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)

How to ensure your tech predictions catch on in a flash? Do the mash

(2021/04/09)

All inventions should be demonstrated by a puppet doing a Tommy Cooper impression

Feature bloat: Psychology boffins find people tend to add elements to solve a problem rather than take things away

(2021/04/09)

Duplo exercise provides vital insight into flawed human heuristic

Asahi Linux devs merge effort to run Linux on Apple M1 silicon into kernel

(2021/04/09)

Slated for inclusion in version 5.13, due about three months from now

For blinkenlights sake.... RTFM! Yes. Read The Front of the Machine

(2021/04/09)

Before smartphones and LCD displays there were... green lights and red lights

Cisco takes small steps towards IT-as-a-service, more software-defined networking

(2021/04/09)

For compute and SD-WAN only, with plenty of details not yet in place

India uses controversial Aadhaar facial biometrics to identify COVID vaccination recipients

(2021/04/09)

Safer than eyeballs or fingerprints, apparently

‘Can COVID-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?’

(2021/04/09)

It’s not The Register asking. The question comes from the official Australian government vaccine advice service (and the answer is ‘No’)

Vietnam reveals state-run Alibaba-and-Amazon alternative, aims it at the EU

(2021/04/09)

Government hopes to cash in on free trade agreement with B2B e-commerce

Apple's pending privacy clampdown drives desperate marketers to overwhelm domain database

(2021/04/09)

Public Suffix List halts submissions from those seeking reprieve from iGiant's rules

Biden administration effectively slaps bans on seven Chinese supercomputer companies for military links

(2021/04/09)

Organizations added to Entity list

What's this about a muon experiment potentially upending Standard Model of physics? We speak to one of the scientists involved

(2021/04/09)

'It’s an exciting prospect, but too early to say so definitively' professor tells us

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

(2021/04/08)

Passenger weight blunder led to wrong thrust used on takeoff, says watchdog

W3C Technical Architecture Group slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domains as same origin

(2021/04/08)

First Party Sets 'harmful to the web in its current form'

South Africa's state-owned energy firm to appeal after court rules Oracle does not have to support its software

(2021/04/08)

Eskom disputes results of Big Red audit

Xen releases a new version 4.15 after a slightly delayed development process

(2021/04/08)

Teases new ‘Hyperlaunch’ tech that will allow booting of whole VM fleets

Website maker Wix embarks on weird WordPress-trashing campaign, sends 'influencer' users headphones from 'WP'

(2021/04/08)

'Creepy' videos liken CMS giant to 'absent, drunken father' – but its market share is only rising

Beloved pixel pusher Paint prepares to join Notepad for updates from Microsoft Store

(2021/04/08)

You cannot kill what does not die

Gitpod ditches Eclipse Theia for Visual Studio Code under redesign, sponsors new dev experience event

(2021/04/08)

'Allowing everyone to use their favourite IDE just makes a lot of sense'

Apple extends Find My support to third-party vendors including Belkin, Dutch bike maker VanMoof, and Chipolo

(2021/04/08)

Expensive bike, earpods can now be tracked from inside the walled garden

UK reseller sues Microsoft for £270m in damages claiming prohibitive contracts choke off surplus Office licence supplies

(2021/04/08)

ValueLicensing also calls for action to 'restore and maintain competition and choice in the market'

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Gandhi