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)

XCP-ng starts thinking long-term, for support, UEFI, storage and more

(2020/10/02)

Properly FOSS version of XenServer promises at least five years of support for next release, maybe more

US govt wins right to snaffle Edward Snowden's $5m+ book royalties, speech fees – and all future related earnings

(2020/10/02)

Big blow to big whistleblower

How's this for overachieving? Man accused of running software outfit as a Ponzi scheme while on parole from previous fraud

(2020/10/02)

He masterminded $7m scam from halfway house, Feds claim

Tokyo Stock Exchange breaks new record. Sadly, not a good one... its longest ever outage

(2020/10/02)

Fujtisu kit on the floor tho bourse takes the blame for day-long dead zone

Federal judge temporarily neutralizes President Trump's blockade against visas for foreign techies, other workers

(2020/10/02)

Earlier ban on H-1B, H-2B, J and L passes ruled an overstep of presidential power, middle-finger to Congress

How's this for open government? Amsterdam, Helsinki put their AI system designs on public display

(2020/10/02)

'We are on a mission to create as much understanding about algorithms as possible'

Cloud biz Blackbaud admits ransomware crims may have captured folks' bank info, months after saying that everything's fine

(2020/10/01)

The same lot who bought off crooks in May but kept quiet till July

Open-source devs drown in DigitalOcean's latest tsunami of pull-request spam that is Hacktoberfest

(2020/10/01)

Rewarding pointless patches with free swag leads to 'DDoS' against projects

Microsoft touts its Surface Laptop Go as 'cheap' option – but that price quickly goes up for useful RAM and storage

(2020/10/01)

You may need to look elsewhere if you want more bang for your buck

Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing

(2020/10/01)

Users fear hack – really the 'processing infrastructure was running behind'

Salesforce, Deloitte try to flog contact-tracing wares to a UK public sector that's already got a £12bn test-and-trace system

(2020/10/01)

... which Deloitte helped build

How do I apply AI to all my data and make my business different?

(2020/10/01)

First of all, get the right infrastructure in place

Robot wars! Scandi automation biz AutoStore slings patent sueball, claims it owns Ocado warehouse tech

(2020/10/01)

Online grocer shrugs: We'll see when we actually receive the papers

Think tank warns any further delay to 5G rollout will cost the UK multiple billions – but hey, at least Huawei is out

(2020/10/01)

This is what you wanted, right?

Cross-platform app toolkit Flutter lead Tim Sneath aims Dart at an ambient computing future

(2020/10/01)

'We've made a deliberate attempt to build something that can share source code across all these environments'

Microsoft takes another shot at the Windows-on-Arm thing with a revamped Surface Pro X powered by new SQ2 silicon

(2020/10/01)

Upgrade will soon come up against Apple's take on the post-Intel world

Since the EU won't share all its toys, UK Space Agency fires up fund to support more international collaboration

(2020/10/01)

£5m pot opened to biz and academics who fancy projects with foreign flavour

Huawei's UK code reviewers say Chinese mega-corp is still totally crap at basic software security. Bad crypto, buffer overflows, logic errors...

(2020/10/01)

Last year telcos scrambled to plug 'critical user-facing vulns' in network kit

On Her Majesty's Servers: UK's Coronavirus Future Fund sinks 'seven-figure sum' into Arm data-centre kit

(2020/10/01)

Brit firm Bamboo scores cash that can convert to equity. Yup, the government could become a server vendor!

O2 cuts ribbon on UK's first commercial driverless car lab where it'll blend satellite and 5G signal to stay on the road

(2020/10/01)

Better improve its coverage then

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
-- Lucy Van Pelt