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)

GNOME 41: Slick with heaps of new features for users and devs – but annoyances remain

(2021/09/23)

It'll take time for desktop environment to make its way into Linux distros anyway



Need US mobile data? Cellular data plan launches on the Helium Blockchain

(2021/09/23)

The Great Gig in the Sky, or a new plan on GigSky?



Remember when UK watchdog spent a bunch of cash with Google warning people about ad scams ... on Google?

(2021/09/23)

Mountain View still ducking questions over whether it'll reimburse that



Two Northern Irish cops face Computer Misuse Act charges over Twitter trolling campaign

(2021/09/23)

Prosecutors considering evidence for a number of offences



Eclipse Data Connector arrives for GAIA-X, Europe's plan to protect its cloud data from foreign tech firms

(2021/09/23)

But local providers slip in favour of US tech - even at home



BT jittery about Cellnex snapping up UK mobile tower assets

(2021/09/23)

Brit telco says buyout will mean less competition, higher prices, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria



UK Ministry of Defence apologises – again – after another major email blunder in Afghanistan

(2021/09/23)

This time affecting candidates for potential relocation



DORA explorers see pandemic boost in numbers of 'elite' DevOps performers

(2021/09/23)

Or is it that they're just more inclined to complete surveys about themselves?



Senior IBMer hit with £290k demand from Big Blue in separate case as unfair dismissal claim rolls on

(2021/09/23)

High Court and Employment Tribunal cases to be heard soon



If you're Intel, self-driving cars look an awful lot like PCs

(2021/09/23)

Hardware capabilities, latest feature updates? You'll get what you pay for



Researchers finger new APT group, FamousSparrow, for hotel attacks

(2021/09/23)

Espionage motive mooted in attacks which hit industry, government too



Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it's just Windows suffering from a bit of vertigo

(2021/09/23)

Up above the streets and houses, XP's flying high



How many Android containers can you fit on your VM?

(2021/09/23)

The Register speaks to Canonical about running the OS in the cloud



Infosys admits it still hasn't fully fixed Indian tax portal

(2021/09/23)

Deadline came and went, but over 750 'resources' are still hard at work



Here's an idea: Verification for computer networks as well as chips and code

(2021/09/23)

What tools are available? What are the benefits? Let's find out



Imagine a fiber optic cable that can sense it's about to be dug up and send a warning

(2021/09/23)

Forget wiring cities with IoT devices – this could be how wide-scale sensing gets done



Unable to test every tourist and unable to turn them away, Greece used ML to pick visitors for COVID-19 checks

(2021/09/23)

Inside the software built to figure out groups of potentially infected, asymptomatic passengers



Angry birds ground some Google Wing drones in Australia

(2021/09/23)

Between COVID and corvids, Canberrans can't catch a break



Memory prices to dive in late 2022, says Gartner

(2021/09/23)

Firm says 40 per cent of a server's bill of material costs are tied to memory



AWS announces new region in the Land of the Long White Cloud – New Zealand

(2021/09/23)

Hopes three availability zones will be hobbit-forming for local businesses and government agencies



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