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)

How the human immune system inspired a new approach to email security

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AI excels at interpreting high volume, high velocity, complex data – which is just the ticket here

'We've heard the feedback...' Microsoft 365 axes per-user productivity monitoring after privacy backlash

(2020/12/01)

Redmond rips out usernames, says it will focus on customer orgs, not staffers

China's Chang'e-5 lands on the Moon to scratch surface

(2020/12/01)

Mission aims to bring home 2kg of stones and soil from up to 2m down

Take Note: Samsung said to be thinking about killing off Galaxy phablet series

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Flagships are falling out of favour while demand for cheap devices swells

Arecibo Observatory brings forward 'controlled demolition' plans by collapsing all by itself

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Star of science and celluloid is no more

Zoom records another bumper quarter as pandemic rumbles on, but Wall Street types quiz execs on how long it can last

(2020/12/01)

Though COVID-19 vaccine coming, video chat is here to stay, claims chief bean counter

OpenZFS v2.0.0 targets Linux and FreeBSD – shame about the Oracle licensing worries

(2020/12/01)

Various enhancements but merging still a big no-no

As if Productivity Score wasn't creepy enough, Microsoft has patented tech for 'meeting quality monitoring devices'

(2020/12/01)

Speech patterns consistent with boredom?! Minus 10 points!

Scotch eggs ascend to the 'substantial meal' pantheon as means to pop to pub for a pint during pernicious pandemic

(2020/12/01)

Meanwhile, landlord reckons he's found a loophole in coronavirus restrictions by naming beer 'Substantial Meal'

Are You Experienced? Microsoft packs up features developed independent of OS to flash at Windows Insiders

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Windows Feature Experience Pack attempts to make beast more modular

Supreme Court mulls whether a cop looking up a license plate for cash is equivalent to watching Instagram at work

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America's outdated Computer Fraud and Abuse Act gets a roasting

Cayman Islands investment fund left entire filestore viewable by world+dog in unsecured Azure blob

(2020/12/01)

Blank share certificates, passport scans, you name it

Yes, we’re all going to be at home for the foreseeable future. Does that leave you feeling insecure?

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Or is it time to get SASE?

IBM warns Global Tech Services staff that 346 UK heads will roll in latest redundancy action

(2020/12/01)

Volunteers sought to join the COVID-ravaged jobs market

GitHub's journey towards microservices and more: 'We actually have our own version of Ruby that we maintain'

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The Reg talks to Software Engineering veep Sha Ma

Arm at 30: From Cambridge to the world, one plucky British startup changed everything

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Though these days it's the darling of the tech shopping cart

Six months after Oracle trumpeted Zoom as a cloud customer, AWS says it is Zoom’s ‘preferred’ cloud

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Big Red said it was picked for its 'superior' cloud, but marketing minutiae and conference-eve thunder stealing have intruded

New study: DNS spoofing doubles in six years ... albeit from the point of naff all

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Boffins see more interference with domain-name look-up system, wonder why DNSSEC is taking so long

India seeks chipset manufacturers to make its local GPS alternative fly further into the market

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The satellites are up there, Qualcomm has silicon on the ground, government wants more

Bare-metal Macs-as-a-service come to AWS. Intel for now, M1 silicon in 2021

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Mac Minis in the cloud, still with the SmartNIC-powered Nitro isolation subsystem

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.