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Poor people should get slower internet speeds, American ISPs tell FCC

Salesforce has named a chief ethics officer and yes, the job description is appropriately woolly

Oracle takes its gripes about Pentagon's JEDI contract to federal court

In 2018, Facebook is the villain and Microsoft the shining light, according to techies

They say software will eat the world. Here are some software bugs that took a stab at it

Microsoft, you shouldn't have: Festive Windows 10 Insiders build about as exciting as new socks

New Zealand health boards write down losses on Oracle implementation

Whatchu got for us this week, Microsoft? Skype, Powerpoint tweaks and – oh – another foldable

It's December of 2018 and, to hell with it, just patch your stuff

Equifax how-it-was-mega-hacked damning dossier lands, in all of its infuriating glory

25% of NHS trusts have zilch, zip, zero staff who are versed in security

Lenovo tells Asia-Pacific staff: Work lappy with your unencrypted data on it has been nicked

Kubernetes caretaker auditions for Hoarders; takes in another open source project

Google's rent-a-cloud biz revs Istio for its Kubernetes service

Celebrating K8s crates inflation rate, Linux mates congregate

You've patched your cloud software, and feeling smug when... bang! A legacy edge device bricks itself

Super Micro says audit found no trace of Chinese spy chips on its boards

Google CEO tells Congress Chocolate Factory will unleash Dragonfly in China

They said yes, grins Dell Technologies: Expects to go public this month

IBM is trying to throttle my age-discrimination lawsuit – axed ace cloud salesman

Microsoft to rule the biz chat roost – survey

College PRIMOS prankster wreaks havoc with sysadmin manuals

Google: I don't know why you say Allo, I say goodbye

And the next 7nm laptop processor will be designed by In, er, AM, um, Qualcomm: The 64-bit Arm Snapdragon 8CX

Geek's Guide

OSIRIS-REx space probe catches a whiff of water on asteroid Bennu

China on its way to becoming the first nation to land on the far side of the Moon

Official: Voyager 2 is now an interstellar spacecraft

Boffins build blazing battery bonfire

Waymo presents ChaufferNet, an neural net designed to copy human driving

LG's beer-making bot singlehandedly sucks all fun, boffinry from home brewing

NASA names the date for the first commercial crew demo flight

US Homeland Security installs AI cameras at the White House, Google tries to make translation less sexist

Verity Stob

Doom at 25: The FPS that wowed players, gummed up servers, and enraged admins

Dine crime: Chippy sells deep fried Xmas dinner

Ecuador says 'yes' to Assange 'freedom' deal, but Julian says 'nyet'

You're legit and you know you are... Thanks to chanting racist footie fans, linking to dodgy stuff isn't necessarily illegal (well, in Europe)

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They say software will eat the world. Here are some software bugs that took a stab at it

AnalysisWell, you know what we mean. Variable quality comes with increasing quantity

11 Dec 16:00 | 8

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Microsoft, you shouldn't have: Festive Windows 10 Insiders build about as exciting as new socks

Fixes aplenty, but not so many shiny baubles – which is great

11 Dec 11:48 | 40

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New Zealand health boards write down losses on Oracle implementation

End-of-year reports show impairment costs running into millions

10 Dec 18:00 | 14

Whatchu got for us this week, Microsoft? Skype, Powerpoint tweaks and – oh – another foldable

RoundupGaps continue to close in MS's messaging platform as fanbois dream of new devices

10 Dec 11:59 | 17

HCL picks up Notes, spanks total of $1.8bn at Honest John's IBM software sale

Don't worry, Red Hat. We're sure Big Blue will love you more than it did Lotus

07 Dec 11:37 | 77

It's official. Microsoft pushes Google over the Edge, shifts browser to Chromium engine

Cutting Edge technology, literally

06 Dec 22:03 | 138

Incoming! Microsoft unleashes more fixes for Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Got a Surface Book 2 on 1803? You should probably uninstall last week's update

06 Dec 15:19 | 33

Virtual Nodes and Cluster Autoscaling arrive at Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Party

Microsoft Connect();Python slithers out of Azure Functions shadows but ACS is for chop

06 Dec 12:48 | 2

Ooo shiny! First Visual Studio 2019 sneak peek here in time for Chrimbo

Faster Android builds, more space, but don't expect to find a Windows Phone emulator

06 Dec 10:51 | 27

Rubber duck (classic, yellow) floats on water. Photo by shutterstock

Microsoft makes a dip in the Azure Cosmos DB pool just a bit more tempting with another price drop

Come on in, the water's lovely, urges cloudy database team

05 Dec 19:00 | 3

How the mighty have fallen: Anglian Water knocks Google off perch as UK's best workplace

Facebook not even in survey's top 50, while Goldman Sachs lords it over tech's big-hitters

05 Dec 16:04 | 23

A group of happy corporate looking types celebrate

It's the wobbly Microsoft service sweepstake! If you have 'Teams', you've won a lifetime Slack sub

Just kidding, no one deserves that. But you'd be right

05 Dec 14:04 | 33

MongoDB's Atlas shrugs, with all NoSQL biz's customer growth resting on its shoulders

Operating, net losses deepen in Q3, mLab revenues to stumble a bit after buyout

05 Dec 12:58 | 6

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Docker, Microsoft serve container turducken: CNAB spec is a container of containers

DevOps can look forward to packaging their distributed apps

Windows 10 or Cisco Advanced Malware Protection: Pick one

Redmond warns that the malware tool doesn't play nice with the latest upgrade

04 Dec 20:38 | 15

Microsoft's .NET Core 3 is almost here, which means time to move on from .NET Framework

Connect();Plus: Visual Studio 2019 gets collaborative and IntelliCode gets smarter

04 Dec 18:53 | 24

Microsoft gets open-sourcey with Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation

Connect();.NET Foundation to become engorged, ONNX for all, and check out our bundles

04 Dec 17:15 | 1

Microsoft polishes up Chromium as EdgeHTML peers into the abyss

When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes into you. Or is that just Windows Hello?

04 Dec 11:29 | 169

Microsoft: New icons, new drivers, AI! Everything is awesome!

Help on minding your PowerPoint language in this week's MS round-up

04 Dec 09:15 | 40

STIBP, collaborate and listen: Linus floats Linux kernel that 'fixes' Intel CPUs' Spectre slowdown

Meanwhile: Another kernel dev is 'unfscking' the source code, with predictable results

04 Dec 01:44 | 48

US Department of Defense to sling an estimated $3.17bn at Microsoft resellers

Cash to be splashed over 10 years on software sporting a Microsoft badge

03 Dec 18:00 | 7

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Doom at 25: The FPS that wowed players, gummed up servers, and enraged admins

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Privacy, security fears about ID cards? UK.gov's digital bod has one simple solution: 'Get over it'

Qualcomm axes staff, winds down data center processor efforts ... while China takes the blueprints and runs

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Fresh releases of TypeScript and Visual Studio 2017 for Mac round out November

BigInt and .NET Core 2.2 support? Oh Microsoft, you spoil us!

30 Nov 19:30 | 5

Why is my Windows 10 preview build ticking? Microsoft reminds users that previews have timebombs

Build 18290 is here to save the day. Now with extra Fluent Design

29 Nov 19:00 | 27

What now, Larry? AWS boss insists Amazon will have dumped Oracle database by end of 2019

re:InventClock's ticking on Ellison's smack talk

29 Nov 13:05 | 21

Materials suggested to ward off vampires

Question: How fast is the Windows 10 October 2018 Update rolling out? Answer: Not very

Hope for repeat of April dashed on file deletion and iffy QA

28 Nov 17:10 | 29

man covered in sticky notes

Azure MFA falls over, Windows 10 struggles with Intel drivers, and Microsoft gives us... more Sticky Notes?

Stick, stick, stick, stick, sticky, sticky, round-up

28 Nov 09:20 | 15

nerd looking surprised at phone

Euro consumer groups: We think Android tracking is illegal

Pops open can of GDPR beef: Thanks to 'dark patterns' and 'nudging', no doesn't mean no

27 Nov 17:03 | 80

Dog looking through a doggie door

If at first you don't succeed, you may well be Cisco: WebEx patch needs its own patch

UpdatedSwitchzilla has a second go at fixing videoconferencing app's 'I'm the captain, now' hole

27 Nov 16:00 | 2

Microsoft readies the swatter as more bugs wriggle out of the Windows 10 woodwork

It's only Media Player this time. Oh, and file associations. Oops

27 Nov 14:00 | 67

China doesn't need to nick western tech when Google is giving it away

CommentThe Fuchsia is bright. The Fuchsia is red

26 Nov 11:30 | 38

That sphincter-flexing moment for devs when it's time to go live

No stress test? Then prepare for a potential TSB-like mess

26 Nov 10:15 | 18

Groundhog Day comes early as Intel Display Drivers give Windows 10 the silent treatment

What's that? You've installed 1809? No, sorry, can't hear you

22 Nov 16:15 | 86

Uncle Sam's money

Word boffins back Rimini Street in Oracle row: 'Full' in 'full costs' is a 'delexicalised adjective'

Pah! Who didn't know that?! (It means they shouldn't have to pay non-taxable costs, apparently)

21 Nov 23:00 | 13

Hot air baloon, image: Shutterstock

Sage CEO: £60m says we can convert more folk to Business Cloud

FY18 dogged by execution woes but, er, all sorted now

21 Nov 16:00 | 14

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Microsoft: You looking at me funny? Oh, you just want to sign in

Password-less logins for Edge users with Windows Hello or a FIDO2 dongle. Like, 3 people

21 Nov 13:00 | 35

Woman holds hand after working too hard

SAP claims French robo minnow Contextor slurp will slash clicks needed in its ERP software

Automated mercy for those knobbly pointers

Windows 10 goes into the Light and Cortana MIA as Microsoft buys chatbot bods XOXCO

RoundupPlus: Battery-powered Azure Sphere, Razor support in Visual Studio Core

20 Nov 09:15 | 11

OpenStack 2018: Mark Shuttleworth chats to The Reg about 10-year support plans, Linus Torvalds and Russian rockets

InterviewLike Ubuntu, hate upgrading? Canonical founder has good news. And a mighty, mighty beard

19 Nov 09:16 | 14

Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then U-turns so hard, it warps fabric of reality

We never meant to make that widely public which is why we made a public FAQ for it

17 Nov 01:03 | 120

Microsoft menaced with GDPR mega-fines in Europe for 'large scale and covert' gathering of people's info via Office

Telemetry data slurp broke the law, Dutch govt eggheads say

16 Nov 20:17 | 141

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