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)

When it comes to privacy, everyone says America needs a new federal law ASAP. As for mass spying, well, um… huh what’s that over there?

(2020/12/10)

Congressional hearing on Privacy Shield oddly productive affair

Amazon continues its tsunami of announcements, now with AI in mind. We spoke to an AWS lead to decode it all

(2020/12/09)

Inference can be expensive but the cloud giant's working on that, we're told

Facebook crushed rivals to maintain an illegal monopoly, the entire United States yells in Zuckerberg’s face

(2020/12/09)

Multi-AG, FTC antitrust lawsuits focus on 'the wrath of Mark', potential break-up of social media giant

EU Medicines Agency hacked, BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine paperwork stolen, probe launched

(2020/12/09)

Regulatory submissions for COVID-19 jab candidate 'unlawfully accessed'

GitHub Codespaces preview version still has some glaring omissions, CEO insists it will be ready when it's ready

(2020/12/09)

Rival GitPod sees perfect opportunity to say: Pssst, we've got that stuff

So you have decided to move your Oracle database to the cloud. What next?

(2020/12/09)

Choose your data replication tech wisely

Apple appears to be charging Brits £309 to replace AirPods Max batteries, while Americans need only stump up $79

(2020/12/09)

Typo? We've asked, but... well, y'know

Delay upgrading the UK's legacy border systems has added £336m to taxpayers' bill

(2020/12/09)

Spending watchdog report retells sad history of Home Office IT failings

HPE sees itself 'delivering supercomputing-as-a-service to the masses' as it chucks HPC chops into GreenLake

(2020/12/09)

Hardware infrastructure vendors' obsession with consumption-based tech continues

Useful quantum computers will be impossible without error correction. Good thing these folks are working on it

(2020/12/09)

What if the cat in the box could come back to life?

OnePlus founder scores $7m from iPod inventor and other investors for audio startup

(2020/12/09)

'Nothing' yet to speak of in terms of products, though

Software contractor accused of favoring foreigners on work visas over Americans agrees to cough up $42,000

(2020/12/09)

IT biz sued by US Dept of Justice on behalf of dev pays out fine, damages

Reading El Reg while working from home? Here's a pleasant thought: Kaspersky says 1 in 10 of you are naked right now

(2020/12/09)

Those daily Zoom calls just got worse

Expect to work between Christmas and New Year as Brexit uncertainty continues, UK SAP users told

(2020/12/09)

T minus 23 days and there will very likely be last minute export/import changes

Bitter war of words erupts between UK cops and web security expert over alleged flaws in Cyberalarm monitoring tool

(2020/12/09)

Pervade Software's product isn't perfect but neither is the police response to security concerns

CentOS project changes focus, no more rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – you'll have to flow with the Stream

(2020/12/09)

Founder talks of plans for independent distro 'rebuild'

Australia mostly sticks to its guns in final plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers

(2020/12/09)

YouTube and Instagram exempted, Bill kicked into committee for a while

Apple fires warning shot at Facebook and Google on privacy, pledges fight against 'data-industrial complex'

(2020/12/09)

Offer does not apply in China

Japan pours millions into AI-powered dating to get its people making babies again

(2020/12/09)

Attempts tech fix to solve aging crisis

Cisco challenges the tyranny of Outlook with short, self-terminating Webex meetings

(2020/12/09)

Upgraded collab environment offers worthy post-COVID tweaks, also relies on oldies like Presence

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