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)

Memo to scientists. Looking for intelligent life? Have you tried checking for worlds with a lot of industrial pollution?

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Take it from us Earthlings, we know what a species can really do to a planet

It's wild the lengths Facebook engineers will go to find new ways to show you inane ads about tat: This time, AR...

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... and a lot of wrist action

Alibaba Cloud quietly tests desktops-as-a-service

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In seven flavours, accessible from Windows or macOS, with Active Directory support and USB passthrough

India boosts space program budget by 46 percent

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Says demand for space is booming and private enterprise loves its liberalisation plans

Now it is F5’s turn to reveal critical security bugs – and the Feds were quick to sound the alarm on these BIG-IP flaws

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Remote code execution, denial of service, API abuse possible. Meanwhile, FBI pegs China for Exchange hacks

First Australia, maybe Europe, now America mulls effort to potentially make Google, Facebook pay for news

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Journalism Competition and Preservation Act has been proposed twice already. Will it survive this time?

This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders

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Multiple Object Versionless Architecture is as popular now as it was two decades ago

Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft

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See, regular expressions are hard

Privacy purists prickle at T-Mobile US plan to proffer people's personal web, app pursuits to ad promoters

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Moz urges ISPs told to commit to opt-in data usage – as if one more scolding might make a difference in decades of opt-out

Apple announces €1bn Munich semiconductor R&D facility focused on wireless comms

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Claims campus will be home to 'Europe's largest mobile technologies engineering team'

Hacktivists breach Verkada and view 150,000 CCTV cams in hospitals, prisons, a Tesla factory, even Cloudflare HQ

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Life in the 21st century is great

Fear the Walking Edge: Desktop support pulled, but legacy browser lingers on in Surface Hub, Xbox, HoloLens

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Say goodbye to icon on Windows 10

Talk about a Blue Monday: OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder

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Servers affected include those used by ESA, Villarreal football club, and some misused by malware miscreants

UK draft legislation enshrines the right to repair in law – but don't expect your mobile to suddenly be any easier to fix

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Plus Brexity energy efficiency labelling standards thrown in

Belgian cops crack down on encrypted phone network Sky ECC in 200 overnight raids as firm denies criminal ties

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Shades of the Encrochat bust all over again

Microsoft lines its UserVoice forums up against the wall, readies firing squad of '1st party solutions'

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Customers directed to howl into the wind of the Microsoft Store

FYI: A smart-speaker box can monitor your heartbeat using high-pitch beeps and a pinch of algorithm – study

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Alexa, am I having a heart attack?

MPs slam UK's £22bn Test and Trace programme for failing to provide evidence that it slows COVID pandemic

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'Most wasteful and inept public spending programme of all time'

Atos handed £1.5bn to run IT for UK government-founded pension trust Nest

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French outsourcer will handle software, networking, and infrastructure

License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything

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'For many ... vendors, the BSD license is very important compared to the GPL'

Please, Mother! I'd rather do it myself!