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)

Data worries keeping you awake at night? Tune in next month – we've got just the thing to calm your nerves

(2020/12/15)

The cloud can make life easier. Here’s how...

Taiwanese manufacturer Wistron pegs damage from iPhone factory riot at $7m

(2020/12/15)

Down from original estimate of $60m, and Apple is investigating if supplier guidelines were breached

The first point release for Linux 5.10 came out barely a day later because storage bugs broke RAID5* partitions

(2020/12/15)

We're not taking cues from Windows now, are we?

Up yours, Europe! Our 100% prime British broadband is cheaper than yours... but also slower and a bit of a rip-off

(2020/12/15)

Stop us if you've heard this one before

Not just Microsoft: Auth turns out to be a point of failure for Google's cloud, too

(2020/12/15)

Google has a better track record but the same issue: when authentication breaks, everything breaks

45 million medical scans from hospitals all over the world left exposed online for anyone to view – some servers were laced with malware

(2020/12/15)

23,000 Britons' data was among unsecured info, finds research

We got it! Japanese space agency confirms its probe has Ryugu asteroid samples

(2020/12/15)

Andromeda Strain anyone?

A flurry of data warehouse activity surrounds Snowflake's staggering $120bn valuation

(2020/12/15)

Firebolt says it can do it better while the cloud giants talk up services tweaks

Leaked draft EU law reveals tech giants could face huge 6% turnover fines if they don't play by Europe's rules

(2020/12/15)

As UK govt mulls eye-watering 10% penalties for goliaths that don't scrub away illegal content

Huawei announces European winners of AppsUp developer contest

(2020/12/15)

Judges looked for innovative concepts, clear positioning and a feasible business plan

SolarWinds: Hey, only as many as 18,000 customers installed backdoored software linked to US govt hacks

(2020/12/15)

Orion networking monitoring users need to take action as we summarize what the hell is going on

Right-to-repair warriors seek broader DMCA exemptions to bypass digital locks on the stuff we own

(2020/12/15)

Every three years, people try to patch a poorly crafted copyright law

China Telecom answers US internet routing hijack claims by joining internet routing security team: How do you like them apples?

(2020/12/14)

Mind your MANRS as politics meets network security

Tim Cook 'killed' TV project about the one website Apple hates more than The Register

(2020/12/14)

Only joking – we're surely still below Gawker in his estimations

Ransomware masterminds claim to have nabbed 53GB of data from Intel's Habana Labs

(2020/12/14)

Miscreants threaten to make files, source code public within 72 hours

Googlers will be working from home until September 2021, says Sundar Pichai, followed by 'flexible' work weeks

(2020/12/14)

Chocolate Factory hopes it will 'lead to greater productivity, collaboration and well-being' for staffers

Backdoored SolarWinds software, linked to US govt hacks, in wide use throughout the British public sector

(2020/12/14)

And what's the impact of months-long compromise? UK.gov won't say – as CISA orders shutdown of machines

Redis Labs challenges new cloud territory in latest independent research

(2020/12/14)

Key strengths include multi-platform and active:active operation

Not one, not two, but a trio of hinges to potentially break in OPPO's bendy concept phone

(2020/12/14)

Tired: Pholdables. Wired: Pholdables you can fold eleventeen times

What's the price of failure? For Capita, it's a £140m extension to its MoD recruiting contract

(2020/12/14)

Yes, the one that cost the British Army 25,000 new soldiers when IT went live

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the
future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation
of coding bums.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5