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)

ZX Spectrum prototype ROM is now available for download courtesy of boffins at the UK's Centre for Computing History

(2020/04/02)

Lose yourself in a relic of simpler times

VMware plans to give vSphere power to automatically patch everything running in a VM

(2020/04/02)

But first, you get a taste of it with host lifecycle management, and more waiting for K8s integration

Soup to nuts? Not quite for SAP asset management as oil drilling firm employs supply-chain add-on to save $6.8m

(2020/04/02)

That's a pretty expensive gap in S4/HANA

Do you want to be an astronaut when you grow up? Yeah, you and 12,000 others: NASA flooded with folks hoping to visit Moon, Mars

(2020/04/02)

Cramped conditions? Not being able to see friends and family? Sounds familiar

Huawei signs non-aggression patent pact with membership of Open Invention Network

(2020/04/02)

Updated Chinese giant plays nice with open source

Fitbit unfurls last new wearable before it's gobbled by Google, right on time for global pandemic lockdown

(2020/04/02)

Track your jogs around the block – while those are still allowed

Here's what Europeans are buying amid the COVID-19 lockdown – aside from heaps of pasta and toilet paper

(2020/04/02)

Clue: Home working might have played a bit part, even in return of the desktop

Google Cloud Engine outage caused by 'large backlog of queued mutations'

(2020/04/02)

Ad giant added memory to servers, restarted, watched things get worse ... is on top of things again now

Slack hooks up with Microsoft Teams and Zoom

(2020/04/02)

Maybe the world needs the Pidgin of voice and video right now?

If you thought black holes only came in S or XXXL, guess again, maybe: Elusive mid-mass void spotted eating star

(2020/04/02)

Could this candidate be a missing link between small and bonkers-massive?

Cisco rations VPNs for staff as strain of 100,000+ home workers hits its network

(2020/04/02)

Following the moon to find capacity and sticking to safe sites as Chuck Robbins leads new weekly briefings

Does the US CLOUD Act hang darkly over your data privacy?

(2020/04/02)

How to combat the threat and comply with GDPR

Well, 2019 finished with Intel as king of the chip world, Broadcom doing OK, everyone else shrinking. Good thing 2020's looking up, eh?

(2020/04/02)

Oh, oh no... oh God

Vietnam bans posting fake news online

(2020/04/02)

About coronavirus or anything else

VMware seeks new Australian MD as Alister Dias departs for Asian role

(2020/04/02)

Scores new gig promoting software-defined data centres

Japanese airline ANA spins out telepresence-bot startup for virus-avoiding medicos and fearful tourists

(2020/04/02)

Imagine an iPad running FaceTime clamped to a post stuck into a Roomba and you'll get the idea

Amazon says it fired a guy for breaking pandemic rules. Same guy who organized a staff protest over a lack of coronavirus protection

(2020/04/02)

Wow, how convenient

Microsoft finds itself in odd position of sparing elderly, insecure protocols: Grants stay of execution to TLS 1.0, 1.1

(2020/04/01)

A few more months to get those servers upgraded 'in light of current global circumstances'

Access Analysis, GuardDuty and Inspector gadgets not enough? Here comes another AI-driven security tool for AWS

(2020/04/01)

What have you got for us, Detective?

Microsoft's PowerToys suite sprouts four new playthings with a final March emission

(2020/04/01)

Today's Window Walk is brought to you by the letters 'R' 'E' and 'G'

I've known him as a man, as an adolescent and as a child -- sometimes
on the same day.