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)

Oh SUSE Q2. Oh SUSE Q2. Pay IPO shares bread, it leaves you in the red, SUSE Q2

(2021/07/15)

Linux wrangler's post-$500m Rancher acquisition numbers otherwise 'in line with expectations'



Regulating facial recognition technology? It's the 'Wild West out there,' says US law boffin

(2021/07/15)

House Committee on the Judiciary told until there is a proper regime, there will be 'misuse, and mistrust' of the tech



LibreOffice 7.2 release candidate reveals effort to be Microsoft-compatible

(2021/07/15)

Also: New built-in UNO inspector. What's UNO? Read on...



Facebook pulls plug on mind-reading neural interface that restored a user's speech

(2021/07/15)

Stroke victim 'talks' for first time in 16 years, but The Social Network can't see a route to market



How many Brits have deleted life-saving track and trace app from their phones? No idea, junior minister tells MPs

(2021/07/15)

After a troubled birth, infamous but effective code becomes an inconvience



Nuclear cloud: UK's reactor cleanup crew awards Softcat reseller deal for Microsoft licences, Azure services

(2021/07/15)

What's another £33.6m when entire programme projected to cost £132bn?



United, Mesa airlines order 200 electric 19-seater planes for short-hop flights

(2021/07/15)

Sorry, how much do you charge?!



NortonLifeLock sniffs around Avast, announces 'advanced discussions' for acquisition

(2021/07/15)

Company now has 28 days to make up its mind



Report sheds light on 'cocky' but 'creative' Mespinoza ransomware group

(2021/07/15)

Palo Alto's Unit 42 rejects claims group has shifted to ransomware-as-a-service



Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

(2021/07/15)

Opting out of data monetisation is neither easy nor cheap



El Reg visits two shrines to computing history as the UK lifts coronavirus lockdown

(2021/07/15)

'Are they fearful of coming inside museums? There's a lot to consider, and I don't think we can offer any more'



BT to phase out 3G in UK by 2023 for EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile subscribers

(2021/07/15)

Cos 4G and 5G will be all hunky-dory by then, yeah?



IPv6 still 5–10 years away from mainstream use, but K8s networking and multi-cloud are now real

(2021/07/15)

Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking labels network observability and SDN vendor jargon



Intel and Samsung impacted as COVID closes electronics factories in Vietnam

(2021/07/15)

750 cases among workers sees labour force asked to stay on-site



Microsoft solicits Clippy comeback - later reveals it had already decided to bring back the peppy paperclip

(2021/07/15)

This may explain why Redmond recently updated a trademark to cover Clippy-as-a-service



Microsoft extends security updates for Windows and SQL Server 2012 and 2008

(2021/07/15)

Free if you move ’em to Azure, but on-prem costs will exceed licence fees in third and final year of new offer



SonicWall suggests people unplug their end-of-life gateways under 'active attack' by ransomware crims

(2021/07/15)

Redeploy in circular filing cabinet if you cannot patch



India bans Mastercard from signing up new customers

(2021/07/15)

Alleges it blew a deadline to secure data – by almost three years



So nice of China to put all of its network zero-day vulns in one giant database no one will think to break into

(2021/07/15)

We sum up Middle Kingdom's massive crackdown on bug reports



The coming of Wi-Fi 6 does not mean it's time to ditch your cabled LAN. Here's why

(2021/07/14)

There's a time and place for wireless tech, but it still can't compete



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If computers get too powerful, we can organize
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