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)

11-year-old graduate announces plans to achieve immortality by 'replacing body parts with mechanical parts'

(2021/07/09)

Walking sci-fi horror movie plot wants to look inside boffin brains to find way to help ailing grandparents



Linux Foundation celebrates 30 years of Torvalds' kernel with a dry T-shirt contest

(2021/07/08)

Artistic types invited to submit their designs – under very specific guidelines



Ex-IBM whistleblower's suit back in court, 8 years after he alleged irregularities in $265m IRS software deal

(2021/07/08)

Judges revive some of the claims



US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight

(2021/07/08)

Appeal against January decision to be heard by High Court



Massive 3D catzilla gets crowds purring in busy Shinjuku district of Tokyo

(2021/07/08)

We'd hate to see the litter tray



GPU workstations help first responders hit pause on PTSD

(2021/07/08)

VR headset app 'may be a useful tool to reduce burnout and post-traumatic stress'



Fool me OnePlus, shame on me: Chinese phone firm fingered for fiddling with performance figures – again

(2021/07/08)

Company caught throttling everyday apps but leaving benchmarks, selected games alone



UK competition watchdog sniffing around Motorola profits after delay to replace company's Airwave service

(2021/07/08)

Blue-light radio network drags on, adding excess £1.2bn to telco's coffers



Mobile carrier Telenor quits Myanmar, says coup makes doing business its way impossible

(2021/07/08)

Firm tries to stand up for customers, human rights, sells to M1 and takes a bath



ICO survey on data flouters: 50% say they receive more unwanted calls than before pandemic

(2021/07/08)

Plus: Fewer people proportion agree 'current laws' sufficiently protect personal information



BT and Communication Workers Union draw up 'principles' to guide future planning on pay and redundancies

(2021/07/08)

Threat of national industrial ballot in May forced telco back around negotiating table



OpenUK's latest report paints a rosy picture of open source adoption

(2021/07/08)

Might be nice if a few more of those adopters turned to contributors, though



Intel's Foveros tech hits a speedbump as Lakefield gets canned – one year after launch

(2021/07/08)

Innovative multi-process-node chip sandwich perhaps a little too innovative for its customers



YouTube's recommendation engine is pretty naff, Mozilla study finds

(2021/07/08)

It even pushes videos that break the site's own content policies



Salesforce's Patterson blazes a trail for humble-braggers everywhere

(2021/07/08)

UK & I shindig has everything: Olympians, Bake-Off stars, and the ever-rising former BT boss



Galaxy quest: Yet another sub-£500 phone comes to trouble mobile big dogs in the form of Realme GT 5G

(2021/07/08)

Big brand flagship performance, midrange price, 3.5mm earphone port



Dell bigwig: Expect another 6 months of supply woes. Oh, hello Windows 11

(2021/07/08)

It's partly for a good reason, though: vaccines



In conversation with Gene Hoffman, co-creator of the internet's first ad blocker

(2021/07/08)

El Reg revisits those early days of the internet and learns of the NSA tipping off Boeing about French spying



India under attack by rapidly-evolving advanced persistent threat actor SideCopy, says Cisco Talos

(2021/07/08)

Gang is using custom RATs malware to target government employees, and has an interest in Pakistan, too



Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal's firmware, gain root access and a few ideas

(2021/07/08)

Extra-terrestrial service probed



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