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)

Ad banned for suggesting London black cabs have properties that prevent the spread of coronavirus

(2020/11/25)

'It's like being in my own bubble back here'

Retired engineer confesses to role in sliding Microsoft Bob onto millions of XP install CDs

(2020/11/25)

'While Bob never got to play on the big stage, he always followed the band around and got to ride on the bus'

Ticketmaster: We're not liable for credit card badness because the hack straddled GDPR day

(2020/11/25)

Lawyers for fined firm make eyebrow-raising claim to irate ex-customer

Mall of duty: Black Ops. No, you're not a customer, you're just an ad audience metric

(2020/11/25)

Quis custodiet ipsos bork-es?

Considering the colonisation of Mars? Werner Herzog would like a word

(2020/11/25)

Famed director dispenses a reality check for wannabe Martians

MongoDB loses its mind with marketing budget movie mania: Yep, it's choose-your-own-adventure Hackers with drop-down menus

(2020/11/25)

This must have cost a packet...

How Intel Optane PMem speeds up analytics – without breaking the bank

(2020/11/25)

Expensive DRAM doesn’t scale for memory-hungry applications

NASA building network cables that can survive supersonic flight - could this finally deliver unbreakable RJ45 latching tabs?

(2020/11/25)

Needed for probe testing how X-59 can break sound barrier without breaking eardrums

VMware says faster growth will come once customers get back inside data centres

(2020/11/25)

SaaS revenue tops licences for the first time in solid Q3

Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah

(2020/11/25)

Authorities warn aliens to get a permit before they do this sort of thing

Google binned two apps by China’s Baidu, which says researchers got it wrong by linking it to personal info leaks

(2020/11/25)

Palo Alto Networks spotted subscriber IDs and MAC addresses on the move

India takes aim at Alibaba with new round of Chinese app bans

(2020/11/25)

43 apps axed, including those helping buyers and sellers of digital tat bazaar

Comcast to impose 1.2TB-a-month broadband download limits across more of America from next year

(2020/11/24)

Plus or minus some caveats

Amazon's ad-hoc Ring, Echo mesh network can mooch off your neighbors' Wi-Fi if needed – and it's opt-out

(2020/11/24)

Ring, Echo owners get emails explaining how to switch off incoming functionality

VMware urges sysadmins to apply workarounds after critical Workspace command execution vuln found

(2020/11/24)

If you've been pwned in the past, pay special attention to this one

How automation improves SAP customers’ IT operations

(2020/11/24)

‘This transformation was necessary: we need more speed and less work’

Cut-price Microsoft 365 seats mark Small Business Saturday – but only US firms need apply

(2020/11/24)

Any opportunity to nudge customers cloudwards, but no word on whether generosity will extend to Europeans

Currys PC World website crumples into unscheduled maintenance as shoppers chase latest gaming machines

(2020/11/24)

Hopefully no dogfood was eaten ahead of this incident

Vodafone launches platform that promises to play nicely with dusty legacy IoT kit

(2020/11/24)

What untold treasures could these primitive technologies hold?

Yep, the usual suspects are sitting down to feast: Dominant vendors get a fat slice of CIA cloud pie and so do IBM and Oracle

(2020/11/24)

Yes, even Amazon got a piece of 'multi-billion' dollar meal

Mind your own business, Spock. I'm sick of your halfbreed interference.