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)

China signs up 400 million new 5G subscribers in a year, more than doubling user population

(2022/01/21)

730 million 5G services active in Middle Kingdom, while another 100 million 4G services came online too



If you want less CGI and more real effects in movies, you may get your wish: Inflatable film studio to orbit Earth

(2022/01/21)

What a retirement for the ISS: Gaining a totally feasible 'state-of-the-art media production capability'



NASA's gamma-ray-burst alert satellite put into safe mode after suspected reaction wheel failure

(2022/01/21)

To be fair, this is after 17 years of service in space



Crypto.com now says someone tried to drain $34m from hundreds of accounts

(2022/01/20)

Won't reveal net loss, says it stopped some withdrawals and has reimbursed those who had funds taken



For those worried about Microsoft's Pluton TPM chip: Lenovo won't even switch it on by default in latest ThinkPads

(2022/01/20)

Folks can enable or disable it, install Linux as normal. Just sayin'



UK mulls making MSPs subject to mandatory security standards where they provide critical infrastructure

(2022/01/20)

And to pay for the privilege. Consultation's open, though



Can you compose memory across a HPC cluster? Yes. Yes you can

(2022/01/20)

GigaIO CTO talks up 'solution that has a lot of what CXL offers'



Working overtime? Those extra hours might not be hurting your wellbeing after all – just don't tell Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma

(2022/01/20)

If you love your job, going the extra mile might not be stressful or cause depression



Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption

(2022/01/20)

So far we've got a pisspoor video and... er, that's it



'Now' would be the right time to patch Ubuntu container hosts and ditch 21.04 thanks to heap buffer overflow bug

(2022/01/20)

Red Hat agrees



Fujitsu wants technology to shape a better future – its technology, of course

(2022/01/20)

Quantum, HPC, and AI to take us to rainbow sunshine happy land



First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

(2022/01/20)

Is nothing safe from the dead hand of the Windows 11 design aesthetic?



The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst

(2022/01/20)

Ageing populations, competition, cost-cutting and COVID-19 driving increased adoption



NortonLifeLock and Avast tie-up falls under UK competition regulator's spotlight

(2022/01/20)

CMA invites comments from 'interested parties' on what merger means to them



Lots of new toys, caps lock still stuck on: ONLYOFFICE hits version 7

(2022/01/20)

LibreOffice alternative unfurls latest productivity software update



Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee on privacy, data sharing, and the web's future

(2022/01/20)

'Ensure that code you write works with these open standards'



SUSE announces something for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux

(2022/01/20)

Run, run like RHEL



Red Cross forced to shutter family reunion service following cyberattack and data leak

(2022/01/20)

Director-general pleads with cyber-scum: leave this data alone, because the people involved have suffered enough



Being 'Threat-Led' is the answer. Your ISO certificate won’t save you from a breach!

(2022/01/20)

The Vectra Masked CISO series gives security leaders a place to expose the biggest issues in security and advise peers on how to overcome them



McAfee's and FireEye rename themselves ‘Trellix’

(2022/01/20)

To evoke support for growing things, not the 1990s vendor of web-pages-made-easy-ware



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