BP contractors notified of incoming ban on PSCs
IT contractors at oil and gas giant BP have until 31 March 2020 to accept a new contract that will seem them taxed in the same way as salaried workers,...
The Mandalorian season 2: release date, Baby Yoda’s homeworld and what we know
Star Wars fans might still be divided over The Rise of Skywalker, but no one can deny The Mandalorian's success on Disney Plus. Even without Baby Yoda, the first live-action...
Exonerated: Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse
Enlarge / The Dallas County Courthouse in Adel, Iowa. Prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against two security professionals who were arrested and jailed last September for breaking into an Iowa...
Microsoft contractor hit by health and safety violation claims at Israel datacentre building site
A construction site that is understood to form part of Microsoft’s recently announced Israel datacentre campus has been shut down for health and safety violations, it has emerged. According to...
Europe wants to challenge US tech giants’ dominance with single data market
According to a new European Commission proposal, the European Union wants to create a single market in data with the aim of challenging the dominance of US tech giants such...
DOD launches swarming drone in test of C-130 “drone mothership” concept
Enlarge / An artist's concept of how Gremlins would fill the skies, launched from manned motherships. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been conducting research into a number...
UKCloud moots multi-cloud as a way to speed up public sector cloud adoption
Encouraging organisations to embrace a multi-cloud IT sourcing strategy could help ramp up adoption of off-premise technologies in the public sector, it is claimed. The idea is put forward in...
The best Super Bowl TV sales 2020: last-minute deals from Best Buy, Walmart, and more
The Super Bowl 2020 is just days away, and that means you still have time to find last-minute savings on a range of 4K TVs. To help you sort through...
AT&T loses another 1.2 million TV subscribers as DirecTV keeps tanking
Enlarge / An AT&T store in Chicago. AT&T lost another 1.16 million subscribers from DirecTV and its other TV services in the final three months of 2019. AT&T today reported...
Cloud and datacentre in the new world of IT
More than a decade has passed since off-premise services first came to market, and the accompanying ecosystem has matured to a point where many enterprises are now adopting a cloud-first...