IT contractor has £240k bill torn up after IR35 win against UK taxman [Tue Nov 5 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 5 November 2019 ***************************************************************** IT contractor has £240k bill torn up after IR35 win against UK taxman HMRC vows to appeal ***************************************************************** Business * IT contractor has £240k bill torn up after IR35 win against UK taxman HMRC vows to appeal * Infosys tells Indian stock exchange: We haven't seen any evidence yet for whistleblower claims So there * Pro-Linux IP consortium Open Invention Network will 'pivot' to take on patent trolls Not many actual software companies threaten Linux now Data Centre * Azure Arc: Redmond's tool to wrangle services wherever they are – on-premises, cloud, your basement, in the pub... Plus summary of everything else announced at Windows titan's Florida shindig * Comcast-owned Brit telco Sky to hire 1,000 new staffers, half of them engineers Bumps up engineer total for UK & Ireland to 4k - but is that enough? * If you're going to exploit work's infrastructure to torrent, you better damn well know how to hide it Thank $DEITY for VPNs and, er, Service Pack 3... yeah, that's it. Service Pack 3! DevOps * GitLab mulls ban on hiring Chinese and Russian support staff because 'security' Did Uncle Sam put you up to this? observers wonder * Three days of DevOps goodness kicks off this Weds: Grab a ticket to our conference – and learn from the best It's about serverless computing, it's in London... it's Serverless Computing London Emergent Tech * OneCoin lawyer trial kicks off in NY as cryptocurrency founder remains on the lam Legal eagle denies criminally laundering hundreds of millions of dollars * Voice-controlled AI in the workplace? Discuss it with your peers this month over breakfast Join us and fellow tech pros for a morning briefing on November 20 * I cannae do it, captain, I'm giving it all she's got, but she just cannae take another dose of bullsh!t A tricorder for food is possible, but the truth is trickier * Watch Waymo's totally driverless self-driving car cruise around, how the US military wants to use AI ethically, etc Kick off your Monday with machine-learning news * Boffins don bad 1980s fashion to avoid being detected by object-recognizing AI cameras Adversarial T-shirt disguise hoodwinks machine-learning algorithms Personal Tech * The .amazon argy-bargy is STILL going on – and Uncle Sam has had enough with ICANN Will Amazon finally get hold of its internet namesake? * Baffled by bogus charges on your Amazon account? It may be the work of a crook's phantom gadget Register readers confirm unseen hardware took bank cards on a joyride Security * Ransomware freezes govt IT in Canadian territory of Nunavut, drops citizens right Inuit As US picks up its game, scumbags seek new targets * DoHn't believe the hype! You are being lied to by data-hungry ISPs, Mozilla warns lawmakers Resistance to DNS-over-HTTPS deserves investigation into info-gobbling habits * In a world of infosec rockstars, shutting down sexual harassment is hard work for victims How a close-knit hero-worshiping culture can make reporting abusers difficult – and how help is at hand * Please tell us why you're not securing yourselves, UK.gov asks businesses Has collective amnesia about stance on end-to-end encryption * Chrome bug squashed, QNAP NAS nasty hits, BlueKeep malware spreads, and more Including Spanish camgirl sites spill info, domain registrars hacked Software * PowerPoint! Word! Excel! Lens! By your powers combined, I am Captain Mobile Office Microsoft revamps suite as single application * Pencil 15 Jan 2020 in your diary: That's when Microsoft hopes you'll be at the cutting Edge... Chromium style Day after termination of Windows 7 support. Plus: First Release Candidate arrives * Revealed: The new icon you'll click to download an alternative browser, and more from Microsoft Plus: Your Phone makes do without Bluetooth, Azure Sphere release date Bootnotes * Antarctic researchers send an SOS to the world: Who wrote this message in a bottle? Mostly illegible missive claims to come from tiny uninhabited island with its own TLD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: