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)

FSF doubles down on Richard Stallman's return: Sure, he is 'troubling for some' but we need him, says org

(2021/04/13)

And we're so sorry for not warning staff or anyone else about his board reelection, adds foundation

FCC urges Americans to run internet speed app to counter Big Cable's broadband data fudging

(2021/04/13)

Effort to get accurate info gets more serious under new chairwoman

The COVID-19 pandemic is still going – and so is the PC buying spree: Shipments up 55% on the Before Times

(2021/04/13)

Highest Q1 figures since 2012

Jensen Huang's kitchen gets another viewing as Nvidia teases Arm-powered supercomputing chip Grace

(2021/04/12)

Also another data processing unit, system-on-a-chip for self-driving cars

It is 60 years since the first cosmonaut reached orbit and 40 years since the Shuttle first left the launchpad

(2021/04/12)

Double anniversary means doubles all round, are we right?

Microsoft digs deep for chatty AI specialist Nuance, bids $19.7bn to bolster healthcare chops

(2021/04/12)

Hello? Is this thing on?

Oracle founder Larry Ellison lands on another lily pad, this time an $80m Florida mansion he intends to tear down

(2021/04/12)

To complement his $300m Bond villain base in Hawaii

Nvidia shrinks GPUs to help squeeze AI into your data center, make its VMware friendship work

(2021/04/12)

Creates two new mini models because it’s assumed you won’t build silos to host huge hot monsters

Mike Lynch-backed Darktrace to file for London IPO in aftermath of Deliveroo flop

(2021/04/12)

LSE document confirms AI infosec company's plans

New drinking game idea: Down a shot every time Huawei blames US sanctions for the current tech industry woes

(2021/04/12)

Plus: 6G is pointless, and will your next car have 'Huawei Inside'?

Bless you: Yep, it's IBM's new name for tech services spinoff and totally not a hayfever medicine

(2021/04/12)

Hello world, meet Kyndryl

FreeBSD gives ARM64 green light for production over x86 alternative's 'growth trajectory'

(2021/04/12)

Unix-like operating system is hilarious – even the support is in tiers

'Chinese wall'? Who uses 'Chinese wall'? Well, IBM did, and it actually means 'firewall'

(2021/04/12)

Big Blue revamps terminology, keeps 'black box' because it's not pejorative

Clearview AI accused over free trials to US police that were plausibly deniable

(2021/04/12)

Plus: Another Google AI boffin resigns and AI tries to recreate music from famous musicians who died at 27

UK's National Rail backs down from greyscale website tribute to Prince Phil after visually impaired users complain

(2021/04/12)

Protip: Ad/tracker blockers. Use them (though not on The Reg)

Oracle vs Google: No, the Supreme Court did not say APIs aren't copyright – and that's a good thing

(2021/04/12)

Anyone wanting to bring a similar case in the future will have to be very, very bold and very, very rich

Fire up that Macintosh II: Retro techhead gives the web a Netscape 1.1 makeover

(2021/04/12)

Not the prettiest experience, but an interesting experiment

We have never given census data to anyone – not even the spy agencies, says the UK's Office for National Statistics

(2021/04/12)

Privacy and security fears bubble up again in wake of national headcount

How to automate your way out of cloud shock

(2021/04/12)

CAST AI autoscaling and AI-based provisioning radically reduces bills

Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran says nuke facility shut down by electrical fault

(2021/04/12)

Evidence is thin, but Natanz enrichment facility is offline

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