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)

MariaDB inhales $25m. 'People tried to get away with simpler' but now there's a 'relational renaissance,' says open-source biz chief

(2020/07/09)

Oracle nemesis will be focusing on SkySQL cloud product

SAP rolls out early Q2 numbers, says 18% decline in licensing revenue is an 'improvement'

(2020/07/09)

CEO reckons team 'navigated a very challenging environment'

Never mind rail and ports, let's help DPD... and, er, Amazon: UK gov and ESA call for ways to slap logistics with 5G stick

(2020/07/09)

Sorry we missed you. Been binging on Netflix in the delivery van

If you haven't potentially exposed 1000s of customers once again with networking vulns, step forward... Not so fast, Palo Alto Networks

(2020/07/09)

Getting to be a real PAN in the OS

.NET Core: Still a Microsoft platform thing despite more than five years open source

(2020/07/09)

Making .NET cross-platform was a radical step but not enough for broad appeal

Hungry? Please enjoy this delicious NaN, courtesy of British Gas and Sainsbury's

(2020/07/09)

Served up with a steaming side of buttered Bork

Lovely new dongles and lusciously lengthy cables are Intel's new offerings

(2020/07/09)

Thunderbolt 4.0 is nearly upon us and those are apparently its big selling points

Heir-to-Concorde demo model to debut in October

(2020/07/09)

With air travel in a horrible hole it’s ahead of its time in a weirdly viral way

Road trip on Mars: Thrill as Curiosity rover races up to 0.06 miles per hour. Marvel as it takes a mile-long detour

(2020/07/09)

Trundle bot must dodge sand dunes in quest to find evidence of life on Red Planet

Rancher rides off into the SUSE-set after acquisition by Linux outfit

(2020/07/09)

OpenShift and Tanzu get a familiar-looking competitor

CEO of motherboard maker MSI dies after plunging from headquarters' seventh-floor

(2020/07/09)

Foul play not suspected

Indonesia slaps 10 percent tax on three Googles

(2020/07/09)

But only on one AWS, one Spotify and one Netflix - and zero Microsofts

FYI: You do all know that America's tech giants, even Google, supply IT to the US military, right?

(2020/07/09)

They're more than happy to take Uncle Sam's coin no matter the protests from some corners of Silicon Valley

Asia’s internet registry APNIC finds about 50 million unused IPv4 addresses behind the sofa

(2020/07/09)

About three /8’s worth is a decent chunk of the total pool and locals unready to go all-in on IPv6 are hungry

Google Cloud cancels planned Chinese venture

(2020/07/09)

Doesn't want to follow Azure and AWS by working with locals

Civil-rights probe: Facebook has completely failed to… Zuck: Look over here! We’ve banned four groups! Go me!

(2020/07/08)

Report slams antisocial network's 'vexing and heartbreaking decisions'

Microsoft sues coronavirus phishing spammers to seize their domains amid web app attacks against Office 354.5

(2020/07/08)

A very busy six months for Redmond's Digital Crimes Unit

Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

(2020/07/08)

If you have to play by Redmond's strict rules, people are likely to go elsewhere

Google forges Open Usage Commons to manage open-source project trademarks, lobs hot-potato Istio at it

(2020/07/08)

Marks for Angular and Gerrit also handled by org designed to provide 'guidance' to industry

Oracle tempts users to run its cloud in their own data centres – for a mere '$6 million' commitment

(2020/07/08)

Not for your titchy workloads, Reg sources say

No pig should go sky diving during monsoon
For this isn't really the norm.
But should a fat swine try to soar like a loon,
So what? Any pork in a storm.

No pig should go sky diving during monsoon,
It's risky enough when the weather is fine.
But to have a pig soar when the monsoon doth roar
Cast even more perils before swine.