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)

Hey NYPD, when you're done tear-gassing and running over protesters, can you tell us about your spy gear?

(2020/06/19)

City council demands snoop gear kit reports, mayor OK with that

Good luck using generative adversarial networks in real life – they're difficult to train and finicky to fix

(2020/06/19)

An AI engineer recounts his previous woes to The Register

Australia's Lion brewery hit by second cyber attack as nation staggers under suspected Chinese digital assault

(2020/06/19)

Wait and see before pointing the finger, warns threat intel boffin

Microsoft emits a colourful Windows Terminal preview

(2020/06/19)

Yeah, about that whole JSON thing...

Huawei going to predict the future? Nope, say company leaders when asked about Joe Biden winning US election

(2020/06/19)

'We don't know what he stands for'

Can't get your Pi fix online? The Cambridge shop's back open for business, Brits

(2020/06/19)

Doors remain closed at that other hub of nerdery, the Centre for Computing History

Ex-director cops community service after 5,000-file deletion spree on company Dropbox

(2020/06/19)

'Revenge' attack cost biz £100k, say police

Xiaomi's Poco F2 Pro flagship lands in the UK with considerably gentler price tag

(2020/06/19)

£499 nabs early birds 5G, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage

IR35 tax reforms for UK freelancers glide through committee stage: D-Day set for 6 April 2021

(2020/06/19)

*Cough* But are they freelancers? *cough* – HMRC

Police and NHS urge British public not to call 101 and 111 non-emergency numbers after behind-the-scenes kit failure

(2020/06/19)

Vodafone responsible for maintaining system infrastructure

Google isn't even trying to not be creepy: 'Continuous Match Mode' in Assistant will listen to everything until it's disabled

(2020/06/19)

I always feel like / somebody's dropping eaves / and I have no privacy

A memo from the distant future... June 2022: The boss decides working from home isn't the new normal after all

(2020/06/19)

Because nobody wants to be the new Yahoo ! apparently

Security experts, systems managers and developers: Lots of intriguing job openings to look through this week

(2020/06/19)

If you're looking around - there's a lot on offer

ServiceNow slammed for 'tone deaf' letter telling customers contracts can't be tweaked as COVID-19 batters businesses

(2020/06/19)

'If that is true, that is a horrendous admission' – analyst

It's 500 Friday at GitHub as source shack takes an hour-long morning totter

(2020/06/19)

A week of wobbles ends in a good, old fashioned TITSUP*

At Mozilla VPN stands for Vague Product News: Foundation reveals security product will launch eventually, with temporary pricing, in unspecified places

(2020/06/19)

But it does have a name. 'Firefox Private Network' is out, ‘Mozilla VPN’ is in.

What does London's number 65 bus have to hide? OS caught on camera setting fire to '22,000 illegal file(s)!!'

(2020/06/19)

And look, confirmed hacker sitting up front

Check out the night sky in all its X-ray glory: Everything from hot gases to supernovas and massive black holes

(2020/06/19)

eROSITA telescope shows a busy, energetic universe

PC printer problems and enraged execs: When the answer to 'Hand over that floppy disk' is 'No'

(2020/06/19)

Time for the Windows pantomime: 'Oh yes it does...' 'Oh no it doesn't'

Xiaomi and NXP ride a bus to Moscow with a wearable Mastercard

(2020/06/19)

Threesome now plan to march East and conquer Europe

Good day to deal with people in high places; particularly lonely stewardesses.