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)

Microsoft wants you to know it hasn't forgotten about Surface

(2021/09/23)

Laptops added or refreshed, and another go at making dual-screen phones a thing



Square-shaped hole in workers' wallets after payment system fails at peak tip time

(2021/09/23)

Unexplained service issue blamed after customers unable to leave gratuities electronically



Zoom's $15bn merger with Five9 probed by Uncle Sam for national security risks

(2021/09/23)

Vid-chat giant's ties to China under the microscope by AG-led panel



Apple tried to patch this security hole in macOS Finder but didn't consider upper and lowercase characters

(2021/09/23)

file:// is blocked? Oh OK, we'll just use File:// or fiLE://...



Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous

(2021/09/23)

Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie



Britain publishes 10-year National Artificial Intelligence Strategy

(2021/09/22)

Aw, look. It wants to be a 'global science superpower'



Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin

(2021/09/22)

Baltic state's cyber security centre uncovers remote censorship blocklist function in Mi 10T handset



More than three years after last release, X.Org Server 21.1.0 RC1 appears

(2021/09/22)

Back from the brink with new features



Your apps are heading to the cloud. So why leave your files on that creaking NAS system?

(2021/09/22)

Break free from the silos at Nasuni CloudBound21



Hellfire and damnation: Two French monks charged over 5G mast arson attack

(2021/09/22)

What in the blazes?



Nvidia cosies up to Open Robotics for hardware-accelerated ROS

(2021/09/22)

Hopes to tempt roboticists over to its Jetson platform with new simulation features, drop-in acceleration code



Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones

(2021/09/22)

25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day



Ofcom swears at the general public for five days during obscenity survey

(2021/09/22)

'Warning: this report contains highly offensive language and discussion of content which may cause offence'



Ubuntu-on-a-phone folks UBports emit OTA-19, warn some devices face the chop in future

(2021/09/22)

This could very well be the last release based on 16.04



First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative

(2021/09/22)

EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico



Thatcher-era ICL mainframe fingered for failure to pay out over £1bn in UK pensions

(2021/09/22)

Three or four unconnected systems required for casework leading – unsurprisingly – to errors



Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials

(2021/09/22)

Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources



Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

(2021/09/22)

Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back



'Large-scale computing' needs a government team driving it, says UK.gov

(2021/09/22)

Report from the Government Office for Science lays out the hurdles to supercomputing relevance



Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box

(2021/09/22)

Apple-flavored approach running as test 'for a small percentage of users'



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