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)

Pension cold-calling financial services biz cops largest ever fine from UK data watchdog

(2021/12/01)

EB Associates facing £140k penalty for 107,000 illegal calls



Microsoft shareholders vote for a report into harassment within the company

(2021/12/01)

Median pay gap reporting found less favour



Could we use an LLVM-based cross-compiler to build apps for quantum computers? This alliance says yes

(2021/12/01)

Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems



Brit RPA upstart Blue Prism falls into arms of US tech holdings biz SS&C for £1.24bn

(2021/12/01)

Software automation specialist escaping London Stock Exchange



Big challenge with hardware subscriptions? Getting what we need, not what someone else wants us to have

(2021/12/01)

Reject the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the cloud giants



ESA's Solar Orbiter sails safely past Earth despite orbiting debris concerns

(2021/12/01)

See if you can guess when the spacecraft thrusters took over



On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy

(2021/12/01)

2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch



Last chance: Get hands-on ML experience in Prof Mark Whitehorn’s introductory web workshop

(2021/12/01)

December 3 is the final day to buy tickets – book now or miss out



Samsung wheels out new silicon that turns cars into 5G-fuelled entertainment hubs

(2021/12/01)

Nice wheels! Thanks, it's got eight Cortex-A76 cores, a 5G modem and 32GB of RAM



UK watchdog's punishment for Blackbaud, Easyjet, other big privacy lawbreakers was slap on the wrist in private

(2021/12/01)

Is this what they call light-touch regulation?



Beijing wants to level up China's software industry, with an emphasis on FOSS

(2021/12/01)

Plans to build 'two or three open source communities with international influence' in the next five years



We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mega-comets lurking in solar systems, spewing carbon monoxide

(2021/12/01)

Comet BB is not only largest of its type that we know of, it was likely active billions of miles from the Sun



Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job

(2021/12/01)

Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning



Qualcomm takes a swipe at Apple's build-not-buy culture (because it wants to sell stuff to Apple)

(2021/12/01)

Suggests collaboration with OS suppliers is the best way to innovate, ignoring that Google just designed its own silicon for Pixel 6



UK intel chief says MI6 must outsource innovation – and James Bond's in-house 'Q' is nonsense

(2021/12/01)

China is on the march, Russia loves to destabilise, no intelligence agency can stop 'em without help



Cisco tells UCS owners they may have a screw loose – in the server chassis

(2021/12/01)

Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in



AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions

(2021/12/01)

CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers



Qualcomm crams more smarts into flagship mobile chip: It's the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

(2021/12/01)

Do you want a smartphone to know you that well?



If at first Amazon doesn't let you succeed, try, try again: Warehouse workers given second chance at union vote

(2021/11/30)

US watchdog tosses previous result in the trash after election fairness slammed



It's the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected

(2021/11/30)

And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified



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Committee, n.:
A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen