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)

5G router, anyone? MediaTek lobs cheaper chipset at telco carrier pigeons

(2020/09/04)

Everyone's looking to cash in on the race to next-gen network

Here's a sprite idea: PC pokers push pixels to LED displays with Microsoft's new platform for non-verbal comms

(2020/09/04)

Animated Friday fun

Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December?

(2020/09/04)

New supply chains, brand new system, and ... oh dear, it's still not ready yet

Seasonality goes out the window as Apple iPhone delays dent Broadcom's wireless chip sales in Q3

(2020/09/04)

But CEO foresees 'significant upturn' as Jesus mobe release shifts to October

Are you locally attached? Lenovo makes EPYC effort to wave HCI flag amid reports of sagging server revenues

(2020/09/04)

Handing out ThinkAgile in Microsoft, VMware and Nutanix flavours

Old and busted: Targeting servers and web bugs. New hotness: Pwning devs with targeted poisoned stacks

(2020/09/04)

'Most developers are highly intelligent, but also highly stupid'

Salon told to change ad looking for 'happy' stylist because it 'discriminated against unhappy people'

(2020/09/04)

Startup idea: Depressed barbershop for depressed people

'We're not claiming to replace humans,' says Google, but we want to be 'close enough' that you can't tell it's a bot talking

(2020/09/04)

Reassuring... Fortunately, customers will be subject to ethical review

TCL notices lockdown has made tablet market a thing again, tosses out pair of cheapish 'droid fondleslabs

(2020/09/04)

TABMAX wants to be for productivity AND family, TABMID is smaller

Like Uber, but for satellite launches: European Space Agency’s ride-sharing rocket slings 53 birds with one bang

(2020/09/04)

Vega returns to service after 2019 failure and brings AI to spaaaaace

Mate, it's the '90s. You don't need to be reachable every minute of every hour. Your operating system can't cope

(2020/09/04)

Eudora checking for emails how often? On Windows 3.1?

Facebook to blab bugs it finds if it thinks code owners aren’t fixing fast enough

(2020/09/04)

And reveals half a dozen WhatsApp bugs into the bargain

There's a battery-free Game Boy that runs solely on the power of sunlight and the speed of your button-mashing

(2020/09/04)

Just not very well

Taiwan tightens rules around local tech firms sharing tech with China

(2020/09/04)

Will vet even outbound investments under new rules

Cisco mostly silent on when and what it knew about malicious WebEx wipeout

(2020/09/04)

Anyone can make infosec mistakes, but Cisco isn't anyone

China lashes India’s app ban, calls for return to ‘win-win cooperation’

(2020/09/04)

Nice economy you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if the World Trade Organisation got involved

Surprise! Voting app maker roasted by computer boffins for poor security now begs US courts to limit flaw finding

(2020/09/04)

We should be able to outlaw unauthorized inquiry, Voatz argues

When classes are online, how do you get out of school? Florida teen cuffed, charged after crashing cyber-lessons

(2020/09/04)

Eight DDoS attacks targeted networks, virtual classrooms, say officials

Sigh. Another day, another reason for WordPress users to get patching: Hackers abuse bug in popular plugin

(2020/09/03)

Sites with WP File Manager should update ASAP – exploits in the wild

Google declares Maps COVID-19-ready after retraining it on pandemic traffic – or the lack of it in some areas

(2020/09/03)

50 per cent decrease in worldwide traffic when lockdowns started

Don't go surfing in South Dakota for a while.