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Not just the legacy HR and finance systems being booted

The UK’s consumer guardian for the financial services sector looks set to chop 38 jobs from its IT department in favour of buying Workday cloud-based HR and hiring an external service provider to support its compute plans.…

Swings and roundabouts: They also drove a 58% boost to business revenue

Netgear has blamed a noticeable slump in one market sector on a surprising cause: the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the UK and US.…

Cloud apps giant sets off to invent the future of work and beat Microsoft Teams

Salesforce has completed its long-awaited mega-slurp of Slack Technologies, Inc for an eye-watering $27.7bn.…

'Well that went well'

A post on why using Kubernetes to scale would mean "doing mostly the same things but in a more complicated way" was so popular that the site hosting the article went down due to the sheer volume of traffic.…

It's probably still true, though, says formal methods expert

"Software research is a train wreck," says Hillel Wayne, a Chicago-based software consultant who specialises in formal methods, instancing the received wisdom that bugs are way more expensive to fix once software is deployed.…

We've come a long way from Terry Wogan's celeb interviews

Feature Terry Wogan has a lot to answer for. From 1982 to 1992, he presented an eponymous chat show on BBC1 where he would often interview celebrities via satellite in front of an unconvincing backdrop of the Hollywood sign.…

Would you like to pay with a poke?

Thales has announced what it claims is the "world's first" payment card to include an onboard fingerprint sensor, promising improved security and usability – and an end to contactless payment limits.…

Commercial exploitation of a person's inner thoughts 'particularly worrisome'

Researchers at Imperial College London have sounded the alarm over a "bleak panorama" surrounding brain-computer interfaces (BCI), warning of a potential future in which BCI-equipped cyborgs divide the world – or have their inner thoughts harvested for commercial exploitation.…

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson says 53 per cent of cyber attacks on China come from the US

China has very firmly pushed back against the accusation it paid contractors to attack Microsoft's Exchange Server.…

Won't someone please think of the ch, er, money laundering

The European Commission has put forward legislation requiring cryptocurrency exchanges and other companies to ensure crypto-asset transfers include the personal details of the customers involved.…

Perseverance prepares to snaffle first sample for eventual retrieval

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has started the process of acquiring its first sample of Martian rock.…

Creator of QWK format suffered fatal heart attack as cops surrounded home

A man in the US has been jailed for five years for his role in the harassment and swatting of the owner of a desirable Twitter handle – a swoop that led to the netizen's death.…

Denies everything, as governments open probes into the company and its wares

The NSO Group, a purveyor of spyware it hopes governments and law enforcement bodies will use to fight terrorism, has announced it will not answer any further questions about allegations raised by Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories that its products have been widely misused.…

Meanwhile, Tokyo games ticket holder data leaks, and those affected can't even use their seats

Three US senators have written to their nation's Olympic Committee with a request that it "forbid American athletes from receiving or using Digital Yuan during the Beijing Olympics" – a reference to the Winter Games scheduled to commence on February 4th, 2022.…

Password-stealing package outed by security firm evokes sense of déjà vu

Another malicious library has been spotted in the JavaScript-oriented NPM registry, underscoring the continued fragility of today's software supply chain.…

Another year, and Chinese tech bogeyman is still on the blocklist

Huawei says it is looking to facilitate a "deeper, mutual understanding" with the US government despite remaining on the security naughty step, and is continuing to spend millions lobbying American officials in areas such as broadband and mobile technology.…

SubT Challenge pits high-tech rescue drones against one another in upsettingly non-violent combat

Legendarily loopy US military (and now also non-military) ideas factory DARPA has launched a $1m competition for underground robots.…

'PlugWalkJoe' also said to have meddled with TikTok, SnapChat

The Spanish National Police have, at the request of America, arrested UK citizen Joseph O’Connor in Estepona, Spain, in connection with the July 2020 takeover of more than 130 Twitter accounts.…

'Maybe that's what you do, but that's not what everybody does'

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has addressed a question that has occurred to most Windows users one time or another: why does Windows have a "New" menu?…

Ransomware efforts will inevitably lead to threats to life as attacks on OT go OTT

Rise of The Machines Rampaging cyber hoods will be using compromised machinery and systems to kill humans by 2025, according to cheerfully optimistic new predictions from research company Gartner.…