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)

Amazon's robo vacuum power grab sucks EU attention

(2023/07/07)

Regulators concerned iRobot could receive preferential treatment on the company's ecommerce platform



Capita staffers told attackers stole data from its own pension fund

(2023/07/07)

Three months after mega breach by Russian cybercrime group



Post-Brexit tariffs on cross EU-UK electrical vehicle imports still going ahead

(2023/07/07)

Commission official insists it has to protect itself against US subsidies



UK government's newest department to lead mega ERP procurement

(2023/07/07)

Tender designed to bring together 48k users running Oracle, Microsoft and more into 1 SaaS system



Nobody does DR tests to survive lightning striking twice

(2023/07/07)

On Call When our reader found this out, he learned even heavenly bolts can't defeat lawyers



Samsung warns of imminent profit plunge

(2023/07/07)

It looks like memory glut and consumer indifference to smartmobes are persisting



Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?

(2023/07/07)

Register Kettle Our vultures ponder decentralization over convenience



Australia's 'great example of government using technology' found to be 'crude and cruel'. And literally lethal to citizens

(2023/07/07)

Report on 'Robodebt' scheme calls for major reforms, plus review of Feds' automation, data-sharing



India's space agency set to launch lunar lander, rover

(2023/07/07)

On a shoestring budget, Chandrayaan-3 aims to observe Luna, Earth, even exoplanets



Startup that charged $1.20 a day for coworking space in nightclubs folds

(2023/07/07)

Friyey’s cash – and beer – taps turned off



OpenAI is still banging on about defeating rogue superhuman intelligence

(2023/07/07)

Yes, funnily enough, it does involve training an AI to be nice



Tesla ordered to cough up data for Autopilot probe or face heavy fines

(2023/07/07)

Just make this 'self driving' system drive itself over to the filing cabinet and fish out the documents needed



Nickelodeon probes claims of massive data leak as SpongeBob fans rejoice

(2023/07/07)

TV network's attorneys 'on a DMCA rampage' ... are you sure you're ready, kids?



From cage fight to page fight: Twitter threatens to sue Meta after Threads app launch

(2023/07/07)

Meta rolls eyes at claim it used former Twits to create rival



Microsoft puts out Outlook fire, says everything's fine with Teams malware flaw

(2023/07/06)

Redmond's not fixing the latter because it 'relies on social engineering'



Mozilla pauses blunder-prone AI chatbot in MDN docs

(2023/07/06)

Firefox maker promises it'll use ML responsibly – as critics say: Fork this



SpaceX says, sure, Starship blew up but you can forget about the rest of that lawsuit

(2023/07/06)

Won't someone think of the (checks notes) Kemp's Ridley sea turtle?



HPE prepares for spicy affair with India to churn out $1B worth of servers

(2023/07/06)

Middle Kingdom suddenly a less appealing destination for manufacturing



UK court sides with Optis Cellular Technology in Apple 4G patent clash

(2023/07/06)

Appeal rejected: iPhone and iPad have infringing components inside



Europe sets out to squeeze every last drop of power from supercomputers

(2023/07/06)

Because Ferraris are meant to fly, not amble along at 2mph



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It's multiple choice time...

What is FORTRAN?

a: Between thre and fiv tran.
b: What two computers engage in before they interface.
c: Ridiculous.