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)

Dept of If I'd Known 20 Years Ago: Call centres, roosting chickens, and Bitcoin

(2021/02/12)

Getting it half-right means you got it half-wrong

We know it's hard to get your kicks at work – just do it away from a wall switch powering anything important

(2021/02/12)

Does your office have a singing swinger?

Machine-learning model creates creepiest Doctor Who images yet – by scanning the brain of a super fan

(2021/02/12)

Oodkind look even more terryfing

Myanmar Junta delivers harsh cyber law and more IP blocking orders

(2021/02/12)

Gives itself power to snoop and block anything, anytime – but at least it’s also consulted with industry

Microsoft issues emergency fix for Wi-Fi foul-up delivered hot and fresh on Patch Tuesday

(2021/02/12)

WPA3 access may cause Blue Screen of Death

Biden administration pauses pursuit of TikTok and WeChat

(2021/02/12)

Chinese New Year gift for Beijing, maybe for Oracle too

Microsoft tells Biden administration to adopt Australia’s pay-for-news plan

(2021/02/12)

Making Google and Facebook cough up could help USA’s currently fragile democracy, argues Pres Brad Smith

Apple iOS 14.5 will hide Safari users' IP addresses from Google's Safe Browsing

(2021/02/12)

Another privacy improvement from Cupertino, just a small one

Manhunt: 'Armed and dangerous' MIT AI scientist sought by cops probing grad student's gun murder

(2021/02/12)

Victim shot dead a week after he got engaged to fiancée

Phishing awareness gone wrong: Facebook tries to seize websites set up for staff security training

(2021/02/11)

Antisocial network sued by Proofpoint in scrap over domain names

HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 slips off the shelf – and off the planet: Boxen heading to ISS

(2021/02/11)

Just don't hit that big, red button

Better buckle up: Volkswagen puts Microsoft in driver's seat to deliver 'automated' platform

(2021/02/11)

German car giant looks to Azure for AI smarts as Ford opts for Google's cloud

Microsoft's underwhelming, underpowered dual-screen Surface Duo phone arrives in the UK this month for £1,349

(2021/02/11)

'Teams and Skype video conferencing up to 1080p at 30fps' – sign us up!

48-hour strike action: Openreach repayment project engineers confirm it's on

(2021/02/11)

18 months after dispute emerged, techies say enough is enough

Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep

(2021/02/11)

I always feel like somebody's watching me

Criminal charges against Autonomy's Lynch will never be dropped, even if extradition bid fails, says lawyer

(2021/02/11)

Plus: All his former Deloitte auditors can be made to testify against him

Forget about an AI stealing your job, even pigs can be trained to use computers

(2021/02/11)

No one can save your bacon now

British owners of .eu domains given an extra three months to find a European address

(2021/02/11)

Brexit bonus for EU, it's losing millions after endless rule changes

Habitable-zone exoplanet potentially spotted just around the corner in Alpha Centauri using latest telescope technique

(2021/02/11)

Space is about to look a lot clearer, thanks to adaptive optics

C#/WinRT authoring: Yo dawg, we heard you like components so we made a component that makes components

(2021/02/11)

Now in preview, says Microsoft

In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original.
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