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)

UK's competition regulator announces market study into music-streaming biz

(2021/10/19)

Watchdog is getting comfortable with its new digital remit



Northern Ireland Water ready to take the plunge with HR and finance software, prepares to flush Oracle R12.2

(2021/10/19)

Utility biz has £28m to spend on replacement system



If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002

(2021/10/19)

Alternative headline: Yet another widely used project maintained thanklessly by 'some random person in Nebraska'



Share your experience: How does your organization introduce new systems?

(2021/10/19)

The answer is rarely obvious. Take part in our short poll and we'll find out together



These Rapoo webcams won't blow your mind, but they also won't break the bank

(2021/10/19)

And they're almost certainly better than a laptop jowel-cam



It's one thing to have the world in your hands – what are you going to do with it?

(2021/10/19)

Google won the patent battle against ART+COM, but we were left with little more than a toy



Why Cloud First should not have to mean Cloud Everywhere

(2021/10/19)

HPE urges 'consciously hybrid' strategy for UK public sector



A Raspberry Pi HAT for the Lego Technic fan

(2021/10/19)

Sneaking in programming under the guise of plastic bricks



Reg scribe spends week being watched by government Bluetooth wristband, emerges to more surveillance

(2021/10/19)

Home quarantine week was the price for an overseas trip, ongoing observation is the price of COVID-19



Intel teases 'software-defined silicon' with Linux kernel contribution – and won't say why

(2021/10/19)

It might enable activation of entirely new features on existing Xeon CPUs … or, you know, not



Chip manufacturers are going back to the future for automotive silicon

(2021/10/19)

Where we're going, we don't need 5nm



Alibaba Cloud unveils home-spun 128-core Arm-compatible server processor

(2021/10/19)

Also plans to open-source current XuanTie RISC-V cores and future designs



Japanese messaging giant Line admits it mishandled user data, promises to do better

(2021/10/19)

Sent user data to China without once thinking Beijing might decide to snoop, lied about server location



Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

(2021/10/19)

We can't wait to see the logic gymnastics needed to justify this



Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors

(2021/10/18)

x86 is an eighty-sixed ex



US lawmakers give Amazon until November to prove it didn't lie to Congress

(2021/10/18)

This better be a Prime delivery



Engineers investigating iffy solar array latch on NASA's Lucy as probe begins long journey to Trojan asteroids

(2021/10/18)

Spacecraft otherwise stable and working well



Learn how to modernize your applications in just a day? No. Five hours should do it.

(2021/10/18)

Check in to AWS Application Modernization Day



Microsoft called out as big malware hoster – thanks to OneDrive and Office 365 abuse

(2021/10/18)

Infosec pro: 'OneDrive abuse has been going on for years'



Dishing up the goods: Square Kilometre Array moves out of the theoretical and into the contractual

(2021/10/18)

Plus: Australian telescope precursor finds weird waves in the middle of the galaxy



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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely
the most important.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity"