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)

Microsoft unleashes production-ready Edge Runtime. WebView2: This time it's Chromium

(2020/10/20)

Distributes it in self-updating Evergreen flavour and Fixed for people who hate surprises

Oh Mi: Xiaomi shows off 80W wireless charging, claims battery fully fat again in under 20 minutes

(2020/10/20)

Commercially available? Er.... not yet

GSM gateways: Parliament obviously cocked up, so let minister issue 'ignore the law' decree, UK.gov barrister urges court

(2020/10/20)

Something something national security, right?

Transport for London data pilot: We want to keep tabs on dockless bikes and e-bikes

(2020/10/20)

Peddling hard to swerve a pavement pile-up of leased 'mobile assets causing obstructions in the public realm'

Everybody's going to the Moon (and Mars): The Reg chats to ESA about 10-year plans and sending Tim back to space

(2020/10/20)

Agency's 'nauts to ride in US commercial crew capsules 'going forward'

Cisco warns VMware vCenter bug puts hyperconverged tin in ‘unrecoverable’ state

(2020/10/20)

Whatever you do, don’t run vCenter Server 7.0 U1 on HyperFlex. Just don’t go there unless you want horrible pain. Clear enough warning?

IBM still not offering future revenue guidance, suffers yet another quarter of falling sales

(2020/10/20)

Plus $2.3bn of restructuring coming due to NewCo split, cloud humming along, Red Hat roaring

Arm gets edgier with faster machine-learning accelerator to slot alongside Cortex, Neoverse CPU cores

(2020/10/20)

Ethos-U65 sounds like an industrial techno band from the 1990s but, well, it isn't

You’ve open sourced your relational database manager with PostgreSQL – but how can you keep it secure?

(2020/10/20)

We'll help you manage risk while chasing your RDBMS dreams

Toshiba to sell off-the-shelf quantum key distribution kit, eventually offer it as-a-service

(2020/10/20)

Wait until the ‘we need backdoors’ crowd hears about this

Intel offloads NAND business to South Korea's SK Hynix for a cool $9bn

(2020/10/20)

Deal sees $7bn paid now, $2bn in 2025 when Intel hands over key IP and FAB workers

Pakistan restores TikTok, says it needs to crack down on video nasties, and anything else outside 'societal norms'

(2020/10/20)

App promises to curb behaviour but this might be about control than morals

Let’s check in with that 30,000-job $10bn Trump-Foxconn Wisconsin plant. Wow, way worse than we'd imagined

(2020/10/20)

Surreal tales from the Midwest

NASA hires Nokia to build first 4G network on the Moon as part of plan to boldly go back to lunar surface by 2024

(2020/10/20)

And 5G hype goes out of this world

When you tell Chrome to wipe private data about you, it spares two websites from the purge: Google.com, YouTube

(2020/10/20)

Is this another case of one rule for the Chocolate Factory and one for everyone else?

Notpetya, Olympics hacking, Novichok probe meddling... America throws the book at six alleged Kremlin hackers

(2020/10/19)

While the UK says Russia probed 2020 Games systems, too

FreedomFi presses the public-beta-release button on its roll-your-own open-source 5G/LTE gateway gear

(2020/10/19)

A few downsides: no voice, for starters

OIF! Forget OpenStack Foundation, it's becoming Open Infrastructure Foundation - with new members, an expanded role

(2020/10/19)

After 10 years of OpenStack, 'a lot has changed and we are changing with it'

Does your Kubernetes installation need a boost for maximum DevOps efficiency?

(2020/10/19)

Find out to knock out those data silos in our upcoming show

Here's the new build, Insiders... wait for it... wait for it... Is it Windows 10X's upcoming ... Oh. You can change refresh rate of the display

(2020/10/19)

Also: Teams goes native on Arm and Calculator pops up in Canonical's snap store
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MAFIA, n:
[Acronym for Mechanized Applications in Forced Insurance
Accounting.] An extensive network with many on-line and offshore
subsystems running under OS, DOS, and IOS. MAFIA documentation is
rather scanty, and the MAFIA sales office exhibits that testy
reluctance to bona fide inquiries which is the hallmark of so many DP
operations. From the little that has seeped out, it would appear that
MAFIA operates under a non-standard protocol, OMERTA, a tight-lipped
variant of SNA, in which extended handshakes also perform complex
security functions. The known timesharing aspects of MAFIA point to a
more than usually autocratic operating system. Screen prompts carry an
imperative, nonrefusable weighting (most menus offer simple YES/YES
options, defaulting to YES) that precludes indifference or delay.
Uniquely, all editing under MAFIA is performed centrally, using a
powerful rubout feature capable of erasing files, filors, filees, and
entire nodal aggravations.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"