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)

Met Office signs 32 vendors to £30m framework to put the wind up data platform

(2021/09/07)

Deloitte, Computacenter, KPMG, E&Y among listed suppliers hired by local weather watcher



Glasgow firm fined £150k after half a million nuisance calls, spoofing phone number, using false trading names

(2021/09/07)

DialADeal is no longer operating



'It takes a hell of a mental toll' – techies who lost work due to COVID share their stories

(2021/09/07)

Some refined their CVs relentlessly. Others studied. Many wept, more than once. But most see an upside to their changed circumstances



Kim Kardashian and Big Tech slapped for spruiking craptocurrency – and holding back useful crypto

(2021/09/07)

Chair of UK Financial Conduct Authority says more regulation will help innovation to flourish



Chinese e-commerce tycoon Richard Liu to step away from the spotlight

(2021/09/07)

Rural revitalisation and long-term strategy await founder of mega e-tailer JD.com



China blurs borders with Macau to advance chipmaking and AI plans

(2021/09/07)

Special administrative region to share economic zone located on Chinese soil



Why we abandoned open source: LiveCode CEO on retreat despite successful kickstarter

(2021/09/06)

Open source business model problems for modern-day HyperCard



Dobler effect: Spinnaker Support snaps up rival database consultant

(2021/09/06)

Sets sights on third party support and managed services for Oracle, SAP and Microsoft



After failing to make it to orbit, Firefly Aerospace asserts it has 'arrived'

(2021/09/06)

'Arrived' back on the planet quite a bit sooner than expected, sure



Report details how Airbus pilots saved the day when all three flight computers failed on landing

(2021/09/06)

Software 'enhancement' on the way after triple touchdown TITSUP



Jenkins struck by 'Confluenza' as US Cyber Command warns Atlassian flaw 'cannot wait'

(2021/09/06)

How was your weekend? Got some patching done?



Italian stuntman flies aeroplane through two motorway tunnels

(2021/09/06)

Sponsor Red Bull supposedly gives you wings, but that doesn't mean you have to use them everywhere



GitHub merges 'useless garbage' says Linus Torvalds as new NTFS support added to Linux kernel 5.15

(2021/09/06)

Also: Compiler warnings now treated as errors by default in kernel builds



Facebook apologises after its AI system branded Black people as primates

(2021/09/06)

Plus: Google Health app for NHS hospitals discontinued, and Tesla under the spotlight



UK's NHS hands Accenture another £5m to run Test and Trace system for another year

(2021/09/06)

What happened to transferring £1,000-per-day consultant work to the civil service?



Spraying a boot error up the bathroom wall

(2021/09/06)

Taking the Pis in Paris



When the bits hit the fan: What to do when ransomware strikes

(2021/09/06)

Don't trust the insurer's techies, take the blame and other practical tips



Operating your network isn’t enough. You need to develop (for) it

(2021/09/06)

Time to drive NetOps beyond the command line



Docker’s cash conundrum is becoming a bet on a very different future

(2021/09/06)

Tiers of a clown – or the early days of a better service model?



China's biggest chipmaker to build colossal chip factory

(2021/09/06)

SMIC's 28nm colossus won't get China closer to self-sufficiency in stuff it buys from Intel and AMD, will help in other ways



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Wombat's Laws of Computer Selection:
(1) If it doesn't run Unix, forget it.
(2) Any computer design over 10 years old is obsolete.
(3) Anything made by IBM is junk. (See number 2)
(4) The minimum acceptable CPU power for a single user is a
VAX/780 with a floating point accelerator.
(5) Any computer with a mouse is worthless.
-- Rich Kulawiec