IR35 blame game: Barclays to halt off-payroll contractors, goes directly to PAYE [Wed Oct 2 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 2 October 2019 ***************************************************************** IR35 blame game: Barclays to halt off-payroll contractors, goes directly to PAYE No bailout for tech freelancers. Bank moves to avoid potential liability for tax, NI contributions ***************************************************************** Business * Dell breaks out the checkbook and $7m later, US discrimination claims go away IT giant agrees to payout package that settles cases with Department of Labor * Landmark US net neutrality decision reveals that both sides won and lost out After brief hiatus, it’s back to fighting over internet access * IR35 blame game: Barclays to halt off-payroll contractors, goes directly to PAYE No bailout for tech freelancers. Bank moves to avoid potential liability for tax, NI contributions * You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals, so let's watch for tech sales VAT weirdness through the channel Ignorance is no defence. Just ask HMRC * The mod firing squad: Stack Exchange embroiled in 'he said, she said, they said' row Pending pronoun policing piques political protest * A new US-UK data agreement is worrisome but it won’t give access to encrypted comms CLOUD Act details surfacing in a fog of confusion Emergent Tech * UPS gets permission to ship out drone delivery fleet for some serious amounts of air miles Close the window and put back the fishing net, it's only for hospitals right now * Hate Verilog? Detest VHDL? You're not the only one. Xilinx rolls out easier-to-use free FPGA programming tools after developer outcry Vitis toolkit for the rest of us, coming soon, allegedly * Chinese sleazeball's 17-year game of hide-and-seek ends after drone finds him on mountain Back to jail for people trafficker * In 21st-century tech dystopia, smart TV watches you, warns Princeton privacy prof You make de-legitimising targeted advertising as a business model sound easy * Why build your own cancer-sniffing neural network when this 1.3 exaflop supercomputer can do if for you? Small problem – you need 9,216 CPUs and 27,648 GPUs Security * Jamf emits mystery security fix for Pro macOS, iOS wrangler, keeps admins in dark by censoring chatter iAdmins steaming over handling of 'critical' patch rollout * Former! Yahoo! engineer! admits! to! hacking! user! emails! for! smutty! snaps! Yahooligan accessed about 6,000 accounts to hunt for revealing photos and videos * vBulletin zero-day KOs Comodo user forums – that's 245,000 accounts at risk of compromise We told you! We told you to patch! Did you listen? * If your org hasn't had a security incident in the last year: Good for you, you're in the minority C-suite bods quietly 'fess up to oopsies in survey * HMRC 'disciplined' almost 100 employees for computer misuse over 24 months Email, social media and telecomms kit abused at the tax collector * Brighton perv cops community service for 'hacking' women's Facebook accounts Guilty plea to Computer Misuse Act crimes * Dive deep into the world of cyber attackers at the CyberThreat Summit Find everything you need to know to stay one step ahead with SANS next month Software * Remember Windows 8? Microsoft is still trying to reunify the API it split for the touchy OS's benefit Old meets new in WinRT API Packs * Percona packages PostgreSQL alongside existing MySQL and MongoDB products Free should mean free, says open-source DB biz Science * Rocket Lab crows about launch, SpaceX zipwires, and a monster mock-up arrives at Kennedy Also: Artemis looks to pull on Apollo's boots as sustainability starts slipping Bootnotes * BBC said it'll pull radio streams from TuneIn to slurp more of your data but nobody noticed till Amazon put its foot in it Hell hath no fury like a licence payer scorned ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 14 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2019 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: