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)

Defence Industrial Strategy suggests the UK is ready to start taking its homegrown infosec industry seriously

(2021/03/25)

Doc makes all the right noises if you like government support for business

US military employing neural networks to figure out interference in photons for quantum communications

(2021/03/25)

Green Machine gets busy on photons

Ticker tape and a binary message: Bank of England's new Alan Turing £50 must be the nerdiest banknote ever

(2021/03/25)

Tribute to wartime computer boffin hits circulation on 23 June

SUSE says tschüss to Ceph-based enterprise storage product – it's Rancher's Longhorn from here on out

(2021/03/25)

Existing customers will continue to receive support, however

ESA gives UK space an £8.5m Boost: Rocketeers eye a 2022 launch

(2021/03/25)

Lawmakers still need to sign off on launch from UK soil, though

UK Department of Health's joint venture with Sopra Steria names 19 vendors to epic £1bn hardware framework

(2021/03/25)

Free smartwatch? Don't mind if I do

BP Chargemaster's Pulse rebrand let crims send IcedID banking trojan from formerly legit mailboxes

(2021/03/25)

F-Secure confirms nature of email nasty to El Reg

Everything you need to know about the HPE v Mike Lynch High Court case

(2021/03/25)

Before 'end of Q1'* judgment we round up all the legalese into one place

Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects

(2021/03/25)

Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package

The silicon supply chain crunch is worrying. Now comes a critical concern: A coffee shortage

(2021/03/25)

Droughts and transport bottlenecks reduce supply and hike costs. Can the world survive this crisis?

NASA sets the date for first helicopter flight on another planet – and the craft will carry a piece of history

(2021/03/25)

Fabric from Wright brothers' aircraft makes it to Mars

Tencent nods to custom AMD servers as contributor to FY20 revenue and profit boom even as gamers and vid chats mashed its servers

(2021/03/25)

Execs say they're unworried by new Chinese regs on monopolies and online loans

WhatsApp in India? A probe into Facebook privacy, citizen cyber-cops absolved, and censorship criticism

(2021/03/25)

Netflix gets the 'won't someone think of the children' treatment over show for adults

China’s 2020 cloud infrastructure spend outpaced the world, says analyst

(2021/03/25)

66 percent jump saw $19bn change hands, but they’re just 14 percent of global spend

We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A halo of light polarized by a gigantic black hole's magnetic field...

(2021/03/25)

Most intimate snap yet of M87's supermassive abyss

Please stop leaking your own personal data online, Indonesia's COVID-19 taskforce tells citizens

(2021/03/25)

Posting pics of 'I got the jab' certs, complete with their QR codes, has authorities worried

US state AGs: How can Facebook, Google, Twitter say they tackle misinformation when *gestures wildly at COVID-19 BS everywhere*

(2021/03/25)

Top legal eagles urge web giants to do more in this life and death matter

You’ve learned a lot over the past year – and so have the cyber-criminals hiding in your systems

(2021/03/25)

They’ve switched tactics. With Malwarebytes, we'll show how you can, too

So, where does Silicon Valley stand on S.230? Zuck wants 'industry best practices', Pichai demurs, Dorsey urges more Bluesky thinking

(2021/03/24)

House panel to quiz web giant CEOs this week. Expect a degree of deja vu

Can you imagine Slack letting people DM strangers in another org? Think of the abuse. Oh wait, it did do that

(2021/03/24)

Chat app that was supposed to save us from unsolicited email warms to unsolicited messaging. Now it's kinda walked that back

A comment on schedules:
Ok, how long will it take?
For each manager involved in initial meetings add one month.
For each manager who says "data flow analysis" add another month.
For each unique end-user type add one month.
For each unknown software package to be employed add two months.
For each unknown hardware device add two months.
For each 100 miles between developer and installation add one month.
For each type of communication channel add one month.
If an IBM mainframe shop is involved and you are working on a non-IBM
system add 6 months.
If an IBM mainframe shop is involved and you are working on an IBM
system add 9 months.
Round up to the nearest half-year.
--Brad Sherman
By the way, ALL software projects are done by iterative prototyping.
Some companies call their prototypes "releases", that's all.