So many Unis run eSports teams that Lenovo’s built a business unit for ‘em
(2020/10/16)
To flog workstations and 'maintain and optimize the experience for esports student athletes'
Alibaba-aligned e-commerce outfit Taobao quits Taiwan
(2020/10/16)
Was given deadline to declare its Chinese ties or leave, chose the latter
AI cleans up sat radar images so scientists can better spot warning signs before volcanoes go all Mount Doom
(2020/10/16)
Goodbye, Dave
After Trump, Congress, Supreme Court Justice hit out at tech giants' legal immunity, now FCC boss wants to stick his oar in, too
(2020/10/16)
Pai says he wants to 'clarify' Section 230's 26 words even though he probably can't do anything about it
If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish
(2020/10/16)
And the world breathed a sigh of relief?
Your web browser running remotely in Cloudflare's cloud. That's it. That's the story
(2020/10/15)
Social distancing isn't just for surviving the pandemic – now this internet giant can add it to your browser
Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so
(2020/10/15)
After only one public Git commit this year, penguinstas think: Fork it, we don't need Cupertino
One alleged Dridex money-launderer set for US extradition, beams UK's National Crime Agency
(2020/10/15)
They nicked six alleged perps last year but only one was charged
COVID-19 security tips: Ensure you sack your staff without leaving their IT access enabled, says Secureworks
(2020/10/15)
Infosec biz issues mildly off-the-wall guidance for incident responders
Vivaldi heads back to '80s with a pixel-pushing release of its Chromium-based browser
(2020/10/15)
Fiddling with configuration and getting nostalgic in version 3.4
Nvidia signs up for an Italian Job: Building for Europe the 'world's fastest AI supercomputer' by 2022
(2020/10/15)
You were only supposed to blow the bloody bytes off!
Dutch telco KPN goes its own Huawei, picks Ericsson for its 5G core network
(2020/10/15)
'Yet another nail in the coffin' says analyst as former fan NL's biggest operator looks to Sweden
Security much? Twitter should have had a CISO to prevent Bitcoin hack, says US state financial body
(2020/10/15)
Plus: Platform 'censors' US newspaper and triggers ordure tsunami
NHS looks to the market for advice on one system to replace two separate, giant Oracle ERP and HR systems
(2020/10/15)
A hornet's nest within a can of worms running systems worth billions of pounds..
Microsoft will adopt Google Chrome's controversial Manifest V3 in Edge
(2020/10/15)
Thought Microsoft would resist Google's ad-friendly tweaks to the browser extension API? Think again
Even 2020 cannot bring forth the Year of Linux on the Desktop
(2020/10/15)
Windows Subsystem for Linux or Linux Subsystem for Windows? Who cares, 'open source has won', says Microsoft MVP and Canonical engineer lead
LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die
(2020/10/15)
And point everyone at LibreOffice, ta
We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to
(2020/10/15)
Master builder or vastly inferior?
Microsoft would love to hear about 'critical bugs' in .NET 5.0 ahead of the 'unified' platform's November launch
(2020/10/15)
Dare ye use RC2 in production?
Remember when Zoom was rumbled for lousy crypto? Six months later it says end-to-end is ready
(2020/10/15)
But it’s a tech preview and requires opt-in for every meeting
Anti-Victim Device:
A small fashion accessory worn on an otherwise
conservative outfit which announces to the world that one still has a
spark of individuality burning inside: 1940s retro ties and earrings
(on men), feminist buttons, noserings (women), and the now almost
completely extinct teeny weeny "rattail" haircut (both sexes).
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"