The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The best time to build a semiconductor foundry is 5 years ago
(2021/06/09)
The history of computing is all change, all the time. Yet silicon-slingers let the chips fail where they may
Hate to break it to you, but football's not coming home if this AI pundit is to be believed
(2021/06/09)
Delayed Euro 2020 championship will be won by the Czech Republic, and England will drop out in semi-finals (sounds legit)
EE and Three mobe mast surveyors might 'upload some virus' to London Tube control centre, TfL told judge
(2021/06/09)
Unimpressed beak orders Transport for London to let them onto Southwark roof
'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary
(2021/06/09)
A day before THAT delay, Matt Hancock told MPs that 'citizens' own the data he'd instructed the health department to take by default
That thing you were utterly sure would never happen? Yeah, well, guess what …
(2021/06/09)
Never. Test. In. Production.
No digital equivalent to the impulse aisle found as online grocery shoppers buy fewer sweet treats than in real life
(2021/06/09)
Supermarkets presumably working on a solution to this 'problem' right now
Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer
(2021/06/09)
Promises it won't happen again, expresses remorse … all the usual stuff that clouds (and Zuck) say after they stumble around making messes
Six years in the making, Vivaldi Mail arrives alongside version 4.0 of the company's browser
(2021/06/09)
Nú með þýðingarmöguleika
Security researcher says attacks on Russian government have Chinese fingerprints – and typos, too
(2021/06/09)
Malware was too loose to have come from a Western nation, according to Sentinel Labs
Indian Finance Minister throws Infosys under the bus as new e-tax portal fails on first day
(2021/06/09)
Minister moved from celebrating new facility to complaining about it in a handful of hours
US Senate finds $52bn to keep chipmakers working, $195bn for tech R&D
(2021/06/09)
Innovation and Competition Act aims to keep America ahead of China, approved with unusual bipartisan support
Ohio Attorney General asks courts to declare Google a public utility
(2021/06/09)
Yup, just a Republican wanting a private business to be subjected to more government regulation
SK Hynix admits to DRAM defects, smacks down rumour it botched big batches
(2021/06/09)
Admits 'potential losses' may result, says they won’t be significant
Extra urgency in June's Patch Tuesday: Microsoft warns six more bugs are being exploited
(2021/06/09)
Adobe, Intel, SAP, Android emit vulnerability fixes, too
FBI paid renegade developer $180k for backdoored AN0M chat app that brought down drug underworld
(2021/06/09)
From hidden master keys to pineapples stuffed with Bolivian marching powder — this story has it all
It's completely unsupportable. Yes, we mean your brand new system
(2021/06/08)
The problem started when those ridiculous users ... oh, hang on. It started in the IT department
With incoming iOS 15, update refuseniks will be given choice to stay where they are while still receiving security patches
(2021/06/08)
Departure from Apple's usual iron-fist approach to iPhone software
China's ISCAS to build 2,000 RISC-V laptops by the end of 2022 as nation seeks to cut reliance on Arm, Intel chips
(2021/06/08)
Software porting efforts aim to make sure Android, Linux, Firefox, and Chrome work well ahead of time
Door-opening insect mega-swarm emerges in Eastern US, descends on Washington DC
(2021/06/08)
We're gonna need a bigger rolled-up newspaper
Generous Alibaba to scatter 0.9% of annual revenue over Southeast Asia to develop tech talent and infrastructure
(2021/06/08)
Also announces buttload of new products at Cloud Summit event
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