This was reported by New Scientist a week or so ago and the perspective I got was that this really a question about properly archiving and curating historical records.

They really need to replace Apex with either a fully compliant Java or with Groovy.

Inert gases are used in welding to keep the oxygen out and give a much cleaner weld.

the slashdot audience was entirely in favour of bypassing region locking, c.f. DeCSS.

When satire is indistinguishable from genuine extremism

It is very common in the UK for recruitment agencies to advertise fake jobs to build up their databases of CVs.

I've been on both sides of this, as a candidate and looking for candidates. As a candidate been told that job is filled but we will keep your CV on file. Agencies make claims like having "2,000 Java programmers in (my area)". When recruiting for work, I've been sent my own CV from years before.

In both cases, find an agency that can be trusted and build a real relationship with them. If you can trust them from one side, they can be trusted from the flipside.

That 10% is snake oil

Was in Trump, divide and conquer, at a global scale.

Lord Haw-Haw was a nickname applied to William Joyce and several other people who broadcast Nazi propaganda to the United Kingdom from Germany during the Second World War. The broadcasts opened with "Germany calling, Germany calling," spoken in an affected upper-class English accent. - Hung for his crimes.

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Not a hacktivist.

The abysmal status of this project was an open secret amongst IT professional, failure covered my the industry press and ignored by the mainstream press, because the Post Office is an institution.

Having watched the trailer I have to say it seems more like its trying to ride the wave of hype.

That means the situation is even more complicated that the writeup states. The data data on EU citizens is already protected personal private data.
Any identifiable data of any 23andMe customer from anywhere in the world is protected in the EU.

Having tried various AI programming models, not one of them has even come close to the reliability of template driven static code completion.

This is rather reminiscent of all the CFOs that think producing a Spreadsheet qualifies them to dictate software engineering processes and timelines.