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)

BOFH: Don't be nervous, Mr Consultant. Come right this way …

(2022/11/11)

Episode 21 Simon and the PFY take a closer look at a 'routine' data translation costs bill



Go ahead, be rude. You don't know it now, but it will cost you $350,000

(2022/11/11)

On Call You'd think tech support people would stick together …



Europe calls for joint cyber defense to ward off Russia

(2022/11/11)

EC veep: 'Cyber is the new domain in warfare'



You wait for an aurora on Mars and MAVEN spots two arriving at the same time

(2022/11/11)

Boffins baffled: There's, like, zero magnetic field and very little atmosphere. What gives?



Australia blames Russia for harboring health insurance hackers

(2022/11/11)

Crims accessed 10 million customer records and are releasing intimate medical details



AMD grows Epyc datacenter share, loses to Intel generally

(2022/11/10)

Both firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine



Instagram star gets 11 years for $300m email scam plot

(2022/11/10)

Hushpuppi swaps private jet, Dubai penthouse for prison duds and $1.7m to victims



TSMC: You know what would be fab? Some local neon supplies

(2022/11/10)

Chipmaker tired of Putin choking the supply chain of the gas



AMD's 96-core Epyc CPUs leapfrog Intel to put DDR5, PCIe 5.0 in the datacenter

(2022/11/10)

Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim



No formal certifications? CUE the Ubuntu skills testing scheme

(2022/11/10)

Ubuntu Summit Canonical is working on a new way to prove to employers you know your stuff



Tesla rival Rivian posts losses of $1.7b, with worse to come

(2022/11/10)

Taps mic: Elon? Elon are you there? Care to comment?



Husband and wife nuclear warship 'spy' team get 20 years each

(2022/11/10)

The Toebbes tried selling US Navy secrets, but handed them right to the FBI



Twitter CISO flies the coop

(2022/11/10)

As social media giant grapples with Musk takeover, a safe pair of hands reaches for the door



SAP's vision underplays complexity of S/4HANA cloud migration, says Gartner

(2022/11/10)

Difficult decision did not end with RISE with SAP, analyst tells The Reg



Apple and Amazon conspired to raise iPhone and iPad prices, claims class action lawsuit

(2022/11/10)

Alleges agreement choked resellers using Amazon Marketplace, eliminated 98% of competition



EU set to sign internet satellite deal, as UK frees up spectrum

(2022/11/10)

Hasn't escaped Europe's notice that US, China, Russia are launching sat after sat



The Osprey has landed: IBM's 433-qubit quantum processor

(2022/11/10)

Still quite a way to go before fabled 4,158-qubit system lands, scheduled for 2025. Plus: Fujitsu details quantum/HPC hybrid calculation tech



NTT claims it can stop the noise leaking from annoying people's headphones

(2022/11/10)

Can't do anything about their musical taste though



OpenPrinting keeps old printers working – even on Windows

(2022/11/10)

Ubuntu Summit Or, how to make an unsupported printer work on Windows 11 with Ubuntu and WSL2



CIOs in Europe warned: Be wary of tech price inflation

(2022/11/10)

Weakness of local currencies vs the dollar will force US vendors to act and act again



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