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)

SMEs to UK.gov: We need vouchers for tech and training ahead of final Brexit curtain falling

(2020/09/07)

'Still no clear sense of what we'll be transitioning to' warns Fed of Small Biz

AI in the enterprise: Prepare to be disappointed – oversold but under appreciated, it can help... just not too much

(2020/09/07)

Today we launch our Register Debates in which we spar over hot topics and YOU decide which side is right – by reader vote

The Honor MagicBook Pro looks nice, runs like a dream, and isn't too expensive either. What more could you want?

(2020/09/07)

An English keyboard maybe

Ghost of Windows past spotted haunting Yorkshire railway station

(2020/09/07)

WoOoO! Log me iiiin... Press CTRL-ALT-DELEeEeTE

No Huawei, America: Samsung scores $6.6bn for 5G at US giant Verizon

(2020/09/07)

Remember how established carrier vendors were going to clean up after Huawei bans? Not so much, maybe ...

Competitive techies almost bring distributed disaster upon themselves – and they didn't even find any aliens

(2020/09/07)

Idle hands are SETI's workshop

China launches and lands its first re-usable spacecraft

(2020/09/07)

And it might just have been a spaceplane to rival the USA’s X-37

Darknet market's peacemaker sentenced to 11 years in prison

(2020/09/07)

Sealed with an XSS: Flaw in Go lang library could cause app issues

Nintendo revives Game & Watch portable proto-console, adds color to 2.36-inch screen

(2020/09/07)

Retro-Mario brought to life for a few short months

Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel

(2020/09/07)

SUSE chap wants Linux and classic AmigaOS to coexist peacefully

US ponders tech export ban on SMIC, China's biggest chipmaker

(2020/09/07)

Company reacts with 'complete shock and perplexity' and says it's a law-abiding citizen

Your company got through the pandemic by leaping into the cloud – but did you leave data security behind?

(2020/09/06)

We'll help you retrain data protection teams for IaaS and SaaS life

Remember OpenAI's GPT model that was too dangerous for mere mortals? Well, it's now for sale on Azure

(2020/09/06)

Plus: Man incorrectly identified as a suspect by a facial recognition software is suing, and more

Digital pregnancy testing sticks turn out to have very analogue internals when it comes to getting results

(2020/09/05)

Hardware tinkerer makes odd finds, including an unusual on/off switch

Astronomers get more than they bargained for, as Mars probe InSight's instruments detects solar eclipses

(2020/09/05)

Tiny tilt from the probe's seisometer could map Phobos' orbit and help boffins predict when it'll crash into Mars

Microsoft: We're getting rid of Flash by the end of the year - except you can still use it

(2020/09/04)

Disabled by default at the end of 2020, but it will linger on like a bad smell

What price security? Well, for the US ban on Huawei/ZTE kit it's around $1.8bn, and you're going to pay most of it

(2020/09/04)

Ripping and replacing Chinese-made gear won't be cheap

Apple commits to support human rights - 'We believe in the critical importance of an open society'*

(2020/09/04)

*Offer void where banned by local law

Hidden Linux kernel security fixes spotted before release – by using developer chatter as a side channel

(2020/09/04)

Data mining of code commits and chat gives hackers a cunning edge

Larry Ellison abruptly pulls rug from under philanthropy foundation after two years to 'focus on COVID-19 fight'

(2020/09/04)

If you received Oracle founder's support, tough. There's a pandemic on

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