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)

ThinkPad T14s AMD Gen 1: Workhorse that does the business – and dares you to push that red button

(2021/02/03)

Thunk: The reassuring sound of a rugged, comfy biz computer

So Jeff Bezos is stepping back from Amazon to play with his space rockets. Who's this Andy Jassy chap?

(2021/02/03)

Cloud supremo to become CEO of one of Earth's biggest super-corps

Rubbish software security patches responsible for a quarter of zero-days last year

(2021/02/03)

Google wants researchers, vendors to stop making attacks easy

ByteDance sues Tencent over lack of link love on its messaging services

(2021/02/03)

Is there anywhere in the world TikTok isn’t in trouble?

Time to start taking machine-learning security seriously, Microsoft boffin insists

(2021/02/03)

Forget academic adversarial attacks and imagine if ML were the weakest link in the chain

Google's cloud services lost $14.6bn over three years – and CEO Sundar Pichai likes that trajectory

(2021/02/03)

Sees businesses signing up for long deals, confident the black ink will come

Microsoft backs Australia’s pay-for-news plan, risks massive blowback over a lousy $3bn and change

(2021/02/03)

Promises to grease the skids for small business advertisers who get off Google and bound towards Bing

Judging from all those packages y'all ordered, this shouldn't be a surprise: Amazon passes $100bn in quarterly sales for first time

(2021/02/03)

Maybe we should start an online bookstore sometime

Alibaba Cloud turns its first-ever profit, shows its sales are a fifth of that of Amazon Web Services

(2021/02/03)

Signals analytics, not IaaS, is the opportunity it wants to chase

Musk see: Watch SpaceX's latest Starship rocket explode while trying to touch down

(2021/02/03)

Still hoping to lob a zillionaire and three commoners into space in a commercial flight later this year

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this summer, AWS boss Andy Jassy to step up

(2021/02/02)

Multibillionaire founder channels Bill Gates, will become exec chairman of cloud giant with gift shop on the side

Amazon coughs up $62m to shoo away claims it stole driver tips, cut pay rates without telling them

(2021/02/02)

What a lovely company

ESA signs off on three more service modules for Moon mission – despite agency boss casting doubt on 2024 landing

(2021/02/02)

Director General injects some reality into the lunar landing schedule

Microsoft's Azure Quantum hits preview: Not so much quantum computing as it is quantum-inspired computing

(2021/02/02)

You'll have to go to one of Redmond's partners for something less simulated

In Rust we trust: Shoring up Apache, ISRG ditches C, turns to wunderkind lang for new TLS crypto module

(2021/02/02)

Elder server httpd to be revitalized with Google-funded memory-safe add-on

Funding frenzy from AWS, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce pumps ex-Hadoop wrangler Databricks' value to $28bn

(2021/02/02)

Oof, that's gotta hurt for Cloudera, which is sitting at a paltry $4.6bn

There's no 'I' in Teams so Microsoft issues 6-month warning for laggards still on Skype for Business Online

(2021/02/02)

The axeman cometh

Atos shares rebound briefly as biz decides acquiring DXC is probably not worth the bother

(2021/02/02)

HPE cut off its own arm to escape infrastructure services

Going underground with Scaleway's Apple M1-as-a-Service: Mac Minis descend into Paris nuclear bunker

(2021/02/02)

Company reckons setup is 'first of its kind in Europe'

Slack fingers AWS auto-scaling failure in January outage postmortem

(2021/02/02)

'We attempted to add 1,200 servers to our web tier' – but with a saturated network it did no good

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