Legal Chinese chipmaker SMIC says US sanctions mean it will struggle to develop 10nm products As India shouts out to world+dog: Anyone fancy building a fab here? 21 Dec 02:02 | 6
Virtualization VMware adds vim and vigor to vMotion between different vCenter servers Improved cloud-hopping capability started as a mere Fling, make AWS an easier target 21 Dec 04:30 | 2
SaaS Google reveals version control plus not expecting zero as a value caused Gmail to take an inconvenient early holiday Meanwhile, Facebook seems to have enough technical debt that it’s blown a Euro-privacy deadline 21 Dec 06:57 | 34
Who, Me? Windows might have frozen – but at least my feet are toasty Not quite what we meant by Halt and Catch Fire 21 Dec 08:15 | 128
Column Well, on the bright side, the SolarWinds Sunburst attack will spur the cybersecurity field to evolve all over again We have to be smarter than the baddies and expect the unexpected 21 Dec 09:30 | 66
Software NHS trust launches £60m software procurement to improve staffing efficiency Chester healthcare provider needs some tech to help wrangle its temps 21 Dec 10:30 | 15
Updated 'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum And Sparta Global then didn't bother turning up to the Employment Tribunal 21 Dec 11:45 | 156
Personal Tech And you thought that $999 Mac stand was dear: Steve Wozniak's Apple II doodles fetch $630,272 at auction Meanwhile, Apple-1 in original box signed by Woz goes for $736,862 21 Dec 12:40 | 42
In brief SolarWinds releases known attack timeline, new data suggests hackers may have done a dummy run last year And SS7 telco hack rears its ugly head yet again 21 Dec 13:30 | 20
Legal 'Following the science' rhetoric led to delay to UK COVID-19 lockdown, face mask rules Also: Would have been great if they'd chatted to an epidemiologist about Eat Out to Help Out project 21 Dec 14:15 | 213
Networks $900bn coronavirus stimulus bill includes $600 for most Americans, $50 in monthly internet subsidies, $1.9bn to help rid the US of Huawei kit Not sure how the last bit relates to COVID-19 but there ya go 21 Dec 15:00 | 47
Legal NHS awards £23m two-year deal to controversial Peter Thiel AI firm Palantir Legal challenges? Scrutiny? Ah, never mind those 21 Dec 16:02 | 39
Security Dell Wyse Thin Client scores two perfect 10 security flaws Come on in and enjoy our unprotected FTP server and unsigned configuration files 21 Dec 17:00 | 35