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)

Apple: Yeah, about those ground-breaking privacy features in iOS 14 – don't expect them until next year

(2020/09/03)

'Fundamental right to privacy' can wait – Facebook and others are annoyed

Qualcomm flexes latest Arm chipset for laptops: Snappy performance and battery life if you can put off your upgrade long enough

(2020/09/03)

Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G will first appear on the Acer Spin 7

Under fire for 30% cut, Apple really isn't giving anything away with introduction of subscription offer codes

(2020/09/03)

Digital services tax? You'll be paying that on top of VAT, developers told

VMware supremo Pat Gelsinger makes peace with Microsoft, and Virtzilla pitches Tanzu to the Spring crowd

(2020/09/03)

We talk to VMware VP and Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie: 'Our ambition was to disrupt' - but not just for Google

US court deems NSA bulk phone-call snooping illegal, possibly unconstitutional, and probably pointless anyway

(2020/09/03)

Snowden, privacy campaigners cheer ruling 7 years in the making

Unexpected victory in bagging area: Apple must pay shop workers for time they spend waiting to get frisked

(2020/09/03)

Yes, Cupertino appealed last time. It has been 7 years now

Better dictation in latest Dev Channel build will faithfully convert your spittle-flecked Windows 10 rantings to text

(2020/09/03)

With auto-punctuation and all! Plus: Emojis... and more Edge-y nagging

When low-balled projects go bad: Scottish pensions agency starts £10m procurement to buy the system Capita could not

(2020/09/03)

Cancelled contract saw outsourcing giant paying back £700k

TCL's latest e-ink tech looks good on paper, but Chinese giant will have to back up extraordinary claims

(2020/09/03)

Concept demo fast enough to show movies and games apparently

Here comes an AI that can predict hurricane strength. Don't worry, NASA made it so it probably actually works

(2020/09/03)

And if it does, chalk a win for IBM Watson at last

Why cloud costs get out of control: Too much lift and shift, and pricing that is 'screwy and broken'

(2020/09/03)

The Reg talks to the experts about how to manage spend

Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?

(2020/09/03)

Meanwhile, UK languishes in 47th according to Cable.co.uk rankings

Five Eyes nations start new club for competition regulators and paint target on digital giants

(2020/09/03)

Joint investigations imagined, complete with sharing of confidential info gleaned from local probes

With a million unwanted .uk domains expiring this week, Nominet again sends punters pushy emails to pay up

(2020/09/03)

No one wants them – including all of Britain’s top brands

What the world needs now is socially-distant robots, says Japan

(2020/09/03)

Takes its domestic standard for human/robot interactions to the ISO to get moving machines working with humans in hospitals and beyond

Everything's falling apart. The Moon is slowly rusting up – and it's probably Earth's fault

(2020/09/03)

We're not talking about the programming language, either

There’s no new normal coming for PC sales, just the boring old normal of a long, slow decline

(2020/09/03)

IDC says 2020 will be a unique and beautiful snowflake as shipments pop three percent because you can't go to the movies

India bans a further 118 Chinese apps as physical and online tensions escalate

(2020/09/03)

PUBG, Alipay, Baidu and more exiled

Homeland Security demands a 911 for reporting security holes in federal networks: 'Vulns in internet systems cause real-world impacts'

(2020/09/03)

Great – and who will be the first responders?

Hold on to your hats, Net Neutrality version 2 is on its way courtesy of Trump and the FCC's moves on Section 230

(2020/09/02)

Astroturfing, political posturing, invective. Exactly what internet policy needs

I am convinced that the truest act of courage is to sacrifice ourselves
for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man
is to suffer for others.
-- Cesar Chavez