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)

BOFH: They say you either love it or you hate it. We can confirm you're going to hate it

(2021/07/30)

So what you're saying is you updated the new machines from the network – the infected network



Intel scoops out five flavours of Ice Lake Xeons for workstations

(2021/07/30)

They're good for stuff like supporting 4TB of RAM and PCIe 4.0



Malware and Trojans, but there's only one horse the boss man wants to hear about

(2021/07/30)

The company's IT might be on fire, but my needs trump those of the many



AWS growing so fast its revenue makes it bigger than Cisco or HP

(2021/07/30)

Nobody wants to run their own data centers anymore, says CFO



We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools

(2021/07/30)

You just save it in Chrome or Firefox? Ugh. And then it autofills when you need it again? Oh the horror



Giant Tesla battery providing explosion in renewable energy – not as intended

(2021/07/30)

Toxic smoke from fire forces Australian residents indoors just two days after COVID lockdown lifted



The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay

(2021/07/30)

We mention this because Intel stopped shipping them yesterday, ending a strange story



Communism never looked so good: China cracks down on pop-up ads

(2021/07/30)

Developers accused of ignoring regulations and adding adware where it's not allowed



International Space Station stabilizes after just-docked Russian module suddenly fires thrusters

(2021/07/30)

Crew not in danger, NASA insists



Google Play puts Android apps on notice: No naughty JavaScript, Python, Lua

(2021/07/30)

And come April next year, accurate disclosures of personal data usage will be required



Huawei says its latest flagship smartphones lack 5G, blames US sanctions

(2021/07/30)

Qualcomm tells us it has permission to provide 4G-only Snapdragon 888 chip



Time for a 'great experiment' says Cisco as it lets team leaders set place of work

(2021/07/29)

Fewer than one-in-four staff want to be in the office for more than three days a week



Privacy proves elusive in Google's Privacy Sandbox

(2021/07/29)

Like FLoC, FLEDGE isn't yet ready to fly for web-based ads, judging from this proof-of-concept exploit code



Thanks for the memory: Add Samsung to the list of tech giants raking it in despite supply concerns

(2021/07/29)

Turns out that Austin factory shutdown was nothing but a blip



Bill for HMS Vanity Gin Palace swells by £50m in two months

(2021/07/29)

That's 0.25 DUPs!



Have you turned it off and on again? Russia's Nauka module just about makes it to the ISS

(2021/07/29)

Elderly lab negotiates tricky docking



Spam is Chipotle's secret ingredient: Marketing email hijacked to dish up malware

(2021/07/29)

More than 120 messages caught trying to filch credentials from customers of USAA Bank, Microsoft



Upcoming Android privacy changes include ability to blank advertising ID, and 'safety section' in Play store

(2021/07/29)

New policies give users more control, but ad tracking still on by default



NoSQL Couchbase launches schema-like features to take on the transactional databases of the relational world

(2021/07/29)

Doing both in one system might be 'somewhat elegant' but user experience remains to be seen, analyst says



BT says it's trading in line with expectations as revenue slides and pre-tax profit shrinks

(2021/07/29)

Former state monopoly talks up FTTP build out, as does Virgin Media



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