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)

In colossal surprise, Intel says new vPro processors are quite a bit better than the old ones

(2020/05/13)

And just the thing for remote work, which was so not a thing when these were designed

Latest Microsoft 365 'wave of innovation' really just involves adding or renaming a bunch of update channels

(2020/05/13)

What was Monthly is to be Current as Insider is banished in favour of Beta

Stop tracking me, Google: Austrian citizen files GDPR legal complaint over Android Advertising ID

(2020/05/13)

Claims consent was neither informed, nor specific, nor free – but Google says it cannot identify a user from the ID

Third time lucky for Windows 10 2004? Microsoft yet again fiddles with code and adds a go-live SDK licence

(2020/05/13)

Ooh... Aah... Just a little fix

Openreach tells El Reg it'll kill off copper sales in 118 UK locations next year

(2020/05/13)

Comms regulator Ofcom yet to rubberstamp proposals

Danger zone! Brit research supercomputer ARCHER's login nodes exploited in cyber-attack, admins reset passwords and SSH keys

(2020/05/13)

Updated Assault on TOP500-listed machine may have hit Euro HPC too, warn sysops

We'd love to come up with a Harbor container ship pun but we're too corona-frazzled. Version 2.0 is out

(2020/05/13)

Release hits the waves, beats the competition to full OCI-compliance

Sky Broadband is not the UK's cheapest, growls ad watchdog

(2020/05/13)

Bombarding audiences with quick-fire telly spots won't cut the mustard

Driveway karaoke singer who wanted to lift lockdown spirits cops council noise complaint

(2020/05/13)

Can we have 'Shaddap You Face'* next?

Huawei gets misty-eyed for the good old days (of a year ago) with maudlin P30 Pro remaster

(2020/05/13)

New Edition has those all-important Google services, but dated chippery and no 5G future-proofing

$500bn fewer greenbacks to be forked out on IT in 2020 due to... well, you know what

(2020/05/13)

Gartner slashes pre-pandemic spending forecast

Two weeks before the first US commercial crew launch, NASA spanks more cash on an autumn Soyuz seat

(2020/05/13)

Ensuring the US lights keep burning aboard the ISS... just in case

If you're going to spend $3tn, what's another billion? Congress urged to inject taxpayer dollars into open anti-Huawei 5G radio tech

(2020/05/13)

How about a little stimulus... for anyone-but-China research?

More automation to suddenly look like a jolly good idea as businesses struggle through coronavirus crisis, say analysts

(2020/05/13)

I, for one, welcome our robot replacements... Wait, no I don't

The Rise of The (Coffee) Machines: I need assistance. I think I'm running Windows. Send help

(2020/05/13)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Isn't it cute when a coffee machine addresses you in the first person?

Teradata switches CEOs mid-flight while being eaten alive in the cloud, but it's not game over yet for data warehouser

(2020/05/13)

Analysis Revenue's tumbling, but that's also typical of a move to the fluffy stuff

HPE loses second key exec in as many weeks

(2020/05/13)

CTO Mark Potter to depart as re-shuffle connects boss Neri to product peeps

Don't trust deep-learning algos to touch up medical scans: Boffins warn 'highly unstable' tech leads to bad diagnoses

(2020/05/13)

Now is not the time for Hollywood 'zoom and enhance' fantasies

India says its brains saved the world from the last colosso-crisis – cough, Y2K – proving it can become self-reliant

(2020/05/13)

In tech and everything else needed in a post-COVID-19 economy

Meteorite's tiny secrets reveal Solar System's sodium-rich, alkaline liquid past – a clue to formation of life

(2020/05/13)

Oh OK, so now we know who to blame for all this mess on Earth

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