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)

If your storage admin is a bit excitable today, be kind: 45TB LTO-9 tape media and drives just debuted

(2021/09/08)

Fujifilm and HPE selling cartridges, Quantum selling drives, IBM tape libraries add support



Intel may spend up to €80bn on chip plants in Europe over next ten years

(2021/09/08)

CEO also said it'll use its fab in Ireland to crank out parts for automakers amid shortages



IBM's first 7nm Power10 chip arrives in E1080 server system with a wealth of shiny features

(2021/09/08)

Boasts of a world-record SAP SD benchmark result, 'transparent' in-memory encryption



Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager

(2021/09/08)

Accused served 15 days for 'molestation', says report



Your customers expect API excellence. Can you deliver?

(2021/09/08)

To meet performance, security and reliability needs, modern app architectures need to reimagine API management



Talent shortage? Maybe it's your automated hiring system, lack of investment in training

(2021/09/08)

Harvard-Accenture study suggests opening up to 'hidden workers'



Samsung offered tax rebates for 30 years to build $17bn chip plant in Texas

(2021/09/08)

'No decision has been made' super-corp reminds El Reg



Miscreants fling booby-trapped Office files at victims, no patch yet, says Microsoft

(2021/09/08)

ActiveX and MSHTML, the gift that keeps on giving ... to intruders



Can WhatsApp moderators really read your encrypted texts? Yes ... if you forward them to the abuse dept

(2021/09/07)

Where did people think spam and harassment reports were going?



Snyk: 50% of security jobs unfilled… any solution predicated on devs 'becoming security experts is doomed'

(2021/09/07)

Guy Podjarny on the challenges of crafting and shipping secure code



Astronomers detect burps of interstellar cannibal from 480 million light years away

(2021/09/07)

In space, everyone can see you emit brightly shining gas, X-rays, and radio waves



Canonical scales down Anbox Cloud to an appliance on AWS

(2021/09/07)

How many Android apps can you fit on an EC2 instance?



Academics tell UK lords that folk aren't keen on predictive policing, facial recognition, heightened surveillance

(2021/09/07)

Philip K Dick is rolling in his grave



UK gov blocks the acquisition of Welsh graphene fiddler Perpetuus Group over national security concerns

(2021/09/07)

Concerns like 'who is Taurus International,' and 'what is Dr. Zhongfu Zhou's relationship with it'



HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests

(2021/09/07)

A pause on community-submitted PRs



Updated Python support in VS Code brings browser editing and ditches open-source language server for Pylance

(2021/09/07)

Proprietary code creep?



British data watchdog brings cookies to G7 meeting – pop-up consent requests, not the delicious baked treats

(2021/09/07)

Why are they asking G7 to do their job for them, muses critic



ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested

(2021/09/07)

Cops can read the SMTP spec too, y'know



UK tech investors buy data centre from the land of ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

(2021/09/07)

Verne Global site claimed to be 'one of the most efficient' globally



Guntrader breach perp: I don't think it's a crime to dump 111k people's details online in Google Earth format

(2021/09/07)

Plus: Police aren't treating breaches as terror offence



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Now, it we had this sort of thing:
yield -a for yield to all traffic
yield -t for yield to trucks
yield -f for yield to people walking (yield foot)
yield -d t* for yield on days starting with t
...you'd have a lot of dead people at intersections, and traffic jams you
wouldn't believe...
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands.)