With a change of Prime minister in the UK, there comes with it a very big shake up of the technology aspect of government. The closure of the Department of Science and Technology (DSIT) with many of its responsibilities being sent to the business department or the cabinet office. One of the big surprises is …
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It’s been reported that NHS Digital / England will reverse course on publishing the source code and close their public repos on Github.
I got a few email alerts from Wordfence about malicious scripts on this site. Turns out one of the plugins installed here had ben sold on and was injecting javascript onto every page. Critical Problems: * File contains suspected malware URL: wp-content/plugins/widget-logic/WidgetLogicAdminConfig.php The malicious URL matched This was an alert that I saw whilst scanning my …
Back in early January I did a talk at PHPSussex about Drupal and a demo of the distribution I work on, LocalGov Drupal.
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It’s fair to say 2020 has been a strange year, and a busy one for your blog author. Covid has changed a lot of how we relate to the tech space, more commentary here to follow.
Recent news reports in the last week that the top level domain recognised and used by charities and non profits has been sold to a private equity company. The Internet Society (through Public Interest Registry) have operated the domain since 2003, before that the domain was operated by Versign. They announced the sale on their …
WordPress.com owner Automattic that has last week been reported to purchase rival Microbloging site Tumblr. The deal is being reported to be below $3 Million, far below the hyper valuation of $1.1 Billion that Yahoo paid in 2013. Back then Yahoo was buying lots of start up companies as part of a revitalisation drive by …
Did you buy books from Microsofts eBook store, well now you can’t read them anymore. Actually, I wasn’t aware that Microsoft had an eBook store, though this is not surprising as many of the tech companies have been diversifying in the past to try and move into content, and lock you into their platforms. This …
An odd story popped up on my social media feed over the weekend. The Internet Services Providers’ Association has nominated Mozilla to be an ‘internet villain.’ This seemed rather odd given that the Firefox web browser is the only mainstream browser currently being developed independently of any company*. Looking closer at their reasoning, ISPA writes: …
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They won’t remove them though… This follows up a post back in 2018, that Twitter would not block world leaders. Whilst not naming a particular politician, I think we all have an idea on who they are referring to, Twitter will hide by default, but not remove tweets which break their rules. From Twitters blog post …
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