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)

Internet Explorer downgraded to 'Walking Dead' status as Microsoft sets date for demise

(2021/05/20)

June 15th 2022 is the happy day, but Windows Server and Win 10 long-term servicing channels aren't necessarily invited

New IETF draft reveals Egyptians invented pyramids to sharpen razor blades

(2021/05/20)

Author is tired of world+dog assuming all task force docs are definitive, wrote a really weird one to make the point anyone can put anything in 'em

IBM Cloud’s biggest region hit by five-hour Severity One brownout

(2021/05/20)

When we logged in for the status report, IBM was touting $25 gift vouchers to customers brave enough to review its cloud

India ponders why just three per cent of its broadband services are wired

(2021/05/20)

Telcos behaving badly? Lack of subsidies? Whatever the cause, nation wants it fixed to handle flood of video

Apple's macOS is sub-par for security, Apple exec Craig Federighi tells Epic trial

(2021/05/20)

Trashing your desktop OS to save the iOS walled garden – it's a bold strategy. Let's see if it pays off for 'em

Cisco discloses self-sabotaging SSD bug that causes rolling outages for some Firepower appliances

(2021/05/20)

Boxes stop working, admins may be locked out after 28,224 hours – and then every 1,008 hours after that

Frontier sued by FTC, six states for allegedly over-promising, under-delivering broadband

(2021/05/20)

ISP denies wrongdoing, notes how difficult it is to get wires to rural areas

Twitter: Our AI image-cropping algorithm is biased toward White people, women

(2021/05/20)

And that's why we've let humans take back control

Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management

(2021/05/19)

Crown Prince and network boss Andrew Lee disputes claims made by those leaving the internet chat community

Qualcomm promises 5G 6nm Snapdragon 778G chip in mid-range phones by summer

(2021/05/19)

Honor, iQOO, OPPO, Realme, Xiaomi, Motorola onboard so far

You sent your data to the cloud. Do you know where it is now?

(2021/05/19)

Time to rethink your data protection strategy

Apple seeks to junk claim that iOS is an 'essential facility' in legal spat with Epic Games

(2021/05/19)

Fortnite maker 'has no factual, expert, or legal support for its theory'

That Salesforce outage: Global DNS downfall started by one engineer trying a quick fix

(2021/05/19)

'We feel bad about what happened'

AWS App Runner: Fast path from GitHub to deployed application, but limited features in first release

(2021/05/19)

Google Cloud Run envy?

Parliament demands to know the score with Fujitsu as Post Office Horizon scandal gets inquiry with legal teeth

(2021/05/19)

'Government's got to take responsibility for this,' rages opposition MP

Android 12 beta lands bringing better personalisation, speed upgrades, and some privacy tools borrowed from iOS 14

(2021/05/19)

Google Pixel phone not required

Pics or it didn't happen: First images from China's Mars rover suggest nothing has gone Zhurong just yet

(2021/05/19)

Probe's cams show red planet's surface while clips capture descent

To what do we owe the Honor? Huawei spinout breaks silence with two pro ultraportables

(2021/05/19)

New MagicBook 14 and 15 include 11th-gen Intel chippery, Xe graphics

Miscreants started scanning for Exchange Hafnium vulns five minutes after Microsoft told world about zero-days

(2021/05/19)

Being slow to patch just means you'll get pwned faster

GitLab tries to address crypto-mining abuse by requiring card details for free stuff

(2021/05/19)

Tweak only affects shared runners and new users signed up after 17 May

"Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his
roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the
forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind
the railroad yards."
-- H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the
supporters of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes "Monkey
Trial" in 1925.