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)

Google drinks from Oracle's pond: SQL system log slurp part of grand data-sharing vision

(2021/05/28)

There are 'advantages', but you must submit to 'the Google way of doing things,' warns analyst

In-person Dreamforce returns: Real people, real lanyards, real sandwich platters... and no James Corden

(2021/05/28)

Not the first plane trip you wanted to do post-lockdown, but there you are

Give me a (tax) break: UK broadband plumber Openreach to almost double the number of rural premises to receive FTTP

(2021/05/28)

Amazing how being able to write off 130% of infrastructure deployment focuses minds

Former IT manager from Essex pleads guilty to defrauding the NHS of £800k

(2021/05/28)

Invoices from his own companies were just less than the amount he was able to sign off. Services never delivered

MoD: Our networks are in 'unacceptable' state and both data and IT bods are stuck in silos

(2021/05/28)

So if the generals would lend us a few bob to fix it that'd be nice of them

Refurb your enthusiasm: Apple is selling an 8-year-old desktop for over £5k

(2021/05/28)

Yes, you read that right

Nobody expects the borkish bank-wisition: When I said I wanted some notes from the ATM, I never thought I'd see...

(2021/05/28)

...the vast emptiness of Notepad

AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit? 'I thought I deleted everything but I have been charged $200'

(2021/05/28)

Amazon's cloud arm criticised by users facing unexpected bills

Desktop renaissance? Nope, rebound of hefty PCs is just because there's notebook shortage – analysts

(2021/05/28)

Lenovo ops chief adds: 'Everything that is able to be built is selling'

Whoop! Robot/human high-fives all round! Oh, my fingers have disintegrated

(2021/05/28)

Food for thought for obese minds

BOFH: But we think the UK tax authorities would be VERY interested in how we used COVID support packages

(2021/05/28)

Or we could just all contract a little amnesia...

Russian gang behind SolarWinds hack returns with phishing attack disguised as mail from US aid agency

(2021/05/28)

Microsoft says Nobelium scored access to Constant Contact email marketing tool

The server is down, money is not being made, and you want me to fix what?

(2021/05/28)

The sound of silence? No, no, it's stupidity

South Korea to build an exascale supercomputer running local CPUs by 2030

(2021/05/28)

Hopes to start selling ‘em too, because China and Japan are heading the same direction and aren’t good at sharing

Did COVID-19 alter your sense of space and time? You might be ready to outsource

(2021/05/28)

Just make sure you read this guide first

VMware’s incoming CEO promises to change ... almost nothing

(2021/05/28)

And why would he change when quarterly revenue just cracked $3bn for the first time?

Uber drivers can now unionise after ride biz recognises GMB, one of the UK's largest trade unions

(2021/05/28)

Not everyone is celebrating

Hong Kong recorded phishing surge in 2020 as scum sought to cash in on viral worries

(2021/05/28)

Special Administrative Region recorded plunge in ransomware attacks

India, Twitter brawl in public as latest content rules begin to bite

(2021/05/28)

Government lashes WhatsApp, too, in free speech vs sovereignty debate

NASA to return to the Moon by 2024. One problem with that, says watchdog: All of it

(2021/05/28)

Three years to go and space agency is way behind schedule

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