Foxconn reports booming revenue – and a baby boom among staff
(2021/02/05)
A whole new dimension of social responsibility as Taiwan’s population falls while demand for stuff it makes surges
Vote machine biz Smartmatic sues Fox News and Trump chums for $2.7bn over bogus claims of rigged 2020 election
(2021/02/05)
Turns out words have consequences
Alphabet Workers Union hits Google data center contractor with labor complaint: We were banned from discussing wages, say staff
(2021/02/05)
Modis also accused of suspending techie for criticizing working conditions
Amazon deploys AI cameras inside delivery vans, misspells 'surveillance' as 'safety' in reason why
(2021/02/05)
Another day in the world of the Bezos-built worker's panopticon
Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police
(2021/02/04)
New Jersey court says defendant must be able to challenge evidence
How do you fix a problem like open-source security? Google has an idea, though constraints may not go down well
(2021/02/04)
'Try telling leaders of libpng, libjpeg-turbo, openssl, ffmpeg etc they can't make "unilateral" changes to their own projects'
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can do that: Microsoft unveils Custom Neural Voice – synthetic, but human-sounding speech
(2021/02/04)
Out-of-work actors beware, Azure can take on voice-over duties
BT Group: Enterprise sales dip continues, ditto roaming-smacked consumer revs... but UK happily eating its fibre
(2021/02/04)
Openreach FTTP doing very well, thanks
EU infosec agency unveils 5G vendor security licensing scheme despite years of Huawei ambiguity
(2021/02/04)
Plus: Parliament says UK was too hasty booting Chinese giant off networks
Apple offends devs by asking for Developer Transition Kits back early, then offering them a measly $200 off an M1 Mac
(2021/02/04)
They also have to use the credit before 31 May or lose it
$13m funding for Scratchpad – a data input startup whose sole strength is pointing out Salesforce's weaknesses
(2021/02/04)
Huh, where's our $13m then?
Smells like Teams spirit: New platform Viva builds in all the tools Microsoft thinks staff need to succeed
(2021/02/04)
Hello lonely. Let's get you feeling productive
Nearly 70 years after America made einsteinium in its first full-scale thermo-nuke experiment, mystery element yields secrets of its chemistry
(2021/02/04)
Atom bond length of Es measured for the first time
LibreOffice 7.1 Community released with support for M1 Arm Mac and 'user interface variants'
(2021/02/04)
Community? 'The software isn’t changing at all. This is a label on the name, nothing else'
AI brain drain to Google and pals threatens public sector's ability to moderate machine-learning bias
(2021/02/04)
With top research talent focused on commercial machine-learning goals, where do we go from here?
Brit IBM veteran wins unfair dismissal case after 2018's Global Technology Services redundancy bloodbath
(2021/02/04)
Represented himself – but judge denies last-minute attempt to make it an age discrimination claim
New CloudBees boss Stephen DeWitt wants to up the SaaS factor, wouldn't say no to IPO
(2021/02/04)
Time to grow up and smell the dollars as founder Sacha Labourey steps back
Just four titans share almost two thirds of global cloud infrastructure spend, with AWS and Microsoft dominant
(2021/02/04)
Google and Alibaba playing catchup
Chromium cleans up its act – and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60 billion
(2021/02/04)
That’s a 41 per cent traffic relief for all concerned
Is there a widening gulf between you and your remote workers? Yes – and it’s security shaped
(2021/02/04)
Tune in online this month and learn how to mind the security gap
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient
evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than
words.
-- Fran Lebowitz, "Metropolitan Life"