When it comes to dominating offroad performance, many people’s first thought is of tracked vehicles. Bulldozers, tanks and excavators all use treads, and manage to get around in difficult terrain without breaking a sweat. Today, we’re exploring just what makes tracked vehicles so capable, as well as their weaknesses. It’s All About Ground Pressure The…

Worldwide vacancies if you’re looking for work – and free ads if you want workers Job Alert We’re running free job ads to try and keep techies in gainful employment during these testing times.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

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Sergey Brin’s secretive airship company LTA Research and Exploration is planning to power a huge disaster relief airship with an equally record-breaking hydrogen fuel cell. From a report: A job listing from the company, which is based in Mountain View, California and Akron, Ohio, reveals that LTA wants to configure a 1.5-megawatt hydrogen propulsion system…

For Chartio customers, the company has said it is going away March 1, 2022. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The Department of Homeland Security will allocate $1.8 billion in grants to state and local jurisdictions to protect against terrorism and other disasters, with at least $77 million specifically going toward combatting domestic violent extremism. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine

Specialist databases will still be necessary, analyst says EDB, a prominant backer of the PostgreSQL open-source database, expects to focus on graph, JSON, and time-series data in the upcoming autumn release. Analysts, however, are sceptical about its ability to optimise for different data models ahead of built for purpose databases.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Some CentOS users still aren’t happy, but Red Hat is keeping its promise to open-source organizations that they’ll have access to a free version of RHEL. …read more Source:: ZDNet

On Feb. 22, 2021, the “Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act” (MCDPA) was introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives. The MCDPA is now the primary candidate to become Minnesota’s omnibus consumer privacy law. To learn more about the MCDPA and privacy regulations, Security magazine spoke to attorney Nadeem Schwen, from Winthrop & Weinstine, who has…

Plus: Full ruling in $5bn High Court case expected by end of Q1 Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants a High Court judge to formally consider a damning report which found that Deloitte auditors committed misconduct when they signed off British software firm Autonomy’s annual accounts.… …read more Source:: TheRegister