Long-time contributor Ellen Dash steps down after GitHub access shake-up and governance dispute A decade-long RubyGems maintainer, Ellen Dash (also known as duckinator), has resigned from Ruby Central following what she described as a "hostile takeo…
Lees meerHowever, the changes could lead to more offshoring In a surprise announcement on Friday, President Trump issued a proclamation on the H-1B visas many tech companies use to import qualified foreign workers. The headlines mentioning a $100,000 fee cau…
Lees meerHowever, the changes could lead to more offshoring In a surprise announcement on Friday, President Trump issued a proclamation on the H-1B visas many tech companies use to import qualified foreign workers. The headlines mentioning a $100,000 fee cau…
Lees meerIt will hit outsourcing companies hardest On Friday, President Trump signed a presidential proclamation to sharply raise the cost of employing H-1B workers by restricting entry unless employers make a $100,000 payment with the petition.…
Lees meerNot old enough to drink, old enough to be accused of causing millions in damage A teen surrendered to Las Vegas police and was booked on suspicion of breaking into multiple Las Vegas casino networks in 2023, as part of a series of hacks attributed t…
Lees meerSpooky season is nearly here. Want to be scared? There are fresh betas to try Two of the biggest names in fixed-release distros are nearly finished and ready to drop. You can taste them now, but they're not fully baked yet.…
Lees meerSafety watchdog doubts SpaceX can ready HLS in time for 2027 Artemis mission NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) has cast doubt on SpaceX's Starship making the 2027 Artemis III lunar landing deadline.…
Lees meerLong-time contributor Ellen Davis steps down after GitHub access shake-up and governance dispute A decade-long RubyGems maintainer, Ellen Davis (also known as duckinator), has resigned from Ruby Central following what she described as a "hostile tak…
Lees meerRatings agency points out there's a risk of relying on a small number of buyers Ratings agency Moody's has pointed to the dangers inherent in Oracle's $300 billion agreement with OpenAI - one of the deals contributing to a staggering $455 billion pi…
Lees meerQ: How many Excel users do you need to correctly set the number formatting of a cell? A: Monday, January 1st, 1900 The inaugural finals of the UK Excel Championship have come and gone, and there is now one spreadsheet wrangler to rule them all, at l…
Lees meerLloyds Data and AI lead doesn't want devs downloading models from the likes of Hugging Face – too risky Lloyds Banking Group is leaning into 21st century tech - yet trying to do so in a way that the data of its 28 million customers is kept away from…
Lees meerAirport staff revert to manual ops as travellers urged to use self-service check-in where possible The EU's cybersecurity agency today confirmed that ransonmware is the cause of continued disruption blighting major airports across Europe.…
Lees meerThinnest yet still fixable, though not without effort iFixit has given Apple's slimline new smartphone, the iPhone Air, a thumbs-up for repairability, praising its easy access to key components, despite being the thinnest handset Cupertino has built…
Lees meerProtected content in some Blu-ray and DVD applications broken Microsoft has added another entry to its growing list of problematic updates in the Windows Hall of Shame, this time causing Digital TV and Blu-ray applications to stutter and freeze when…
Lees meerAutomaker insists only names and emails exposed, no financials Car giant Stellantis is admitting that attackers targeted one of its third-party partners, spilling its own customers' details in the process.…
Lees meerProject rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls The risk rating of the UK's crime intelligence database is being elevated to "Red" by the governments projects' watchdog as the DB struggles to …
Lees meerIt's one small sip for man... British boffins say they've discovered a way of taking one of the country's favorite pastimes – having a nice cup of tea – into outer space.…
Lees meerFeds say gift card splurges tied suspect to multimillion-dollar ransomware crew Thalha Jubair, one of the two UK teens arrested on Tuesday and accused of being members of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime gang, allegedly played a role in bil…
Lees meerProject rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls The risk rating of the UK's crime intelligence database is being elevated to "Red" by the governments projects' watchdog as the DB struggles to …
Lees meerFeds say gift card splurges tied suspect to multimillion-dollar ransomware crew Thalha Jubair, one of the two UK teens arrested on Tuesday and accused of being members of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime gang, allegedly played a role in bil…
Lees meerLloyds Data and AI lead doesn't want devs downloading models from the likes of Hugging Face – too risky Lloyds Banking Group is leaning into 21st century tech - yet trying to do so in a way that the data of its 28 million customers is kept away from…
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