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)

AsmREPL: Wing your way through x86-64 assembly language

(2021/11/30)

Assemblers unite



Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it

(2021/11/30)

There's always Use Another Browser



Visiting a booby-trapped webpage could give attackers code execution privileges on HP network printers

(2021/11/30)

Patches available for 150 affected products



Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection

(2021/11/30)

Parachute snagged on ship's bows



Lloyd's of London suggests insurers should not cover 'retaliatory cyber operations' between nation states

(2021/11/30)

And they might attribute cyber attacks if governments won't



UK competition regulator to Meta's Facebook: Sell Giphy, we will not approve the purchase

(2021/11/30)

CMA finds that deal would be bad for consumers and tighten Zuck's grip on almost half of £7bn digital ad spend



You, me and debris: NASA cans ISS spacewalk because it's getting too risky outside

(2021/11/30)

Broken antenna will have to wait as warning comes in less than 24 hours before airlock opening



Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not

(2021/11/30)

The snag: This programming language is safe and efficient, but hard to learn, impacting productivity



The climate is turning against owning our own compute hardware. Cloud is good for you and your customers

(2021/11/30)

From the data centre to the desktop, here is the green solution



You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting

(2021/11/30)

All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too)



Think that spreadsheet in your company's accounts dept is old? 70 years ago, LEO ran the first business app

(2021/11/30)

Mods to the design of EDSAC were 'considerable' says boffin



UK privacy watchdog may fine selfie-hoarding Clearview AI £17m... eventually, perhaps

(2021/11/30)

Regulator's 'assertions are factually and legally incorrect' biz tells El Reg



Quantum computing to grow by 50 per cent per year until 2027, when revenue will still be chump change

(2021/11/30)

IDC reckons industry will be worth $8.6B a year – or about a quarter of one Dell quarter



Winter is coming … with a blizzard of live and virtual SANS Institute events

(2021/11/30)

Or a long, hot summer of cybersec training, depending where you are



Hubble space 'scope brings its Cosmic Origins Spectrograph back online

(2021/11/30)

Work continues on code to make the observatory operate happily when control unit message sync glitches out



Euro-telcos call on big tech to help pay for their network builds

(2021/11/30)

Aka 'rebalancing global technology giants and the European digital ecosystem'



AI-enhanced frog stem cells start to replicate in entirely new ways

(2021/11/30)

Xenobots scoop up loose cells to make more of themselves. We welcome our new overlords



Panasonic admits intruders were inside its servers for months

(2021/11/30)

Spotted the crack after it ended – still not sure what was lost



HPE sees 'no indication' its tech was sold to Chinese military, seeks answers from Uncle Sam on sanctions

(2021/11/30)

In the dark about how New H3C chip org ended up on USA’s naughty list



James Webb Space Telescope may actually truly launch this century, says NASA

(2021/11/29)

Will it fly by Christmas? Betteridge's law probably applies



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"How do you know she is a unicorn?" Molly demanded. "And why were you afraid
to let her touch you? I saw you. You were afraid of her."
"I doubt that I will feel like talking for very long," the cat
replied without rancor. "I would not waste time in foolishness if I were
you. As to your first question, no cat out of its first fur can ever be
deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them. As for your
second question --" Here he faltered, and suddenly became very interested
in washing; nor would he speak until he had licked himself fluffy and then
licked himself smooth again. Even then he would not look at Molly, but
examined his claws.
"If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been
hers and not my own, not ever again."
-- Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn"