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)

'Massive game-changer for UK altnet industry': BT-owned UK comms backbone Openreach hikes prices on FTTP-linked leased line circuits

(2020/12/03)

Alternative networks have Ofcom on speed-dial

ACLU sues US govt, demands to know if agents are buying their way around warrants to track suspects' smartphones

(2020/12/03)

'Cos that would be against the Fourth Amendment, legal team says

Alphabet's internet Loon balloon kept on station in the sky using AI that beat human-developed control code

(2020/12/03)

Maybe this might work after all

Docker support deprecated in Kubernetes will break your clusters, says CNCF ambassador. It's only the runtime, says Docker

(2020/12/03)

Admins have until late 2021 to move away, but Windows containers need caution

Where's the mysterious metal monolith today then? Oh look, it's atop a California mountain

(2020/12/03)

Is this some kind of sick game of alien whack-a-mole?

LibreOffice 7.1 beta boasts impressive range of features let down by a lack of polish and poor mobile efforts

(2020/12/03)

Somebody get this project more investment

Bixby users. Yes, both of you! Samsung's unloved voice assistant now works with its unloved DeX desktop mode

(2020/12/03)

Has anyone really ever seen someone else use either of these in the wild?

How a nightmare wormable, wireless, automatic hijack-a-nearby-iPhone security flaw was found and fixed

(2020/12/03)

You're probably all patched by now, which is just as well

.org owner Internet Society puts its money where its mouth is with additional IETF funding

(2020/12/03)

Has the TLD debacle forced ISOC back to its roots? Maybe

AWS has just shown its new hybrid cloud ambitions make it an even broader threat

(2020/12/03)

While also making it harder to label dedicated and skilled sysadmins as recalcitrant box-huggers

How do you fund and execute the technology operating model of the future?

(2020/12/03)

Here’s how to prepare your business for the next big disruption

Robot drills hole on Moon, employs robot arm to clean up mess to bring home

(2020/12/03)

We’re talking about China’s Chang’e 5 lunar sample return mission, which has accomplished one of its main jobs

New twist in H-1B saga as US Senate moves to abolish per-country visa caps

(2020/12/03)

Means India no longer has the same number of visas to bid for as tiny countries

China unleashes fearsome new cyber-weapon: A very provocative meme

(2020/12/03)

This one has Australia, America, even the wine-drinking world angry

COVID-19 coronavirus captive coders create copious code, claims GitHub: Open-source projects mushroom amid pandemic

(2020/12/03)

Microsoft's cloud repo rental biz finds a silver lining in 2020

Trumpian politics continue as senators advance controversial Republican FCC commissioner nominee

(2020/12/03)

Telecoms regulator now firmly a part of the burnt partisan landscape

Hacker given three years for stealing secret Nintendo Switch blueprints, collecting child sex abuse vids

(2020/12/02)

Ryan Hernandez continued to raid gaming giant's systems even after FBI gave him a warning

Laggardly HPE kisses Joe Biden's ring, whispers Uncle Sam's IT in dire need of modernisation

(2020/12/02)

And HPE is the one to do it, yeah?

Is your SQL Server installation old enough to go to high school? We need to talk

(2020/12/02)

Join us and Pure Storage online to find out how to pay back borrowed time

Christmas comes early for chameleons: SUSE feels jolly after closing Rancher deal

(2020/12/02)

Kubernetes, Kubernetes, how shalt I manage thou, Kubernetes?

The distinction between Freedom and Liberty is not accurately known;
naturalists have been unable to find a living specimen of either.
-- Ambrose Bierce