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)

Windows 3.11 trundles on as job site pleads for 'driver updates' on German trains

(2024/01/30)

Remember making Windows and DOS talk to a network? You could go back to the future with this assignment



UK lawmakers say live facial recognition lacks a legal basis

(2024/01/30)

Lords warn Home Secretary there is nothing to regulate wider trawl of large populations



Techie resurrects teletext on a vintage BBC Master

(2024/01/30)

You can get Ceefax via a Pi, but behold it in its most exotic of habitats



Leaked email: Unit4 ERP system leaves some school staff with 'nil pay'

(2024/01/30)

Exclusive 'Primary focus' is 'welfare of our staff as we resolve any errors,' says UK council after rollout of £30M SAP replacement



Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone

(2024/01/30)

Miss hardware QWERTY? Warm up your soldering iron and 3D printer



UK biometrics boss bows out, bemoaning bureaucratic blunders

(2024/01/30)

Questionable institutional change and myriad IT issues pervade the governance landscape



Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech

(2024/01/30)

Opinion It's not just you – things really are getting worse



It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety

(2024/01/30)

Fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake ... time to fake it off



Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

(2024/01/30)

Controling prostheses? Elon imagines an app for that



Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light

(2024/01/30)

Reg In Space SKAMPI was made in China, driven by Docker, located in South Africa, and aimed at the stars



Microsoft signals expansion of APAC datacenter fleet with 'land acquisition' hire

(2024/01/30)

Hiring for regional and global execs to help it find new spots for bit barns, and make sure they get built right



Microsoft's vision for the future of work is you trusting Redmond to get AI right

(2024/01/30)

Comment You're free to choose your own adventure, from options that involve Copilot and OpenAI



Oracle quietly extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037

(2024/01/30)

Legacy OS and app holdouts get three more years of paid support, also on versions 10.0 and 11.3



SolarWinds slams SEC lawsuit against it as 'unprecedented' victim blaming

(2024/01/29)

18,000 customers, including the Pentagon and Microsoft, may have other thoughts



Things are going to get weird as the nanometer era draws to a close

(2024/01/29)

Comment Angstrom age is right around the corner – for state-of-the-art chips, anyway



Japanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk

(2024/01/29)

Businesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agencies



CockroachDB tempts legacy databases to crawl into the cloud age

(2024/01/29)

Distributed system makes a grab for Oracle, Db2 features



X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety

(2024/01/29)

Maybe those Twitter cuts ran too deep, huh?



Japan's lander wakes up, takes blurry snap of Moon

(2024/01/29)

Winter Night is coming



Amazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators

(2024/01/29)

Retailer steps back from Roomba-maker and 350 staff will have to step back from a job



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