Perl Foundation faces more departures after pausing Community Affairs Team [Mon Aug 16 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 16 August 2021 ***************************************************************** Perl Foundation faces more departures after pausing Community Affairs Team People just won't quit quitting ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * UK's United Utilities water company to splash a possible £270m on analytics, control and monitoring platforms 'Ethical insight and competitive advantage' in the pipes if project goes to plan * £3m for 8 weeks of consultancy work: McKinsey given contract to advise UK.gov on tech project business cases One of issues with public sector IT? 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'No problem, sir, you’re right in front of me' * United Nations calls for moratorium on sale of surveillance tech like NSO Group's Pegasus Suggests the world to sort out a ban to preserve human rights, issues sternly worded 'Please Explain' to Israel * Re-volting: AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization undone by electrical attack Fault injection technique presents risk in cloud environments from rogue admins * China stops networked vehicle data going offshore under new infosec rules Hands-off driving detectors required, over-the-air updates to be strictly regulated * FISMA's a fizzer, says Cisco, and calls on Congress to get cyber security policy right – pronto Organizational structure, piecemeal approach and hiring practices all need to change, says Borg security bigwig * Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz Allegations of purloined trade secrets, unfair competition, national security threats, and more packed into lawsuit Software * Amazon Game Studios to its own devs: All your codebase doesn't belong to us E-goliath's subsidiary drops 'draconian' contract terms that absorbed personal work, demanded license rights * Taxpayers foot the bill: HMRC signs up Cognizant for £150m low-code, automation project Brit tax collection agency's IT estate contains 'significant risk' * JSON workloads getting you down? 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Borked module and fingerpointing puts space relationship with US under strain * BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful' Anybody in the market for one of him whimpering? * Alibaba to offer self-defense training in response to sexual assault allegation Pledges to 'strengthen organizational guardrails' with raft of new policy and training initiatives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2021 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: