ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases

(2025/08/08)

updated Campaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’



Sopra Steria bags £115 million legacy extension from UK pensions department after delays to replacement ERP project

(2025/08/08)

New SaaS system awaits a 'fully costed and deliverable integrated plan' before it can support 280,000 employees



UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act

(2025/08/08)

It's 'more than a temporary trend,' Decodo claims



After 30 years PHP still evolving: Team adds pipe operator, considers generics

(2025/08/08)

Modern language features plus high performance FrankenPHP app server make PHP worth another look



Behold the wood-block wonder of the Kilopixel display

(2025/08/08)

Feature We're going out on a limb here... why not branch out from things like retina displays and get a little more fine grained?



Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK

(2025/08/08)

Opinion A Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond



Tech support team won pay rise for teaching customers how to RTFM

(2025/08/08)

On Call Documentation was so substantial, staff measured it in feet



Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act

(2025/08/08)

Opinion Will someone think of the deals politicians are making?



North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme

(2025/08/08)

Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby



Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them

(2025/08/08)

Fears adversaries will use them in the belief they can take plenty of punishment



Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0’s speed and reach 256.0 GT/s

(2025/08/08)

A new connector may be on the cards, too



$500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board

(2025/08/08)

Backer SoftBank isn't fussed, is excited that Arm will provide half of new cloudy CPUs this year



Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them?

(2025/08/08)

Black Hat A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is



OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations

(2025/08/08)

That totally makes up for the single-digit benchmark gains, right?



German security researchers say 'Windows Hell No' to Microsoft biometrics for biz

(2025/08/07)

Black Hat Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans



AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam's cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028

(2025/08/07)

What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you?



Microsoft, CISA warn yet another Exchange server bug can lead to 'total domain compromise'

(2025/08/07)

No reported in-the-wild exploits…yet



NASA changes the rules of the game for commercial space stations

(2025/08/07)

Aiming to shrink the post-ISS gap, but less orbit time for NASA astronauts?



Politically hot parts of US Constitution briefly deleted thanks to 'coding error'

(2025/08/07)

Nothing to see here - just removing that old Emoluments Clause and habeas corpus



Euro Commish on US lobbying against EU DSA rules: 'Our standards are not up for discussion'

(2025/08/07)

Tells The Reg they never were ... 'and this will not change'



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Fortune finishes the great quotations, #21

Shall I compare thee to a Summer day?
No, I guess not.