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)

Huge if true... Trump explodes as he learns open source could erode China tech ban

(2020/05/18)

The Register presents White House transcript obtained by Stealth Anti-Tracing Intelligence Remote Exfiltration

India opens its space industry to private companies

(2020/05/18)

Seeing as India has launch sites nicely close to the equator, they should be interested

Indonesia imposes 10% digital services tax

(2020/05/18)

To boost the post-pandemic tax base

Singapore’s mega-investment firm Temasek joins Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency effort

(2020/05/18)

To facilitate global payments, which is surely of interest to an investor in Alibaba

India’s contact-tracing app unleashes KaiOS on feature phones

(2020/05/17)

55 million users of $10 Bluetooth-enabled phones come into embrace of closed-source app

Beer gut-ted: As many as '70 million pints' spoiled during coronavirus pandemic must be destroyed in Britain

(2020/05/16)

Updated Jeez, talk about bitter

If American tech is used to design or make that chip, you better not ship it to Huawei, warns Uncle Sam

(2020/05/16)

Export of semiconductors built using US tools to Chinese giant banned without a license

Tales from the crypt-oh: Nvidia accused of concealing $1bn in coin-mining GPU sales as gaming revenue

(2020/05/15)

Lawsuit filed by shareholders who thought chip biz was onto something long-term rather than serving a fad

Rust marks five years since its 1.0 release: The long and winding road actually works

(2020/05/15)

Programming language ready to leave the wilderness for mass adulation

It's Azure thing: Software AG hoists application integration platform into Microsoft's cloud

(2020/05/15)

Google's next, warns chief product officer

Cyber attack against UK power grid middleman Elexon sparks in-house IT recovery efforts

(2020/05/15)

Don't worry, you can still microwave your dinner – even if this smells of ransomware

Everything OK with Microsoft? Windows giant admits it was 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source

(2020/05/15)

Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming

You can't have it both ways: Anti-coronavirus masks may thwart our creepy face-recog cameras, London cops admit

(2020/05/15)

Metropolitan Police's China-style surveillance runs up against reality

Openreach boss denies BT selling stake in UK's national broadband plumber

(2020/05/15)

KCOM owner Macquarie was said to be among suitors

Looking for a new tech gig? Here are vacancies for web devs, games programmers, server engineers and more

(2020/05/15)

Job Alert Advertise with us here, or browse the listings to see if a role would suit you

If you don't LARP, you'll cry: Armed fun police swoop to disarm knight-errant spotted patrolling Welsh parkland

(2020/05/15)

Hey, he's not causing any harm, unlike Norfolk's plague doctor creep

Micros~1? ClippyZilla? BSOD Bob? There can be only one winner. Or maybe two

(2020/05/15)

We asked for a new Microsoft nickname – and you answered. Goodness, you answered

UK, Ireland users call on SAP to extend indirect licensing deadline again as COVID-19 ravages project plans

(2020/05/15)

'People are going to lose a lot of time this year'

ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree

(2020/05/15)

Back to the time when tape was king

We're going underground, and this time it's not an inebriated banker crapping themselves, but Transport for London

(2020/05/15)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Is that Jam on your XML? Or is it... oh no...
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner