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)

Yet another Big Tech exec heads to central government: This time IBMer Dan Bailey in 6-month stint

(2021/09/27)

Big Blue UK and Ireland cloud man hired as 'interim' CTO, tasked with creating fellowship of the cloud



Metro Bank techies placed at risk of redundancy, severance terms criticised

(2021/09/27)

Now sing with us: Agile, agile, agile...



Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past

(2021/09/27)

Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot



If your head's not in the cloud, you're not in the right place

(2021/09/27)

'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay



Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close

(2021/09/27)

An unexpected round of Just A Minute for a unsuspecting Weather Presenter



Airbus to help build Mexican Moon-mining automata

(2021/09/27)

Commercial partner's ad-funded expedition plans the ultimate pop-up in 2022



Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams

(2021/09/27)

1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs



This won’t hurt a bit, says Veeam, as it flags end of socket-based licensing

(2021/09/27)

Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced



'Quad' group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry

(2021/09/27)

USA, India, Australia, and Japan pledge to build own 5G tech, share space data, secure rare earth supply chains, and more



Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou admits lying about Iran deal, gets to go home

(2021/09/25)

US puts charges on ice, extradition attempt halted



For the nth time, China bans cryptocurrencies

(2021/09/24)

Coin prices drop after People's Bank reiterates crackdown



Frustrated dev drops three zero-day vulns affecting Apple iOS 15 after six-month wait

(2021/09/24)

Security Bounty program slammed over 'broken promises'



Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS

(2021/09/24)

Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden



EurekAI... Neural network leads chemists to discover 'four new materials'

(2021/09/24)

All said to conduct lithium atoms, may be useful for electric car batteries



Scientists took cues from helicopter seeds to invent tiny microchips that float on wind

(2021/09/24)

'Microfliers' could carry sensors to monitor air pollution and more



With just over two weeks to go, Microsoft punts Windows 11 to Release Preview

(2021/09/24)

What's that coming over the hill? Is it new hardware? Is it new hardware?



Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without humans, thank you very much

(2021/09/24)

Biodiversity increasing, endangered species gradually returning despite radioactive terror pig presence



You have to bring AI tools into your CI/CD workflow? We've got it covered. Watch this

(2021/09/24)

Join us in October for the next MCubed webcast in which you'll learn all about deploying real-life machine learning in a DevOps world



HPE campaigns against 'cloud first' push in UK public sector

(2021/09/24)

Because HPE does not do public cloud? No, no, it is 'for the good'



Tech contractors fume over payday outage at Giant Pay after it sniffs 'suspicious activity'

(2021/09/24)

Technical difficulties, please stand by



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In fact.. based on this model of what the NSA is and isn't... many of the
people reading this are members of the NSA... /. is afterall 'News for
Nerds'.

NSA MONDAY MORNING {at the coffee machine):
NSA AGENT 1: Hey guys, did you check out slashdot over the weekend?
AGENT 2: No, I was installing Mandrake 6.1 and I coulnd't get the darn
ppp connection up..
AGENT 1: Well check it out... they're on to us.
-- Chris Moyer <cdmoyer@starmail.com>