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)

Morgan Stanley hit with $60m penalty for failing to properly decommission old kit hosting 'wealth management' data

(2020/10/13)

Banking giant rapped over management of two US bit barns

Oh! What a lovely lockdown: Lenovo enjoys soaraway sales for Q3 2020 as PC shipments jump – Dell, not so much

(2020/10/13)

HP is top dog stateside

Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual'

(2020/10/13)

Plus: Waymo risks driverless car trial, ML papers now include code, and AI will write your dev CV for you

Hackers hack Hackney: Local government cries 'cyberattack' while UK infosec officials rush to figure out what happened

(2020/10/13)

Check bank accounts, don't open council emails, you know how this goes

Samsung Galaxy S20 FE goes from 'nearly dead' to full in an hour, but you might not be a 'Fan' of some of the shortcuts

(2020/10/13)

Less-hardy touchscreen, less-impressive snapper

German-speaking SAP user survey sees S4/HANA upgrade projects either sink or swim as coronavirus cuts into revenue

(2020/10/13)

'Train has left the station' for more than half, while 43% delayed indefinitely

We won't leave you hanging any longer: Tool strips freeze-inducing bugs from Java bytecode while in production

(2020/10/13)

Nothing like servicing an engine mid-flight, huh?

UK taxman waves through £168.8m Fujitsu contract because no one else can hold up 30-year-old infrastructure

(2020/10/13)

What's another three years amid project delays and Brexit uncertainty?

Visual Studio Code 1.50 goes hard on extensions support, but tackling add-on bloat is becoming more onerous

(2020/10/13)

Also new: WebView sidebars, rich JavaScript debugging, accessible settings

BBC Micro:bit with boosted specs and onboard mic to go on sale from next month

(2020/10/13)

16KB RAM becomes 128KB as the Beeb gets down with the kids again

Imagination touts next series of GPU cores aimed at cloud server acceleration ...and cars, mobile, IoT

(2020/10/13)

If no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The B-Team

UK govt advert encouraging re-skilling for cyber jobs implodes spectacularly

(2020/10/13)

Minister disowns 'crass' spot that shows American woman as Brit ballerina and seemingly belittles beleaguered arts sector

Does the cloud provide all the infrastructure you want yet never enough time to secure it? Let's help fix that

(2020/10/13)

AWS shows you how to fit a week of cloud security learning into just four hours

IBM Cloud catches up to AWS and Azure – at least for refunds after major availability FAILs

(2020/10/13)

Adds 100 percent cashback tier if availability dips below 95 percent, removes reference to POWER8 servers

Contract to run .eu domain-name registry is up for grabs as Brussels tries to avoid a .co-style debacle

(2020/10/13)

Five-year deal to oversee 3.6 million web addresses ... but does anyone actually want it?

Indonesia’s black-market phone prevention plan bricks a whole bunch of handsets

(2020/10/13)

Database recording legit handsets appears to have exceeded capacity

Supermassive black hole turns unlucky star into spaghetti

(2020/10/13)

Pasta la vista, baby

Google won’t let Australia have shiny new toys unless it picks apart pay-for-news plan

(2020/10/13)

Pauses News Showcase rollout while it awaits government capitulation

India to build home-grown supercomputers, from the motherboards up

(2020/10/13)

Minister says more supers will advance society. So why wait to develop silicon, networks, storage and more?

Yahoo! Groups! to! shut! down! completely! on! December! 15!... Tens! mourn!

(2020/10/13)

After nearly 20 years, it's time to say goodbye to venerable messageboard

Drunks are rarely amusing unless they know some good songs and lose a
lot a poker.
-- Karyl Roosevelt