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)

Microsoft fingers foreign object in fracture furore, serves up fresh dollop of Duo, and another Windows 10 'Meh' Update

(2020/05/11)

Roundup Plus: From the creator of axed Wunderlist, presenting... Superlist

There's a world out there with a hexagon vortex over its pole packed with hydrocarbon ice crystals. That planet is Saturn

(2020/05/11)

Yet again, science reality is better than science fiction

Users of Will.i.am's Wink IoT hub ask 'Where is the love?' as they're asked to pay for a new subscription service

(2020/05/11)

Don't phunk with my smart home

Mama mia! Nintendo in need of a plumber after leak sprays N64, GameCube, Wii code

(2020/05/11)

Roundup Plus: Cognizant cognisant of whopping $70m in damage, malware creeps hit hospital firm, phishing campaigns, and much more

Wanna be a developer? Your coworkers want to learn Go and like to watch, er, Friends and Big Bang Theory

(2020/05/11)

So no one told you life was gonna be this way

IBM to GTS staff: Not volunteering to leave with a redundo cheque? We'll give you a helping hand

(2020/05/11)

Hundreds to be forced out of the door into COVID-19-ravaged jobs market

Back of the net! Norfolk County Council kicks off £18m Oracle cloud ERP deal

(2020/05/11)

Knowing me Big Red, knowing you, Norwich authorities: Aha?

It is unclear why something designed to pump fuel into a car needs an ad-spewing computer strapped to it, but here we are

(2020/05/11)

Bork!Bork!Bork! I'll take two gallons of petrol, some wilted apology-flowers and a double dose of bork, please

'We're changing shift, and no one can log on!' It was at this moment our hero knew server-lugging chap had screwed up

(2020/05/11)

Who, Me? Where's the DHCP box? It's behind y... oh heck

DBA locked in police-guarded COVID-19-quarantine hotel for the last week shares his story with The Register

(2020/05/11)

Holiday did not go as planned, but he’s working remotely, participating in agile rituals and happy at the half-way mark of a two-week stretch

How to future-proof your AI on HPC

(2020/05/11)

Why you don’t need specialised hardware makers to benefit from high-performance computing

South Korea announces tech New Deal to stoke post-coronavirus economy

(2020/05/11)

Robots! 5G! AI! Stimulus cash to float all the tech buzzwords

Author of infamous Google diversity manifesto drops lawsuit against web giant

(2020/05/11)

James Damore decides he doesn’t need a day in court

Singapore releases the robot hounds to enforce social distancing in parks

(2020/05/10)

Smithers: If I really must go outside, can you arrange it so I encounter the smallest possible number of virus-laden humans?

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Spacecraft with graphene sails powered by starlight and lasers

(2020/05/09)

Nice way to get to Alpha Centauri though boffin tells us: 'Such a laser system could be used as a weapon'

Fancy some post-weekend reading? How's this for a potboiler: The source code for UK, Australia's coronavirus contact-tracing apps

(2020/05/09)

Problems aside, no one is sure how useful phone-based tracking will be

One malicious MMS is all it takes to pwn a Samsung smartphone: Bug squashed amid Android patch batch

(2020/05/08)

Zero-click remote-code exec hole found by Googler, updates emitted

We dunno what's more wild: This vid of Japan's probe bouncing off an asteroid to collect a sample – or that the rock was sun-burnt

(2020/05/08)

Video Hayabusa 2 expected to return with out-of-this-world material in December

DEF CON is canceled... No, for real. The in-person event is canceled. We're not joking. It's canceled. We mean it

(2020/05/08)

Virus knocks hackers online: Show will try going virtual amid pandemic

Backup and restore on AWS is a nightmare – is there a way to speed it up?

(2020/05/08)

Apparently. But we’re so incredulous, we’re gonna test those claims on live internet TV…

I must have slipped a disk -- my pack hurts!