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They’ll be hosted by Equinix, owned by NVIDIA, and include NetApp storage Computex   NVIDIA has decided to become an IaaS provider, at leas...

CEO reveals new Teslas include AMD silicon and that Samsung has signed to pack RDNA 2 graphics into Exynos SoCs COMPUTEX   AMD has revealed...

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Appears to have taken first step by appointing grievance officer Twitter has been given three weeks to comply with India’s Information Tech...

Plus: Ex-OpenAI employees launch machine-learning non-profit In brief   Nearly a hundred counties, towns and cities across the US have purc...

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When starting a garden, you have two choices: planting seeds or seedlings (and other transplants). Those looking to have a close-to-instant...

Sometimes honesty is the best policy Who, Me?   A step back in time for today's Who, Me? with a trip to the dying days of manual credi...

Google spawned it, Cloudflare backed it, Microsoft made its own cut. Boffins worry it didn't improve privacy Quick UDP Internet Connect...

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Double-mutant strain puts electronics factories at risk Vietnam’s government has asked Samsung to find COVID-19 vaccinations to protect wor...

Cops weren’t total dopes: chronic electricity theft means they still smoked crims West Midlands Police in the UK has revealed that officers...

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When you think of gardening tools, items like gloves, spades, and pruning sheers probably come to mind. But it turns out, there’s something...

Attention race fans (and those who live with them): As you likely already know, today the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500 will take ...

Fans of the Golden Girls should be familiar with the type of natural, woven style of furniture in the photo above. But what’s it called? T...

When we think about the night sky, most people likely picture constellations, planets, the moon, or even meteors, on occasion. But the thir...

If your idea of a relaxing weekend includes playing countless hours of video games with a friend while eating delicious snacks, then have w...

Decent port of a PlayStation 4 'exclusive', but it's far from original The RPG   Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The...

Theft spree repeatedly blamed on wrong guy – lawsuit Apple and its security contractor Security Industry Specialists (SIS) were sued on Fri...

Not the first plane trip you wanted to do post-lockdown, but there you are Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual tech jamboree, is back, in perso...

Amazing how being able to write off 130% of infrastructure deployment focuses minds BT-owned Openreach threw rural Britain a bone today, an...

There’s a culture war raging across the TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram, and I’m not talking about the urban vs. rural political quagmire tha...

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Invoices from his own companies were just less than the amount he was able to sign off. Services never delivered A former senior IT manager...

It’s easy to assume that your collectibles are covered by homeowners or renters insurance, but that’s not always the case. Often you’ll onl...

When I decided to spend a month trying to get myself to actually like running for the Lifehacker Fitness Challenge , I’ll admit that my exp...

So if the generals would lend us a few bob to fix it that'd be nice of them The Ministry of Defence’s IT systems are “too fragmented, f...

Yes, you read that right The retro computing craze spiked during the pandemic. With the usual watering holes closed, some techies occupied ...

...the vast emptiness of Notepad Bork!Bork!Bork!   A novel way of entering your PIN features in today's entry into the pantheon of prob...

Amazon's cloud arm criticised by users facing unexpected bills Analysis   Amazon Web Services has come under fire for lack of hard spen...

Lenovo ops chief adds: 'Everything that is able to be built is selling' Planning on buying one of those cheaper laptop PCs? Some of...

Food for thought for obese minds Something for the Weekend, Sir?   "Your favourite chef is worried about you!" … from The Regi...

Microsoft says Nobelium scored access to Constant Contact email marketing tool Nobelium, the Russia-aligned gang identified as the perpetra...

The sound of silence? No, no, it's stupidity On Call   A reminder of who is really in charge and how one should set one's prioritie...

Hopes to start selling ‘em too, because China and Japan are heading the same direction and aren’t good at sharing South Korea today announc...

Just make sure you read this guide first Promo   After not seeing your colleagues face to face for a year or more, does the prospect of wor...

And why would he change when quarterly revenue just cracked $3bn for the first time? VMware’s incoming CEO Raghu Raghuram has outlined his ...

Not everyone is celebrating Uber has officially recognized the trade union GMB, clearing the way for as many as 70,000 Uber drivers in the ...

Special Administrative Region recorded plunge in ransomware attacks Criminals tried to exploit Hong Kong residents' COVID-related anxie...

Government lashes WhatsApp, too, in free speech vs sovereignty debate Twitter has taken issue with India’s Digital Media Ethics Code – and ...

Three years to go and space agency is way behind schedule The chances of NASA sending the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024 is l...

Mozilla says Google's content-filter API doesn't meet developer needs, others agree Firefox maker Mozilla on Thursday said it plans...

The desk and chain awaits those extra 2,500 people... the lucky blighters SaaSy HR and finance vendor Workday says it's hiring 2,500 pe...

It has been a rough week for poultry. First, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had to remind us not to kiss or cuddle li...

Making the decision to call Child Protective Services (CPS) on another parent is not a decision most of us would ever arrive at lightly. We...

The pandemic-propelled gardening boom has been great for people with a yard, a community garden plot, or even a balcony. But for those of u...

Is that a tuning Fork we hear? The saga of the Audacity takeover continued this week with the announcement of a Contributor License Agreem...

If you missed last week’s extended tax filing deadline, you might be feeling anxious about getting hit with late-filing penalties by the IR...

I love the drama of serving a whole head of roasted garlic . It’s a little parcel of flavor that never fails to impress, but extracting the...

Nice try, but package management will never work as well on Windows as it does on Linux Microsoft has released Windows Package Manager 1.0,...

In 2002, Oscar-winning Italian actor Roberto Benigni, who’d earlier found worldwide acclaim with, of all things, a sugar-coated chronicle o...

No sign of ransomware - or attacker's identity, so far A Fujitsu project management suite is causing red faces at the Japanese company’...

Transition interrupted by 'hostile takeover' One of the bigger beasts of the Linux world, Ubuntu, has abruptly jumped ship to Libe...

Privacy groups claim images are stored 'indefinitely', even after deletion, in GDPR breach Updated   Data rights groups have filed ...

Faster Entity Framework, complete C++ 20 support in Visual Studio, but complications remain Build   Microsoft has previewed Hot Reload for ...

Hyperconverged upstart says subscription transition remains on track and emerging products booming Nutanix has claimed its homebrew AHV hyp...

Former UK.gov spin doctor talks of mess in response to crisis The UK’s Health Secretary put plans to create the test and trace system to co...

One charger to rule them all … eventually, maybe The USB Promoter Group has announced the completion of USB Power Delivery Specification Re...

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Demand for 'leccy also lifted by dry season that's seen more farmers pumping water Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has declared a ...

Four of six current bit barn builds by cloud colossus ring the Indian Ocean Amazon Web Services has announced it’s close to bringing a full...

It’s a pathfinder for Toyota’s planned self-driving moon buggy, and tiny compared to Optimus Prime Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JA...

Facebook-owned messaging service says – without irony – that people want companies to hold less personal information WhatsApp has sued Indi...

M1RACLES flaw looks more embarrassing than dangerous Apple's Arm-based M1 chip, much ballyhooed for its performance , contains a design...

Wow, we finally found a fan of XML Documents submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office should be in .DOCX format starting from next y...

We talked earlier this week about how to be a more gentle parent , which sounds sweet and lovely but can be hard to pull off when you’re f...

They say it’s more dangerous to use a dull knife than a sharp knife. That’s because if you struggle with a dull blade, you’re more likely t...

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My mother’s dental history reads like a horror novel: multiple fillings, root canals, implants, jaw surgeries, gum tissue grafts, and full ...

If you’ve managed to escape the past few years without encountering a loved one who has become buried in misinformation or disinformation ,...

If your concept of caterpillars is primarily based on reading Eric Carle’s  The Very Hungry Caterpillar , a specific image likely comes to ...

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Explosive Whitehall testimony also reveals former Faculty data scientist Ben Warner’s influence on decision making during national emergency...

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We tend to think of cucumbers as cool and crisp, best smashed and served in salads, or brined and pickled. But there is beauty in a cooked ...

Raiding the iPhone's parts bin: $$. Making sure users can't upgrade a desktop computer? Priceless Having ripped into Apple's ne...

For now it's full send... but what will things look like when the smoke clears? It’s almost over. On Monday, Epic Games and Apple wrapp...

The CIO does not decide how soon you need to respond. 'The person who decides is the attacker' QCon Plus   Automated testing and ra...

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Unclear if 'space' is on the green, amber or red list Good news for wannabe Brit rocket operators: regulations have finally arrived...

Bug-hunting industry wants to know a bit more before doing that, though Businesses operating in the word of infosec have been urged to writ...

Poorly defined business requirements, failure in documentation, independent report finds An independent review of a technology failure that...

Pumice-like stuff spotted by Japanese Hayabusa2 probe would float on water Asteroid Ryugu, the rock from which Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe brou...

24 out of 26 tools vulnerable – with bonus JavaScript attack for Adobe A pair of techniques to surreptitiously alter the content of certifi...

Drive looks to be an industrial model, so probably not a wider threat Cisco has named Micron as the supplier of solid-state disks that put ...

Sixth big outage in seven weeks, this time users may be unable to access an unlucky 13 services IBM’s Cloud is experiencing another Severit...

Hasn't said which brands have signed up, but is happy to have them make 2G and 3G kit for a decade Analysis   Pakistan has announced it...

Unauthenticated remote code execution possible thanks to vSphere Client bug VMware has revealed a critical bug that can be exploited to ach...

If you’ve ever wondered if you should invoke something or evoke it, you’re not alone. Not only do the words sound similar, but the differ...

Refund rights for customers The UK's Competition and Mergers Authority (CMA) has reached agreement with antivirus vendor McAfee, which ...

Ampere’s Altra gets the gig at a cent-per CPU hour, with managed K8s for starters, managed MySQL coming soon Oracle has made good on its pr...

After being cooped up inside all winter (especially within the past two years) it can be easy to get carried away with your summer plans—in...

Updated 5/24: Samsung has extended the data transfer deadlines for Samsung Cloud users. We’ve updated the article below with the new cutoff...

MPs ignore calls for regulation to help contractors MPs in the UK’s Parliament decided not to select amendments to the 2021 Finance Bill de...

Citing labor shortages, 23 states have announced that they’re opting out of the federal government’s unemployment assistance program, which...

As we draw closer to August, you and I will be tempted and tried by False Tomato Season. Though I have never in my life had a truly fantast...

Homegrown code spotted in the wild Google’s Fuchsia operating system has started winging its way to real-life devices, with owners of the ...

Processor core among raft of designs for upcoming devices Arm will today unveil two trinities – a family of three CPU cores, and a family o...

No alarms, no surprises We’ve crossed the point where teardowns of Apple’s computers cease to be a genuine assessment of fixability, and be...

Halp, I am stück în ëmërgëncy mødë Bork!Bork!Bork!   Nature is healing and bork has returned to the wild. Or at least nestled within the pl...

'The decision was made to return an error message that gave people an ability to contact us' Interview   Last December, the Python ...

You've heard of Continuous Integration – how about Continuous Review for your Jamstack? Interview   Netlify has acquired FeaturePeek, a...

November scripting error havoc finally fixed Around three weeks late — a fairly good result for anything to do with the UK government's...

Also steps into future by allowing plug to be pulled on 2G networks The Republic of Korea took two bold steps into the future on Tuesday, b...

Acquisition expected to complete in April 2022, empty positions can't be filled until then Exclusive   Arm has entered an engineering h...

Spanish authorities say there’s no reason to suspect foul play A man has been found dead inside a large model dinosaur in the Spanish munic...

Brit thrown in the clink for 13 years after palm-print lifted from internet photo A drug dealer's ham-handed OPSEC allowed British poli...

It’s all about domestic efficiency, and if that helps China to become a bigger player then so be it A former governor of the People’s Bank ...

Action comes amid raging second wave and government pressure on social networks to suppress misinformation and criticism of health response ...

Allows limited on-site registration for jabs India has acknowledged the API it created to facilitate its COVID-19 vaccination bookings excl...

Prime viewing in the Pacific Rim Skygazers will be treated to a total lunar eclipse on Wednesday, May 26, when the Moon passes through Eart...

Too often, runners try to improve by focusing exclusively on their running. They attempt faster workouts, higher mileage, speedier overall ...

When you’re looking for a new job there’s a lot that can go wrong, from formatting your resume improperly to being tripped up by questions ...

ESA's Rosalind Franklin waiting in the wings as engineers fix the parachutes China's Mars rover has taken its first tentative trund...

When you’re in elementary school, having friends from a different grade can be an indicator of your social status. Hanging around with kids...

When I wrote last week about considering whether it’s time to change our parenting styles as we emerge from the pandemic, one reader reach...

CEO Ebon Upton: 1st-gen HAT uses silicon 'that's in short supply' but 'we're very good at pipelining' Raspberry Pi ...

Apple co-founder's camp denies claims Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will face a trial next month in an Arizona district court over all...

With the boom of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) retail financing, the preference for no-interest installment plans has prompted popular payment a...

Growing up, catfish was one of my favorite foods—one of the only fishes I enjoyed eating, in fact. As I got older, and lived and traveled o...

Who needs precedent when you have Priti Patel and a 'contactless corridor' The UK’s home secretary Priti Patel has claimed the UK b...

We're working on it, Spark backer Databricks declares Data lakes are struggling to support more than 10 users when they try to perform ...

The unspoken perils of remote working Column   It's now over a year since offices were shuttered and phrases like "remote" or...

That's the BackOffice Resource Kit. What did you think we meant? Bork!Bork!Bork!   When it comes to bork, Microsoft has always been ahe...

Which opt-out is the right opt-out? Are they selling data or not? The NHS body responsible for delivering IT strategy has struggled to ensu...

Also: The basic utility of the general purpose OS cannot be sanitised into total safety. Nor should it Column   You will have noticed that ...

First launch from New Mexico facility goes off without a hitch, ticks regulatory boxes and even does some science On Saturday, Virgin Galac...

Guess what I learned at school today, Mummy! Who, Me?   Blue flashes and blue language await in this week's Who, Me? where a Reg read...

Japan’s ageing population and COVID inspire JV to create remote work platform biz Sony and Kawasaki Heavy Industries have created a new joi...

Plus: DeepMind has been trying to gain more independence from Google, and how AI can help cosmologists In brief   Amazon promised it would ...

While my SITA gently leaks, customers were unaware their credit card numbers had flown away India’s flag carrier, Air India, has admitted i...

Microsoft properties and 103 other inappropriate apps - including TikTok and Baidu - given 15 days to rectify their wicked ways After recei...

Tech Ministry trying to figure out just how much personal info has made it onto notorious RaidForums data-mart Indonesia’s government has a...

Cryptos mentioned on lists of risks to financial system to be avoided China has again signalled deep antipathy to cryptocurrency, this time...

The first time (or maybe every time) you’ve purchased towels, perhaps you based your selection on 1) what’s cheapest and 2) is it a towel. ...

Look: we know that we’ve heard a lot from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over the past year. What were they supposed t...

Whether you’re addressing a group of people at work, or having a one-on-one conversation with a friend, you have the challenge of competing...

iLeader defends iGiant's app oversight to keep people safe from 'toxic mess' Apple CEO Tim Cook testified in defense of his com...

As anyone who has led a team knows, being an effective manager involves more than making sure work gets done and goals are met. But for per...

If, like so many others, you first got into gardening during the pandemic, you’ve probably already figured out that it involves more than p...

Remember back in the day (i.e. 2019) when we took the simple act of leaving our home for non-essential purposes for granted? After more tha...

Plus: Stalkerware even more scummy and ExifTool needs patching In brief   CNA Finaincial, the US insurance conglomerate, has apparently pai...

I have you now, Samsung The European Commission has approved SK Hynix’s acquisition of Intel’s NAND flash and solid-state drive businesses,...

Taking fire nudes is exhilarating, right? Sending them is exciting and hot, as is receiving them. It’s all fun and games…until, sometimes,...

Google is testing an experimental RSS-based “Follow” feature in Chrome Canary on Android. Google says the feature is only an “experiment” f...

And less than a fifth of CMA crims copped jail terms Prosecutions under the UK's Computer Misuse Act (CMA) dropped by a fifth in 2020 e...

There are an infinite number of uses for duct tape . The super adhesive tape fixes ripped tents and makes durable wallets—kids have even go...

Last week’s 0ut-of-touch guide touched on heavy internet darkness, so this week we’re keeping it light as a flyweight boxer trying to make...

Remember HDTV? Full 1080p? Well those days are long gone, baby! Now 4k is the minimum acceptable definition you want to watch anything. Oth...

As I wrap up Week Three of trying to learn to like running—a thing I have hated most of my life—for my monthlong “ Lifehacker Fitness Chal...

Never mind the Clacton-on-Sea pier. They've got £600k to build power plant butlers The University of Essex has secured £600,000 in fund...

If you have an old credit card that you never use, you might be tempted to scrap it. After all, debt is bad right? Well, cancelling your ca...