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)

American insurance giant CNA reportedly pays $40m to ransomware crooks

(2021/05/22)

Plus: Stalkerware even more scummy and ExifTool needs patching

Europe gives SK Hynix the nod to gobble up Intel's NAND flash and solid-state drive biz

(2021/05/22)

I have you now, Samsung

Boffins improve on tech that extracts DC power from ambient Wi-Fi

(2021/05/22)

Series of 8 spin-torque oscillators improves efficiency, but parallel design better for wireless transmission

Help wanted, work from anywhere ... except if you're located in Colorado

(2021/05/21)

Tech firms, other companies must reveal salary info in job ads if Coloradans are eligible

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander set to ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 to the Moon

(2021/05/21)

Another NASA-awarded mission. Lucky those first stages are reusable, eh?

It took 'over 80 different developers' to review and fix 'mess' made by students who sneaked bad code into Linux

(2021/05/21)

Patches to land in Linux 5.13

All that Lego has a purpose: Researchers find that spatial memory improves kids' mathematical powers

(2021/05/21)

Textbooks aren't everything

Google to venture where Apple soared and Microsoft crashed – physical retail

(2021/05/21)

Get ready for the New York Chocolate Factory experience

UK Computer Misuse Act convictions declined last year despite pandemic explosion in online criminal activity

(2021/05/21)

And less than a fifth of CMA crims copped jail terms

When humanity perishes in nuclear fire, the University of Essex's radiation-resistant robots will inherit the Earth

(2021/05/21)

Never mind the Clacton-on-Sea pier. They've got £600k to build power plant butlers

Holy margins, Batman: Pandemic tech prices balloon as demand outweighs stocks and suppliers get greedy

(2021/05/21)

Hall of Shame as IT buyers admit to paying £110 for a £14 mouse and keyboard

ESA signs off on contracts for lunar data relay and navigation

(2021/05/21)

Surrey Satellite and Airbus to ponder a fleet of Moonlight satellites

Here's how we got persistent shell access on a Boeing 747 – Pen Test Partners

(2021/05/21)

In-flight entertainment system ran Windows NT4 – and almost defied access attempts

Google's 'Ask me anything' on Privacy Sandbox was more about questions than answers

(2021/05/21)

FLoC is not for our benefit, says Chocolate Factory, it's for everyone else

How much would you pay me to develop a COVID tracking app that actually works? Ah, thought so: nothing

(2021/05/21)

Meet Guillaume Rozier - a bit like Captain Tom but 76 years younger and no chance of a medal

Doncaster insurance firm One Call hit by not-dead-at-all Darkside ransomware gang

(2021/05/21)

Local paper reports £15m heist demand amid Colonial Pipeline chaos

Proposed amendments to UK Finance Bill target rogue umbrella companies ripping off contractors after IR35

(2021/05/21)

Conservative MPs offer tweaks to stamp out suspect practices

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz? Detroit waits for my order, you'd better make amends

(2021/05/21)

I've worked hard all day on-call... you drive me round the bend

Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages

(2021/05/21)

Like, you wouldn't filter out pages by Black people, right?

Toyota rear-ended by twin cyber attacks that left ransomware-shaped dents

(2021/05/21)

Oh what a feeling, and in the same week as automaker announced new production pauses

Schizophrenia beats being alone.