices, weather forecasters and more (2021/09/08) Nobody from government will say a word about who's behind it
Proton welcomes Sir Tim Berners-Lee to its advisory board – as ProtonMail suffers a privacy backlash (2021/09/08) 'I am a firm supporter of privacy,' Sir Tim declares - even as the service is lambasted over IP logging
Just because you’re doing 'modern' software development doesn’t mean you’re not running up technical debt (2021/09/08) Here’s why, and here’s how to pay it down
3 years, 17 alphas, 2 betas, and over 7,500 commits later, OpenSSL version 3 is here (2021/09/08) What have we learned during that time? Quite a bit, it appears
Google plays catch-up with JSON support for distributed RDBMS Spanner (2021/09/08) Nice if you want to store extra attributes with changing relational schema, but not a threat to NoSQL specialists
Council culture: Software test leads to absurd local planning SNAFU (2021/09/08) Swale Borough Council faced with hefty bill for junior IT hero's whimsical afternoon's work
Browser-based video editor Clipchamp disappears into the bowels of Microsoft 365 (2021/09/08) Like Windows Movie Maker on the web
We're going deeper underground: New digital project to map UK's sub-surface 'assets' (2021/09/08) 4 million holes dug in the UK each year... many in the wrong place
UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead (2021/09/08) You can't reduce such a vital issue to concern over paedophiles and terrorists
Intel's Mobileye unveils first 'production-grade fully electric self-driving vehicle,' partners with Sixt for Munich launch (2021/09/08) Quietly adds that it hasn't yet received regulatory approval
AT&T Alien Labs warns of 'zero or low detection' for TeamTNT's latest malware bundle (2021/09/08) Chimaera toolkit found on 'thousands' of Windows, Linux, and container systems worldwide
Compromise reached as Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors (2021/09/08) 'Years of pain' behind the change, said Torvalds, but with Clang a problem it has been weakened
Global pandemic was good for business, say UK infosec pros – but we're still burning out (2021/09/08) Chartered Institute of Information Security reveals what you're all thinking
A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down (2021/09/08) Crackdown on open-ended, unfiltered simulations branded 'a hyper-moral stance'
With a Lidl bit of luck, this Windows installation will make it through the night (2021/09/08) Microsoft's finest just needs a nudge
Patch now? Why enterprise exploits are still partying like it's 1999 (2021/09/08) Am I only dreaming, or is this burning an Eternal Blue?
Open-source software starts with developers, but there are other important contributors, too. Who exactly? Good question (2021/09/08) Looking beyond the programmers
Lenovo throws everything it's got into TruScale ITaaS – even its in-house AI (2021/09/08) CPU cores, memory, and disk now PAYG if you want, and so are new hybrid offerings with VMware and Microsoft
Ransomware attacks are inevitable. Paying the ransom isn’t (2021/09/08) Join security leaders to learn why network, perimeter, and application security aren’t enough
UK splashes out £30m on improving antiquated patent system, Deloitte and NTT Data are the lucky winners (2021/09/08) Plans to cut patent renewal time from five days to five minutes