Tech

Singapore PM: 'Considerable Risk' Of Severe US-China Tensions

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says there is "significant anxiety" over US-China ties. Read more

Covid Stimulus: Biden Signs $1.9tn Relief Bill Into Law

The US government has now spent more than $5tn on recovery efforts during the pandemic. Read more

Exchange Email Hack: Hundreds Of UK Firms Compromised

Hackers linked to China have found footholds inside hundreds of companies after a mass hack. Read more

Brexit: UK Delays Border Checks On EU Goods Into Great Britain

Ministers say the move will help firms after Covid - but Labour says it "smacks of ill-preparedness". Read more

HSBC Plans To Phase Out Coal Financing By 2040

The bank will ask investors to back the plan following pressure from a shareholder campaign group. Read more

Huawei's First Desktop PC To Be Sold Outside China Is A Sleek Business Machine With Optional 'smart' Keyboard

But relies on integrated graphics, and what's the serial port for? Perhaps the only element of Huawei's consumer busine... Read more

John Lewis Warns Of 'painful' Store Closures

The retail giant reports big losses and says it does not expect to reopen all of its shops post-lockdown. Read more

Derbyshire Cheese Maker Upset At £180 Post-Brexit Stilton Fee

Hartington Creamery says the paperwork needed for each order is costing too much. Read more

Embedded Tech Specialist Advantech Warns Component Shortage Will Slow Growth

It's not just car-makers slowing down: Advantech supplies the likes of Cisco and IBM COVID-related silicon supply chain... Read more

First Australia, Maybe Europe, Now America Mulls Effort To Potentially Make Google, Facebook Pay For News

Journalism Competition and Preservation Act has been proposed twice already. Will it survive this time? Both chambers o... Read more

'I Went From Hollywood Glamour To Food Donations'

The Los Angeles awards season workers who have had to find new jobs. Read more

Russia Botches Twitter Throttling, Cripples Anything With T-dot-co In The Name – Including Reddit, Microsoft

See, regular expressions are hard Websites with domain names containing 't.co' were knackered in Russia today as a resu... Read more

Privacy Purists Prickle At T-Mobile US Plan To Proffer People's Personal Web, App Pursuits To Ad Promoters

Moz urges ISPs told to commit to opt-in data usage – as if one more scolding might make a difference in decades of op... Read more

Apple Announces €1bn Munich Semiconductor R&D Facility Focused On Wireless Comms

Claims campus will be home to 'Europe's largest mobile technologies engineering team' Apple today announced plans to in... Read more

Talk About A Blue Monday: OVH Outlines Recovery Plan As French Data Centres Smoulder

Servers affected include those used by ESA, Villarreal football club, and some misused by malware miscreants Updated  ... Read more