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)

Cryptography whizz Phil Zimmermann looks back at 30 years of Pretty Good Privacy

(2021/06/08)

The highs, the lows, the acquisitions, the resignations, and more

Apple ditches support for pre-2015 MacBook Air, Pro laptops with macOS Monterey

(2021/06/08)

But it seems the iPhone 6 and SE will be looked after until the end of time

Siloscape malware targets Windows containers, breaks through to the underlying Kubernetes cluster

(2021/06/08)

Using techniques Microsoft had previously considered 'not a vulnerability'

Smartphone shipments jumped 26% in Q1 – only to recapture ground lost to the pandemic

(2021/06/08)

Don't call it growth

UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients

(2021/06/08)

What's that? Letting people know just weeks before was a bad idea?

Snowflake targets Java and Scala devs, will soon slither after Pythonistas too

(2021/06/08)

Cloud data outfit realises SQL-centric approach won’t attract the developers it needs to grow

DoS vulns in 3 open-source MQTT message brokers could leave users literally locked out of their homes or offices

(2021/06/08)

If your IoT kit employs RabbitMQ, EMQ X or VerneMQ, it's time to get patching

Google ad biz shenanigans smacked down by French competition regulators

(2021/06/08)

Chocolate Factory competition-squashing tactics receive a firm 'Non' from Paris

Proof-of-space cryptocurrency Chia triggers HDD sales boom in Europe

(2021/06/08)

Residents near Western Digital, Seagate HQs deafened by popping of Champagne corks

Global Fastly outage takes down many on the wibbly web – but El Reg remains standing

(2021/06/08)

'Potential impact to performance' drops some of the world's biggest websites offline

Photographer seeks $12m in copyright damages over claims Capcom ripped off her snaps in Resident Evil 4 art

(2021/06/08)

From pictures of shattered glass to patterns on doors and much more

Version 8 of open-source code editor Notepad++ brings Dark Mode and an ARM64 build, but bans Bing from web searches

(2021/06/08)

'When a search engine does the censorship instead of its job, it's not reliable anymore'

I think therefore IAM: It's not cool, it's not sexy, but it's one of the most important and difficult areas in modern IT

(2021/06/08)

When I grow up, I want to be an Identity and Access Management specialist – said no one ever

Apple's macOS 12 adds improved virtualization though no sign of anything like Boot Camp on M1 silicon

(2021/06/08)

Linux and macOS guests will be doable, and iGiant even appears to have added an XKCD Easter Egg

Legacy applications, shiny new cloud – how do you make them work together?

(2021/06/08)

Tell us what’s holding you back from the cloud or pushing you forward

Lotus Notes refuses to die, again, as HCL debuts Domino 12

(2021/06/08)

It’s now a cloud-native, low-code product that’s growing and offers a viable Exchange alternative, apparently

Chinese app binned by Beijing after asking what day it is on anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre

(2021/06/08)

Hybrid Instagram/Amazon app Xiaohongshu may just have been making mirthful TGIF post

Ethernet standards wonks eye up speeds beyond 400Gb/s

(2021/06/08)

For now you have to cope with 100Gb/s and 400Gb/s over single-mode fiber, and brace for 100Gb/s over 80kms

Uncle Sam recovers 63.7 of 75 Bitcoins Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware crew

(2021/06/08)

All thanks to FBI that somehow had wallet's private key

Australian cops, FBI created backdoored chat app, told crims it was secure – then snooped on 9,000 users' plots

(2021/06/08)

Hundreds of arrests already in Oz, details of European and US ops to be revealed soon

A princess should not be afraid -- not with a brave knight to protect her.
-- McCoy, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.3