IBM CEO and Indian prime minister talk about yoga … and unspecified further investment
(2020/07/21)
Big Blue may have an in on new healthcare plans
The volcanoes on Venus aren't dead, say astroboffins, they're merely resting, pining for the planet's lava fjords
(2020/07/21)
We may not know the answer until the 2030s, though
Alibaba's financial arm, Ant, files for monster IPO ahead of march on the world's merchants and shoppers
(2020/07/21)
Payments giant could be worth $200 billion
India drops the bar on e-commerce seller's listings: You want to sell it? Tell us where it came from from then
(2020/07/21)
Inform people in case they go Chinese and ignore self-sufficiency drive
World Health Organisation AI chatbot goes deaf when asked for the latest COVID-19 figures for Taiwan, Hong Kong
(2020/07/21)
Funny that!
IBM profits cratered 46% last quarter. But its share price is up ~5% because Wall Street expected that to be worse
(2020/07/21)
Execs peg Big Blue's big blues to global pandemic recovery
If you can read this, your Windows 10 2004 PC really is connected to the internet no matter what the OS claims
(2020/07/20)
May 2020 build warns of no internet connection when, er, there is
Microsoft accused of sharing data of Office 365 business subscribers with Facebook and its app devs
(2020/07/20)
Because that always ends well
SpaceX to return NASA 'nauts to Earth with a splash
(2020/07/20)
Plus: Minotaurs are from MARS, ANASIS-II awaits, and a cool half billion for Skynet
Computer misuse crimes down 9% on last year in England and Wales, says Office of National Statistics
(2020/07/20)
But take that with a pinch of salt
Worldpay stops turning in the UK, leaving trail of thoroughly miffed retailers and customers
(2020/07/20)
Payments provider cops to 'processing issues' caused by 'equipment change'
You've had your pandemic holiday, now Microsoft really is going to kill off TLS 1.0, 1.1
(2020/07/20)
Plus: Skype plays catch-up, Barracuda goes Azure, and WinUI slings another preview
Germany bans Tesla from claiming its Autopilot software is potentially autonomous
(2020/07/20)
Also: Create the killer AI Doom player on a workstation
An axe age, a sword age, Privacy Shield is riven, but what might that mean for European businesses?
(2020/07/20)
The little guys could get caught out with costly consequences
UK.gov admits it has not performed legally required data protection checks for COVID-19 tracing system
(2020/07/20)
No evidence of data being used unlawfully, says health department
51 years after humans first set foot on the Moon, a deepfaked Nixon mourns how Armstrong and Aldrin never made it home
(2020/07/20)
I am not a .... {NASA nightmare brought to life by AI}
Is your Office 365 locked down in lockdown?
(2020/07/20)
Tune in and find out how to plug the leaks in your Microsoft ecosystem
Hey there, want to break into computers like an Iranian hacker crew? IBM finds 40GB of videos that include how-tos
(2020/07/20)
Plus: BitTorrent CEO puts a $1m bounty on Twitter hackers
Southern Water to splash £50m on IT services to purify systems of planning, governance and internal controls
(2020/07/20)
We'll raise a glass of the good stuff to that
Cisco restores evidence of its funniest FAIL – ethernet cable presses switch's reset button
(2020/07/20)
At least it’s a better excuse than Switchzilla’s ‘cosmic radiation errors’
Jargon Coiner (#6)
An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon
that we've just made up.
* TLDography (pronounced till-daw-graffy): The study of top leval domains.
Example: "I asked my friend, a TLDographer, what country .ca stood for,
and he responded, 'California, of course'."
* TLDofy (pronounced till-duh-fy): Identifying a country by its top level
domain.
Example: "Oh, so you're from .de? Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"
* HTML lapse: A period of time when the brain slips into thinking in HTML.