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)

Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version

(2021/03/03)

Pitches pro-privacy platform with customizable results filter dubbed Goggles

9 years after SpaceX strode into Texas village, Elon Musk floats name change for Boca Chica: 'Starbase'

(2021/03/03)

If he said it on Twitter it must be all above board, right?

Equinix prepping to unleash 128-core Ampere Arm silicon in its 'Metal' not-quite-cloud

(2021/03/03)

For now, you get Dell and Pure Storage-as-a-service and more metallic locations

The wrong guy: Backup outfit Spanning deleted my personal data, claims Cohesity field CTO

(2021/03/03)

One warning email.... then three years of backup gone in a flash, says storage exec

It's not easy being green: EV HTTPS cert seller Sectigo questions Chrome's logic in burying EV HTTPS cert info

(2021/03/03)

Seeing as Google thinks no one cares about location records, we'll remove street addresses from all our sites, says compliance chief

Hacking is not a crime – and the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative

(2021/03/03)

Hackers are friends not foes, says Alyssa Miller in this opening argument for our latest debate

Telecoms shack in the middle of Scotland put up for auction at £7,500

(2021/03/03)

No broadband or bedroom though, so you'll have to sign up for sats or build your own

IBM settles £36m Direct Line insurance platform project lawsuit, after claiming Teradata tried to usurp its spot

(2021/03/03)

Terms of deal not disclosed as Big Blue insists it wasn't wrong, but merely didn't follow design standards

Google has arranged special insurance for its cloud – if you share some data with Allianz and Munich Re

(2021/03/03)

Pitches 'shared fate' scheme as an upgrade to current convention of cloud sec being your problem

TPG buys Thycotic, immediately merges it with Centrify to create ~$230m access management monster

(2021/03/03)

Product consolidation roadmap? Not yet. But all involved say the combo will work out just fine

Microsoft promises end-to-end encrypted Teams calls for some, invites you to go passwordless with Azure AD

(2021/03/03)

When there are passphrases, there is inherent risk, says Redmond

Eugene Kaspersky says cyber-crooks coined it during COVID and will take a break to spend their loot

(2021/03/03)

Not so fast, says infosec boffin, because crims know returning workers will be easy prey

The classic hits keep coming from IBM: z/OS set for big update in September

(2021/03/03)

Mainframe operating system to get more AI, hybrid cloud cred, expanded coprocessor support

ASEAN bloc's five-year ICT Masterplan was too big to be a winner, says final report

(2021/03/03)

Good tech policy vital as Asian states climb out of the COVID-19 crunch

Intel told by jury to pay $2.18bn to VLSI for ripping off two semiconductor patents

(2021/03/03)

Chipzilla vows to appeal verdict

Microsoft fixes four zero-day flaws in Exchange Server exploited by China's ‘Hafnium’ spies to steal victims' data

(2021/03/03)

Patch ASAP: Holes used to raid top-tier targets and stash info in Kim Dotcom's old cloud file locker

Microsoft touts Azure Percept development kits to those toying with AI on the edge

(2021/03/03)

Full stack means fully locked in – oh shoot, did we say that out loud?

It’s back: America's net neutrality advocates begin push to return to pre-Trump internet protections

(2021/03/02)

Lawmakers look to FCC to become a 'cop on the beat'

Python Package Index nukes 3,653 malicious libraries uploaded soon after security shortcoming highlighted

(2021/03/02)

Unauthorized versions of CuPy and other projects flood PyPI

Apple faces app store payments fight in Arizona, Throttlegate suit in Portugal

(2021/03/02)

Beachheads open up on both sides of the Atlantic

Stay away from hurricanes for a while.