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)

Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies

(2021/03/24)

Even FSF seems baffled by the defiant return of RMS

Guilty: Sister and brother who over-ordered hundreds of MacBooks for university and sold the kit for millions

(2021/03/23)

Castanedas pocketed $2.3m from 800 laptops alone, Feds say

Prince Harry, the Count of Montecito, turns Silicon Valley startup exec with first job based in 21st Century

(2021/03/23)

New post accepted as Chief Impact (on Press Coverage) Officer for BetterUp

Google patches WebView component to end unexpected Android crash fest

(2021/03/23)

Snafu tripped up Gmail, Google Pay, and a variety of other Android apps

Report: Microsoft is thinking about splashing $10bn on Discord to slot it next to Skype, Mixer...

(2021/03/23)

Chat-room super-app aimed at gamers now used by 140m people a month

Total Eclipse team's new start: New Adoptium working group will promote free open source Java runtimes

(2021/03/23)

AdoptOpenJDK is moving to Eclipse Foundation, but it is a slow process

Sure, Dave might seem like he's avidly listening to this morning's meeting, but he's actually doing a yoga routine

(2021/03/23)

Meanwhile, Emma is playing video games, and Daniel... well, Daniel is drunk already

Outsourced techie gets 2-year sentence after trashing system of former client: 1,200 Office 365 accounts zapped

(2021/03/23)

'In my 30-plus years as an IT pro, I have never been a part of a more difficult work situation,' says victim

Proof that Surface devices are not a niche product obsessed over by Microsoft fans: A patent lawsuit from Caltech

(2021/03/23)

Well, you wanted to be just like Apple, right?

UK colleges and unis urged to prepare for ransomware before it's too late

(2021/03/23)

Uptick in attacks since schools reopened, warns National Cyber Security Centre

Microsoft and Google, sitting in a tree, working on browser compatibility

(2021/03/23)

Software behemoths to spend 2021 fixing CSS pain points

Backblaze on the back foot after 'inadvertently' beaming customer data to Facebook

(2021/03/23)

Backup company says tracking code now removed, but what info was sent?

FreeBSD 13.0 to ship without WireGuard support as dev steps in to fix 'grave issues' with initial implementation

(2021/03/23)

Public spat over code quality, reworked code set for 13.1 release, pfSense firewall also affected

Thousands of taxpayers' personal details potentially exposed online through councils' debt-chasing texts

(2021/03/23)

Got a link? Change the last character and bingo, it's blackmail time

Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole Council awards reseller a multimillion-pound contract for Microsoft services

(2021/03/23)

Sun, sea and software? UK south coast authority goes all in on Redmond

The kids aren't all right: Fall in GCSE compsci students is bad news for employers and Britain's future growth plans

(2021/03/23)

Student numbers have plunged 40% since 2015

Your hardware is end-of-life... and it's in space. Worry not, Anglo-Japanese sat to test new orbital cleanup method

(2021/03/23)

Magnetic tech could be used to deorbit debris

TikTok no worse than Facebook for privacy, says Citizen Lab (although Chinese TikTok is a horror)

(2021/03/23)

App has common code base for three versions: one global edition; one for south-east Asian; one for China

Google vows to build its own server system-on-chips, hires Intel veteran

(2021/03/23)

Ad giant’s compute rigs ‘at inflection point’, custom motherboards no longer suffice at G-scale

OVH flames scorched cloud customers with pledge to build data centre fire simulation lab

(2021/03/23)

Restoration of some services at destroyed data centre promised for this week, SBG1 data centre status in doubt again

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding
a sickness you like.
-- Jackie Mason