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)

Frictionless UX, multi-channel, customer experiences... Break through the jargon with this handy free ebook

(2021/08/24)

Advice and more from our friends at OutSystems and AWS



Solar System's fastest-orbiting asteroid spotted, flies closer to the Sun than Mercury

(2021/08/24)

Boffins ponder where space rock came from



Intel, Qualcomm win deal to design 7nm silicon for US defense agencies

(2021/08/24)

Chipzilla gets to make 'em and crow that it has a really prestigious foundry customer



Robots don't smoke, says Alibaba, and that's why they deliver parcels so fast

(2021/08/24)

Rolling out test fleet of 1000 in low-traffic locations across China



Infosys CEO hauled in to tell minister why India's tax portal is still a glitchy mess

(2021/08/24)

Services giant given three weeks to fix it after emergency maintenance led to outage



Cop drone crashes into flight instructor's airplane

(2021/08/24)

The plod needs a lesson in keeping air traffic controllers in the loop, it seems



Poly Network says it's got pretty much all of that $610m in stolen crypto-coins back

(2021/08/24)

'I'm quitting the show' says mystery thief



Razer ponders how to fix installer that grants admin powers if you plug in a mouse

(2021/08/23)

Plus: Cloudflare tackles huge DDoS attack, Apple and CSAM, and more



38 million records exposed by misconfigured Microsoft Power Apps. Redmond's advice? RTFM

(2021/08/23)

Low-code platform comes with high expectations that folks understand security



Everyone's going to Mars: Rocket Lab joins the Red Planet Fan Club

(2021/08/23)

An interplanetary ESCAPADE via Photon spacecraft and a NASA commercial rocket



Worried ransomware merchants know more about file storage than you do? You should be…

(2021/08/23)

Find out more at Nasuni CloudBound21



European Commission airs out new IoT device security draft law – interested parties have a week to weigh in

(2021/08/23)

Mirroring UK, US efforts to crack down on cheap 'n' cheerful internet gadgets



Another UK government limb that can't get IR35 right: Court service pays taxman £12.5m

(2021/08/23)

HMRC's 'fundamentally flawed' Check Employment Status Tool strikes again



'Not great, but usable': GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1

(2021/08/23)

Should 'run like a dream' when everything's done, says dev



WEB@30: The Register pokes around historical hardware of the WWW

(2021/08/23)

ASCII selfies and hands-on action in the heart of Cambridge



'Worst' AWS service ever? Cloud giant introduces Redis-compatible MemoryDB – to mixed response

(2021/08/23)

'The absolute best sales pitch for Redis that I have ever seen'



Judge dismisses objections to spaceport in Scotland from billionaire who also wants to build spaceport in Scotland

(2021/08/23)

What do we want? Rockets! When do we want them? In the next few years



We spoke to a Stanford prof on the tech and social impact of AI's powerful, emerging 'foundation models'

(2021/08/23)

From single points of failure to training and policies, Percy Liang covers a wide range of topics in this Q&A



Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair

(2021/08/23)

Only one company can make VR so bad it makes MS Teams look good – Facebook



Hacking the computer with wirewraps and soldering irons: Just fix the issues as they come up, right?

(2021/08/23)

The neverending battle betweeen youthful optimism and aged cyncism



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