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)

Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle?

(2021/07/19)

That's the way uh-huh uh-huh, I hype it



How to keep your enterprise up to date by deploying the very latest malware

(2021/07/19)

Salesmen suffer after suspicious surfing



Impromptu game of Robot Wars sparks fire in warehouse at UK e-tailer Ocado

(2021/07/19)

Three-way crash harms no humans but shutters fulfilment centre and sees orders galore cancelled



US Surgeon General doubles down on Facebook-bashing amid vaccination information blame game

(2021/07/19)

The Social Network fires back after President Biden accuses it of 'killing people'



USA warns Hong Kong government may demand business and customer data, run surveillance without warrants

(2021/07/19)

Hong Kong authorities 'alarmed by unsubstantiated remarks'



Amnesty International and French media protection org claim massive misuse of NSO spyware

(2021/07/19)

Heads of State, academics, diplomats, journalists, and others targeted, iPhones vulnerable



Malaysian Police crush crypto-mining kit to punish electricity thieves

(2021/07/19)

Because in Miri District, that's how they roll



OpenAI shuts down robotics team because it doesn't have enough data yet

(2021/07/18)

Plus: People creeped out that TV chef Bourdain's voice has been faked



NASA fixes Hubble Space Telescope using backup power supply unit, payload computer

(2021/07/16)

Hardware gremlins plagued orbiting observatory for over a month



Windows 10 to hang on for five more years with 21H2 update

(2021/07/16)

Lots of time for legacy users



Refreshing: An Office update that won't frighten the horses

(2021/07/16)

Microsoft reins in some of its excesses with a visual tidy-up



Dutch Queen, robot involved in opening of 3D-printed bridge in red-light district

(2021/07/16)

Have we been smoking something?



You'll want to shut down the Windows Print Spooler service (yes, again): Another privilege escalation bug found

(2021/07/16)

PrintNightmare? More like Groundhog Day for admins



Wanted: State-backed bandits planning cyberattacks on US infrastructure. Reward: $10m

(2021/07/16)

Cops and dobbers: Uncle Sam dangles cash incentive for tattletales



Microsoft adds cloud enablement to 1970s Altair 8800 tech

(2021/07/16)

Back to an era when 'cloud' meant 'it's probably going to rain'



Get a load of fancypants no-enemies AMD-Xilinx: 'Large majority' of third parties 'had no concerns' about pair's hookup

(2021/07/16)

British competition watchdog publishes details of why it approved AMD/Xilinx merger



How Pfizer reversed two decades of rising storage costs

(2021/07/16)

Find out how enterprises save millions with cloud tiering done right



JavaScript, GitHub, AWS crowned winners in massive survey of 32,000 developers

(2021/07/16)

Devs across the world reveal their tools, language choices, and more



Britney fan businessman accidentally buys 10,000 Celtic nationalist T-shirts

(2021/07/16)

Surplus stock specialist finds out the hard way how that kind of thing can happen



Google demonstrates impractical improvement in quantum error correction – but it does work

(2021/07/16)

Scale would need to be cranked way up to have an impact, however



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Maybe Jesus was right when he said that the meek shall inherit the
earth -- but they inherit very small plots, about six feet by three.
-- Lazarus Long