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)

UK.gov splashes out on 40,000 new devices amid COVID-19-fuelled homeworking boom

(2020/05/21)

And guess which department bought 10,000 O365 licences?

Document? Library? A new kind of component? Microsoft had a hard time explaining what its Fluid Framework is

(2020/05/21)

Build Real-time collaboration in Office 365 but .NET developers sidelined in favour of JavaScript

DNS this week stands for Drowning Needed Services: Design flaw in name server system can be exploited to flood machines offline

(2020/05/21)

Microsoft, BIND, Google, Cloudflare, Amazon, others fix up software or offer workarounds

Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma

(2020/05/21)

25kV + lots of wiggly amps = big local magnetic field

Why your collaborative workspace should work with all applications

(2020/05/21)

Let users and third parties continue with the tools they know and love

Vodafone woes far from over for Xiaomi Mi 9 owners amid complaints of leaky batteries and voicemails in Romanian

(2020/05/21)

Dupa ton va rugam sa lasati un mesaj

Internet of Tardiness: Microsoft puts on a brave face as IoT boat prepares to set sail

(2020/05/21)

Build Lots of previews and coming-soons, but is it too little, too late?

COVID-19 sparks new wearables to push the pandemic away

(2020/05/21)

Don’t stand so close to me as-a-service, with added blockchain

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

(2020/05/21)

A simpler alternative to site slurping

Apple, Google begin to spread pro-privacy, batt-friendly coronavirus contact-tracing API for phone apps

(2020/05/21)

Analysis Public health agencies get green light to emit software using joint-developed tech

Zoom continues its catch-up security sprint with new training, bug bounty tweaks and promise of crypto playbook

(2020/05/21)

Sigh. How many users did it have before it started this stuff?

NASA renames dark-energy telescope after its first Chief of Astronomy and Mother of Hubble: Nancy Grace Roman

(2020/05/21)

Video Boffin immortalized, praised for her 'leadership and vision'

Alibaba to serve up Kentucky Fried smart speaker, with a $1.4bn side of e-commerce integration

(2020/05/21)

Hey Tmall Genie, spike my cholesterol, then coalesce my web empire with voice commands

International space station testing Wi-Fi links with incoming craft, with an eye on autonomous docking

(2020/05/21)

Japanese mission also carrying rolling remote-control robot atop last of a famous rocket family

AT&T slapped down for its '5GE' ads: You don’t have a proper 5G network, so stop saying so, says watchdog

(2020/05/21)

Pah, fine, OK, we’ll do what you say... in marketing, pouts telco to NARB

Remember when Securus was sued for recording 14,000 calls between prison inmates and lawyers? It just settled

(2020/05/21)

It was a software bug, insists telco, as attorneys walk with most of the money

Hey Siri, are you still recording people's conversations despite promising not to do so nine months ago?

(2020/05/20)

I’m sorry, I will continue ignoring that question

US senators call for more transparency over $12bn TSMC fab plant investment

(2020/05/20)

'Serious questions' over security and how it would help supply chain

The software bots are coming, the software bots are coming: Microsoft swallows UK automation minnow while dreaming of low-code apps

(2020/05/20)

Now about that ageing software estate and those lucrative licences...

UK takes a step closer to domestic launches as Skyrora fires up Skylark-L

(2020/05/20)

When you go will you send back a rocket from Edinburgh?

It has been said [by Anatole France], "it is not by amusing oneself
that one learns," and, in reply: "it is *____only* by amusing oneself that
one can learn."
-- Edward Kasner and James R. Newman