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)

Behold the Bloo Screen of Death: Bathroom borkage stops spray play

(2020/09/18)

Flushed out

Elecrow CrowPi2: Neat way to get your boffins-to-be hooked on Linux from an early age and tinkering in no time

(2020/09/18)

The kiddiwonks won't even know they're learning

Iran's RampantKitten spy crew were snooping on expats and dissidents for six years

(2020/09/18)

So says Check Point, piecing together Telegram-busting malware clues

Amazon gets its tax excuses in early amid rising UK profits – but leaves El Reg off the press list. Can't think why

(2020/09/18)

A charm offensive, or just plain offensive?

How is your machine learning project coming along? Get some inspiration from our MCubed Online conference

(2020/09/18)

Explainability, model testing, experience reports – we've got everything you need next month

As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!

(2020/09/18)

They're called glasses, look it up

iOS 14 suffers app preference amnesia: Rebooting an iThing resets browser, email client defaults back to Safari, Mail

(2020/09/18)

You didn't want to run that hot Cupertino code? Too bad, loser

Apple 'proud to support Indian customers and their communities' – but maybe not so much for COVID-slammed retailers

(2020/09/18)

Online Apple store comes to India even as millions remain in containment zones

He was a skater boy. We said, 'see you later, boy' – and the VAX machine mysteriously began to work as intended

(2020/09/18)

Go pivot on this

Alibaba wants to get you off the PC upgrade treadmill and into its cloud

(2020/09/18)

Pitches tiny 'cloud computer' that streams apps and OSes over WiFi and hooks up to USB-C displays

Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe

(2020/09/18)

Extortionware is bad but it never killed anyo... never mind

Thunderbird implements PGP crypto feature requested 21 years ago

(2020/09/18)

As Mozilla kills off secure file transfer tool because – shock! – it was being abused

Pakistan to smartphone-makers: Come for the low tax, stay to create your replacements

(2020/09/18)

Floats industry plan that requires ramp-up of locally made components and complete tech transfer

USA still hasn’t figured out details of WeChat ban but promises users won't be punished

(2020/09/18)

Three days remain before definition of prohibited transactions drops

Feeling bad about your last security audit? Check out what just happened to the US Department of Interior

(2020/09/17)

It starts with a backpack of $200 of electronics and poor Wi-Fi security

Internet Archive's way cool Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over pact

(2020/09/17)

And Cloudflare customers get way better availability

Strap in for the wild ride that is invest.com: A failed legal battle, millions of dollars on the line... and that Yo! app

(2020/09/17)

Plus: Strange $12m sale rumors surround top domain name

Google bans stalkerware apps from Android store. Which is cool but... why were they allowed in the first place?

(2020/09/17)

Disclosed tracking, helicopter parenting programs are still kosher

Video encoders using Huawei chips have backdoors and bad bugs – and Chinese giant says it's not to blame

(2020/09/17)

Telecom kit maker points finger in the general direction of Middle Kingdom's complicated supply chain

New strategy, Cloudera? Hadoop flinger launches NoSQL database, visualisation tools in head-scratching flurry

(2020/09/17)

Another facet of its data platform vision thing

If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
It is slick to stick a lock upon your stock.
Or some joker who is slicker,
Will trick you of your liquor,
If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.