“He does not believe that a public battle with his daughter over his continuing service as her conservator would be in her best interests,” a court filing says. …read more Source:: CNet

Not a hardware or software bug, for a change Mars rover Perseverance failed in its first attempt to collect a sample of rock from the Red Planet because the material crumbled to dust, NASA scientists have said.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Reddit, the self-declared ‘front page of the internet,’ says it is now valued at more than $10 billion after raising an additional $410 million in funding, with the final round expected to grow to up to $700 million. The Verge reports: “We are still planning on going public, but we don’t have a firm timeline…

Illicit underground marketplace relaunches years after takedown. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Take your laptop anywhere with these backpacks that will keep it safe and secure. Check out our top picks of backpacks for your laptop for any situation. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Microsoft and AWS are fighting over yet another $10 billion cloud contract. This time it’s NSA’s secret intelligence-data contract that’s in the crosshairs. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The social media giant is the latest technology firm to change its return-to-work plans, given the rising number of Covid-19 cases. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Mercury News: A large homeless encampment is growing on the site Apple earmarked for its North San Jose campus, two years after Apple made waves with a $2.5 billion pledge to combat the Bay Area’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis. What started as a few RVs parked…

Judge wrong to prevent Uncle Sam from challenging psychiatrist’s suicide risk report, says High Court Analysis Julian Assange has lost a legal scrap in court, this time over the US government’s attempt to expand its grounds for extraditing him from England to stand trial in America.… …read more Source:: Register

Threatpost interviews Wiz CTO about a vulnerability recently patched by Amazon Route53’s DNS service and Google Cloud DNS. …read more Source:: Threatpost