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)

Keeping track of one cloud provider's data products is a 'full-time job' so forget mixing and matching, says Gartner

(2021/05/19)

Multi-cloud for data is too complicated

Faster Python: Mark Shannon, author of newly endorsed plan, speaks to The Register

(2021/05/19)

The biggest challenge? 'Backwards compatibility of features that we might not even know we have'

Uptime funk: Microsoft has lifted availability of Azure Key Vault to 99.99%

(2021/05/19)

But beware the SLA: Just how much would an outage actually cost you?

iFixit slams Samsung's phone 'upcycling' scheme for falling short of what was promised

(2021/05/19)

Dude, where's my unlocked bootloader?

UK data watchdog fines 'pandemic partner' biz £8k: It sent 84,000 marketing emails to people who'd given info for track and trace

(2021/05/19)

Tested.me Ltd broke the PECR, says Information Commissioner's Office

Australian Federal Police hiring digital evidence retrieval specialists: Being a very good boy and paws required

(2021/05/19)

Hounds can sniff out SIM cards that a human might miss

Yahoo! Japan! offers! free! comment!-moderation!-as!-a!-service! API!

(2021/05/19)

'Constructive comment ranking model' can detect bias, promote respectful contributions, already zaps 20,000 posts a day

The Microsoft Authenticator extension in the Chrome store wasn't actually made by Microsoft. Oops, Google

(2021/05/19)

Guess they'll let anyone in here

Glimpse of 3GHz 128-core Ampere Altra Max server processor emerges as Oracle teases more cloudy Arms

(2021/05/19)

Even World of Warcraft is getting on the RISC-y bandwagon

New Zealand hospitals infected by ransomware, cancel some surgeries

(2021/05/19)

Intrusion believed to have entered through email

Google and Samsung merge their wearable OSes, tease Fitbit baked into the combo

(2021/05/19)

Who could possibly have predicted that developers would shun two small ecosystems?

More power to web apps, cries Google, and more privacy, too

(2021/05/19)

Without harming the ad business, natch

China all but bans cryptocurrencies

(2021/05/19)

Banks told not to transact, web platforms blocked from hosting or advertising, citizens told to look elsewhere for investments

Microsoft hits Alt-F4 on Windows 10X: OS designed for dual-screen PCs axed

(2021/05/19)

It was just so good, we're cannibalizing it for parts, says Redmond

Empowering industry digitalization with the ultimate 5G network evolution

(2021/05/19)

Driver of digital economy, ZTE paves way for operators to boost 5G to-business revenue, ROI

What you need to know from today's Google IO: Chatty AI, collab tools, TPU v4 chips, quantum computing

(2021/05/18)

Great, another tech thing that sounds like 'lambda'

Nvidia nerfs RTX 3080, 3070, 3060 Ti GPUs to shoo away Ethereum miners

(2021/05/18)

Hash rate halved for 'LHR' cards in fresh bid to force down outrageous retail prices

Colonial Pipeline suffers server gremlins, says it's not due to another ransomware infection

(2021/05/18)

Just dealing with the aftermath

Us? Pwn SolarWinds? With our reputation? Russian spy chief makes laughable denial of supply chain attack

(2021/05/18)

Hint: He doesn't care if you personally think it's rubbish, and here's why

Business-intelligence-company-turned-Bitcoin-addict MicroStrategy grabs another $10m crypto-coin fix

(2021/05/18)

Who's recommending investment? The man who already has a $1bn stake

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