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 Telecom's US arm sues in last-ditch bid to retain license

(2021/11/16)

Company claims it poses no threat, yet regs want China influence out



US states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's advertising business keeps growing

(2021/11/16)

Texas and pals are back with more details of Chocolate Factory's alleged efforts to unfairly rig the online advertising world



Veeam reveals cloud storage use patterns: Azure and AWS for bulk, IBM has ardent fans, Google has … not much

(2021/11/16)

Average cloudy data stash hits 15TB and and median value tripled to over 3TB



Russia blows up old satellite, NASA boss 'outraged' as ISS crew shelters from debris

(2021/11/16)

Moscow slammed for 'reckless, dangerous, irresponsible' weapon test



A diverse range of processing units linked via interconnects. Sounds familiar? Yes, it's IBM's quantum computing

(2021/11/16)

System Two takes modular, data-center-inspired approach. Plus: 127-qubit Eagle Big Blue hopes will fly



Chinese Communist Party official expelled for mining cryptocurrency

(2021/11/16)

Middle Kingdom floats fresh data security rules, too, with eight-hour privacy breach notification requirement



Smartphone chip house Ziguang Zhanrui records 14,726.1% growth in China

(2021/11/15)

That's year on year from a base close to zero ... but still, that makes it the fifth biggest in the Middle Kingdom right out of the blue



When the world ends, all that will be left are cockroaches and new Rowhammer attacks: RAM defenses broken again

(2021/11/15)

Blacksmith is latest hammer horror



America, when you're done hitting us with the ban hammer, see these on-prem Zoom vulns, says Positive

(2021/11/15)

Now would be a good idea to check you're up-to-date



Email encryption should be a no-brainer, not a brain melter

(2021/11/15)

Warm up your email security smarts with this online broadcast



NASA auditor's reality check says '2026 at the earliest' for Artemis Moon landing

(2021/11/15)

All stacked up and nowhere to go



Remember SoftRAM 95? Compression app claimed to double memory in Windows but actually did nothing at all

(2021/11/15)

Microsoft's Raymond Chen was tasked with digging into the issue



What do you mean, 'Microsoft doesn't care about Windows on Arm'? Here's a cheap, underpowered test rig

(2021/11/15)

For all your Windows-on-Snapdragon developer needs



Phone jammers made my model plane smash into parked lorry, fumes hobbyist

(2021/11/15)

Illegal irritant raises its head again after drone investigation



The paperless office is back again! (But only because print hardware supplies are jammed)

(2021/11/15)

Hardcopy sales plunge double digits in Western Europe, both inkjets and lasers impacted



There's something to be said for delayed gratification when Windows 11 is this full of bugs

(2021/11/15)

Also: Emergency patch for Windows Server after Patch Tuesday broke single sign-on for some users



Cruel and unusual IT fail upstages Megan Fox. Transformers: Windows in disguise

(2021/11/15)

Check your outputs, kids



Ofcom slams slammers: Telcos fined for switching punters' phone lines without their knowledge or consent

(2021/11/15)

Guaranteed Telecom, Met Technologies nurse £35k penalty, and to them that's meaningful



Randox's Certifly app for vaccinated international arrivals has to be side-loaded onto Android phones

(2021/11/15)

Which, alongside its £20-a-pop COVID-19 tests, isn't a great look



Tech bro CEOs claim their crowns because they fix problems. Why shirk the biggest one?

(2021/11/15)

Saving the planet is sexier than the next iPhone



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