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)

Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told

(2021/10/21)

Error messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged



Chip shortage forces temporary Raspberry Pi 4 price rise for the first time

(2021/10/21)

Ten-buck increase for 2GB model 'not here to stay' says Upton



Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, 'intrusion software' – with proposed export controls

(2021/10/21)

Surveillance tech faces trade limits as America syncs policy with treaty obligations



Global IT spending to hit $4.5 trillion in 2022, says Gartner

(2021/10/20)

The future's bright, and expensive



Memory maker Micron moots $150bn mega manufacturing moneybag

(2021/10/20)

AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D



China to allow overseas investment in VPNs but Beijing keeps control of the generally discouraged tech

(2021/10/20)

Foreign ownership capped at 50%



We don’t want to be critical, but humans alone aren’t enough to protect your ICS

(2021/10/20)

If you want to know the solution, join this Regcast



Microsoft unveils Android apps for Windows 11 (for US users only)

(2021/10/20)

Windows Insiders get their hands on the Windows Subsystem for Android



Software Freedom Conservancy sues TV maker Vizio for GPL infringement

(2021/10/20)

Companies using GPL software should meet their obligations, lawsuit says



DRAM, it stacks up: SK hynix rolls out 819GB/s HBM3 tech

(2021/10/20)

Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest



UK's ARIA innovation body 'hasn't even begun to happen' says former research lead

(2021/10/20)

DARPA imitator not doing much after two years of Johnson government



Facebook fined £50m in UK for 'conscious' refusal to report info and 'deliberate failure to comply' during Giphy acquisition probe

(2021/10/20)

That rebrand can't come soon enough



Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser

(2021/10/20)

A death by a thousand cuts



Brave's homegrown search claims to protect your privacy but there's a long way to go if it's to challenge the big G

(2021/10/20)

Ad-free now but not forever



NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event

(2021/10/20)

It's like rai-iiiiiin on your wedding day



Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government

(2021/10/20)

Atkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register



Lunar rocks brought to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 show Moon's volcanoes were recently* active

(2021/10/20)

* Just a couple of billion years



Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for 'embarrassing' breach

(2021/10/20)

Website patched following phishing scam, no financial data exposed



Ancient with a dash of modern: We joined the Royal Navy to find there's little new in naval navigation

(2021/10/20)

Following the Fleet Navigating Officers' course



Darmstadt, we have a problem – ESA reveals its INTEGRAL space telescope was three hours from likely death

(2021/10/20)

Gamma ray-spotting 'scope was spinning uncontrollably and unable to make 'leccy until dramatic rescue



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