Airbus and Rolls-Royce hit eject on hybrid-electric airliner testbed after E-Fan X project fails to get off the ground
The federal retirement fund is about to invest in China. Some former US military leaders object.
Escobar lines up COO… for lawsuit: Controversial bendy phone slinger sues exec over ‘missing cash, YouTube hijack’
Escobar, the smartphone peddler fronted by the older brother of the late Colombian pharmaceuticals executive Pablo Escobar, is suing its chief operations officer for allegedly embezzling cash and hijacking its YouTube account.
Doesn’t say whether they are hireing.
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US threatens to turf out four Chinese telcos amid concerns over national security… and COVID-19, doctors, schools, jobs, communists, etc
America’s communications watchdog will ban four Chinese telcos from operating in the Land of the Free from next month, citing a vague national security threat.
The FCC was reacting to pressure from the White House and Department of Justice, which has embarked on an anti-China campaign that appears to be largely political in nature.
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That argument is undercut by the fact that the organizations have been operating stateside for years, and the FCC has presented no evidence of misbehavior during that time.
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Wakey-wakey! A quarter of IT pros only get 3-4 hours’ kip – and you won’t believe what’s being touted as the ‘solution’
Aussie immunology legend consults Twitter for his local off-licence opening hours
Now, if Doherty – who alongside Rolf Martin Zinkernagel was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine for “discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence” – needs a drink, you know we’re in deep.
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Do they make these for people?
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Florida man might just stick it to HP for injecting sneaky DRM update into his printers that rejected non-HP ink
One man’s effort to sue HP Inc for preventing his printers from working and forcing him to use its own branded, and more expensive, ink cartridges can move forward in California.
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Academics demand answers from NHS over potential data timebomb ticking inside new UK contact-tracing app
A group of nearly 175 UK academics has criticised the NHS’s planned COVID-19 contact-tracing app for a design choice they say could endanger users by creating a centralised store of sensitive health and travel data about them.
Also, Palantir is involved.
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Yeah. Fucking hell.
They had an opportunity to follow the EU model and create a decentralized system that maybe, just maybe, protects privacy as far as it goes but nope… let’s throw our lot in with tech-bro assholes that have links to the far right. Why not bring in banjo, clearview and whatever name cambridge analytica are now trading as to complete the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
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Lars Ulrich makes veiled threats of another Metallica album during web chat with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
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You can get a mechanical keyboard for £45. But should you? We pulled an Aukey KM-G6 out of the bargain bin
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Lyft dumps 17% of staff, furloughs 5%, cuts pay as people stay home, avoid rides in possibly virus-ridden cars
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Prank warning: You do know your smart speaker’s paired with Spotify over the internet, don’t you?
If you let your mates pair their Spotify accounts with your smart speakers, beware – the connection persists across the internet, not just across your home Wi-Fi network, as some assumed.
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Jeff Bezos tells shareholders to buckle up: Amazon to blow this quarter’s profits and more on coronavirus costs
Amazon today reported $75.5bn in revenue for the first quarter of 2020, higher than expected though eroded by exceptional expenses. And it told investors to get used to its free spending ways during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Providing for customers and protecting employees as this crisis continues for more months is going to take skill, humility, invention, and money,” said CEO Jeff Bezos in a statement [PDF] accompanying the web giant’s latest financial figures.
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