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)

TLS termination, Teams toys – and holy 5G, Batman, Microsoft buys UK network software biz Metaswitch

(2020/05/19)

Roundup Also: 'Twas the night before Buildmas

Hey, what kind of silicon may power next-gen space probes? We hope your answer includes 'AI acceleration'

(2020/05/19)

Xilinx touts 'industry-first' 20nm FPGA for infinity and beyond

Easyjet hacked: 9 million people's data accessed plus 2,200 folks' credit card details grabbed

(2020/05/19)

Updated All together now: The hackers were 'highly sophisticated'

Open letter from digital rights groups to UK health secretary questions big tech's role in NHS COVID-19 data store

(2020/05/19)

Promises of transparency about handling of citizens' health data haven't been fulfilled – campaigners

AT&T tracked its own sales bods using GPS, secretly charged them $135 a month to do so, lawsuit claims

(2020/05/19)

See, it's not just users getting shafted

Azure-hosted AI for finding code defects emitted – but does it work?

(2020/05/19)

How many defects has it found? Never mind that, check out the architecture flow chart

Magecart malware merrily sipped card details, evaded security scans on UK e-tailer Páramo for almost 8 months

(2020/05/19)

More than 3,500 folks' payment info quietly stolen

Dickens' forgotten spaceship classic: A Tale of Three Missions

(2020/05/19)

Roundup It was the best of weather, it was the worst of weather

Windows invokes Sgrîn Las Marwolaeth upon Newport

(2020/05/19)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Apparently Welsh was not invented by Tolkien

SAP proves, yet again, that Excel is utterly unkillable

(2020/05/19)

It built a perfectly good analytics cloud yet has added a Microsoft spreadsheet plugin because that’s what punters want

Fancy watching 'Bake Off' together with mates and alone at the same time? The BBC's built a tool to do that

(2020/05/19)

Media Player add-on lets you and your mates watch shows in sync

TensorBlow? Data boffins struggle with GPU shortage in Google Cloud, opposition offers to help out coders

(2020/05/19)

Scale with the king of hyperscalers... until the silicon runs out, that is

Remember April 2020? It brought pandemic, chaos and an unseasonable spike in new domain registrations

(2020/05/19)

UK and Oz registries recorded mini-booms for new names but also an overall domain dip

Get your live, GIAC-certified, online cybersecurity training from SANS – available now

(2020/05/19)

Real instructors, flexible options, hands-on virtual environments

That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme

(2020/05/19)

Stuck for compute power to craft digital funbucks? Go where the big beasts slumber

Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon

(2020/05/19)

Malware-led intrusions falling out of fashion, too

Azure India wobbles due to ‘underlying physical datacentre issue’

(2020/05/19)

Storage and networking recover from overnight brownout, compute still in trouble after 12 hours

With millions upon millions out of work in the US, here come the scammers claiming victims' unemployment money using stolen info

(2020/05/19)

State program funds targeted by crooks, Secret Service tells El Reg

FCC boss pleads with Congress: Please stop me from auctioning off this spectrum for billions of dollars

(2020/05/19)

In unusual turn of events, Ajit Pai warns he’ll do his job unless stopped

Equifax finally coughs up the money for its 2017 monster hack… to the banks for having to cancel your cards

(2020/05/18)

What did happen to the $125 everyone was promised?

Fortune's Real-Life Courtroom Quote #41:

Q: Now, Mrs. Johnson, how was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?