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)

Internet root keymasters must think they're cursed: First, a dodgy safe. Now, coronavirus upends IANA ceremony

(2020/04/22)

Pandemic lockdown forces new measures on crucial crypto process than underpins world's DNS

Yes, there's lots of COVID-19-themed scuminess around – but otherwise the level of cybercrime is the same

(2020/04/22)

A shift in badness doesn't mean more badness overall, says Secureworks

Vivaldi browser to perform a symphony of ad and tracker blocking with version 3.0

(2020/04/22)

Oslo outfit also unveils first stable release for Android

Adobe’s Flash fade may force vCenter upgrades unless you run dodgy browsers

(2020/04/22)

What? Why? This one’s all about an eleven-month window of client complications

News sure to ex-Zeit: Next.js company reborn as Vercel

(2020/04/22)

Logowatch Rebrand Field Book reveals it's versatile as well as 'accelerate' and 'excel'

Google and Cisco, sitting in a (spanning) tree, cloud N-E-T-W-O-R-K-I-N-G

(2020/04/22)

Borg SD-WANS can now drive Chocolate Factory virty cloud networks and the workloads therein

Free ebook for every reader: Unleash the power of your Apple fleet with Jamf

(2020/04/22)

Promo Get ahead of the trend: Home is the new office

Singapore's corona-crushing superhero squad grounded by football fans

(2020/04/22)

Liverpool followers were Kryptonite for Must Always Walk Alone Man, Dr Disinfector and the rest of the Virus Vanguard

Facebook takes $5.7bn stake in Jio – India's largest mobile telco

(2020/04/22)

WhatsApp gets a leg-up into m-commerce

Zuck loves free speech so much Facebook will censor 'anti-state' content in Vietnam after telcos 'crippled' access

(2020/04/22)

Updated Fine, fine, we'll ban whatever the government says is illegal, just give us back access, says US giant

Netflix says subscriptions just boomed but tells investors it's no money heist and they should expect stranger things

(2020/04/22)

And starts deploying TLS1.3 to make streams faster and more secure

New York Attorney General probes Charter over claims it forced staff to work in offices amid coronavirus pandemic

(2020/04/21)

Workers complain to The Register of unnecessary COVID-19 risk

Python 2 bows out after epic transition. And there was much applause because you've all moved to version 3, right? Uh, right?

(2020/04/21)

Version 2.7.18 is the last official Python 2 release, but it'll live on

Somewhere, way out there, two black holes, one large and one small, merged. And here on Earth, we detected the gravitational wave blast

(2020/04/21)

When science fact is better than science fiction

Video game cloud streaming shaken up as Nvidia loses more big names, Microsoft readies its market killer

(2020/04/21)

It's all about the content. And where you can – and can't – get it

IBM == Insecure Business Machines: No-auth remote root exec exploit in Data Risk Manager drops after Big Blue snubs bug report

(2020/04/21)

IT giant admits it made 'a process error, improper response' to flaw finder

House of Commons agrees to allow Zoom app in Parliament, British MPs will still have to dress smartly

(2020/04/21)

How long till this gets hacked?

Watch live online: How to build the next iteration of your business using hybrid cloud

(2020/04/21)

It’s time to strengthen your enterprise apps with the help of Nutanix

Investors splash £100m on robotic process automation vendor in hopes RPA holds up in wake of COVID-19

(2020/04/21)

Cash-flingers see dollars through a Blue Prism

Frippin' heck: Watch out, chin-stroking prog rock fans. King Crimson distributor Burning Shed says it's been hacked

(2020/04/21)

Crims slope off with a slice of dabatase including emails and encrypted passwords but no credit card deets

Have you ever felt like a wounded cow
halfway between an oven and a pasture?
walking in a trance toward a pregnant
seventeen-year-old housewife's
two-day-old cookbook?
-- Richard Brautigan