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)

Mike Lynch loses US extradition delay bid: Flight across the Atlantic looks closer than ever

(2022/01/26)

Autonomy founder set for criminal trial on multiple counts of fraud over sale of biz to HPE



OpenShell has been working on a classic replacement for Windows 11's Start menu

(2022/01/26)

It's still early days, though



It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy

(2022/01/26)

Anyone fancy a spherical tokamak in their backyard?



Infosec big dogs break out the bubbly over UK government's latest cyber strategy emission

(2022/01/26)

See that? That's a promise of fat contracts, that is



Microsoft revenue up by a fifth as world shuffles through the pandemic into the metaverse

(2022/01/26)

Cloud the top earner as usual but Redmond is doubling down on gaming



Head of Big Tech Expertise? Believe it or not, it's a UK.gov vacancy for a Whitehall job

(2022/01/26)

What happened to loosening stranglehold of major tech firms on the public sector?



IR35 is the biggest threat to the contractor working model, survey finds

(2022/01/26)

Brexit, COVID-19 and tax rises all eclipsed by the omnipresent rule change, study of contractors finds



Infosec chap: I found a way to hijack your web accounts, turn on your webcam from Safari – and Apple gave me $100k

(2022/01/26)

Now you see a harmless PNG. Now it's a malicious payload. Look into my eyes



Google dumps interest-based ad system for another interest-based ad system

(2022/01/26)

For FLoC's sake, people



Watchdog clears 90 per cent of US commercial aircraft to land in low visibility at nation's 5G C-band airports

(2022/01/26)

Don't start celebrating just yet if you own a Boeing 747-8, 747-8F, 777



Linux distros haunted by Polkit-geist for 12+ years: Bug grants root access to any user

(2022/01/26)

What happens when argc is zero and a SUID program doesn't care? Let's find out!



Now that's wafer thin: Some manufacturers had less than five days of chip supplies, says Uncle Sam

(2022/01/26)

Components fabbed using 40nm-plus process nodes hit hard



Baidu's AI predictions for 2022: Autonomous driving! Quantum computing! Space! Human-machine symbiosis!

(2022/01/25)

Did a computer program tell them to write this?



Nvidia reportedly prepares for un-Arm'd combat with rivals: $40bn takeover may be abandoned

(2022/01/25)

Softbank, meanwhile, remains 'hopeful' it can offload Brit chip designer



Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement

(2022/01/25)

If you're unable to share documents, this may be why



22-year-old Brit avoids US extradition over SIM-swapping conspiracy after judge deems him to be high suicide risk

(2022/01/25)

Accused said to have suffered mental health problems from childhood



Do you know what TikTok is? Then you might make a good magistrate, says Ministry of Justice

(2022/01/25)

82% of volunteers in England and Wales are aged 50 and above



Sophos: Log4Shell would have been a catastrophe without the Y2K-esque mobilisation of engineers

(2022/01/25)

Anti-malware biz weighs in on one of the worst security flaws of recent times



Shut off 3G by 2033? How about 2023, asks Vodafone UK

(2022/01/25)

Says it'll be 'asking customers' to make sure own phones support 4G, and to check on friends, family



Parallels: Purveyors of decent virtualization software... and occasionally iffy checksums

(2022/01/25)

La la la, we're not listening



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If it's the last thing we ever do.
-- The Animals