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)

3G ain’t totally dead yet: Verizon pushes back cut-off plans to some unspecified future date

(2021/01/06)

It’s hard to kill off a trusted, stable technology that works

America says banks can now transact using so-called stable crypto-coins. What does that actually mean?

(2021/01/06)

We talk to the experts after US Treasury's OCC blesses blockchains, digi-bucks

Amazon Web Services launches appeal after losing $12m AWS trademark war in China to local biz Actionsoft

(2021/01/06)

American goliath vows to overturn ruling at Middle Kingdom's Supreme People’s Court

Ah, right on time: Hacker-slammed SolarWinds sued by angry shareholders

(2021/01/06)

Plus: US intelligence names and shames Russia as probable culprit

Blackberry Cylance's consumer antivirus product won't work with macOS Big Sur until end of January

(2021/01/05)

Only three months after latest OS version released

Be careful where you log into GitHub: Dev visits Iran, opens laptop, gets startup's entire account shut down

(2021/01/05)

Service restored, code silo gets license to serve Iranian programmers

Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf retiring, sceptre passes to president Cristiano Amon

(2021/01/05)

So long, and thanks for all the fish

New York Stock Exchange U-turns on decision to boot China's three biggest telcos

(2021/01/05)

But hasn't said why

SQL Server 2008? We say out with the old, in with the new

(2021/01/05)

Here’s how to call time on aging databases, according to Pure Storage

Brit infrastructure stuck in neverending restart cycle... and that's just the Microsoft 365 admin center

(2021/01/05)

'Unexpected spike in user traffic' causes Tuesday tumble

Bug? No, Telegram exposing its users' precise location is a feature working as 'expected'

(2021/01/05)

Messaging app makes inadvertent oversharing too easy

Huawei to drop out of top 6 smartphone vendors in 2021 after Honor jettison – analyst

(2021/01/05)

Chinese giant continues to feel bite of supply chain pressures

UK's NHS Digital hands £8m contract to lab data biz after trouble matching COVID-19 tests to health records

(2021/01/05)

Without competition due to 'extreme urgency' around pandemic

Ex-UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones charged with rape and sexual assault

(2021/01/05)

Offences alleged to have happened a decade ago, say police

Open-source contributors say they'll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only

(2021/01/05)

'There'll be no more work from external/unpaid contributors' – dev

Trump's overhaul of Section 230 stalls, Biden may just throw the web legal shield on the bonfire anyway

(2021/01/05)

FCC won't mull law reform this month

Lay down your souls to the gods of rock 'n' roll: Conspiracy theorists' 5G 'vaccine' chip schematic is actually for a guitar pedal

(2021/01/05)

One owned by every 13-year-old with dreams of slinging an axe

Scotland waves £15m around to tempt low-code partner to help with social security overhaul as technical debt mounts

(2021/01/05)

Though that might not be the workaround it needs

Beware the ghost of operating systems past: In which our hero is visited by an old friend

(2021/01/05)

A reminder that XP was both frugal and prone to falling over

Come, chant with us over a sacrificial goat and predict 2021's biggest tech stories to a high degree of accuracy

(2021/01/05)

Let's see Gartner top this

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson