California backs Proposition 22: Great news for Uber, Lyft as their drivers can work as indie contractors
(2020/11/04)
And bad news for Facebook, Google after Golden State favors online privacy measures
If you're an update laggard, buck up: Chrome zero-days are being exploited in the wild
(2020/11/04)
Desktop and Android versions both at risk
DRAM and NAND demand is up, but it's not enough to buoy SK Hynix profits as prices plummet amid supply glut
(2020/11/04)
Thanks for the memory
What do tomorrow’s developers need to succeed?
(2020/11/04)
Introducing the Decoded Podcast
SEC: If you want to easily crowdfund investment in your business, knock yourself out, all the way to $5m
(2020/11/04)
Rules loosened by regulator, concerns raised they favor the rich
Black Lives Matter protester ID'd from Twitter photo via facial-recog system secretly used by US law enforcement
(2020/11/04)
NCRFRILS had never been disclosed publicly – until court case
There's no love lost as AWS lures Oracle exec over to lead its Americas sales team
(2020/11/04)
That's going to smooth relations between Larry and Jeff
Huawei sues US govt over claims Trump administration ignored company's Freedom of Information requests
(2020/11/04)
Suit pushes Uncle Sam to release documents comms giant alleges were suppressed due to 'policy objectives'
Suspended sentence for bank IT worker who hacked his boss's webcam because he didn't get a payrise
(2020/11/04)
Savage judge condemns crim's behaviour as 'utterly stupid'
BBC makes switch to AWS, serverless for new website architecture, observers grumble about the HTML
(2020/11/04)
News aggregator says it's 'way more complicated and much harder to parse'
Heck yeah, we should have access to our own cars' repair data: Voters in US state approve a landmark right-to-repair ballot measure
(2020/11/04)
It has been Biden its time
Whoa, humans have been hanging out and doing science stuff in freaking space aboard the ISS for 20 years
(2020/11/04)
Orbital lab emerges from teens to an uncertain future. How very 2020
Please, tell us more about how just 60 hydrogen-powered 5G drones could make 400,000 UK base stations redundant
(2020/11/04)
Gartner's finest – a former vulture – draws clouds over eyebrow-raising connectivity plan
Vivo pushes out X51 5G: Chipper whippersnapper, quite a battery-sapper, but at least the wrapper's dapper
(2020/11/04)
Hip to be square and aimed at the Euro crowd
With less than two months left, let's check in on Brexit: All IT systems are up and running and ready to go, says no one
(2020/11/04)
Oh sorry, did you expect this headline to work out differently?
Your VDI footprint just got a lot bigger. Need some help?
(2020/11/04)
Intel advises how to choose your infrastructure
AI me to the Moon... Carbon footprint for 'training GPT-3' same as driving to our natural satellite and back
(2020/11/04)
Get ready for Energy Star stickers on your robo-butlers, maybe?
Remember so-not-a-pirate Kim Dotcom? New Zealand’s highest court has just said the USA can extradite him for copyright naughtiness
(2020/11/04)
But first, he gets a judicial review and chance to extend eight-year legal saga
Was that November's Patch Tuesday? Already? Oh, no, it's just Adobe issuing 14 emergency security fixes
(2020/11/04)
Critical Acrobat, Reader flaws evidently couldn't wait until next week
The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage. Robo-taxis might need 11TB
(2020/11/04)
And it’ll be in proper SSDs, not cheap NAND muck that drives infotainment systems today, say analysts
The GPL Is Not Y2K-Compliant!
BOSTON, MA -- Panic ensued earlier today at GNU Project Headquarters when
it was discovered that the GNU General Public License is not ready for the
year 2000. Thankfully, the panic quickly subsided when RMS posted an
emergency diff file to Usenet that patches the GPL to eliminate the
problem.
The non-Y2K compliant material appears on lines 295 and 316 of version 2.0
of the GPL. Both lines contain the text, "Copyright (C) 19yy ", a classic
example of unpreparedness for the year 2000.
Microsoft was quick to respond to the news, saying in a rushed press
release, "At least our license agreements don't contain any Y2K issues."
The GNU Project immediately countered Microsoft's statement with a press
release that said simply, "Whatever".