Britain's High Court is set to rule Monday on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can take his fight against US extradition to the UK Supreme Court.

The decision is the latest step in Assange's long battle to avoid being sent to the United States to face espionage charges over WikiLeaks' publication of classified documents more than a decade ago.

Just over a year ago, a district court judge in London rejected a US extradition request on the grounds that Assange was likely to kill himself if held under harsh US prison conditions.

US authorities later provided assurances that the WikiLeaks founder would not face the severely restrictive conditions that his lawyers said would put his physical and mental health at risk.

Last month the High Court overturned the lower court's decision. High Court justices Ian Burnett and Timothy Holroyd said the American promises were enough to guarantee Assange would be treated humanely.

They said the US promises were solemn undertakings, offered by one government to another, which will bind all officials and prosecutors who will deal with the relevant aspects of Mr. Assange's case now and in the future.

Assange's lawyers say those promises can't be trusted, and have sought permission to appeal to Britain's highest court. They argue that the US government's pledge that Assange won't be subjected to extreme conditions is meaningless because it is conditional and could be changed at the discretion of American authorities.

Nick Vamos, a partner at Peters & Peters solicitors in London and a former head of extradition at Britain's Crown Prosecution Service, said it was unlikely that the appeal would be granted. Assange can only take the case to the Supreme Court if the High Court rules that there are matters of general public importance to consider.

Even if the High Court justices reject that argument, the long-running legal saga is unlikely to end immediately. Assange still has other routes of appeal against the extradition decision open to him.

Assange, 50, has been held at the high-security Belmarsh Prison in London since 2019, when he was arrested for skipping bail during a separate legal battle. Before that, he spent seven years holed up inside Ecuador's Embassy in London. Assange sought protection in the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault.

Sweden dropped the sex crimes investigations in November 2019 because so much time had elapsed.

American prosecutors say Assange unlawfully helped US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.

Lawyers for Assange argue that their client shouldn't have been charged because he was acting as a journalist and is protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution that guarantees freedom of the press. They say the documents he published exposed US military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Republicans push antitrust bill:A petition to force a floor vote on a piece of bipartisan antitrust legislation is gaining steam in the House.

Mekki mania:Meet Doha Mekki, the No. 2 official in the Department of Justice antitrust division who could wind up leading the case against Google.

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ITS TUESDAY, JAN. 25. Emily Birnbaum again. Welcome to Morning Tech. Happy Data Privacy Week to all! Personally, I expect that communities around the world will celebrate this important week by not giving a hoot about data privacy.

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ANTITRUST PETITION CHARGES AHEAD The petition led by Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) to discharge H.R. H.R. 3460 (117), the State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act of 2021, has received 95 Republican signatures as of Monday double what it had just last week. It also won the endorsement of the House Freedom Caucus, marking the first time that this ultra-conservative group has come out in favor of antitrust legislation.

The goal isnt necessarily to get to 218 signatures, the amount needed to force Speaker Nancy Pelosi to bring the petition to the floor. Rather, its a signal from Republicans highlighting how much bipartisan support there could be for reining in tech and their support is particularly important now, since moderate Democrats and some in the California delegation have indicated they would not support the antitrust legislation that the House Judiciary Committee approved last year. Pelosi has not said when she plans to bring those bills to the floor, and its unclear so far if the bills would have enough votes from Democrats if they got a vote now.

Now that weve demonstrated the support needed to move this bill, Im hopeful to see floor action within the month, Buck said in a statement to MT on Monday.

What Bucks thinking: Buck, the top Republican on the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, said his goal is to show House leadership that most Republicans are in favor of this. The bill would ensure that tech companies cannot move antitrust cases to friendlier courts, which Republicans have framed as a state sovereignty issue.

I just have to show them how we think we can get there, Buck told MT earlier this month. Its a leverage point to try to get both sides to work together. He recalled an immigration fight in 2018, when centrist Republicans filed a discharge petition to try to force a vote on legislation to codify the policy shielding undocumented immigrants from deportation known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. (Ultimately, that effort failed.) Ive been killing myself trying to gin up support for the bill, Buck said.

Its the narrowest bill of the antitrust package that passed out of the House Judiciary Committee last year. The rest of the package, including bills that would make it easier to break up companies like Facebook and Amazon, would still be in limbo even if H.R. 3460 (117) passed.

Democrats shrug: Antitrust subcommittee Chair David Cicilline (D-R.I.) told MT that he doesnt think the discharge petition is necessary, but that Buck is using it as a way to demonstrate strong bipartisan support for the [antitrust] package, which is fine. Cicilline said hes optimistic the bills will come to the floor this Congress, possibly before fall.

WHY MEKKI IS MAKING WAVES DOJ removed the acting from Doha Mekkis title late last week, making her the permanent No. 2 official at the antitrust division. As principal deputy to Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, Mekki will be the point person for any cases where Kanter is recused potentially making her the decision-maker on the antitrust probes into Google and Apple.

A DOJ attorney for the past seven years, Mekki has been at the forefront of the agencys work on competition in labor markets. She worked on its first case challenging a no-poach agreement between companies and testified before Congress on the issue.

Doha is one of the hardest working and most talented attorneys I have worked with and was one of my most trusted colleagues, Makan Delrahim, former President Donald Trumps top antitrust official, told MT. She was never shy about telling me what she believed and even less frequently suffered fools. The antitrust division is lucky to have her as a leader.

Mekki also brings much-needed diversity to the DOJs front office, which has historically been filled with white men. She will be the third Black person to serve as an antitrust deputy, after Charles James and Leslie Overton, who served in the George H.W. Bush and Obama administrations, respectively, according to the antitrust pub FTC:Watch.

TODAY: COURT TO HEAR SPAT OVER AUTO AIRWAVES The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear today from automotive trade groups trying to overturn the FCCs Trump-era carve-up of the 5.9 GHz automotive safety airwaves. The case marks the latest showcase of the spectrum turf wars that have divided agencies in especially messy ways, starting in the Trump era and continuing into the Biden administration (the recent 5G kerfuffle involving aviation safety being one prime example).

The FCC move under scrutiny today is a 2020 order that sought to expand the types of transportation safety technologies that could use the 5.9 GHz spectrum. It also reserved a slice of the airwaves for Wi-Fi use a long-sought victory for cable and tech companies but one that enraged many transportation industry leaders.

Count DOT among the unhappy: Trump-era Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao had warned the FCC of the fatally flawed premises of the FCC order ahead of the commissions vote on it. Months after that vote, Bidens Transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, told lawmakers hes concerned too. But despite this DOT grousing, the executive branch never broadly embraced these critiques or challenged the FCC order through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Justice Department has, in fact, joined the FCCs defense.

Early this month, the court asked the parties to be prepared to discuss the significance of the fact that DOJ is representing the FCC and not DOT.

The Justice Department represents the United States, DOJs Bryan Leitch countered, saying the department joined the FCCs brief in this matter after assessing the merits of these cases and considering all relevant federal interests, including the Commissions policy judgments and the views of executive-branch agencies that participated before the Commission. DOJ told the court on Jan. 14 that the department will have counsel available to discuss interagency issues.

Expect the FCC to stand firm: In its November brief, FCC lawyers said that DOT never challenged the independent agencys traditional authority over the airwaves and argued that it is the Commission (not the [Transportation] Secretary) that has always allocated spectrum, adopted service rules, and issued licenses for vehicular communications.

FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has for years sided with the push to free some of these airwaves up for Wi-Fi, although as a commissioner, she had criticized the the FCCs sparring with DOT at the end of the Trump years, nodding to similar concerns from Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.).

A hint for reading the tea leaves: GOP Commissioner Brendan Carr recently praised a D.C. Circuit ruling in a different case (upholding a Trump-era order freeing 6 GHz airwaves for Wi-Fi) for underscoring the FCCs role as the nations lead spectrum regulator. One of the same judges who participated in that decision the Trump-appointed judge Justin Walker will hear todays case. (Others on todays panel are Cornelia Pillard and Laurence Silberman, appointed by the Obama and Reagan administrations, respectively.)

CHINA BILL INCOMING House lawmakers could release their highly anticipated bill to strengthen competition with China as soon as today, two Capitol Hill officials with knowledge of the negotiations told POLITICOs Gavin Bade.

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Trading, as a profession, has grabbed eyeballs from everywhere across. With the advancement in technology, the skill set needed for traders is changing. If you are looking to make a career in trading, you must be well acquainted with certain programming languages. Taking this into account, we have come up with the top 10 programming languages that traders should learn in 2022. Have a look!

Python is an open-source programming language that follows a functional programming approach. One of the many reasons why Python makes it into the list of the top 10 programming languages that traders should learn in 2022 is because you can extend python code to trading algorithms that are easy to write. Here, there is no requirement to create as much code as other languages do while creating algorithmic trading programs.

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Some tech skills remain extraordinarily high-paying.

The average tech salary broke six figures for the first time in 2021, according to a report by Dice, highlighting the "continued and sustained" demand for digital talent across all industries.

The 2022 Tech Salary Report by jobs marketplace Dice found that the average salary for technologists rose by nearly 7% between 2020 and 2021, reaching $104,566. Dice said this marked the highest salary recorded in the 17 years it has been conducting the survey.

IT chiefs took home the highest salaries in 2021, with an average $151,983 per year. This reflects a 6% change on 2020, according to Dice.

SEE:Tech salaries just hit record highs. But nearly half of IT staff still feel underpaid

Systems architects saw their pay increase by 5.1% to ($147,901). Dice said this reflected the increased demand for developers "capable of structuring, maintaining and scaling tech stacks in a variety of environments."

Cloud architects and engineers were the third most well-compensated technologists in 2021, taking home an average salary of $140,571 (up 3%). Cybersecurity engineers/architects ($135,059) and data architects ($128,835) rounded out the top five highest-paying occupations.

Art Zeile, CEO at Dice, said pandemic pressures had driven up demand for tech workers capable of helping businesses realize their digitisation strategies, as well as helping them facilitate remote-working IT environments. "I'm encouraged but not surprised to see U.S. technologist salaries continue to grow," Zeile told ZDNet.

"The onset of the pandemic only stoked the fire as organizations of all types and sizes were required to move to virtual work environments and, in many cases, accelerate digital transformation projects to match the changing landscape."

Salaries grew for most tech occupations, though some roles saw more rapid year-on-year growth than others.

The average salary for web developers ($98,912), for example, increased 21.3% between 2020 and 2021: nearly double the growth of the second fastest-growing salary by occupation, which belonged to database administrators ($111,362).

Web developer salaries grew fastest on average between 2020 and 2021.

Also seeing substantial growth were technical support engineers ($77,169, up 12.4%), data analysts ($84,779, up 11.5%), and UX/UI designers ($101,260, up 10.1%).

While programming languages remain hot, Dice found that technologists with expertise in cloud and data platforms typically took home higher salaries on average.

For example, tech professionals with skills in open-source enterprise search engine Solr typically earned an average $143,464. Similarly, Mokito skills correlated with average salaries of $140,366. Service-oriented architecture ($139,961), RabbitMQ ($137,717) and Elasticseach ($136,405) were also among the highest-paying tech skills.

SEE: From engineering 'guilds' to open source, how Bloomberg's developers are driving innovation

"What this list of the top-paying skills makes absolutely clear is that organizations are more than happy to pay a premium for skills related to enterprise-level infrastructure, particularly as it relates to data storage and discovery, and the cloud," the report said.

"Hadoop, HANA and PAAS, for example, have all commanded high salaries for quite some time. Also keep an eye on Tensorflow and neural networks, which could prove key to enterprises in helping to make their infrastructure smarter."

Dice said that while programming languages such as Ruby ($128,689), JavaScript ($109,833) and Python ($116,498) didn't typically command the same salaries as specialist cloud and data platforms, they remained equally vital to the operations of businesses when it came maintaining code and building new apps and services.

"Learning these languages can translate into a stream of steady (and varied) work, although technologists must take care to keep their knowledge of these individual languages (like any skill) as current as possible," the report said.

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In terms of career opportunities for today's technology professionals, an abundance of skills are in demand across a wide range of platforms, languages, and methodologies. But technology managers and professionals have limited time outside of their regular jobs, gigs, or educational programs. It's a question of where to invest time and resources.

To get a picture of what skills will matter in the 2020s, I canvassed industry to get their takes on what is needed.

For starters, the "soft" skills will matter in the months and years ahead. These include professional skills such as communication, leadership, and teamwork, says Don Jones, vice president of developer skills at Pluralsight. Then there is a need for "tech-adjacent skills, like a familiarity with project management and business analysis."

Jones urges an "evergreen" approach to skills mastery, as technology evolves too quickly to commit to a single platform or solution set. "The biggest-impact skill is the ability to learn," he says. "There's no single tech skill you can invest in that won't change or be outdated in a year; your single biggest skill needs to be the ability to update skills and learn new skills."

This also means placing a greater emphasis on emotional intelligence, as many emerging systems will be built on artificial intelligence, analytics, or automation that mimic human processes, therefore augmenting human workers.

"Anyone can be taught to swap out memory, but the skill of communication and responding to human emotion is not a skill so easily taught," says Chris Lepotakis, senior associate at Schellman. "While many IT professionals get into the industry for their love and passion of all things technology, most of these skills are pointed towards helping business, which ultimately have the human component."

"If you can't communicate with your clients and team, you can't solve problems," he adds.

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According to Jones, an evergreen approach to learning means "it doesn't matter what the programming language of the month is, or what security breach you need to deal with, or anything; you'll be able to keep up."

Think in terms of evergreen skills as it relates to the rise of cloud computing. "The value of cloud doesn't lie in its infrastructure alone, but in the notional agility organizations can create if leaders are highly skilled and knowledgeable of all its possibilities," says Will Perry, US cloud innovation and engineering leader at PwC. "Cloud fluency will play an important role in bringing together the greatest aspects of this technology with today's biggest business challenges and opportunities for growth."

Again, evergreen skills play a role in this great migration. "People moving into a cloud environment cannot just easily transport their previous systems into the cloud, but rather they must be adapted into the cloud," adds Lepotakis. "Service providers and customers alike need to reimagine what their solutions will look like in a cloud environment. We really need people that understand both how a system used to work in the traditional datacenter and how to reimagine it for a cloud solution."

The Covid crisis -- which pushed digital transformation into warp speed at even the most hidebound companies -- also changed the equation in terms of skills requirements. Businesses needed to run digitally, pressing their IT managers and professionals into roles closer to business strategy and management -- and away from coding and maintenance.

Also:Low-code and no-code platforms have moved beyond the shiny tools stage

"Covid brought low-code mainstream," says Malcolm Ross, vice president of product strategy and deputy CTO at Appian. "That's because low-code's speed and power is precisely what is needed. It's designed to help IT build and modify enterprise apps at a faster rate. It's also a very human way of interacting with machines."

Low-code doesn't mean IT professionals can avoid coding; it means assuming roles that involve guidance and planning for business users.

"Low-code helps bridge the gap that has always existed between IT developers and their business counterparts," says Ross. "It presents enormous opportunity to professional developers looking to upskill and to non-developers looking for a career change."

Jones, however, believes that coding will always be in demand at all levels in IT organizations. "DevOps is all about code," he says. "Coders create the universe. Coders create automation; any area where we can't get enough people is an area where we need coders to automate it instead."

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When 90% of IT leaders say they are using enterprise open source, its a sign of a technology wave that will continue to influence the computing world for a long time.

The result has been development of an open-source-fueled startup ecosystem that works closely with many of the worlds largest tech providers to build new products and services on top of deep, established cloud platforms. This has, in turn, led to additional waves of innovation, as smaller, growing firms leverage the broad base of services that major enterprises such as Amazon Web Services Inc. can provide.

This is unique; you never saw this happen before from so many different directions, said Deepak Singh (pictured), vice president of compute services at AWS, during keynote remarks delivered for theAWS Startup Showcase: Open Cloud Innovations event. Innovation is just getting going, which is why we have so many partners who are all inventing and innovating on top of open source.

Following his keynote, Singh spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Medias livestreaming studio, and amplified his remarks in a discussion about AWS participation in open source, how various projects mesh with the cloud providers business, and the important role of the companys partner ecosystem. (* Disclosure below.)

The scope of AWS involvement in open source can be seen in a weekly online update published by the cloud provider. Each installment of Open-Source News and Updates charts the companys participation in various ongoing code projects. As is common with many large tech firms, AWS either contributes to existing open-source initiatives or develops technology internally that is then donated to the community at-large.

Our default is to go with the open-source option, where we can open-source and it makes sense for us to do so where were feel that the broader community might benefit from it, Singh explained. When Amazon or Netflix or Meta build something for their own needs, the first question we ask ourselves is should it be open source? Increasingly, we are all saying yes.

In his keynote remarks, Singh highlighted a number of open-source projects that AWS has been involved in. These include the Kubernetes controller Argo CD, the Rust programming language, the PyTorch machine learning framework, and Amazons Linux 2022 distribution based on Fedora.

We work with a lot of people in the broader Cloud Native Computing Foundation community, as well as on small projects that our customers started, Singh said. Sometimes we feel that contributing to a project is super critical because it helps us build more robust services.

AWS has been especially focused on the Firecracker and containerd projects. Firecracker is an open-source virtualization technology that enables the deployment of workloads in microVMs while managing multi-tenant container and function-based services. According to Singh, AWS interest is based on its Fargate and Lambda serverless offerings, which run on virtual machine environments.

Lambda runs on top of Firecracker, Singh noted. If you want to build your own Firecracker-based at-scale service, you can have confidence that as long as your workload fits the design parameters of Firecracker, the battle-hardening and robustness is being proved out day-to-day by services at-scale like Lambda and Fargate.

Containerd manages the complete container lifecycle, from image transfer and storage to execution.

Weve been involved with containerd from the beginning, Singh said. Containerd underlies Fargate, it underlies our Kubernetes offerings, and its increasingly being used by our customers directly.

The startup partner ecosystem has played an important role in the execution of AWS open-source agenda. One of those companies is Tidelift Inc., which is focused on building relationships with the maintainer community and providing a software-as-a-service solution for managing enterprise open-source components.

Singh discussed Tidelift in his interview with theCUBE as an example of how the relationships that AWS forms with startups become an appealing element for customers.

Their goal is to make all of you who are developing open-source solutions, especially on AWS, more successful, Singh said. Increasingly, customers build their applications and leverage the broader AWS Partner Network. You can rely on those partners for your own business.

An important element in Amazons long-term open-source strategy involves its continued development of the Graviton processor. AWS launched its latest version, Graviton3, in December, and Singh characterized the processor as a catalyst for companies seeking to build innovative new products on top of the cloud platform.

A big part of what were doing is to make sure that Graviton is available to you on every compute modality, Singh said. Every high-level service that gets built on this now has the option of picking Graviton as the underlying compute infrastructure. Theres never been a better time to be a developer, independent of whatever you are trying to build.

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The maintainers of the Rust programming language have released a security update for a high-severity vulnerability that could be abused by a malicious party to purge files and directories from a vulnerable system in an unauthorized manner.

"An attacker could use this security issue to trick a privileged program into deleting files and directories the attacker couldn't otherwise access or delete," the Rust Security Response working group (WG) said in an advisory published on January 20, 2021.

Rust 1.0.0 through Rust 1.58.0 is affected by this vulnerability. The flaw, which is tracked as CVE-2022-21658 (CVSS score: 7.3), has been credited to security researcher Hans Kratz, with the team pushing out a fix in Rust version 1.58.1 shipped last week.

Specifically, the issue stems from an improperly implemented check to prevent recursive deletion of symbolic links (aka symlinks) in a standard library function named "std::fs::remove_dir_all." This results in a race condition, which, in turn, could be reliably exploited by an adversary by abusing their access to a privileged program to delete sensitive directories.

"Instead of telling the system not to follow symlinks, the standard library first checked whether the thing it was about to delete was a symlink, and otherwise it would proceed to recursively delete the directory," the advisory said. "This exposed a race condition: an attacker could create a directory and replace it with a symlink between the check and the actual deletion."

Rust, while not a widely-used programming language, has witnessed a surge in adoption in recent years for its memory-related safety guarantees. Last year, Google announced that its open-source version of the Android operating system will add support for the programming language to prevent memory safety bugs.

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In a previous interview with Business Insider, Mittal revealed that the game plans to launch its whitepaper in February. The companys engineers had been experimenting with coding languages like Rust for Solana and Solidity for Ethereum, but seem to have finalised on Polygons MATIC which uses Golang, which is an open-source programming language compatible with Ethereum networks, for the next phase of development.

With Polygon, were going to bring The Rush Gaming Universe on-chain in 2022 on top of the vast and vibrant Ethereum ecosystem to deliver on this vision."

Kavin Bharti Mittal said in a statement

Mittal plans for going web3 were initiated a while back but the issue was scalability. Most blockchain-based platforms are smaller when they start out and they start on-chain. With the Rush Gaming Universe, however, the platform is already live and is doing 100 million gameplays every three months.

That scale needs to be brought onto the blockchain now. According to Hike, Polygon has scaling solutions that remove that bottleneck in a cost-effective way.

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