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)

IBM wheels out AutoSQL, Watson Orchestrate in bid to fend off cloud irrelevance

(2021/05/11)

AI here, there and everywhere

Rude awakening for O2 customers after network runs surprise test of emergency mobile alert system

(2021/05/11)

Sorry, there's no nuclear missile inbound. You have to go to work

UK's Computer Misuse Act to be reviewed, says Home Secretary as she condemns ransomware payoffs

(2021/05/11)

Priti Patel doesn't say a word about encryption, though

NHS App gets go-ahead for vaccine passport use despite protest from privacy groups

(2021/05/11)

Big Brother Watch warns app contains too much sensitive medical information

Copper load of this: Openreach outlines 77 new locations where it'll stop selling legacy phone and broadband products

(2021/05/11)

You can't buy this kind of service. No, literally

App Tracking: Apps plead for users to press allow, but 85% of Apple iOS consumers are not opting in

(2021/05/11)

The data is in: most users do not opt in to third-party tracking

Proposed collective action aims to take Apple to task over its 30% App Store cut on behalf of 20 million Brits

(2021/05/11)

Spent money in the walled garden since October 2015?

Preliminary report on Texas Tesla crash finds Autosteer was 'not available' along road where both passengers died

(2021/05/11)

Probable cause of accident and fire still under investigation

Intel throws sand in the face of 'musclebooks' with 10nm Tiger Lake tech

(2021/05/11)

11th-gen Core H has nice new touches, but pitch is usual 'a new PC will be faster and smaller and lighter than an old PC' promise

Another platform on which Java will not run – platform 1 of Newcastle's Central Station

(2021/05/11)

What is Geordie for bork?

43 years and 14 billion miles later, Voyager 1 still crunching data to reveal secrets of the interstellar medium

(2021/05/11)

Gazing into the void for at least a few more years yet

Compsci boffin publishes proof-of-concept code for 54-year-old zero-day in Universal Turing Machine

(2021/05/11)

Patch your devi... oh, hang on a sec

Overdue: After a 2-year £12m delay, Northern Ireland Libraries looks to close chapter on Fujitsu saga

(2021/05/11)

Launches open tender for new £60m deal

Train operator phlunks phishing test by teasing employees with non-existent COVID bonus

(2021/05/11)

Someone at West Midlands Trains approved nasty cybersecurity drill

Microsoft embraces Linux kernel's eBPF super-tool, extends it for Windows

(2021/05/11)

This early-stage project is not a fork, Redmond insists

Samsung reveals DDR5 memory module that’s ready for Compute Express Link

(2021/05/11)

Suggests terabyte-packing servers that move data at astounding speed aren’t far off

China’s digital currency adds support for AliPay – the Alibaba payment app with over 700 million users

(2021/05/11)

And just like that, the Digital Yuan has its route into the mainstream

Vietnam’s biggest industrial conglomerate quits smartphones and TV biz, bets on electric cars

(2021/05/11)

No breakthroughs left to make in electronics, says CEO as company eyes off IPO-by-SPAC

Tencent research team scores free powerups for electric cars with Raspberry Pi-powered X-in-the-middle attack

(2021/05/11)

Another auto-exploit saw rPi push Telegram messages over CAN bus to brick a car

Indian government says 5G doesn’t cause COVID-19. Also points out India has no 5G networks

(2021/05/11)

But won’t reveal who it wants banned from social media over less obvious disinformation

You should emulate your heroes, but don't carry it too far. Especially
if they are dead.