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)

Hey, maybe we should all be cat-faced eco-warriors on our daily video chats

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IT can be measured to a high degree of accuracy – and what the world needs now is accurate data

Housekeeping and kernel upgrades do not always make for happy bedfellows

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When imposter syndrome turns out to not be a syndrome at all

Customers turned to digital channels in 2020. What will you do when they stay there in 2021?

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Key trends and strategies for digital CX and customer self-service in 2021 and beyond

Microsoft says it found 1,000-plus developers' fingerprints on the SolarWinds attack

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As FireEye reveals how suspicious second phone signed up for 2FA gave the game away

Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai get back on the phone with Australia for more pay-for-news talks

(2021/02/15)

Compulsory arbitration code clears committee without amendments, but cracks show as one major local signs big Google deal

Voyager 2 receives and executes first command in 11 months as sole antenna that reaches it returns to work

(2021/02/15)

Resets clock to avoid going into safe mode

Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.11, says it's so good your significant other wants you to test it on Valentine's Day

(2021/02/15)

AMD admirers get plenty to swoon over, Intel’s SGX also makes it unto the kernel, as did some head-scratching gaming kit

Future astronauts at risk of heart attacks, strokes if radiation allowed to ravage their cardiovascular health

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One small step for man, one giant.... urgh...*clutches heart*... THUD

President Biden to issue executive order on chip shortages as under-pressure silicon world begs for help

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CEOs say US needs to invest in home-fabbed tech

Amazon sues NY Attorney General in preemptive strike: Web giant faces claim it did not fully protect workers in COVID-19 pandemic

(2021/02/13)

Subsidize public bus service and slow down production? No thanks, says Bezos Bunch

Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It really, really happened, and with bad BIOS and more, insists Bloomberg

(2021/02/13)

Server maker says latest article is 'a mishmash of disparate allegations'

Huawei invokes 140-year-old law at England's High Court in latest bid to thwart CFO's US-Canada extradition

(2021/02/12)

Lawyers say they need HSBC UK Powerpoint slides to undo Uncle Sam's case against Meng Wanzhou

New Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of outages, glitches plaguing coronavirus vaccine sign-up website

(2021/02/12)

Promised software may never work as specified, it is feared

How many low-code products does an enterprise software biz need? Ask SAP, it's just swallowed another one

(2021/02/12)

AppGyver disappears inside juggernaut's attempts to nurture more modern image

Footfallcam kerfuffle: Firm apologises, promises to fix product after viral Twitter thread, infoseccer backlash

(2021/02/12)

Accusations of grey hat infosec consultancy extortion ring drop away after El Reg intervenes

Looking for a new IT job? This week's list includes roles for software engineers, DC managers, cloud experts and support specialists

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Looking for the perfect Valentine's gift? How about a week of retro gaming BBC Microlympics?

(2021/02/12)

Chuckie Egg and Elite ? Oh you shouldn't have!

Court witness describes how Autonomy founder Lynch would wash his rear-end in US prison showers and dorms

(2021/02/12)

When people called the Brit software biz a s*** show... ah, never mind

O2 UK overcharged exiting customers by £40.7m over 7+ years: Ofcom slams senior managers, fines it £10.5m

(2021/02/12)

Nearly 8 years of extra fees after it 'initially identified issues' with billing in 2011... but nothing came of it

helloSystem: Pre-alpha FreeBSD project chases simplicity and elegance by taking cues from macOS

(2021/02/12)

Rethinking the desktop with reference to Apple's early UI guidelines

Ummm, well, OK. The network's the network, the computer's the computer.
Sorry for the confusion.
-- Sun Microsystems