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)

New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use?

(2020/11/14)

Ad giant sued after mobile allowances eaten by hidden transfers

UK-led telescope to gaze at exoplanets, plus Jupiter 's 'glow-in-the-dark' moon

(2020/11/14)

Also: Space photos from an analogue age up for sale, more Cygnus

Apple braces for antitrust woes by letting users select and install third-party apps during setup of iOS 14.3

(2020/11/13)

Controlling? Us? Never!

Suits you serverless! Google offers SQL database porting service tailor-made for its cloud

(2020/11/13)

Just don't call it a migration

Ex-missile systems worker jailed for breaching Official Secrets Act after last-second guilty plea

(2020/11/13)

Also copped to RIPA breach after ignoring police demand to hand over passwords

Databricks: Ugh, just look at that messy data lake environment. Squints. You know... we could sort that out with a sweet shot of SQL

(2020/11/13)

Data-wrangler previews another lakehouse concept tool

Shock news: NASA lunar ambitions might be a bit too... ambitious

(2020/11/13)

'We believe the Agency will be hard-pressed to land astronauts on the Moon by the end of 2024'

EncroChat hack evidence wasn't obtained illegally, High Court of England and Wales rules – trial judges will decide whether to admit it

(2020/11/13)

Blow to UK suspects in wake of Franco-Dutch investigation

IBM warns staff across the business of fresh 45-day redundancy consultations

(2020/11/13)

Happy Xmas: So that's GTS, GBS, Systems, Channel and Cloud & Cognitive Software. Insiders say UK and wider Europe impacted

Ticketmaster cops £1.25m ICO fine for 2018 Magecart breach, blames someone else and vows to appeal

(2020/11/13)

Own your screwups, growls irate watchdog

CGI grabs £90m multi-year deal with UK Ministry of Justice without competition, because organising a procurement with just 5 years' notice is just sooo hard

(2020/11/13)

Not easy to Cobol together support for 50 critical 'heritage' apps used by courts, apparently

No such thing as a Three lunch: Hutchinson CK to sell tower biz to Cellnex

(2020/11/13)

5G ain't free, you know

Lockdown bidder block shock: Overzealous parental filters on Virgin Media and TalkTalk break eBay for UK users

(2020/11/13)

No-no-no-no-no! I'm going to lose my bid on the £7 horse mask, um, I mean important lockdown things I need

[Checks meeting agenda...] Where does it say 'Talk cr*p and waste everyone's time'?

(2020/11/13)

Don't turn on the camera, don't turn on... Oh hi!

Nokstalgia: HMD Global introduces yet another homage to the past – a 4G rework of the Nokia 6300

(2020/11/13)

Remake of noughties classic

BOFH: You might want to sit down for this. Oh, right, you can't. Listen carefully: THIS IS NOT AN IT PROBLEM!

(2020/11/13)

Oh is that right? The crappy Chromebook is fine now?

Bio-boffins devise potentially fast COVID-19 virus test kit out of a silicon wafer and machine-learning code

(2020/11/13)

These algorithms identify different types of viruses, we're told

Solving a big, yellow IT problem: If it's not wearing hi-vis, I don't trust it

(2020/11/13)

Throw in a clipboard and you look like you're the business

Oh! What a lovely pandemic, says Cisco as it sees wave of network refreshes on the horizon

(2020/11/13)

But most recent quarter was a bit grim with revenue down nine percent and switching, routing, servers and wireless sales all slumping

2020's biggest innovators? Hackers and cyber-criminals, again, says Darktrace

(2020/11/13)

Learn to think like an attacker so you can start fighting back

Let sleeping dogs lie.
-- Charles Dickens