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Obama says USA has world's biggest and best cyber arsenal
Pokémon-loving VXer targets Linux with 'Umbreon' rootkit
98.1 million CLEARTEXT passwords pasted as Rambler.ru rumbled
VMware's Virtual SAN to gain data-at-rest encryption
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BOFH
VMware's Virtual SAN to gain data-at-rest encryption
Tech-for-insurers biz out of action for 10 days now. Hope they had, er...
Of supermarkets, Volkswagen and the future of Dell-EMC
Sysadmins: Poor capacity planning is not our fault
Operating Systems
Applications
Developer
Verity Stob
Adobe reverses decision to kill NPAPI Flash plugin for Linux
Debian plugs Linux 'TCP snoop' bug
'I'm sorry, your lift has had a problem and had to shut down'
Is it time to unplug frail OpenOffice's life support? Apache Project asked to mull it over
Mobile
Broadband
ABBA-solutely crapulous! Swedish router-maker won't patch gaping hole
'Power equipment failure' borks EE's data services across England
Hey, uh ICANN. US govt here. You know we said we'd give you the keys to the 'net? Yeaahhh...
The Internet of Things can transform your business … once your networks are ready
Obama says USA has world's biggest and best cyber arsenal
Pokémon-loving VXer targets Linux with 'Umbreon' rootkit
98.1 million CLEARTEXT passwords pasted as Rambler.ru rumbled
Sophos Windows users face black screens after false positive snafu
Converged
Hybrid delivery
Software-Defined
Your colleagues will lie to you: An enterprise architect's life
The old public, private, or home school sorting bin
No supercomputer cash? Time for a systems squeeze
Bimodal IT: Let the backlash begin
Nutanix buys anon firm in India. DevOps upstart Calm won't comment...
Same job, different place: US salaries top DevOps pay packet poll
Atlassian promises frictionless, casual video encounters
Grindr rolls out New Relic in ‘comprehensive lifestyle’ push
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ACCC mulls regulating roaming charges
HSBC: How will we verify business banking customers? Selfies!
These are not just job cuts, these are M&S job cuts
Nul points: PM May's post-Brexit EU immigration options
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Phones
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Airline safety spiel prohibits finding lost phones
Samsung Australia waves white phlag in phlaming phablet recall
HDMI hooks up with USB-C in cables that reverse, one way
Appliance-maker Liebherr chillin' with Microsoft, prototyping
another
Internet fridge
SPB
Geek's Guide
Second 'dimmer switch' star spotted
International Space Station astros prepare to rejoin us Earthlings
Next Mars landing scheduled for Monday, November 26th, 2018
What the hex is up with Jupiter's North Pole?
Hollywood offers Daniel Craig $150m to (slash wrists) play James Bond
Chubby Chinese students refused top bunk
It's OK to fine someone for repeating a historical fact, says Russian Supreme Court
Newest Royal Navy warship weighs as much as 120 London buses
Software
Adobe reverses decision to kill NPAPI Flash plugin for Linux
Adobe has reversed its decision to kill the NPAPI Flash plugin on Linux, instead deciding that penguinistas deserve some love after four years of neglect.
Simon Sharwood,
06 Sep 02:03
Debian plugs Linux 'TCP snoop' bug
Debian's maintainers have moved to plug the TCP snooping flaw that emerged in August 2016.
Richard Chirgwin,
05 Sep 23:02
'I'm sorry, your lift has had a problem and had to shut down'
More BSODs for your schadenfraude
55
Richard Chirgwin,
05 Sep 04:58
Is it time to unplug frail OpenOffice's life support? Apache Project asked to mull it over
Software hit by dev drought: Patch it or lose it
59
Chris Williams,
02 Sep 19:46
Childcare app bods wipe users' data – then discover backups had been borked for a year
All this the weekend before kids go back to school
63
Alexander J Martin,
02 Sep 15:34
Brave idea: Ex Mozilla man punts Bitcoin adblocking browser
Pay direct, avoid the advertising
30 Comments
02 Sep 10:03
Latest Intel, AMD chips will only run Windows 10 ... and Linux, BSD, OS X
Water cooler
El Reg
answers your questions while you wait for
make all
to finish
148 Comments
02 Sep 09:33
Baidu peddles PaddlesPaddles, floats open source AI tech
Deep learning suite with Python front end
02 Sep 02:30
Windows 10 now rules the weekend, taking over from Windows 7
Redmond's latest is climbing nicely, mostly at Windows 7's expense
46 Comments
02 Sep 02:05
The ability to analyse live streams of mobile and sensor data is no longer optional
Promo
Huawei's Big Data vision will expand at this week's Huawei Connect 2016
02 Sep 02:00
OpenBSD 6.0 lands
VAX support no longer devils the devs
31 Comments
02 Sep 01:05
Ice to see you! Windows 10 fix for freezing PCs finally flung at folks
If the update doesn't work, you'll have to co
40 Comments
01 Sep 21:47
Want a Windows 10 update? Don't go to Microsoft ... please
Peer-to-peer Delivery Optimisation goes global
84 Comments
01 Sep 14:58
Robot cars probably won't happen, sniffs US transport chief
Autonomous automobiles? Not on the NTSB chairman's watch
99 Comments
01 Sep 13:33
A little bit of Cloudant love
Promo
Coding platform support
01 Sep 12:29
Crash test dummy? Love the excitement of breaking an OS? Fedora 25 Alpha has landed
It's supposed to end in tears. Then you can file a bug report
01 Sep 00:56
Life imitates satire: Facebook touts zlib killer just like
Silicon Valley
's Pied Piper
New compression library and MySQL fork open-sourced
20 Comments
31 Aug 20:05
Microsoft's beta language service gets C# dev kit
Yet another chatbot to train
12 Comments
31 Aug 05:05
Windows 10 Anniversary on a Raspberry Pi: Another look at IoT Core
Hands on
Neat platform but should we just use Linux?
87 Comments
30 Aug 09:33
Reports: Autopilot will go on strike if you're not paying attention
Tesla readies software update after high-profile crashes
57 Comments
30 Aug 06:05
Opinion
My Microsoft Office 365 woes: Constant crashes, malware macros – and settings from Hell
Sysadmin blog
When being spoilt for choice is sometimes still no choice at all
Fork YOU! Sure, take the code. Then what?
Open source insider
Why people matter in open source
27 Comments
28 Jul 09:39
Washed out summer? Fear ye not: DVDs for DevOps droogs
Stob
Virtual box sets for REAL IT pros
23 Comments
26 Jul 08:27
You can’t sit there, my IoT desk tells me
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
I can’t stand up for falling down
82 Comments
08 Jul 09:01
News
BSODs at scale: We laugh at your puny five storeys, here's our SIX storey #fail
Windows in a state of undress, all over the world
45 Comments
29 Aug 06:05
Having offended everyone else in the world, Linus Torvalds calls own lawyers a 'nasty festering disease'
Time for a compendium of abuse
150 Comments
26 Aug 20:05
Linux turns 25, with corporate contributors now key to its future
What's the weather in hell today? Linus Torvalds has visited Microsoft at LinuxCon
54 Comments
26 Aug 06:31
Vale, LOGO creator Seymour Papert, who taught us that code can be creative play
Arduino-fiddling kids, and the rest of us, owe Papert a debt of gratitude
12 Comments
25 Aug 06:58
Excel hell messes up ~20 per cent of genetic science papers
Australian boffins say the problem is between users' ears and in the spreadsheet's formatting genes
146 Comments
25 Aug 06:27
Kindle Paperwhites turn Windows 10 PCs into paperweights: Plugging one in 'triggers a BSOD'
More Anniversary Update woe reported by frustrated users
142 Comments
25 Aug 05:02
Windows Update borks PowerShell – Microsoft won't fix it for a week
'We apologize for any inconvenience that this might cause'
141 Comments
25 Aug 00:26
MySQL daddy Widenius: Open-source religion won't feed MariaDB
Interview
Fork off, cash is king
24 Comments
24 Aug 09:03
Google Fuchsia OS eyes non-Linux things
Embedded is the web's next frontier
20 Comments
24 Aug 08:06
Oracle reveals Java Applet API deprecation plan
Big Red nods to plugin-hostile browser-makers, outlines proper Applet pension plan
22 Comments
24 Aug 06:28
Microsoft, Lenovo cross-licensing love-in: Android mobes knocked up with... Office apps
Locked and loaded baby
29 Comments
23 Aug 13:24
Kaspersky launches its own OS on Russian routers
Four-year build results in OS that aims to secure industrial control systems, мы думаем
56 Comments
23 Aug 07:42
Google to block web views from using its OAuth
Deprecation starts in October
23 Aug 05:29
Your
wget
is broken and should DIE, dev tells Microsoft
PowerShell applause sours as
curl
dev doesn't care much for Redmond's alias either
78 Comments
23 Aug 01:30
Chocolate Factory exudes Nougat as Android 7 begins rollout
Newer Nexus owners get it first, the rest will have to wait
51 Comments
22 Aug 22:55
Das ist empörend: Microsoft slams umlaut for email depth charge
Germans a little verärgert at Outlook bug
134 Comments
22 Aug 18:19
Microsoft buys Genee's lamp, tips it into Office 365, smashes lamp
Email AI assistant will close by next month
17 Comments
22 Aug 15:39
Microsoft's kinder, gentler collaboration war: Evernote, you're first
It's all fun and games till a little wizard appears
47 Comments
22 Aug 11:18
Google killing app format used only by The 1%
'Chrome packaged apps' to be snuffed, except on Chrome OS
Five-storey Blue Screen Of Death spotted in Thailand
Where have you seen Windows #fail? And at what scale? Send them in, readers
69 Comments
22 Aug 06:01
Systemd adds filesystem mount tool
Linux mount gets a systemd wrapper
131 Comments
22 Aug 03:03
MacPorts project leaving Apple’s OS Forge
Cupertino's project hosting enters the long dark tea-time of the soul
21 Aug 22:31
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Microsoft thought of the children and decided to ban some browsers
Google swats Nexus 5X vulnerable fastboot memory dump flaw
'Hey, Elon? You broke it, you bought it' says owner of SpaceX's satellite cinder
'I'm sorry, your lift has had a problem and had to shut down'
HDMI hooks up with USB-C in cables that reverse, one way
Spotlight
Microsoft’s Continuum: Game changer or novelty?
Microsoft: Why we had to tie Azure Stack to boxen we picked for you
Reactive? Serverless? Put to bed? What's next for Java. Speak up, Oracle
Breaking 350 million: What's next for Windows 10?
The dev-astating truth: What's left to develop? Send in the machines
My Microsoft Office 365 woes: Constant crashes, malware macros – and settings from Hell
Fork YOU! Sure, take the code. Then what?
Washed out summer? Fear ye not: DVDs for DevOps droogs