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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
Cortana on a Mac courtesy of Parallels 11

Microsoft's beta language service gets C# dev kit

Yet another chatbot to train
12 Comments
31 Aug 05:05
The App Manager in the Device Portal, managing Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi

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
Tesla crash

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

Hammer and hardhat, image via Shutterstock

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
Two fingers, photo via Shutterstock

Fork YOU! Sure, take the code. Then what?

Open source insider Why people matter in open source
27 Comments
28 Jul 09:39
Battle for ctrl

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
Android Nougat

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
Engineer aboard Das Boot U-96 responds to telegraphs

Das ist empörend: Microsoft slams umlaut for email depth charge

Germans a little verärgert at Outlook bug
134 Comments
22 Aug 18:19
Robots, image via Shutterstock

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
Wizard, photo via Shutterstock

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
Windows XP fail at Hong Kong airport

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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