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)

The unstoppable rise of real-time payments

(2021/01/08)

Equinix foresees global ‘network of networks’

Boeing will cough up $2.5bn+ to settle US fraud charge over 737 Max safety

(2021/01/08)

Cash will go to airlines that bought the danger jets, victims' fund

Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable

(2021/01/07)

Even ecommerce platform Shopify permanently shutters Don's shops

French integrator-cum-outsourcing biz Atos confirms bid for DXC Technology

(2021/01/07)

Initial offer reported to be in region of $10.1bn, no certainty acquisition deal will be done

Away from the besuited world of the ThinkPad, Lenovo lets its hair down with refreshed IdeaPad and Yoga lineups

(2021/01/07)

Revolving screens, 5G, and an Alexa-based Show Mode

MariaDB releases connector for Reactive Java developers

(2021/01/07)

R2DBC uses declarative techniques to create 'more powerful, efficient and scalable JVM solutions'

How Redis helps banks embrace digital transformation

(2021/01/07)

And without having to rip and replace legacy infrasturcutre

Crowdfunded Asahi project aims for 'polished' Linux experience on Apple Silicon

(2021/01/07)

Project wins sponsorship, and Torvalds is interested, but can it succeed without the mothership's cooperation?

Intel wheels out new face authentication product that works a lot like Apple's FaceID

(2021/01/07)

Chipzilla joins facial-recog race

Breaking? Microsoft pushes 'News and Interests' with first Windows 10 Insiders build of the year

(2021/01/07)

Hmm, anything happening in the world at the moment?

Old hand at NewCo: IBM re-hires former CFO to run soon-to-be-spun-out Global Tech Services division

(2021/01/07)

Martin Schroeter gets keys for biz set to launch at end of 2021

OpenAI touts a new flavour of GPT-3 that can automatically create made-up images to go along with any text description

(2021/01/07)

Human art will still, erm, probably prevail

Two English councils sign up to Azure for six years in £35m reseller deal as ERP project faces delays, ballooning costs

(2021/01/07)

Local authorities' shared Unit4 system is late, overbudget, and only works on Microsoft's cloud

Brit registrar 123-Reg begins 2021 in much the same way it ended 2020 – with DNS issues

(2021/01/07)

Not quite what we meant by 'record-breaking'

React team observes that running everything on the client can be costly, aims to fix it with Server Components

(2021/01/07)

Server-side React solves 'many other problems we have had for a while' says Core developer

TikTok to be hit by a UK class-action-style lawsuit backed by the Children's Commissioner

(2021/01/07)

And funded by private venture that'll take a chunk of the damages for itself

Titanium carbide nanotech approach hints at hydrogen storage breakthrough

(2021/01/07)

Exciting news for green fuel, but quality control, financing will be a challenge

What happens when a Chrome extension with 2m+ users changes hands, raises red flags, doesn't document updates? Let's find out

(2021/01/07)

Oh yes, I'm the Great Suspender, pretending I'm doing well

The future of cloud security is open – and Kubernetes shows why, says Sysdig founder

(2021/01/07)

'With open source, your users become your partners and co-developers'

JetBrains' build automation software eyed as possible enabler of SolarWinds hack

(2021/01/07)

Maker of developer tools says it played no role in the attack, hasn't heard from investigators

...At that time [the 1960s], Bell Laboratories scientists projected that
computer speeds as high as 30 million floating-point calculations per
second (megaflops) would be needed for the Army's ballistic missile
defense system. Many computer experts -- including a National Academy
of Sciences panel -- said achieving such speeds, even using multiple
processors, was impossible. Today, new generation supercomputers operate
at billions of operations per second (gigaflops).
-- Aviation Week & Space Technology, May 9, 1988, "Washington Roundup", pg 13