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)

Toyota needs more than its Cheer Squad to deal with chip shortages, as five more home factories forced into idleness

(2021/10/15)

Car makers facing increasingly tough times until supply catches up



Missouri governor demands prosecution of reporter for 'decoding HTML source code' and reporting a data breach

(2021/10/15)

Salus populi suprema lex esto ... or perhaps not



Everyone who wants a smartphone for Chrimbo will get one, but in the real world things are somewhat different

(2021/10/15)

Global handset market slips in Q3 on sliding chipset availability, says Canalys



Microsoft 365 has your back. But who’s got your data?

(2021/10/15)

This webcast will help you comply



Windows terminates here. Please remember to finish setting it up on arrival

(2021/10/15)

Washington Metro admin has taken an early lunch



Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS

(2021/10/15)

He hasn't got $2.5bn to hand to the DoJ, unlike his bosses



Keep expectations low and you won't be disappointed: OVH manages 6 per cent increase on its IPO debut

(2021/10/15)

French cloud provider puts outage and fire behind it to focus on beating the big players



Space boffins: Exoplanet survived hydrogen-death of its host star

(2021/10/15)

Hope extended to gas giants across the universe... well, it is Friday



Spanner in the works: The goal is not 100% compatibility, Google says of PostgreSQL interface

(2021/10/15)

Meanwhile, Yugabyte says PostgreSQL compatibility for its distributed database dates back to 2019



German Pirate Party member claims EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2 will lead to 'doxxing and death lists'

(2021/10/15)

ICANN also dislikes it but web infrastructure firms don't really mind



Who are shortages good for? The channel! World's biggest distributor forecasts tech price hikes from January

(2021/10/15)

Things not likely to improve until 2023



All I want for Christmas is a delivery address that a delivery courier can find

(2021/10/15)

Send me an SMS and I’ll tell you everything



Scoot on over for a wheely tricky mystery with an electrifying solution

(2021/10/15)

The computer is a chauvinist, you say?



When it comes to ransomware, your fightback should start long before you’re attacked

(2021/10/15)

Learn how at our Ransomware Remediation Masterclass



Forget everything you learned playing Lunar Lander: Chinese boffins reveal secrets of Chang'e 5 probe's touchdown

(2021/10/15)

Landing with liquid fuel aboard made slosh-avoidance essential. Plus: China names first woman to visit Tiangong space station



US Army slows ~$20bn project to put Microsoft's HoloLens VR headsets into the field

(2021/10/15)

Deployment of 120,000 headsets hoped to 'increase lethality' pushed into 2022



White House ransomware summit calls for virtual asset crackdown, without mentioning cryptocurrency

(2021/10/15)

Inconsistent regulation means crooks can sneak cryptos through cracks – pretty much everyone wants them filled



Citrix has built a browser, and lost a CEO

(2021/10/15)

Chrome, Edge, and Opera can rest easy – this one's designed just to run virtual apps Citrix already manages



Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated systemd

(2021/10/15)

Three init systems offered – natch – plus lots of desktop love, and a warning of some exim oddities



Client-side content scanning as an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy

(2021/10/15)

Hopefully we're still listening to experts



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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned
things is ample.
-- Rebecca West