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)

UK on track to miss even its slashed full-fibre gigabit coverage goals, warn MPs

(2020/12/22)

Plus: Govt has no targets at all for 5G deployment, claims telco insider

SHRT hits the fan for first-gen Surface Hub users: Jumped-up whiteboard can now be updated via dedicated tool

(2020/12/22)

Also: Santa drops a final Windows Insider release, new PowerShell, Skype Together Mode

Expect €5m cloud, says European Centre for Midrange Weather Forecasts

(2020/12/22)

OK sunshine, but put it on-prem

Red Hat defends its CentOS decision, claims Stream version can cover '95% of current user workloads'

(2020/12/22)

Doing both CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux would mean doing both poorly claims CentOS board member

Google says it’s the cleanest cloud, also reveals deal with Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company for new cloud region

(2020/12/22)

You can’t make this stuff up

Business intelligence vendor MicroStrategy reveals it’s bought a billion bucks of bitcoin

(2020/12/22)

Better capital returns than cash and all allowed under company rules

Australia wants Google to jump higher and sweat before it can buy Fitbit

(2020/12/22)

Ad giant’s promise to play nice with other exercise gadgets accepted in Brussels, deferred down under

Taiwan’s Wistron says iPhone factory riot won’t cause significant impact to its business

(2020/12/22)

Dodges reports alleging Apple has put it on probation

Dell Wyse Thin Client scores two perfect 10 security flaws

(2020/12/21)

Come on in and enjoy our unprotected FTP server and unsigned configuration files

NHS awards £23m two-year deal to controversial Peter Thiel AI firm Palantir

(2020/12/21)

Legal challenges? Scrutiny? Ah, never mind those

$900bn coronavirus stimulus bill includes $600 for most Americans, $50 in monthly internet subsidies, $1.9bn to help rid the US of Huawei kit

(2020/12/21)

Not sure how the last bit relates to COVID-19 but there ya go

'Following the science' rhetoric led to delay to UK COVID-19 lockdown, face mask rules

(2020/12/21)

Also: Would have been great if they'd chatted to an epidemiologist about Eat Out to Help Out project

SolarWinds releases known attack timeline, new data suggests hackers may have done a dummy run last year

(2020/12/21)

And SS7 telco hack rears its ugly head yet again

And you thought that $999 Mac stand was dear: Steve Wozniak's Apple II doodles fetch $630,272 at auction

(2020/12/21)

Meanwhile, Apple-1 in original box signed by Woz goes for $736,862

'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum

(2020/12/21)

And Sparta Global then didn't bother turning up to the Employment Tribunal

NHS trust launches £60m software procurement to improve staffing efficiency

(2020/12/21)

Chester healthcare provider needs some tech to help wrangle its temps

Well, on the bright side, the SolarWinds Sunburst attack will spur the cybersecurity field to evolve all over again

(2020/12/21)

We have to be smarter than the baddies and expect the unexpected

Windows might have frozen – but at least my feet are toasty

(2020/12/21)

Not quite what we meant by Halt and Catch Fire

Where do ITSM and DevOps overlap? All the way along the value stream

(2020/12/21)

Don’t wait for an invite to this get together

Google reveals version control plus not expecting zero as a value caused Gmail to take an inconvenient early holiday

(2020/12/21)

Meanwhile, Facebook seems to have enough technical debt that it’s blown a Euro-privacy deadline
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