Microsoft goes into Windows lockdown for builds from May, citing 'public health situation' (yes, the coronavirus spread)
(2020/03/25)
Security updates immune to freeze, we note
Samsung says it has the future of DRAM sorted after success with new EUV process
(2020/03/25)
Already shipped a million units to good reviews, now says DDR5 will launch in 2021
Stuck inside with nothing to do? Apple fires out security fixes for iOS, macOS, wrist-puters... and something weird called iTunes for Windows
(2020/03/25)
Dozens of bugs swatted in latest Cupertino updates
Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo dies aged 92
(2020/03/25)
Magic potion finally runs out for famed artist and author
VMware says cloud 'capacity constraint' in Australia is not a shortage, but it's adding new hosts anyway
(2020/03/25)
Orange light has been on in Sydney for over 36 hours
India tech firms warned not to abuse their exceptions to national coronavirus lockdown
(2020/03/25)
DO: Keep essential services humming. DON'T: Sneak in client work and claim it's critical
Hong Kong coronavirus quarantine evaders collared by cops with the help of smartphone-tracking tech
(2020/03/25)
Public also urged to report stay-at-home scofflaws
Hypochondriacs – are your eyes all blurry? It's just YouTube trying to cut video-stream quality worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic
(2020/03/25)
You can still watch in HD, but, please, maybe not?
Internet Archive opens National Emergency Library with unlimited lending of 1.4m books for stuck-at-home netizens amid virus pandemic
(2020/03/24)
Global crisis necessitates extreme copyright flexibility, educators insist
Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft speech-to-text AI systems can't understand black people as well as whites
(2020/03/24)
Lack of varied training data to blame, say researchers
Adobe debuts disk-cleaning tool cleverly disguised as an arbitrary file deletion bug in Creative Cloud on Windows
(2020/03/24)
Patch this flaw, unless you want random docs to wipe out your work
COVID-19 not blamed for tech outage: We were just being a bit crap, says TeamViewer
(2020/03/24)
Duff release, not extra traffic, behind remote desktop software falling over
Whoa, someone actually texted you in 2020? Oh, nvm, it's just Boris Johnson, telling you to stay the f**k at home
(2020/03/24)
UK lacks formal emergency messaging system, so Big 4 carriers helped out
Watch live online this week: Why you need managed detection and response
(2020/03/24)
Integrate your disconnected products and management if you want to survive
Computacenter looking to buy a nice little place in France, by which we mean most of BT's French network real estate
(2020/03/24)
Brit telco and reseller giant in talks... presumably over a very long desk
'Azure appears to be full': UK punters complain of capacity issues on Microsoft's cloud
(2020/03/24)
Bad time to request new resources, and existing ones have problems too
First crew launch in US since 2011 could happen by May, 34 more OneWeb sats, and astros share their top isolation tips
(2020/03/24)
Roundup In space, no one can hear you scream 'Who used the last sheet of toilet roll!'
Microsoft brings K8s Security Center out of preview, replaces CoreOS Container Linux with Flatcar
(2020/03/24)
Azure security dashboard now covers Kubernetes service - at a price
PC owners borg into the most powerful computer the world has ever known – all in the search for coronavirus cure
(2020/03/24)
Move over, Summit. Distributed computing project hits 470 PFLOPS
Where's our software, Langowski? Windows Insider Program gets new leader
(2020/03/24)
Roundup Also: Edge hits the pause button and F# 5 Preview 1 is here
The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared
for not by our labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in his
infinite wisdom has given control of property interests of the country, and
upon the successful management of which so much remains.
-- George F. Baer, railroad industrialist