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Ofcom 'fair deal' action: UK mobile networks agree to slash contract charges when lock-in ends - except Three

Tech jocks headed for White House powwow on 'economic matters' (read: Huawei ban)

Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America? Oh, it's just 6Mbps? And you're unhappy? Can't imagine why

Echelon gets the upper hand: Scores final nod for 100MW bit barn campus in Arklow, Ireland

npm uninstall co-founder --global: Laurie Voss rides off into the sunset waving goodbye

We need citizen devs, cries Microsoft – but pricey new licensing plans for PowerApps might put paid to that

Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

Hope to keep your H-1B visa? Don't become a QA analyst. Uncle Sam's not buying it: Techie's new job role rejected

Marketing biz bares folks' data in the act of asking for their GDPR comms preferences

Palo Alto gateway security alert, FSB hack, scourge of data-stealing web plugins, and more

In the cooler for the next three years: Hacker of iCloud accounts used by athletes and rappers

When Harry met celly: NSA hoarder thrown in the clink for 9 years – after taking classified work home for decades

Share your story: Continuous Lifecycle 2020 call for papers is open NOW – what are you waiting for?

IBM drags Websphere devs towards Kubernetes with Kabanero package

Amazon brings serverless pie to Visual Studio Code party

Want to get deep into AWS Lambda or Azure Functions? Spend the day with us...

Brussels changes its mind AGAIN on .EU domains: Euro citizens in post-Brexit Britain can keep them after all

UK.gov drives ever further into Nocluesville, crowdsources how to solve digital identity

Estate agent dodges GDPR-sized bullet after exposing 18,610 folks' data for two years

BT staffers fear new mums could be hit disproportionately by car allowance change

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

The pro-privacy Browser Act has re-appeared in US Congress. But why does everyone except right-wing trolls hate it?

Li-ion battery 'price-fixing' case settled with bonus fury over lawyers pocketing eight-figures

Geek's Guide

Apollo 11 @ 50: The long shadow of the flag

Guess who reserved their seat on the first Moon flight? My mum, that's who

Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book

Bad news: Earth is not going to be walloped by asteroid 2006 QV89. Good news: Boffins have lost sight of it, so all hope is not yet lost

Pair programming? That's so 2017. Try out this deep-learning AI bot that autocompletes lines of source code for you

You don't have to drown in data. Extract insight from your info using advanced IT analytics

It's a facial-recognition bonanza: Oakland bans it, activists track it, and pics taken from dating-site OkCupid feed it

Literally braking news: Two people hurt as not one but two self-driving space-age buses go awry

Verity Stob

France seeks science-fiction writers to help futureproof its military against science-fact

Incognito mode won't stop smut sites sharing your pervy preferences with Facebook, Google and, er, Oracle

Japan and Greece collide as Toshiba's storage biz spinoff reborn as Kioxia

It just wasn't meant toupee: Bloke nicked at Barcelona Airport with €30k of blow under wig

Software

npm uninstall co-founder --global: Laurie Voss rides off into the sunset waving goodbye

UpdatedCo-founder and chief data officer at NPM Inc, moves on

18 Jul 20:03 | 7

We need citizen devs, cries Microsoft – but pricey new licensing plans for PowerApps might put paid to that

'Empowering' if you've got $$$

18 Jul 17:30 | 16

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Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

Redmond engineer hints at taking super-lang for a spin

18 Jul 09:00 | 236

Hope to keep your H-1B visa? Don't become a QA analyst. Uncle Sam's not buying it: Techie's new job role rejected

Software testing just ain't that special, sniff immigration bods

17 Jul 23:08 | 54

Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10m in tech giant's own store credits, live life of luxury, Feds allege

'No safeguards' on QA accounts, and suddenly this guy gets a Tesla and $1.6m home, say prosecutors

17 Jul 20:52 | 37

Microsoft adds Internet Explorer mode to Chromium Edge, announces roadmap

Enterprise features including support for hated ancient browser ready to evaluate

17 Jul 12:29 | 28

Google's Go team decides not to give it a try

A key proposal for Go 1.14 – adding a built-in try keyword – has been declined

17 Jul 10:30 | 26

Chrome on, baby, don't fear The Reaper: Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong

NIST boffin builds processor-busting buster

17 Jul 05:28 | 47

No support for CloudEvents standard as AWS does its own thing with EventBridge

We'd love to support the standard, says XML inventor Tim Bray - but why not adopt ours instead?

16 Jul 19:00 | 4

Alexa! When will Windows 10 19H2 ship? New version promises more toys for assistants

Now, how about those Surface Book 2s?

16 Jul 11:07 | 2

You can't say Go without Google – specifically, our little logo, Chocolate Factory insists

We pay for the hosting so the big G stays: Open-source community-driven code lingo site must sport giant's brand

15 Jul 20:54 | 52

Quantum goes open and passwords must die in a week of Microsoft fun

RoundupAlso: a new build brings Android joy to more users. Assuming it actually installs

15 Jul 10:26 | 19

Facebook devs devise Hermes to push cross-platform JavaScript to godlike speeds

Not named after the French couturier but the Greek god of trade, roads, and thieves

12 Jul 06:04 | 17

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Microsoft cracks the whip over quality of code in software souk AppSource, orders devs to run the QA gauntlet

InspirePartners also getting Azure Lighthouse, a new portal and API for Azure resources

11 Jul 20:13 | 9

JavaScript tracking punks given a thrashing by good old-fashioned server log analytics

Netlify dodges the blockers by going to the source

10 Jul 20:00 | 19

Firefox 68 arrives with darker dark mode, redesigned extensions dashboard

Long term release with enhanced controls for IT managers

10 Jul 14:37 | 17

I may have read Autonomy whistleblower emails about 'inflated' sales, founder Mike Lynch admits in court

Autonomy TrialA year before THAT ill-fated buyout

10 Jul 13:25 | 19

Who said 3 was the magic number? Microsoft previews new Azure SDK in 4 programming languages

No more cloud-based DLL Hell or libraries snafus, vows Redmond beastie

10 Jul 11:22 | 4

Internet imbeciles, aka British ISP lobbyists, backtrack on dubbing Mozilla a villain for DNS-over-HTTPS support

Claims nomination was 'light hearted' so they can laugh off this light-hearted article, too

10 Jul 06:09 | 126

Micro Focus pats itself on the back over SUSE jettison as licensing revenue shrinks

But the software museum model prevails

09 Jul 17:32 | 8

Years late to the SMB1-killing party, Samba finally dumps the unsafe file-sharing protocol version by default

Although you can still use it if you like the thrill of danger

09 Jul 07:04 | 52

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Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10m in tech giant's own store credits, live life of luxury, Feds allege

Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America? Oh, it's just 6Mbps? And you're unhappy? Can't imagine why

Bad news: Earth is not going to be walloped by asteroid 2006 QV89. Good news: Boffins have lost sight of it, so all hope is not yet lost

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Imagine an Upside Down world where a vastly inferior OS went on to dominate... Stranger Things have happened

Confirmed: Windows 1.11 is a thing. Kind of

08 Jul 16:00 | 70

Who needs 4th July fireworks when there's a new Windows 10 build?

RoundupAlso: Service Fabric resumes rolling out. And for Insiders? One Hub to rule 'em all (kind of)

08 Jul 10:16 | 10

DoH! Secure DNS doesn't make us a villain, Mozilla tells UK broadband providers

Retort follows nomination for internet villain for helping people bypass UK web filters

06 Jul 09:18 | 175

MapR misses deadline for sale, biz prospects looking thinner than a Hadoop sales pitch

Clings to its own days of independence but no one is celebrating

04 Jul 16:00 | 8

Mmm, instant Java: Visual Studio Code 1.36 brings tasty updates – unless you run 32-bit Linux

In which case, you're sh!t out of luck because it's not supported

04 Jul 14:15 | 18

What will $15.5bn buy you? For Broadcom, it could nab itself a whole Symantec

Chip designer to make another foray into enterprise software... troubled security outfit in its sights

03 Jul 14:34 | 6

Microsoft has Windows 1.0 retrogasm: Remember when Windows ran in kilobytes, not gigabytes?

Redmond fires up the Delorean and heads back to simpler times

03 Jul 13:20 | 117

ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer

Opines that there's 'absolutely no way on Earth this was written from a clean sheet'

03 Jul 11:47 | 198

Google's Fuchsia OS Flutters into view: We're just trying out some new concepts, claims exec

Really? Looks like a strategic project to us

03 Jul 08:15 | 174

NPM Inc settles union-busting complaints on third try – after CEO trolled for ordering internal mole hunt

Stuffed mole toys arrive at JavaScript biz after chief exec demands to know who was talking to El Reg

02 Jul 21:28 | 43

Microsoft wakes up, stretches, remembers: Oh yeah, we do Windows too. And lo, SQL Server 2019 Windows-based container emerges

Also: Still rocking SQL Server 2008? The end is near

02 Jul 18:49 | 3

Microsoft: OK, we admit it, spring is over. Here's your Windows 10 19H2

UpdatedMysteriously missing update finally arrives in preview form. World shrugs

02 Jul 09:15 | 29

Google open sources standardized code in bid to become Mr Robots.txt

Forget about past technical decisions made by fiat, this time your thoughts matter

02 Jul 07:03 | 18

Edge-lords crack down on trackers as Microsoft effortlessly kills off PBX phone system, and what's this? Windows Calculator on iOS?

RoundupAlso: It wasn't only the toilets that were whiffy at Glastonbury last weekend

01 Jul 14:00 | 27

A Register reader turns the computer room into a socialist paradise

Who, me?Terminate and do what?

01 Jul 07:27 | 123

Delphi RAD tool (remember that?) gets support for Linux desktop apps – again

Hands OnSeventeen years after Kylix, Embarcardero adds a complete Linux toolchain to Delphi

29 Jun 06:09 | 76

How do you know it's finally the weekend? Clock hits 5pm? No, Slack goes down on a Friday afternoon in June

Rap for crap yakety-yak app chaps as chats zapped in hours-long nap

28 Jun 20:32 | 14

This weekend you better read those ebooks you bought from Microsoft – because they'll be dead come early July

The major problem with anti-piracy DRM, part 1024

28 Jun 19:26 | 125

Firefox Preview for Android: Mozilla has another go at a mobile browser

Firefox Focus frozen as Mozilla redirects Android effort ... despite small market share

28 Jun 11:29 | 37

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