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)

Zoom bomb: Vid conf biz to snap up Keybase as not-a-PR-move move gets out of hand

(2020/05/07)

Things will change forever, nods ex-Facebooker Alex Stamos

O2 be a fly on the wall during BT and Vodafone's video calls: Telefónica's UK biz, Virgin Media officially merge

(2020/05/07)

Multinationals' UK arms pair up to take on Voda and former state-owned telco

Looking for a new IT gig? Here are vacancies around the world for developers, cloud engineers, infosec analysts, Jira admin, and more

(2020/05/07)

Job Alert Advertise your open positions here for free, no catch, and find opportunities within

'A' is for ad money oddly gone missing: Probe finds middlemen siphon off half of online advertising spend

(2020/05/07)

'B' is for basic controls that up and disappeared

MongoDB and Rockset link arms to figure out SQL-to-NoSQL application integration

(2020/05/07)

NoSQL, no problem for Facebook-originating RocksDB

Senior MP tells UK Defence Committee on 5G security: Russia could become China's cyber-attack dog

(2020/05/07)

One has the vulns, the other has the brass neck to pull off heists. Right?

Forever mothballed: In memoriam Apple Butterfly Keyboard (2015-2020)

(2020/05/07)

At last, we can write headlines with all the letters intact

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

(2020/05/07)

It is time. We need a new Regism and cannot go to the pub to think of one. Can you help?

Serial killer spotted on the night train from Newcastle

(2020/05/07)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Remember when all we had to complain about were crappy rail services?

HCL finishes its year with 15 percent growth, 100 million minutes-a-month Teams usage

(2020/05/07)

Cracks the 150,000-employee mark as revenue falls just short of $10bn

Non-human Microsoft Office users get their own special licences

(2020/05/07)

Automated operators can pay up like anyone – or anything – else

Server sales went through the roof in the first three months of 2020. Enjoy it while it lasts, Dell, HPE, and pals

(2020/05/07)

Enterprise demand set to soften, offset tier-two cloud, telco sales

Dad to kids: I've decided you don't get to take over the family business. Kids to Dad: Who wants to run Samsung anyway?

(2020/05/07)

Lee Jae-yong ends dynastic control and will even let staff join a union

Australian contact-tracing app sent no data to contact-tracers for at least ten days after hurried launch

(2020/05/07)

Doesn't play well on iPhones, but bureaucrats rushed it out rather than wait months for perfection. Meanwhile serious bug reports have emerged

Quick Q: Er, why is the Moon emitting carbon? And does this mean it wasn't formed from Theia hitting Earth?

(2020/05/07)

Decades-old theory may require a rethink thanks to Japanese probe

Data centre reveals it modeled interiors on The Hunt for Red October sets

(2020/05/07)

Australia bit barn outfit NEXTDC adds classic film reference to usual mix of resilience, connectivity and security

American tech goliaths decide innovation is the answer to Chinese 5G dominance, not bans, national security theater

(2020/05/07)

Microsoft, Cisco, Google etc gang up to form Open RAN Policy Coalition

So you've set up MFA and solved the Elvish riddle, but some still think passwords alone are secure enough

(2020/05/07)

OK, a third agreed with Thales when it asked the question

When the chips are down, thank goodness for software engineers: AI algorithms 'outpace Moore's law'

(2020/05/06)

ML eggheads, devs get more bang for their buck, say OpenAI duo

California’s privacy warriors are back – and this time they want to take their fight all the way to the ballot box

(2020/05/06)

Politicos watered down earlier efforts, so data defenders will fight to the end

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and
the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will
lose that, too."
-- W. Somerset Maugham