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)

Atheists warn followers of unholy data leak, hint dark deeds may have tried to make it go away

(2021/02/19)

Rival atheists accused of not believing in privacy law

Australia facepalms as Facebook blocks bookstores, sport, health services instead of just news

(2021/02/19)

Reg writer on the spot reports that life without news links on The Social Network™ is just fine

Microsoft admits some Azure, Exchange, Intune source code snaffled in SolarWinds schemozzle

(2021/02/19)

We’ll be fine, says Redmond security crew. No word on whether you will be too once crims analyse their haul

Google calls in Women in Technology Hall of Famer to lead new Responsible AI group amid internal strife

(2021/02/19)

Move follows ousting of ethics expert Timnit Gebru

Nvidia to cripple Ethereum mining on GeForce RTX 3060 cards to deter crypto bods from nabbing all the gear

(2021/02/19)

Driver-level limitation to favor gamers, coin-crafting hardware to follow

Dubai International Finance Centre accelerates its digital transformation to become the region's most advanced financial hub

(2021/02/19)

Huawei's CloudCampus helps to quickly roll out super capacity, intelligent, self-correcting network

Hero to Jezero: Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geologist rover, lands on Mars, beams back first pics

(2021/02/18)

Difficult entry, descent, landing process over, now for a search for ancient microbial life

VS Code acknowledges its elders: Makefile projects get an official extension – and VIM mode is on the backlog

(2021/02/18)

Updates for modern code editor hark back to 40-year-old tools

Cisco reveals a probe of 'self-enrichment scheme' involving ex-employees in China

(2021/02/18)

Also lifts lid on allegations former workers paid staffers of 'state-owned enterprises'

Just 2.6% of 2019's 18,000 tracked vulnerabilities were actively exploited in the wild

(2021/02/18)

So says Kenna Security in a refreshing piece of counter-FUD analysis

The kids are all right... for Google: Web giant talks up 40 new Chromebook models, school-focused ChromeOS

(2021/02/18)

Mountain View sees your kids at home this year, with its devices in their laps

3 is the magic number? Openreach repayment project engineers add extra consecutive strike dates

(2021/02/18)

18 months of dispute over new grading structure and counting...

Toxic: Intel ordered to pay chip fab worker almost $1m after he was gassed at its facility in 2016

(2021/02/18)

Spouse to receive $250k over 'loss of consortium' following Arizona incident

NHS Digital hands Deloitte £51m contract for tech supporting UK COVID-19 testing without competition

(2021/02/18)

Just as legal challenge launched at government for doing the same thing

Microsoft pulls the sheets off first .NET 6 preview and... it's still a mess. Native Apple Silicon support, though

(2021/02/18)

Unified? Kind of, but now there are two .NET runtimes in the official SDK

Microsoft drives up in a LXSS: Hop in, we're taking the Windows Update offramp to Linux 5.4 town

(2021/02/18)

Also: Windows 10 21H1 sent to the beta channel

Nurserycam horror show: 'Secure' daycare video monitoring product beamed DVR admin creds to all users

(2021/02/18)

Company has a habit of reacting badly to vuln disclosures

Has Amazon finally gone cuckoo? Bezos' behemoth turns to crowdfunding for Alexa-powered timepiece

(2021/02/18)

If you 'Build It', they will come

Kinoite: Immutable Fedora variant with KDE Plasma desktop on the way

(2021/02/18)

Better security and application management, but compatibility can be an issue

Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer

(2021/02/18)

Well, that's a new one

Worst Month of 1981 for Downhill Skiing:
August. The lift lines are the shortest, though.
-- Steve Rubenstein