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)

Speciality electronics outfit boasts of 64-fold density increase for its latest space-ready MRAM parts

(2021/09/15)

Takes Avalanche's latest STT-MRAM tech and packs it into rad-hard ceramic squares



New release of SweRVolf RISC-V SoC project aims for lower barrier to entry

(2021/09/15)

FOSSi Foundation's Olof Kindgren on the origins, future, and success of the RISC-V ISA



BT Wholesale wants the channel to give SMBs a nudge before copper sunset in 2025

(2021/09/15)

New products launched to help shift oblivious or straggler firms over ahead of PSTN switch-off



Vector database Pinecone promises to bring ML data management under control with 2.0 release

(2021/09/15)

Hybrid disk and RAM system should slash costs, firm says



App Annie fined $10m by the SEC for deceptive practices around how it presented data

(2021/09/15)

Analytics firm will neither admit nor deny the findings



Catch of the day... for Google, anyway: Transatlantic Cornwall cable hauled ashore

(2021/09/15)

Grace Hopper landed



Linux kernel minimum compiler raised to GCC 5.1, allowing potential C11 use

(2021/09/15)

Change also has handy side effect of fixing some warnings as errors



HPE finds second new CTO in 16 months with Fidelma Russo

(2021/09/15)

In-demand exec poached from VMware after Virtzilla poached her from Iron Mountain



Ransomware crims saying 'We'll burn your data if you get a negotiator' can't be legally paid off anyway

(2021/09/15)

Grief Corp are already under US sanctions, says Emsisoft



Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect

(2021/09/15)

The pandemic has turned children away from tech, says early-years teacher Maria



Ex-DJI veep: There was no drone at Gatwick during 2018's hysterical shutdown

(2021/09/15)

Bold words from Boston Dynamics' new man



The Register speaks to one of the designers behind the latest Lego Ideas marvel: A clockwork solar system

(2021/09/15)

Who needs a 3,000-piece orrery? We do, of course



Met Police prepare £300m procurement for integrators and resellers

(2021/09/15)

London cops on track to spend £1bn on IT contracting over couple of years



China to push RISC-V to global prominence – but maybe into a corner, too, says analyst

(2021/09/15)

Which may not be a good thing for Arm, or anyone



IBM cancels more POWER9 servers, this time at the low end

(2021/09/15)

And then there were three servers on sale, just three and a half years after launch



Measuring your carbon footprint? There's no app for that

(2021/09/15)

Smartphones can keep us informed about everything other than environmental impact. That needs to change



Ex-US intel, military trio were cyber-mercenaries for UAE, say prosecutors

(2021/09/15)

Three men charged with breaking export, security laws, agree to deal after infiltrating smartphones with zero-click exploits



Wikipedia bans seven Chinese users amid concerns of 'infiltration, physical harm'

(2021/09/15)

Removes sysop privileges for another dozen, warns more about doxing, frets about preserving freedom to edit in the face of hostile regimes



Imagine a world in which Uber's hot new business is lending money

(2021/09/15)

It's happening already in Singapore, where Uber-analog Grab says lending and deliveries are post-COVID highlights



Beijing wants its internet to become 'civilized' by always reflecting Marxist values

(2021/09/15)

Content won't be welcome if it doesn't laud the Party, strays into anything a little tawdry, or diverts from the official line



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