July 17, 2020

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Time to move on? From dev work to telco engineering to server-wrangling there are plenty of jobs in this weeks Reg listings

Time to move on? From dev work to telco engineering to server-wrangling there are plenty of jobs in this weeks Reg listings

Perhaps mentoring wet behind the ears devs is your cup of tea? Job Alert We’re doing our bit to keep techies teching with free job listings for anyone looking to hire such skills in the midst of the pandemic. If you have a problem (hiring) and if you we can find them, maybe you can hire some of our wonderful readers.…

Date: 2020-11-06

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Cutting the ties: European hosting provider OVHCloud to offer Google Anthos, no Google account needed (2020-11-11) Full Euro data sovereignty promises cloud company Googles first partnership of this kind with an independent hosting provider sees its Anthos Kubernetes platform offered without ties to Google Cloud according to the third-party cloud company selling the service Cutting the ties: European hosting provider OVHCloud to offer Google Anthos, no Google account needed
After demonstrating a facial recognition system that works on cows, moo-chine learning pioneer seeks growth funding (2020-11-27) A grand uddertaking Irish computer vision and AI agriculture specialist Cainthus hopes to raise $50m after launching a facial recognition tool for cows
Bio-boffins devise potentially fast COVID-19 virus test kit out of a silicon wafer and machine-learning code (2020-11-13) These algorithms identify different types of viruses were told Boffins have demonstrated that machine-learning algorithms may be able to help scientists identify viruses and could even be used to develop more efficient tests for the presence of the COVID-19 coronavirus in the near future
Study: While text-generating AI can write like humans, it lacks common sense (2020-11-20) Humans live in the real world machines dont say academics AI software may be able to generate text that is grammatically correct and very human-like but when it comes to common sense theyre still lagging severely behind us humans
UK infoseccer launches petition asking government not to backdoor encryption (2020-11-27) Sign up and make your voice heard A UK infosec bod has launched a petition asking the government if it would please drop its plans to install backdoors in end-to-end encryption
H2? Oh! New water-splitting technique pushes progress of green hydrogen (2020-11-03) Its really dope Yep its an energy-efficient process kicked off by gadolinium-doped cerium dioxide Researchers in Spain have uncovered a new approach to producing hydrogen via water splitting which could help overcome some of the drawbacks to this promising alternative fuel source
We’ll get you later: SAP CEO promises help for customers in ‘financial distress’ (2020-11-03) Just dont leave Plus: Cloud subscription model is increasing customer lifetime revenue SAP CEO Christian Klein has committed to extending customer payment terms and helping partners struggling as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic grips Europe and governments enforce further lockdowns
Compute Express Link glue that binds processors and accelerators hits spec version 2.0… so, uh, rejoice? (2020-11-10) Interconnect tech likely to improve data center operations The CXL Consortium a standards body focused on interconnect technology released the 20 version of its Compute Express Link specification today Compute Express Link glue that binds processors and accelerators hits spec version 2.0… so, uh, rejoice?
Hmmmm, you know what Azure PowerShell is lacking? Some Predictive Intellisense (2020-11-11) Az Predictor aims to spare little grey cells the effort of tracking thousands of cmdlets The Azure PowerShell team has unveiled Az Predictor a handy command line helper aimed at easing casual users into the often complicated cmdlet world of PowerShell Hmmmm, you know what Azure PowerShell is lacking? Some Predictive Intellisense
Calls for ‘right to repair’ electronics laws grow louder across Europe (2020-11-26) UK Parliaments Environmental Audit Committee report slams manufacturers as Euro Parliament votes to back tinkerers A new report from the UKs House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee EAC argues the country should enshrine the right to repair in law and reduce VAT on tech repair services while Europes Parliamentarians also voted to further the cause