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)

Macintosh Classic II and triceratops skull on auction: One's a dinosaur, the other has three horns on its face

(2021/10/13)

Christie's 'Science and Natural History' collection isn't joking when it says it's 'a journey in time'



I'm diabetic. I'd rather risk my shared health data being stolen than a double amputation

(2021/10/13)

You want my medical records? Good, take them – now find me a cure



OVH blames hour-long global outage on human error during 'routine' network reconfiguration

(2021/10/13)

'No impact expected' then pop – and weren't they in the process of an IPO?



How Windows NTFS finally made it into Linux

(2021/10/13)

Microsoft's New Technology File System has been with us for decades and at long, long last it's going to be fully supported for penguins



And finally... Oracle bags £25m ERP deal to replace East Sussex County Council's SAP R/3 system

(2021/10/13)

Award delayed nine months due to pandemic



EU Commission may extend antitrust probe into Nvidia's $54bn merger with Arm

(2021/10/13)

Investigation to continue into early 2022



Microsoft says Azure fended off what might just be the world's biggest-ever DDoS attack

(2021/10/13)

Much of the 2.4Tbit/sec came from across Asia and targeted a single Euro-customer



Oh my, Grandma, what a big meteorite you have right there on your pillow under that hole in the roof

(2021/10/13)

Canadian woman's lovely floral linen besmirched by recently-arrived space rock



.NET Foundation admits it 'violated the trust of project maintainers'

(2021/10/13)

Mashes the Sorry button, offers to reverse forced code migration, and promises not to ever mess with projects again



Samsung starts cranking out 14nm DDR5 DRAM

(2021/10/13)

Now with an extra layer of extreme ultraviolet



Android OS vendor variants transmit data with no opt-out

(2021/10/13)

Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS



Saturday start for NASA's Lucy probe on its 12-year quest to map Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

(2021/10/13)

Astronomers will be searching for clues on how the Solar System formed



Bolt electric car battery recall might have hurt General Motors, but LG will pay $1.9bn to sooth troubled feelings

(2021/10/13)

Two faults, around $2bn to pay



Microsoft Patch Tuesday bug harvest festival comes to town

(2021/10/12)

With 71 new CVEs, there are patches enough for everyone



User locked out of Microsoft account by MFA bug, complains of customer-hostile support

(2021/10/12)

'So sorry' says Microsoft Identity VP – but its unhelpful support systems will be hard to fix



Put data first when deploying scale-out file storage for accelerated systems

(2021/10/12)

'When storage hardware is added as a quick fix without a well thought out strategy, problems will often arise'



Megachips or decoupled approach? AI chip design companies accounting for operating costs

(2021/10/12)

Chip crunch pulls focus



Twitch increases bug bounty payouts after source code leak by... wait, is that it?

(2021/10/12)

Reg reader sighs at 'Orwellian gig economy' sums



Apple patches 'actively exploited' iPhone zero-day with iOS 15.0.2 update

(2021/10/12)

Tech breakdown and proof-of-concept code is already out there



Booting up: Footballers kick off GDPR case for 'misuse' of their performance data

(2021/10/12)

Legal action aims to give players a say in how data about them is traded



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Speak roughly to your little VAX,
And boot it when it crashes;
It knows that one cannot relax
Because the paging thrashes!
Wow! Wow! Wow!

I speak severely to my VAX,
And boot it when it crashes;
In spite of all my favorite hacks
My jobs it always thrashes!
Wow! Wow! Wow!