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President Biden to issue executive order on chip shortages as under-pressure silicon world begs for help

CEOs say US needs to invest in home-fabbed tech

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Amazon sues NY Attorney General in preemptive strike: Web giant faces claim it did not fully protect workers in COVID-19 pandemic

Subsidize public bus service and slow down production? No thanks, says Bezos Bunch

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Huawei invokes 140-year-old law at England's High Court in latest bid to thwart CFO's US-Canada extradition

Lawyers say they need HSBC UK Powerpoint slides to undo Uncle Sam's case against Meng Wanzhou

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New Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of outages, glitches plaguing coronavirus vaccine sign-up website

Promised software may never work as specified, it is feared

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O2 UK overcharged exiting customers by £40.7m over 7+ years: Ofcom slams senior managers, fines it £10.5m

Nearly 8 years of extra fees after it 'initially identified issues' with billing in 2011... but nothing came of it

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Myanmar Junta delivers harsh cyber law and more IP blocking orders

Gives itself power to snoop and block anything, anytime – but at least it’s also consulted with industry

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Dept of If I'd Known 20 Years Ago: Call centres, roosting chickens, and Bitcoin

Getting it half-right means you got it half-wrong

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Machine-learning model creates creepiest Doctor Who images yet – by scanning the brain of a super fan

Oodkind look even more terryfing

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We know it's hard to get your kicks at work – just do it away from a wall switch powering anything important

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Biden administration pauses pursuit of TikTok and WeChat

Chinese New Year gift for Beijing, maybe for Oracle too

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Microsoft tells Biden administration to adopt Australia’s pay-for-news plan

Making Google and Facebook cough up could help USA’s currently fragile democracy, argues Pres Brad Smith

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Security

Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It really, really happened, and with bad BIOS and more, insists Bloomberg

Server maker says latest article is 'a mishmash of disparate allegations'

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Footfallcam kerfuffle: Firm apologises, promises to fix product after viral Twitter thread, infoseccer backlash

Accusations of grey hat infosec consultancy extortion ring drop away after El Reg intervenes

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Apple iOS 14.5 will hide Safari users' IP addresses from Google's Safe Browsing

Another privacy improvement from Cupertino, just a small one

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Software

Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.11, says it's so good your significant other wants you to test it on Valentine's Day

AMD admirers get plenty to swoon over, Intel’s SGX also makes it unto the kernel, as did some head-scratching gaming kit

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How many low-code products does an enterprise software biz need? Ask SAP, it's just swallowed another one

AppGyver disappears inside juggernaut's attempts to nurture more modern image

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helloSystem: Pre-alpha FreeBSD project chases simplicity and elegance by taking cues from macOS

Rethinking the desktop with reference to Apple's early UI guidelines

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Microsoft issues emergency fix for Wi-Fi foul-up delivered hot and fresh on Patch Tuesday

WPA3 access may cause Blue Screen of Death

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Science

Voyager 2 executes first command in 11 months as sole antenna that reaches it returns to work

Resets clock to avoid going into safe mode

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Future astronauts at risk of heart attacks, strokes if radiation allowed to ravage their cardiovascular health

One small step for man, one giant.... urgh...*clutches heart*... THUD

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Bootnotes

Looking for the perfect Valentine's gift? How about a week of retro gaming BBC Microlympics?

Chuckie Egg and Elite? Oh you shouldn't have!

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Court witness describes how Autonomy founder Lynch would wash his rear-end in US prison showers and dorms

When people called the Brit software biz a s*** show... ah, never mind

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