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 decrees that all high-school IT teachers were wrong: Double spaces now flagged as typos in Word

(2020/04/27)

Roundup Also: new .NET previews, 365 rebrando-tanks roll on, and more

Airbus and Rolls-Royce hit eject on hybrid-electric airliner testbed after E-Fan X project fails to get off the ground

(2020/04/27)

But they came away with a keg-sized 2.5MW generator, and Rolls will complete terra firma test schedule

Travel advice for the week ahead is just: STOP

(2020/04/27)

Bork!Bork!Bork! An empty station, illuminated by the soft, blue hue of Bork

Cosmo Communicator: Phone-laptop hybrid is neat, if niche, tilt at portable productivity

(2020/04/27)

Hands on Planet Computers' gizmo builds a bridge between two worlds, but it's not without limits

Wall Street analyst worries iPhone is facing '2nd recession' after 2019 annus horribilis

(2020/04/27)

The fruits of labour for world's largest tech firm to be revealed on 30 April

We could have pwned Microsoft Teams with a GIF, claims Israeli infosec outfit

(2020/04/27)

Proof-of-concept vuln patched a week ago

Apple and Google tweak key bits of contact-tracing privacy plan

(2020/04/27)

As European nations back decentralised plan that leaves data on the device until users call in sick

Dumpster diving to revive a crashing NetWare server? It was acceptable in the '90s

(2020/04/27)

Who, Me? Broken pencil + ball of stolen Blu Tack = IT joy

FTP is crusty and mostly dead, right? AWS just started supporting it anyway

(2020/04/27)

Somebody’s got to help you run legacy apps with dignity

Wi-Fi management is still more rubbish than it ought to be – here’s how AI can help

(2020/04/27)

Extra intelligence for end-to-end means less fuzzy video calls. Infradata reveals more

Chinese carmaker behind Volvo and Lotus ships first two satellites for planned IoT ‘OmniCloud’

(2020/04/27)

Plans to connect and observe all the things as-a-service, from low-Earth orbit, while building 500 sats a year

India launches e-government platform for 125,000 villages and drone land surveys to put them on the map

(2020/04/27)

Hello, expanded tax base and access to capital! Farewell, land ownership disputes

Australia's contact-tracing app regulation avoids 'woolly' principles in comparable cyber-laws, say lawyers

(2020/04/27)

COVIDSafe application lands for Android, iOS – sans source code

Sophos XG firewalls hacked, hotfix ready. Texts wreck Apple iThings. Yup, business as usual in infosec world

(2020/04/26)

Roundup Plus Office 2016, 2019 patches – and a barn-load of other security bits and bytes

Facebook, AWS team up to produce open-source PyTorch AI libraries, grad student says he successfully used GPT-2 to write his homework....

(2020/04/26)

Roundup ...Nvidia CEO to unveil new tech on YouTube, and more from machine-learning world

Wake up, Neo: Microsoft mulls using your brain waves or body heat to mine crypto-currency while viewing ads

(2020/04/24)

So this is how the world ends – as a Matrix fanfic

Spyware maker NSO can't claim immunity, Facebook lawyers insist – it's time to face the music

(2020/04/24)

Software developers aren't nation states, antisocial giant points out

Amazon pushes the button on Keyspaces: Cassandra lookalike to boost its NoSQL credentials

(2020/04/24)

Serverless NoSQL DB to come up against open source sister

We're in a timeline where Dettol maker has to beg folks not to inject cleaning fluid into their veins. Thanks, Trump

(2020/04/24)

Video Meanwhile, lawyer wanders beaches dressed as the Reaper... it has been a long week. Happy Friday, folks

Billionaires showered with wealth as experts say global economy set for long and deep recession

(2020/04/24)

New study shows pandemic drove up profits for some...

Linux, because we don't need no steenkin' Blue Screen of Death!