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)

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

(2020/07/03)

Plus: IBM emits BlueGene/Q CPU blueprints – and 'fastest' open-source RISC-V core emerges

UK government shakes magic money tree, finds $500m to buy a stake in struggling satellite firm OneWeb

(2020/07/03)

Whitehall buddies up with Bharti to complete constellation

AWS attempts to woo devs with new tool aimed at porting .NET applications to Linux

(2020/07/03)

Bezos' bunch beats Microsoft to the punch, though it has limited use for now

E-scooter fanboy so hyped for Teesside to host UK's first trial

(2020/07/03)

Tees Valley mayor expresses his love for two-wheelers

The good news: Vodafone switches on first full-fat, real-life 5G network in the UK. The bad news: it only got sent to Coventry

(2020/07/03)

Tech stands on own two feet rather than 4G infrastructure

Your industry needs you: Database engineers, sysadmins and developer vacancies revealed

(2020/07/03)

Something for everyone this week, including wannabe Vultures

Like a Bolt from the blue, Huawei's fledgling AppGallery signs a ride-sharing platform

(2020/07/03)

€1.7bn Estonian company is first on store to have a global presence

Capita Consulting ditching more than a quarter of its workforce 45 days after consultations with consultants

(2020/07/03)

100 people have lost their jobs, COVID-19 blamed

Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users. It's meant to work like that, right?

(2020/07/03)

Brave browser's policy officer questions efficacy of personalised ads

Erudite, insightful, self-aware and almost human: Give your local database admin a hug – it's DBA Appreciation Day

(2020/07/03)

We said, we hope you get some downtime. Oh never mind. Come on, it's just once a year

Cool IT support drones never look at explosions: Time to resolution for misbehaving mouse? Three seconds

(2020/07/03)

Thinking in binary, dreaming in hexadecimal, and this is what they'll remember you for

Fighting BEC and EAC: Why whack-a-mole won’t work

(2020/07/03)

No organisation is immune: Nearly nine in ten experienced these attacks last year

Don't beat yourself up for overeating in lockdown. This black hole scoffs equivalent of our Sun every day

(2020/07/03)

No wonder J2157 clocks in at 34 billion solar masses

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

(2020/07/03)

It's only downloaded 26.5m times a week, NBD

F5 emits fixes for critical flaws in BIG-IP gear: Hopefully yours aren't internet-facing while you ready a patch

(2020/07/03)

Not to worry, there are only *searches* several thousand devices apparently exposed online

'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam

(2020/07/02)

Is that listed phone number going direct to a professional or a call center?

Holy Guacamole! Researchers find Apache remote desktop software was silently pwnable for snooping on sessions

(2020/07/02)

Best get updating pronto, folks

Euro police forces infiltrated encrypted phone biz – and now 'criminal' EncroChat users are being rounded up

(2020/07/02)

Continental capers lead to 750 UK arrests

Hold off that rush into the July 4 weekend – you may need this: Microsoft patches pwn-by-picture pitfalls in Win 10

(2020/07/02)

Redmond also praised for blocking malware control systems on its clouds

Users who don't understand how to encrypt their emails won't do it

(2020/07/02)

Focus on usability to avoid buyer’s remorse, Echoworx advises

Don't try to have the last word -- you might get it.
-- Lazarus Long