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)

Unvaccinated and working at Apple? Prepare for COVID-19 testing 'every time' you step in the office

(2021/10/21)

Tell us you've been jabbed or...



Google trims the cut its Play Store takes from digital subscriptions, ebooks, music streaming

(2021/10/21)

But with 97 per cent of Android devs offering free software, web giant's share of mobile ad spend matters more



Executive exodus from Intel depth and tracking tech arm RealSense continues

(2021/10/21)

Former CTO leaves for car tech biz



'Windows 11 has been successfully downloaded,' says update for Xbox version of Microsoft Flight Simulator

(2021/10/21)

What? No. Noooooooooooooooooo



We regret to inform you there's an RCE vuln in old version of WinRAR. Yes, the file decompression utility

(2021/10/21)

Update to v6.02 – or don't, but on your head be it



GIMP 2.99.8 is here but what's happened to 3.0? If only stuff would not break all the time

(2021/10/21)

Keeping up with technology changes 'taking a toll on development'



After more than a decade of development, South Korea has a near miss with Nuri rocket test

(2021/10/21)

Nation playing catch-up following release from 1979 ban



Developers offered browser-based fun in VSCode.dev and Java action in Visual Studio Code

(2021/10/21)

Looking at code here, there and (almost) everywhere



No swearing or off-brand comments: AWS touts auto-moderation messaging API

(2021/10/21)

Automate everything – but while human moderation is hard, robot moderation tends not to work



UK government puts £5bn on the table in trawl for public sector networks services

(2021/10/21)

I dream of wires, say Whitehall’s big buyers



Informatica UKI veep was rightfully sacked over Highways England $5k golf jolly, says tribunal

(2021/10/21)

Underling took customer on bucket list trip - and VP signed it off without checking



Boeing's Starliner capsule corroded due to high humidity levels, NASA explains, and the spaceship won't fly this year

(2021/10/21)

Meanwhile Elon's running orbital tourist trips and ISS crew missions



Research finds consumer-grade IoT devices showing up... on corporate networks

(2021/10/21)

Considering the slack security of such kit, it's a perfect storm



Huawei appears to have quenched its thirst for power in favour of more efficient 5G

(2021/10/21)

Never mind the performance, man, think of the planet



What is self-learning AI and how does it tackle ransomware?

(2021/10/21)

Darktrace: Why you need defence that operates at machine speed



IBM Systems sales sag as revenue growth slows to a crawl – but at least tape did OK

(2021/10/21)

Big Blue promises mid-single-digit growth is coming, but CEO struggles to explain how.



Arm teases its GPU that will follow next year's graphics processor tech

(2021/10/21)

Pushing for a 5x performance boost albeit over a 2018 cousin



China to crush secondary market providing forbidden gaming accounts to kids

(2021/10/21)

Beijing's recent crackdowns on internet behaviour have spawned rebellious entrepreneurs, because of course they have.



AWS admits cloud ain't always the answer, intros on-prem vid-analysing box

(2021/10/21)

Panorama appliance packs Nvidia Jetson Xavier AGX and will be sold – not rented like other AWS on-prem kit



Remember, remember, the 1st of November: The day Dell VMware spun out

(2021/10/21)

Virtzilla will be just fine – it's finally figured out how to woo developers, and hardware players won't desert it



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The world's most avid baseball fan (an Aggie) had arrived at the
stadium for the first game of the World Series only to realize he had left
his ticket at home. Not wanting to miss any of the first inning, he went
to the ticket booth and got in a long line for another seat. After an hour's
wait he was just a few feet from the booth when a voice called out, "Hey,
Dave!" The Aggie looked up, stepped out of line and tried to find the owner
of the voice -- with no success. Then he realized he had lost his place in
line and had to wait all over again. When the fan finally bought his ticket,
he was thirsty, so he went to buy a drink. The line at the concession stand
was long, too, but since the game hadn't started he decided to wait. Just as
he got to the window, a voice called out, "Hey, Dave!" Again the Aggie tried
to find the voice -- but no luck. He was very upset as he got back in line
for his drink. Finally the fan went to his seat, eager for the game to begin.
As he waited for the pitch, he heard the voice calling, "Hey Dave!" once more.
Furious, he stood up and yelled at the top of his lungs, "My name isn't Dave!"