Top IT stories this week: IT salaries compared, Snooper's charter returns, and NSA using AI to read your emails
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7. No more Patch Tuesday: Windows 10 to update automatically every day
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday "tradition" will draw to a close with the introduction of Windows 10, which is expected to launch at the end of July - as Microsoft introduces automatic updates every day with the new operating system. How we will miss it.
Reports in the tech and business media of personal clashes between Tech City UK chair Joanna Shields and individuals in UKTI, part of the department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) are totally wrong say both sides in the alleged dispute - pointing out that UKTI has not funded Tech City UK for more than a year.
In the battle of the *Boxes, Box chalks up a victory against its rivals as Eurostar CIO Antoine de Kerviler said he chose Box collaboration tools because they're "much nicer" than other options, including DropBox and WeTransfer.
De Kerviler even suggested that Eurostar employees may one day "be forbidden to use other solutions" due to the sensitive content in some of the files.
"There are issues of intellectual property and security, but if we're trying to make it easier for someone to use, one way is to say you can't put these documents on a free system outside the company on your personal account which we have no control over," he said. "One day it we'll prevent this from happening."
Mark Bishop, professor of cognitive computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, said that far from being science fiction, artificial intelligence is already with us and probably being used in ways that we many not know about.
"AI can be used by the intelligence agencies to spy on us quite effectively. Even though there's no human listening in to every email you send, it is beyond my credulity to believe that the UK secret services are not monitoring by AI agents the content of every email that we send," he said during the panel discussion.
3. Snooper's charter to be resurrected within weeks following Conservative election victory
With the Conservatives now ruling without the support of any other parties, Home Secretary Teresa May believes that she will be able to force the thrice-rejected Communications Data Bill through Parliament without opposition. Well, you voted for it.
Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning has the edge over Amazon Web Service's recently launched alternative, according to Forrester Research analyst Mike Gualtieri. However, Amazon's policy of releasing products early and adding capabilities as and when, means that AWS could catch up quickly.
1. IT salaries: Are you earning what you're worth?
SharePoint developers command an average salary of £50,000 whereas their counterparts in web development are worth £17,000 less. If you really want to be rich, work towards a career in BI and data warehousing but stay away from the field of management information analysis.
Oh, and it helps if you move to London or the East of England.
Computing's comprehensive roundup of IT salaries is our gold-plated number one story this week.