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)

Tesla disables in-car gaming feature that allowed play while MuskMobiles were in motion

(2021/12/24)

Hey Elon, it's no secret that distracted driving is a major cause of US car fatalities



Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang

(2021/12/24)

Don’t mention the human rights abuses, focus on the need for compliance



Tencent unexpectedly offloads stake in fellow Chinese giant JD.com

(2021/12/23)

Surprise dividend for shareholders may also yield approval from monopoly-wary Beijing



Db2, where are you? Big Blue is oddly reluctant to discuss recent enhancements to its flagship database

(2021/12/23)

Cloud-native RDBMS is coming, on AWS and Azure. Yet IBM's only preaching to the choir



Wifinity hands customers bills for Wi-Fi services they didn't want but used by accident after software 'glitch' let 'fixed term' subs continue

(2021/12/23)

Firm admits problem and then tries to cash in from own screwup



Fisher Price's Bluetooth reboot of pre-school play phone has adult privacy flaw

(2021/12/23)

‘Chatter’ can be bugged thanks to kindergarten-grade security



Alibaba Cloud slapped by Chinese ministry for mishandling Log4j

(2021/12/23)

Beijing's not saying what cloudy contender did wrong



James Webb Telescope launch delayed again, this time by weather

(2021/12/23)

New launch date could be a marvelous Christmas gift to humanity



Would you like a side of data with your chips? Silicon-slingers start bundling info with their hardware

(2021/12/23)

Intel, Nvidia, and others have figured out you need help getting started with AI



AWS power failure in US-EAST-1 region killed some hardware and instances

(2021/12/23)

Some servers and EBS volumes won’t make it back



Electric fastback fun: Now you can surf the web from the driving seat of your Polestar 2

(2021/12/22)

With Vivaldi. While parked



Boffins' first take on asteroid dust from Japanese probe: Carbon rich, less lumpy than expected

(2021/12/22)

The five grams of Ryugu we got suggests it's made of the same stuff as the outer Sun



A proposal to beat below-the-belt selfies: Crowdsourced machine learning using victims' image stashes

(2021/12/22)

Empty your inboxes, people, we can duck this problem together



Nvidia says its SmartNICs sizzled to world record storage schlepping status

(2021/12/22)

But did so operating as NICs – the real fun starts in mid-2022 when VMware’s hypervisor for SmartNICs should land



Of course a Bluetooth-using home COVID test was cracked to fake results

(2021/12/22)

The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test was connected to the internet of woefully insecure things for a while



Think small, score big: India details subsidies for chipmakers

(2021/12/22)

More advanced manufacturing processes will attract the big rupees, but scheme seems unlikely to make India a major player



New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage

(2021/12/22)

Alternative route will skip the Suez Canal and other tricky spots



How to tackle hybrid cloud security and DevSecOps

(2021/12/21)

Putting the Sec into DevOps is key, says Red Hat



It's your Loki day: The Reg takes Elementary OS Jólnir for a quick test drive

(2021/12/21)

Just four months on, 6.1 is Odin with a facelift



UK's Defra and Ministry of Justice facing £120m IR35 tax bills thanks to inaccuracies in assessing contractors' status

(2021/12/21)

Central government still struggling with its own off-payroll tax rules



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