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I’d love to sort out that issue for you, Steve, but it’s Saturday and I'd rather not commit a crime

Europe has had enough of the blurring between work and personal time – where your boss calls you in the evening or colleagues email at the weekend – and is mulling introducing legislation that would provide a “right to disconnect.”…

What a co-incidence this news has emerged in the same week as a five-yearly party congress!

Intel has revealed that it pumped an extra US$475m into its facilities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.…

Small-scale test involving biosensor and trained algorithms shows early promise

Scientists say they have devised a way to screen for prostate cancer using a drop of urine, a sensor, and AI algorithms. And the test takes just twenty minutes, and is 99 per cent accurate, according to results from a small-scale test.…

Scorches Flash for the very last time, too

The Mozilla Foundation has scorched a pair of monstrosities in the new version 85 of its Firefox browser.…

You probably remember it as Tucows.com, an essential source of shareware downloads for the early Web

One of the web’s early software download bazaars, Tucows.com, has closed.…

Chip designer records bumper final quarter and full year, predicts more of the same to come, says supply flow will increase

Sometimes, things just go right. AMD on Tuesday reported record full-year and fourth-quarter financial figures, all due to interest in its chips across the board, from microprocessors in PCs and servers to GPUs in games consoles, and all during a pandemic.…

Management masterclass as locked-up Lee Jae-Yong apologises for his absence

Samsung’s vice chairman and de facto boss Lee Jae-Yong has reportedly sent staff motivational messages from inside prison.…

FY21 Q2 results buoyed by cloud demand, pandemic-driven IT focus

Microsoft far exceeded expectations for its second-quarter fiscal 2021 financial results, posting $43.1bn in revenue, an increase of 17 per cent.…

How's your year going?

A US Air Force intelligence officer who kidnapped her daughter to Mexico and attempted to defect to Russia with information labelled top secret has been jailed for 11 years.…

Messaging wunderkind said to be haven for extremists – and Silicon Valley gave it a pass, ex-ambassador complains

Marc Ginsberg, a former US ambassador who oversees a non-profit called Coalition for a Safer Web (CSW), sued Alphabet's Google subsidiary on Monday for failing to remove the Telegram Messenger app from its Google Play store.…

Sudo, make me a heap overflow! Done, this system is now yours

Security researchers from Qualys have identified a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo that can be exploited by rogue users to take over the host system.…

Plus fixes for iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, XCode, iCloud for Windows – and a day after Google disclosed Nork op

Apple today released software updates to patch vulnerabilities in iPhones and iPads that may have been exploited by miscreants to silently snoop on victims from afar.…

Shenanigans called on ASP.NET scaffolding tech

A New York judge has denied Microsoft a new trial after the software giant attempted to overturn a 2020 judgement over its infringement of a database interface patent.…

Academics can apply for free access to historic Twitter data, so there is a use for the well of human misery after all

Twitter is making public tweet data freely available to academic researchers in the hope the boffins can use it to make the world a better place.…

Meet MicroDroid, a base image for on-device VMs that might never see light of day

Google is working on a stripped-down version of Android for virtualized environments, judging by source code commits made to the AOSP repository.…

Windows 10 Team Creators Update due for support axe in March - yes, two months from now

Microsoft is set to resume rolling out the Windows 10 Team 2020 Update, although some administrators will have only a few short weeks before the previous version drops out of support.…

Two feet sideways and it could have been the pilot: report

A drone crashed into the windscreen of a helicopter being flown at low altitude and injured a passenger aboard the aircraft.…

Press secretary won't say nay or yea on Entity List, but prez says 'we need to play a better defense'

It has been six days since Joe Biden became president of the United States. Since then, he has wasted no time in reversing policy decisions made by his predecessor with a series of executive actions on LGBT rights, the environment, and race relations.…

O'Reilly's opinionated survey says low-code on the up and modern web dev is 'chilling'

A report from an online learning platform presents a different take on programming language and devops trends, showing Python and Java ahead of the usual survey winner JavaScript.…

Money talks in Morrisons and Co-Op

Shoppers keen to avoid that personal touch have been faced with multi-day card payment problems at UK grocery giants Morrisons and the Co-Op.…