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)

Japan's bullet trains replace smoking rooms with Zooming rooms

(2021/08/27)

Also offers free mice, power bricks, lap pillows and fast WiFi in cars rated to allow 300km/h video chat



Good news: Japanese boffins 3D print what looks like marbled Wagyu beef. Bad news: It's tiny and inedible

(2021/08/27)

Still, that'll be 100 quid, please



Online disinformation is an industry that needs regulation, says boffin

(2021/08/27)

Malaysian fake news laws didn't work well, so Big Tech should have to do better at spotting and stopping bad actors



Apple settles antitrust case with developers, but it's far from an Epic resolution to App Store monopoly concerns

(2021/08/27)

Allows direct contact between devs and users, promises transparency and better search – but only in the USA



After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

(2021/08/27)

Stealthy flash, firmware transplant in WD Blue SN550 attracts attention



Azure's now-fixed Cosmos DB flaw could have been exploited to read, write any database

(2021/08/27)

Microsoft warns customers of ChaosDB hole that lay dormant for months



'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim

(2021/08/27)

Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud



TSMC to hike chip prices 'by as much as 20%'

(2021/08/27)

If you want all these new fabs, you're gonna pay for 'em, pal



Apple wants to scan iCloud to protect kids, can't even keep them safe in its own App Store – report

(2021/08/26)

Tech Transparency Project accuses iGiant of lip service to child safety



South Korea may ban Apple, Google from forcing store payment systems on app devs

(2021/08/26)

Korean firms also keen to be your Seoul provider, says expert



Machine learning data pipeline outfit Splice Machine files for insolvency

(2021/08/26)

That went well



'No peeing towards Russia' sign appears on country's Arctic border with Norway

(2021/08/26)

Don't poke the bear! Or urinate on it



Start or Please Stop? Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

(2021/08/26)

'People wanted a cleaner and simpler Start' said Microsoft, but not everyone's happy



Video game curfew for South Korean teens to be more permissive by end of 2021

(2021/08/26)

Decade-old policy starting to look silly amid myriad of online late-night vices available to them



Microsoft reminds Azure App Service users that community support for Java 7 ends soon – shift to version 8 or beyond

(2021/08/26)

This is your one-year warning



UK promises big data law shake-up... while also keeping the EU happy, of course. What could go wrong?

(2021/08/26)

New Information Commissioner to be given licence to promote 'innovation and growth'



Brit says sorry after waving around nonce patent and leaning on sites to cough up

(2021/08/26)

Using that CSP 2.0 feature? You may have received a worrying missive



Think you can solve the UK's electric vehicle charging point puzzle? The Ordnance Survey wants to hear about it

(2021/08/26)

Two-day hackathon to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe, and where to put them



Surveillance tech company sues Police Digital Service over 'flawed' scoring of bids on £18m contract

(2021/08/26)

Excession chief exec testifies in High Court of England and Wales



UK government names suppliers on £3.5bn contact centre, shared services, and outsourcing framework

(2021/08/26)

The usual suspects



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Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.