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 will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

(2020/09/22)

This means Linus Torvalds has definitely won, doesn't it?

To bring data down from the heavens, come to GSaaS, says Microsoft as it launches Azure Orbital

(2020/09/22)

Birds that aren't geostationary can tap Redmond's Ground-Station-as-a-Service for all their downloading needs

Oracle adds Arm-powered servers with up to 160 cores to its cloud – must be why it sunk millions into Ampere

(2020/09/22)

Plans HPC play with AMD, Intel silicon, too

Second lockdown? Perfect time to unveil Teams Breakout rooms and another ginormitor – the 85-inch Surface Hub 2S

(2020/09/22)

Virtual commutes and touchless meetings

Royole's no chicken: Chinese firm goes in for another round with sequel to panned foldable

(2020/09/22)

Flexpai may have been a world-first, but it wasn't very good. The follow-up phone straps on 5G

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

(2020/09/22)

Sam Newman speaks to devs at GOTOpia Europe

By the beard of Zeus! Arm takes another tilt at serious servers with SVE-capable 96-core Neoverse V1

(2020/09/22)

Also makes itself denser, in a good way, with 128-core N2 upgrade

Adidas now stands for All Day I'm Disconnecting All Servers as owners of 'smart' Libra scales furious over bricked kit

(2020/09/22)

You can only use it to weigh yourself now... how disgustingly low-tech

Apple Watch Series 6 isn't a step back for repairability but in its own way that's a leap forward

(2020/09/22)

Fitness fans get more battery capacity in thinner case, and replacing it is doable for the brave

UK Ministry of Justice dangles £20m, seeks paper-free payroll services – this time for the judiciary

(2020/09/22)

Yes, why not haul the system into the 21st century?

SpaceX scuppered by weather once more as skygazers win a Starlink reprieve

(2020/09/22)

Also: Rocket Lab rehearses for a US debut while Firefly fires up an Alpha

Happy Hacking Professional Hybrid mechanical keyboard: Weird, powerful, comfortable ... and did we mention weird?

(2020/09/22)

Once you're over the learning curve, it's a cross-platform all-rounder

UK Parliament's human rights committee pushes for better protections of coronavirus contact-tracing data in law

(2020/09/22)

Decentralised app rolling out soon, but manual process remains problematic

Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village

(2020/09/22)

Single high-level impulse noise kicked in with morning cuppa. Owner vows never to use the set again

This year’s biggest security flaws – coming soon to a screen near you

(2020/09/22)

Join us on September 29 – and get ready for 2020’s OWASP Top 10

GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again

(2020/09/22)

What strange magic is this? 41st release and sequel to version 3.38 will be called version 40

UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition

(2020/09/22)

Ambitions to see the rise of a Brit equivalent to Apple is cool and all but that strategy must include safeguarding chip designer, says union

Cisco bets on real-world events with overseas audiences resuming in late 2021

(2020/09/22)

Branded tat and disrupto-talks could return - albeit nine months later than usual in Oz plague capital

'I don’t want to see another computer for the rest of my life'... Brit Dark Overlord cyber-extortionist thrown in an American clink for five years

(2020/09/22)

Scumbag sobs in court as judge orders him to cough up $1.5m

Contractor convicted of pinching supercomputer cycles to mine cryptocurrency

(2020/09/22)

Court sends him into lockdown that’s not a whole lot nastier than some used to control a certain virus

It's not easy, being green.
-- Kermit the Frog