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Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks Katyanna Quach Wed 2 Jun 2021 // 01:55 UTC Share Copy Amazon warehouse workers sustain serious injuries more frequently than employees working in similar jobs across thousands of other companies, a report by unions concluded on Tuesday. The injury figures were collected from employers by OSHA – the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is a watchdog within the US Department of Labor. The Strategic Organizing Center (SOC), a coalition of four American labor unions, used the numbers to compare injury rates...

Acquisition expected to complete in April 2022, empty positions can't be filled until then Share Copy Exclusive Arm has entered an engineering hiring freeze that may last until April 2022 when it expects its acquisition by Nvidia to complete. Not only are teams around the world not allowed to hire, but also positions cannot be backfilled when employees leave. Any open roles are now on hold. In addition, Arm canceled an annual "wellbeing" allowance, a move those who spoke to The Register said is effectively a pay cut, and a significant one at that for graduates and other lower-paid st...

Why? It might reveal whistleblowers' names... Gareth Corfield Mon 17 May 2021 // 10:47 UTC Share Copy British infosec accreditation body CREST has declared that it will not be publishing its full report into last year's exam-cheating scandal after all, triggering anger from the cybersecurity community. "The Report of the Independent Investigator contains information that was obtained in confidence and, therefore, in line with both the terms of the Process and CREST's Complaints and Resolution Measures, the Report is confidential and cannot be made public," said CREST i...

Patch your devi... oh, hang on a sec Gareth Corfield Tue 11 May 2021 // 09:15 UTC Share Copy A computer science professor from Sweden has discovered an arbitrary code execution vuln in the Universal Turing Machine, one of the earliest computer designs in history – though he admits it has "no real-world implications". In a paper published on academic repository ArXiv, Pontus Johnson, a professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, cheerfully explained that his findings wouldn't be exploitable in a real-world scenario because it pertained spe...

Rust/WinRT moniker consigned to the garbage collection Richard Speed Mon 10 May 2021 // 14:33 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has released an update for Rust for Windows (formerly Rust/WinRT) with completed support for Win32 and COM APIs. Version 0.9 of the Rust language projection turned up last week and, according to Microsoft, gives "access to the entire Windows API surface in a language-idiomatic way." It's a tacit admission that no matter how much Microsoft might hope it will, the Win32 API does not seem to be going anywhere any time soon. Even the most beloved of langua...