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)

Xiaomi my heart is still beating: Reg hack takes Chinese giant's new fitness band for a spin

(2021/07/02)

Mi Smart Band 6 needs to be slicker, bigger, and brighter to really get you faster and fitter



Devilish plans for your next app update ensure they never happen – unless you start praying

(2021/07/02)

These things really get my goat



Brit firm fined £200k for banging on about missold PPI in 11.4 million nuisance calls

(2021/07/02)

316 people complained to the Information Commissioner's Office



Go to L: A man of the cloth faces keyboard conundrum

(2021/07/02)

When a user really is holier than thou



Boffins boast of 'slidetronics' breakthrough enabling binary switch just two atoms thick

(2021/07/02)

Finding could boost performance and efficiency of future gadgets



Oh dear, Universal Windows Platform: Microsoft says 'no plans to release WinUI 3 for UWP in a stable way'

(2021/07/02)

Focus is on persuading desktop developers to refresh applications for Windows 11



NASA talks up Perseverance Mars rover's self-driving rock-avoiding abilities

(2021/07/02)

AutoNav performs 'thinking while driving' – any chance we could get more of that on Earth ... for humans?



If you really want to unlock the value of hybrid cloud, you need to unlock your data, too

(2021/07/02)

Hear how real users are doing this: Watch the Nutanix Database Summit on-demand



Google to bake COVID-19 vaccine passport support into Android with Passes API update

(2021/07/02)

Digital vax record stored on user's smartphone



PrintNightmare: Kicking users from Pre-Windows 2000 legacy group may thwart domain controller exploitation

(2021/07/02)

While Uncle Sam recommends shutting down print spooler service



IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on – sources

(2021/07/02)

Unreliable messaging interferes with contract completion, we're told, as Slack channels flooded with memes



Good guy Russia gives enterprises, cloud platforms a free brute-force security test using Kubernetes clusters

(2021/07/01)

Thanks, Vlad, for the cyber-check-up and the containerization case study



Microsoft and Eclypsium lock horns over Dell SupportAssist flaws on secured-core PCs

(2021/07/01)

Niggles continue even after problem was quietly fixed



Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone

(2021/07/01)

Human resettlement after 2011's nuclear disaster facing opposition from indestructible, betusked interlopers



SAP founder's charity foundation withdraws from joint venture with software giant

(2021/07/01)

Questions all got a bit too much, although nothing legally wrong with the holding



Google lawyers dismiss sueball over 'security flaw' in contact-tracing software as 'theoretical' and 'hypothetical'

(2021/07/01)

'Complaint is noticeably devoid of factual allegations'



Microsoft warns of serious vulnerabilities in Netgear's DGN2200v1 router

(2021/07/01)

Gadget capable of 'opening the gates for attackers to roam untethered through an entire organisation'



Amazon: Our carbon footprint went up 19% last year but we grew even more than that, so 'carbon intensity' is down

(2021/07/01)

Alrighty... that's OK then?



Deep neural networks... IN SPAAACE: Vector-enhanced RISC-V chips could give satellites onboard AI

(2021/07/01)

Boffins point to benefits of putting rad-hardened ASICs in orbit



Cyber insurance model is broken, consider banning ransomware payments, says think tank

(2021/07/01)

UK.gov's carrots and sticks never came to pass, co-author tells us



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