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Europe considers making it law that your boss can’t bug you outside of office hours
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.”…
Intel reveals US$475m investment in Vietnam as Communist Party says it loves high-tech industry
Intel has revealed that it pumped an extra US$475m into its facilities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.…
Soon, no more blood tests or probing for prostate cancer? AI claims 99% success rate using more relaxing methods
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.…
Firefox 85 crumbles cache-abusing supercookies with potent partitioning powers
The Mozilla Foundation has scorched a pair of monstrosities in the new version 85 of its Firefox browser.…
The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software goes offline for good
One of the web’s early software download bazaars, Tucows.com, has closed.…
AMD's Lisa Su: Our processor sales are Ryzen faster than the PC market is growing
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.…
Dear team: Please work hard in 2021. I’d help, but I’m in jail. Yours, the boss of Samsung
Samsung’s vice chairman and de facto boss Lee Jae-Yong has reportedly sent staff motivational messages from inside prison.…
Microsoft smashes Wall Street's expectations with $43bn sales bonanza
Microsoft far exceeded expectations for its second-quarter fiscal 2021 financial results, posting $43.1bn in revenue, an increase of 17 per cent.…
US cyber intelligence officer given 11 years for kidnapping her kid, trying to hawk top secrets to Russia in Mexico
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.…
Google, Apple sued for failing to give Telegram chat app the Parler put-down treatment
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.…
Decade-old bug in Linux world's sudo can be abused by any logged-in user to gain root privileges
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.…
Apple emits emergency iOS security updates while warning holes may have been exploited in wild by hackers
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.…
Dynamic Data do-over denied: Judge upholds $7m patent infringement claim against Microsoft
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.…
A Twitter world-improvement plan that doesn't involve deleting Twitter? Unleash the boffins, says microblogging biz
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.…
Google's Git commits point to project on pared-back Android for virtualized environments
Google is working on a stripped-down version of Android for virtualized environments, judging by source code commits made to the AOSP repository.…
Got Surface Hubs? Better get cracking: Windows 10 for Whiteboards to resume rolling out in February
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.…
Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger
A drone crashed into the windscreen of a helicopter being flown at low altitude and injured a passenger aboard the aircraft.…
Huawei has been Biden its time, but there's no sign new US president will reverse American sanctions
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.…
A new take on programming trends: You know what's not a bunch of JS? Devs learning Python and Java ahead of JavaScript
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.…
No cards, thanks, we're contactless-less: UK supermarket giants hit by card payment TITSUP*
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.…