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)

Intel is offering more 14nm Skylake desktop processors, we repeat: More 14nm Skylake desktop processors

(2020/05/01)

10th-generation Core additions land with up to 10 CPU cores, 5.3GHz max

Atlassian to offensively price itself through the post-pandemic patch

(2020/05/01)

Claims to be ‘unscathed’ last quarter, will keep hiring and maybe acquiring

Square peg of modem won't fit into round hole of PC? I saw to it, bloke tells horrified mate

(2020/05/01)

On Call In praise of helpful friends and handy tools

Uber trials fixed-price hourly rentals for visits to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker

(2020/05/01)

Because if you have to go out in a plague, who wants multiple rides?

Identify and act on high-risk devices – faster

(2020/05/01)

Find out more at Forescout live virtual event on May 12

Dell to unleash hybrid server/storage boxen that can run virtual machines

(2020/05/01)

Long-awaited storage consolidation to go hyperconverged lite so that workloads can run next to data

What's worse than an annoying internet filter? How about one with a pre-auth remote-command execution hole and there's no patch?

(2020/05/01)

Bug can be exploited to hijack server, meddle with block lists

International space station connects 100Mbps symmetric space laser ethernet using Sony optical disc tech

(2020/05/01)

As the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group launches discussion of Solar System Internet

ICANN finally halts $1.1bn sale of .org registry, says it's 'the right thing to do' after months of controversy

(2020/05/01)

Questions linger over what is going on inside DNS overseer

Back when the huge shocking thing that felt like the end of the world was Australia on fire, it turns out telcos held up all right

(2020/05/01)

Or as well as they could once the power went out - yet report says reliance on electricity isn't a resilience issue

Apple on 2020 so far: OK, so iPhone sales are a bit glum. Wearables, music, apps, vids to the rescue... almost

(2020/05/01)

Hope on the horizon, says Cook, but it will take some time to get there

Jeff Bezos tells shareholders to buckle up: Amazon to blow this quarter's profits and more on coronavirus costs

(2020/04/30)

Cloud-giant-with-a-gift-shop gearing up for the long game

Quibi, JetBlue, Wish, others accused of leaking millions of email addresses to ad orgs via HTTP referer headers

(2020/04/30)

From URL to UR-Hell

Faster than reflection: Microsoft previews Source Generators for C#

(2020/04/30)

.NET is getting faster but will not be as efficient as C++ or Go. Reason? Legacy code

Couchbase goes cuckoo for Kubernetes with v2.0 release of Autonomous Operator

(2020/04/30)

NoSQL or open source, databases cannot help but be drawn to Googly cloud container orchestration system

More than one-fifth of smartphone sales evaporate in China as pandemic grips Middle Kingdom

(2020/04/30)

Where's there a will, there Huawei! America's fave bogeyman does the biz at home, is the only handset maker to grow

Human intelligence may not be enough: US military turns to machine learning algos to predict food shortages

(2020/04/30)

Analysis Supply chain issues will be hit hard as workers get sick

Tesla sued over Tokyo biker's death in 'dozing driver' Autopilot crash

(2020/04/30)

Motorcyclist had stopped to help with a separate traffic accident, say court docs

We're not Finnished yet: Nokia chalks up €200m sales hit to 'COVID-19 issues'

(2020/04/30)

Insists: It was the supply chain! We'll get the sales back later this year

Google is a 'publisher' says Aussie court as it hands £20k damages to gangland lawyer

(2020/04/30)

Chocolate Factory held liable for words on its website

Clique Maintenance:
The need of one generation to see the generation following it
as deficient so as to bolster its own collective ego: "Kids today do
nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All
they do is shop and complain."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"