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Huawei rotating CEO: Chinese government will not 'just stand by and watch Huawei be slaughtered'

Cloudflare is over the moon because its pro-privacy 1.1.1.1 DNS service got a clean bill of health from everyone's favorite auditor – KPMG

Watch your MANRS: Akamai, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, and pals join internet routing security effort

Pandemic impact: Two-thirds of polled Reg readers say it's business as usual in the IT dept, one in ten panicking

Microsoft expands AI features in Office, but are they any good? Mixed, according to our Vulture

If you've ever wished Visual Studio Code could be more open source, the Eclipse Foundation would like a word

What's the difference between Windows 7 and a bin lorry? One is full of garbage, and the other… oh dear

Oracle makes some certifications and cloudy content free, in case you have time on your hands

Epic Games floats $1m bounty to ID source of 'commercial smear' claiming Houseparty chat app has been hacked

Marriott Hotels hacked AGAIN: Two compromised employee logins abused to siphon off guests' personal info

Poured your info out on a call to 118 118 Money? Bad luck. Credit provider 'fesses up that hacker nabbed customer service phone recordings

You know all those stories of leaky cloud buckets taken offline? Well, some may still be there, just badly hidden

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit

Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team

SAP's locked-down offshore project managers develop remote work plans for clients

UK civil service has a new boss: Alex Chisholm dubbed permanent secretary for the Cabinet Office

BT providing free meals to coax its healthy customer support staff back into office as calls rocket amid pandemic

Leaving Las Vegas... for good? IT industry conference circuit won't look the same on other side of COVID-19 pandemic

Uncle Sam turns the screws on VoIP providers allegedly used by coronavirus, tax, bogus tech support scammers

Planet Computers has really let things slide: Firm's third real-keyboard gizmo boasts 5G, Android 10, Linux support

What's a Google Play? Huawei talks up fledgling AppGallery store, shows off another voice assistant with a female name

Things that make you go zoom: Huawei rolls out pictastic P40 phones, no Google Play Store in sight

Geek's Guide

16 years and counting: How ESA squeezed oodles of bonus science out of plucky Mars Express probe

Are you extracting the urine, ESA? Why, yes it is, from Moon dwellers to build homes out of lunar regolith. Possibly

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Hailing frequencies open, sir... America's Space Force hurls its first military comms satellite into Earth's orbit

Relax, breaking a website's fine-print doesn't make you a criminal hacker, says judge in US cyber-law legal row

Sunday: Australia is shocked UK would consider tracking mobile data to beat pandemic. Monday: Australia to deploy drone intimidation squads

Sucks to be you, ICANN. We can go our own way: Opera to support sites using renegade top-level domain .crypto

Call for netizens to demand scraped pics from Clearview, ML weather forecasts, and Star Trek goes high def with AI

Verity Stob

Astroboffin gets magnets stuck up his schnozz trying and failing to invent anti-face-touching coronavirus gizmo

Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman

Lockdown ain't easy. And that's without snoring, burping, hair-shedding seals outside your house

Instagram, YouTube 'iron man' marketer first to be nabbed by Feds cracking down on fake coronavirus web cures

Software

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Microsoft expands AI features in Office, but are they any good? Mixed, according to our Vulture

Plus note to admins: sending content to Microsoft is on by default and users cannot disable it

31 Mar 19:25 | 1

Software

If you've ever wished Visual Studio Code could be more open source, the Eclipse Foundation would like a word

DIY IDE Theia hits 1.0, and it's still compatible with all those extensions

31 Mar 14:00 | 9

Bork!Bork!Bork!

What's the difference between Windows 7 and a bin lorry? One is full of garbage, and the other… oh dear

Forget the Lambeth Walk, instead enjoy the Camden Bork

31 Mar 08:15 | 23

Software

Oracle makes some certifications and cloudy content free, in case you have time on your hands

Mum? Dad? What was lockdown like? It went by in a flash, junior, because we studied for a database certification

31 Mar 06:35 | 10

Software

Microsoft qualifications will pad the CV for another year, Teams for ventilator boffins, and Windows 10 threatened with very retro news app

Roundup1903 still rules roost, Azure Fabric 6.5 support extended, and more

30 Mar 16:50 | 13

Software

Adobe PhoneGap falls between the cracks thanks to new Apple requirements, developers fume

Still using PhoneGap? Don't

30 Mar 14:45 | 11

Software

Official tailored Swift for Windows support promised in 5.3

Swift on more platforms – provided you do not need a GUI

30 Mar 11:29 | 11

Software

'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release

Doesn’t anticipate slowdown because ‘I suspect a lot of us work from home even normally’

30 Mar 03:02 | 21

Software

Grsecurity maker finally coughs up $300k to foot open-source pioneer Bruce Perens' legal bill in row over GPL

Failed defamation claim proves pricey

27 Mar 23:07 | 20

Software

Exchange some currency you want to? Guess the BIOS setup keyboard combination first you must, young Padawan

Bork!Bork!Bork!Things go sideways in Sainsbury's

27 Mar 15:55 | 17

Software

A pair of previews from Microsoft for a bit of weekend tinkering: PowerShell 7.1 and Visual Studio 2019 16.6

Cross-platform tool aims high while IDE gets stuck into Git

27 Mar 14:44 |

Software

20 years later, Microsoft's still hammerin' Xamarin: Bunch of improvements on the way for cross-platform coding toolset

Less fashionable than React Native, but a mature solution for .NET developers

27 Mar 10:00 | 21

Software

That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

On CallHow to Excel (sorry) on the helldesk

27 Mar 08:15 | 277

Software

Microsoft tries getting touchy-feely once again with its Windows Insiders

Try the Tablet Experience and pretend the Windows 8 Tablet Mode never happened

26 Mar 13:30 | 15

Software

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

What will be the fate of an open-source project relied upon by so many?

26 Mar 11:24 | 103

Software

Chart-topper Neo4j makes connections in effort to nudge graph DBs into the mainstream

Java Database Connectivity built in to hook up easily with analytics tools

26 Mar 10:45 |

Software

Borky shark: A deserted airport and a Raspberry Pi feeling poorly at baggage claim. Welcome to 2020

Bork!Bork!Bork!Zoomarine: Oceans of fail

26 Mar 09:15 | 39

Software

Apple: Relax, we're not totally screwing web apps. But yes, third-party cookies are toast

Sure, we'll delete local data after seven days but there's a way to avoid that

26 Mar 07:59 | 10

Software

Singapore to open-source national Coronavirus encounter-tracing app and the Bluetooth research behind it

Team explains privacy preservation plan and how smartphones' wireless prowess is wildly variable

26 Mar 01:58 | 7

Software

Informatica flings a phone directory of new features at fearless data fettlers

Having trouble wrangling your data? It can probably automate that

25 Mar 19:58 |

Huawei rotating CEO: Chinese government will not 'just stand by and watch Huawei be slaughtered'

Cloudflare is over the moon because its pro-privacy 1.1.1.1 DNS service got a clean bill of health from everyone's favorite auditor – KPMG

Watch your MANRS: Akamai, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, and pals join internet routing security effort

Pandemic impact: Two-thirds of polled Reg readers say it's business as usual in the IT dept, one in ten panicking

Microsoft expands AI features in Office, but are they any good? Mixed, according to our Vulture

If you've ever wished Visual Studio Code could be more open source, the Eclipse Foundation would like a word

What's the difference between Windows 7 and a bin lorry? One is full of garbage, and the other… oh dear

Oracle makes some certifications and cloudy content free, in case you have time on your hands

Epic Games floats $1m bounty to ID source of 'commercial smear' claiming Houseparty chat app has been hacked

Marriott Hotels hacked AGAIN: Two compromised employee logins abused to siphon off guests' personal info

Poured your info out on a call to 118 118 Money? Bad luck. Credit provider 'fesses up that hacker nabbed customer service phone recordings

You know all those stories of leaky cloud buckets taken offline? Well, some may still be there, just badly hidden

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit

Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team

SAP's locked-down offshore project managers develop remote work plans for clients

UK civil service has a new boss: Alex Chisholm dubbed permanent secretary for the Cabinet Office

BT providing free meals to coax its healthy customer support staff back into office as calls rocket amid pandemic

Leaving Las Vegas... for good? IT industry conference circuit won't look the same on other side of COVID-19 pandemic

Uncle Sam turns the screws on VoIP providers allegedly used by coronavirus, tax, bogus tech support scammers

Planet Computers has really let things slide: Firm's third real-keyboard gizmo boasts 5G, Android 10, Linux support

What's a Google Play? Huawei talks up fledgling AppGallery store, shows off another voice assistant with a female name

Things that make you go zoom: Huawei rolls out pictastic P40 phones, no Google Play Store in sight

16 years and counting: How ESA squeezed oodles of bonus science out of plucky Mars Express probe

Are you extracting the urine, ESA? Why, yes it is, from Moon dwellers to build homes out of lunar regolith. Possibly

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Hailing frequencies open, sir... America's Space Force hurls its first military comms satellite into Earth's orbit

Relax, breaking a website's fine-print doesn't make you a criminal hacker, says judge in US cyber-law legal row

Sunday: Australia is shocked UK would consider tracking mobile data to beat pandemic. Monday: Australia to deploy drone intimidation squads

Sucks to be you, ICANN. We can go our own way: Opera to support sites using renegade top-level domain .crypto

Call for netizens to demand scraped pics from Clearview, ML weather forecasts, and Star Trek goes high def with AI

Astroboffin gets magnets stuck up his schnozz trying and failing to invent anti-face-touching coronavirus gizmo

Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman

Lockdown ain't easy. And that's without snoring, burping, hair-shedding seals outside your house

Instagram, YouTube 'iron man' marketer first to be nabbed by Feds cracking down on fake coronavirus web cures

Software

Microsoft expands AI features in Office, but are they any good? Mixed, according to our Vulture

If you've ever wished Visual Studio Code could be more open source, the Eclipse Foundation would like a word

What's the difference between Windows 7 and a bin lorry? One is full of garbage, and the other… oh dear

Oracle makes some certifications and cloudy content free, in case you have time on your hands

Microsoft qualifications will pad the CV for another year, Teams for ventilator boffins, and Windows 10 threatened with very retro news app

Adobe PhoneGap falls between the cracks thanks to new Apple requirements, developers fume

Official tailored Swift for Windows support promised in 5.3

'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release

Grsecurity maker finally coughs up $300k to foot open-source pioneer Bruce Perens' legal bill in row over GPL

Exchange some currency you want to? Guess the BIOS setup keyboard combination first you must, young Padawan

A pair of previews from Microsoft for a bit of weekend tinkering: PowerShell 7.1 and Visual Studio 2019 16.6

20 years later, Microsoft's still hammerin' Xamarin: Bunch of improvements on the way for cross-platform coding toolset

That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

Microsoft tries getting touchy-feely once again with its Windows Insiders

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

Chart-topper Neo4j makes connections in effort to nudge graph DBs into the mainstream

Borky shark: A deserted airport and a Raspberry Pi feeling poorly at baggage claim. Welcome to 2020

Apple: Relax, we're not totally screwing web apps. But yes, third-party cookies are toast

Singapore to open-source national Coronavirus encounter-tracing app and the Bluetooth research behind it

Informatica flings a phone directory of new features at fearless data fettlers

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Planet Computers has really let things slide: Firm's third real-keyboard gizmo boasts 5G, Android 10, Linux support

Official: Office 365 Personal, Home axed next month... and replaced by Microsoft 365 cloud subscriptions

UK Information Commissioner OKs use of phone data to track coronavirus spread

'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release

Leaving Las Vegas... for good? IT industry conference circuit won't look the same on other side of COVID-19 pandemic

Lost in translation and adrift in cloud storage

Official tailored Swift for Windows support promised in 5.3

Tech's big names start to disclose possible bottom-line coronavirus impacts

What are you doing at quarter past? WebEx wants you on calls then, to ease corona-congestion

Delivery drones: Where are they when we really need them?

Collabora working on making any DirectX 12 driver able to support open graphics and parallel programming APIs

Microsoft goes into Windows lockdown for builds from May, citing 'public health situation' (yes, the coronavirus spread)

Where's our software, Langowski? Windows Insider Program gets new leader

SAP opens up certain online courses to locked-down tech learners

The shelves may be empty, but the disk is full: Not even Linux can resist the bork at times

Make haste slowly when deploying tools to cope with global coronavirus pandemic

Techie collective to whip together official WHO-backed COVID-19 app within a week to meet 'urgent, global need'

Forget about those pesky closures, Windows 10 has an important message for you

First impressions count when the world is taken by surprise by an exciting new (macro) virus

Linus Torvalds ponders: Is Linux 5.6 going well because it's bug-free, or thanks to that other bug?

Microsoft drops a seemingly innocuous Windows Insider build, teases the future

Line-of-business folk will have bigger role in growing robotic process automation revolution