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A new analysis shows that infosec analysts, sysadmins and network architects have the most potential for growth in pay over the next decade. People in health, science and tech jobs will have the best chance at finding a job and making good money in the next decade, according to a new analysis.

In a meeting with President Biden at the White House on Wednesday, Apple, Google, Microsoft and other companies announced their intentions to devote money and training toward strengthening U.S. cybersecurity. As one step, the White House said that the National Institute of Standards and Technology will work with businesses to improve the security of the technology supply chain.

A company is suing the Police Digital Service over a framework worth up to £18m after losing a bid to provide a mass surveillance platform, claiming police managers broke laws on the awarding of public contracts. Excession Technologies Ltd is suing the organisation formerly known as the Police ICT Company on the grounds that it broke the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations after allegedly misunderstanding Excession's platform was capable of doing.

US President Joe Biden staged a cyber security summit at the White House, and it's produced quick results in the form of big tech making vague promises about stuff they think will improve the nation's security. The premise of the event was Biden's belief that America can't go on being hurt by ransomware, state-backed disinformation naughtiness, and other forms of infosec-driven attacks, but can only sort it out with the help of private enterprise because the government can't address security alone.

Survey by EY finds that board members are interested in spending more money on technology and data analytics for risk management. TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Tonny Dekker, global enterprise risk consulting leader at EY, about how boards feel about investing in technology for risk management.

Tom Merritt tells us his top five annoyances in tech and why they are frustrating. I did an informal poll of my friends in tech to find out what they find most annoying about tech these days.

The United Nations has called for a moratorium on the sale of "Life threatening" surveillance technology and singled out the NSO Group and Israel for criticism. The UN announcement then zeroes in on NSO Group, calling on it to "Disclose whether or not it ever conducted any meaningful human rights due diligence in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and publish fully the findings of any internal probes it may have undertaken on this issue".

A California-based IT consultancy has sued Huawei and its subsidiary in Pakistan alleging the Chinese telecom firm stole its trade secrets and failed to honor a contract to develop technology for Pakistani authorities. The complaint [PDF], filed on Wednesday in the US District Court in Santa Ana, California, describes how Business Efficiency Solutions, LLC, began working with Huawei Technologies in 2016 to overhaul the IT systems available to the Punjab Police Integrated Command, Control and Communication Center of Lahore, capital of the Punjab province of Pakistan.

" Timezone curiosities - when modular arithmetic gets weird. Microsoft researcher found Apple 0-day in March, didn't report it.

The United States' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has announced the "Standup" of a body called the "Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative" that it hopes will spark ideas for new and improved national responses against electronic threats. The aim of the effort is to get the private sector working alongside government agencies, so they can develop and implement better cyber security plans than are currently in operation.