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)

Indian city floats camera-packing surveillance balloon to zoom in on quarantine-quitters

(2020/04/15)

As Prime Minister calls on citizens to inspire adoption of contact-tracing app

Philippine government demands telcos deliver a continuity plan by the end of the week

(2020/04/15)

Better late than 'Oh no, our outsourcers are all disconnected from the world'

ASEAN economic bloc calls for regional fake news crushing co-operation

(2020/04/15)

And help to take small business digital because of y’know that virus thing we keep hearing about

At least someone's making out like a bandit: Scammers have pocketed $13m in Coronavirus fraud from the US this year

(2020/04/15)

FTC tallies the cost of pandemic rip-offs

GrubHub, DoorDash, Postmates and Uber Eats sued by hangry, overcharged coronavirus customers

(2020/04/15)

As online grocery shopping gets harder as Amazon moves to invite-only

Stack Overflow banishes belligerent blather with bespoke bot – but will it work?

(2020/04/14)

'The mean police, they live inside of my head, the mean police, they come to me in my bed...'

April 2020 and – rest assured – your Windows PC can still be pwned by something so innocuous as an unruly font

(2020/04/14)

Adobe and Intel add their woes

'Come 75,000 workers, join us!' says Amazon. Just don't dare complain about the boss or you're out on your ear

(2020/04/14)

Updated “Repeatedly violated internal policies” means go to the door

Integrate all the things: OpenText would like to knit together application data from across company boundaries

(2020/04/14)

ERP, warehousing, sales, accounts, supply chain all working together

Second-wave dotcom Uber-investor Softbank forecasts gargantuan losses as world economy faces slump

(2020/04/14)

Oh it can't be that baaa.... $16.7 BEEELLION?!

Started from the bottom, now we're near: 16 years on, open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape draws close to v1.0

(2020/04/14)

Interview 'It was really a long process because it's just volunteer work'

From Brit telly presenter Eamonn Holmes to burning 5G towers in the Netherlands: Stupid week turns into stupid fortnight for radio standard

(2020/04/14)

Amazingly, contractor for massive UK TV channels differentiates himself from 'mainstream media'

Microsoft's Teams clocks 2.7 billion minutes of meetings in a single day as April starts to run out for Windows 10 2004

(2020/04/14)

Roundup Plus: New Edge build, more Office 365 branding snuffed

UK MPs fume after Huawei posts open letter stating: 'Disrupting our involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice'

(2020/04/14)

Conservative politicos including IDS voice anger over 'untimely special pleading'

AMD takes another crack at Intel's server stronghold with more Epyc silicon

(2020/04/14)

All 'the working from home and virtual desktops' might make you think about data center rebuilds, hmm?

Reg readers have not one, but TWO teams in Folding@home top 1,000 as virus-bothering network hits 2.4 exa-FLOPS

(2020/04/14)

Distributed computing project sails past anticipated raw power of El Capitan – and you folks are at the forefront

Let's authenticate: Beyond Identity pitches app-wrapped certificate authority

(2020/04/14)

Enclave-bound service aims to be another nail in the password coffin

Wanted: An exit strategy from the overt surveillance of smartphone contact tracing

(2020/04/14)

Comment It’s open source. It will be abused. So we need to design a way out before we dive in

A chief technology officer in a time of COVID-19: Keep calm and make the most of the whole business suddenly realising how important IT is

(2020/04/14)

Column Time to break ties with historic corporate inertia

Stop worrying – Larry Ellison and Prez Trump will have this whole coronavirus thing licked shortly with the power of data

(2020/04/14)

Comment Revealed: Oracle founder's plan for global wellness

Appendix:
A portion of a book, for which nobody yet has discovered any use.