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)

Academics tell Brit MPs to check the software used when considering reproducibility in science and tech research

(2021/11/25)

It's seldom subject to the same rigour as conventional apparatus



Autonomy accounts whistleblowers may testify at founder Mike Lynch's US criminal trial

(2021/11/25)

Recent legal wranglings sliced, diced, and dished up for your reading pleasure



ESA's Solar Orbiter will swing past Earth this week – sure hope nobody created a big cloud of space junk up there

(2021/11/25)

Oh wait



UK.gov emits draft IoT and smartphone security law for Parliamentary scrutiny

(2021/11/25)

Mandatory vuln reporting, hefty fines for non-compliance



When digital transformation is the goal, network renovation isn’t good enough

(2021/11/25)

Keeping secure with iomart in the second wave of SD-WAN



Robotaxis freed to charge across 60km2 of Beijing

(2021/11/25)

Baidu's Apollo tech exits testing phase, so punters must now pay the machine for a ride. Would you?



Google advises passwords are good, spear phishing is bad, and free clouds get attacked

(2021/11/25)

Ad giant's first stab at providing the 'world's premier security advisory' starts with the obvious



Giant Japanese corporations to launch bank-backed digital currency

(2021/11/25)

Central bank and government to observe effort run by railways, telcos, industrial titans, and private banks



Huawei's AppGallery riddled with malware-infected games

(2021/11/25)

Cynos.7 trojan found its way into 9.3 million downloads



US bans Chinese firms – including one linked to HPE’s China JV – for feeding tech to Beijing's military

(2021/11/25)

Other additions to Entity List are accused of helping Pakistan, North Korea make nukes, missiles



Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future

(2021/11/25)

Nice employees you have, be a shame if something were to happen to them



Theranos' Holmes admits she slapped Big Pharma logos on lab reports to boost her biz

(2021/11/25)

'I wish I had done it differently' she tells jury in fraud trial



SmartNICs, IPUs, DPUs de-hyped: Why and how cloud giants are offloading work from server CPUs

(2021/11/24)

Where this technology grew from, and what it offers you



Microsoft extends 'outage mode' for Azure Active Directory to bake more resilience into cloudy services

(2021/11/24)

But Redmond has bigger questions to answer regarding Azure architecture



AWS claims 'monumental step forward' with optional IPv6-only networks

(2021/11/24)

10 quintillion IP addresses per subnet but expect some pain



Dell: We and our customers understand the supply constraints now. The 'wildcard is logistics'

(2021/11/24)

Over at rival HP, the story is more about building too many Chromebooks and watching demand for them ebb away



Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix reports bigger loss than turnover

(2021/11/24)

Hardware supply chain issues? Somebody else's problem, guv



Max Schrems hits Irish Data Protection Commissioner with corruption complaint

(2021/11/24)

Watchdog argues 'fairness' in process should keep some documents confidential



Microsoft restores Remote Assistance to Intune – this time as a premium feature

(2021/11/24)

Customers accuse Redmond of making standard functionality a pricey extra



Apple's Pegasus lawsuit a 'declaration of war' against offensive software developers, says Kaspersky director

(2021/11/24)

Regional exec says Apple wants offensive researchers out of the field because they are harmful to the reputation of the company



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