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)

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‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support

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Dev team doesn’t have necessary hardware, and even if they could afford it eBay is empty

China to enforce social distancing on peak of Mount Everest

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At least you won’t have to check in with a QR Code

Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA

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Long March 5B lands 45km from the Maldives

China’s top three telcos advise of imminent delisting from New York Stock Exchange

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Trump-era Executive Order gets China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile kicked off bourse

US declares emergency after ransomware shuts oil pipeline that pumps 100 million gallons a day

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Oil transport by road allowed after Colonial Pipeline goes down, operator says recovery is under way but offers no recovery date

You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world

(2021/05/08)

NASA records, shares sound of Ingenuity drone on Mars, like we're in some kind of sci-fi flick

Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV after speaking to the software's boss

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'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality' states poorly redacted report

Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it

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Antisocial giant insists 'Help keep FB free of charge' messaging is merely educational

Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS

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But beware lock-in-as-a-service, analyst warns

Russian cyber-spies changed tactics after the UK and US outed their techniques – so here's a list of those changes

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Plus: NCSC warns of how hostile powers may exploit smart city infrastructure

GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies

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Biz expected 4,000 signups, got 60,000, system couldn't cope

British bank TSB says it will fix days-long transaction troubles tonight

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Totally Sucks, Buddy: Debit payments held up since April, online and app still wobbly, say readers

Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away

(2021/05/07)

Software giant vows data processing of EU cloud services to stay in EU, which means that currently...

We were 'blindsided' by Epic's cheek, claims Apple exec on 4th day of antitrust wrangling

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I thought we were friends

'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

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Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group

Broadband plumber Openreach yanks legacy copper phone lines in Suffolk town of Mildenhall en route to getting the UK on VoIP

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Just four years to go before planned switch-off

Stale and past its best. Are you talking about Windows or the pizza you're waiting for?

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A reminder of golden Start Menu days

How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price

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Now that's a Buffett overflow error

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all: El Reg takes Twitter's anti-mean algorithm for a spin

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We're nicer in person, we swear

gurmlish, n.:
The red warning flag at the top of a club sandwich which
prevents the person from biting into it and puncturing the roof
of his mouth.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"