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)

20,000 proteins expressed by human genome predicted by DeepMind's AlphaFold now available to download

(2021/07/26)

Plus: Facial-recognition upstart Clearview raises $30m



For a true display of wealth, dab printer ink behind your ears instead of Chanel No. 5

(2021/07/26)

Litre of the office essential costs as much as £2,410 – up from £1,700 in 2003, finds Which?



The cockroach of Windows, XP, lives on in London's Victoria Coach Station

(2021/07/26)

The three horsemen of the borkpocalypse: CMOS error, XP and... death



After staring over the precipice once before, Kent County Council considers £500m in outsourcing again

(2021/07/26)

Promise of 'efficiencies' may be appealing to authority facing £100m COVID black hole



Windows 11 comes bearing THAAS, Trojan Horse as a service

(2021/07/26)

You may know it better as Teams. Giddy up



What is your greatest weakness? The definitive list of the many kinds of interviewer you will meet in Hell

(2021/07/26)

You don't mind if we record this, do you?



Russia's Pirs ISS module scheduled to fall away, much like Moscow's interest in the space station

(2021/07/26)

Troubled Nauka might actually make it after four orbit corrections – since we left work Friday



Somebody is destined for somewhere hot, and definitely not Coventry

(2021/07/26)

Praise be for Firewalls



Fit for purpose: The case for the purpose-built database

(2021/07/26)

One size does not fit all



VMware's security boss suddenly bails

(2021/07/26)

Tom Corn heads to Open Systems as Virtzilla hints its SmartNIC push has borne fruit



DEF CON offers beginner-level Spot the Fed this year: He'll be on stage giving a keynote

(2021/07/26)

Plus: Microsoft responds to another NTLM relay attack technique, and more



Pentagon grounds own report that said China's DJI drones are safe

(2021/07/26)

Someone seems to have leaked a draft document that represented a radical reversal



China sets goal of running single-stack IPv6 network by 2030, orders upgrade blitz

(2021/07/26)

All levels of industry and government told to get moving, consumers encouraged to buy new Wi-Fi routers



Cloudflare slams AWS egress fees to convince web giant to join its discount data club

(2021/07/24)

Lower your prices and play nicer, CDN goliath suggests



With Alphabet's legendary commitment to products, we can't wait to see what its robotics biz Intrinsic achieves

(2021/07/24)

Google parent hopes to inject AI into factory machines



Google fixes 'Chromebork' one-character code typo that prevented Chrome OS logins

(2021/07/23)

Programming blunder is the second such snafu this month



Rackspace literally decimates workforce: One in ten staffers let go this week

(2021/07/23)

85% of those jobs will be rehired, just in cheaper countries



Punchy Italian kartist gets 15-year ban for trackside rampage... and other stories

(2021/07/23)

An unexpectedly vehicular collection of chaos and confusion for your consideration



Latest Windows 11 Preview a well-rounded update – literally

(2021/07/23)

What else is round? Oh yes, holes



Apologetic Audacity rewrites privacy policy after 'significant lapse in communication'

(2021/07/23)

Of course kids are allowed. Whatever gave you the impression they weren't?



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