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Gone in a flash: Oracle lays off hundreds as the biz formerly known as Pillar Data is shuttered

Alibaba: There's a trade war going on? Could've fooled us – just check out these swollen digits

Yorkshire public sector procurement body YPO opens £400m framework for data centres, cloud hosting and security

Fancy a career exposing cloud data leaks? Great news, companies are still largely clueless

Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

Apple fires legal salvo at Corellium claiming the virtual iPhone flinger is infringing copyright

Apple's WebKit techs declare privacy circumvention to be a security issue

Kaspersky and Trend Micro get patch bonanza after ID flaw and password manager holes spotted

Chrome add-on warns netizens when they use a leaked password. Sometimes, they even bother to change it

NSA asks Congress to permanently reauthorize spying program that was so shambolic, the snoops had shut it down

Top tip: Don't upload your confidential biz files to free malware-scanning websites – everything is public

And you thought the cops were bad... Civil rights group warns of facial recog 'epidemic' across UK private sites

How long does it take to get up and running with serverless? A day with us should do the trick

Now CI/CD can get a better piece of the Actions: GitHub expands automation service to build, test, deploy tools

They're climbing through the Windows: CircleCI goes native on Microsoft's OS

Captain, we've detected a disturbance in space-time. It's coming from Earth. Someone audited the Kubernetes source

Data cops order Ireland to delete 3.2m records after ID card wheeze ruled to be 'unlawful'

Now you see them... IBM made over 800 UK jobs vanish in 2018 despite improving fortunes

Simons says don't push us: FTC boss warns regulator could totally break up big tech companies if it wanted

Got room for another probe up there, Google? Jobs sites ask EU anti-trust tsar to look at how search giant ranks them

Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out

While US ban hit Huawei and inventory overload clipped Apple, Samsung quietly stole smartphone market share back in Q2

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

Donald Trump blinks in his one-man trade war with China: US govt stalls import tariff hike on Chinese phones, laptops, electronics

Geek's Guide

Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

Don't let your dreams be dreams! Itty-bitty space shuttle to ride into orbit on a Vulcan Centaur

Poor old Jupiter has had a rough childhood after getting a massive hit from a mega-Earth

Six-day cruise lies ahead for India's Chandrayaan-2 probe before the real lunar shenanigans begin

UK.gov has £12m to help kick-start quantum techs that could be 'adopted at scale' – which is pretty niche, if we're honest

Just dying to get into neural networks? Need a start in deep learning? We can workshop it out

'Deeply concerned' UK privacy watchdog thrusts probe into King's Cross face-recognizing snoop cam brouhaha

Truckers, prepare to lose your jobs as UPS buys into self-driving tech

Verity Stob

Overstock's share price has plummeted. Is it Trump's trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers...

UK.gov opens £250k competition to tackle first-world problem of crap conference Wi-Fi

Criminal mastermind signed name as 'Thief' on receipts after buying stuff with stolen card

Quick question, what the Hull? City khazi is a top UK tourist destination

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Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

Write once, run anywhere? You must be joking

16 Aug 20:00 | 36

Apple fires legal salvo at Corellium claiming the virtual iPhone flinger is infringing copyright

Good-faith security research tool or help for hackers? Both?

16 Aug 14:00 | 8

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Apple's WebKit techs declare privacy circumvention to be a security issue

Bypass our tracking controls at your unspecified peril, warns maker of minor browser

16 Aug 00:59 | 35

Kaspersky and Trend Micro get patch bonanza after ID flaw and password manager holes spotted

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

15 Aug 23:44 | 2

Guys, it's fine. Don't worry about randomers listening to your Skype convos. Microsoft has tweaked an FAQ a bit

'Automated and manual' data processing – so humans, yeah?

15 Aug 11:13 | 38

Microsoft slathers Visual Studio 2019 with extra Docker love, triggers Hot Reload in Preview 2

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 – ready for production if you're feeling lucky?

14 Aug 15:23 | 2

Let's see what the sweet, kind, new Microsoft that everyone loves is up to. Ah yes, forcing more Office home users into annual subscriptions

No more $15-and-done option – cough up $70 every year, please

13 Aug 18:58 | 195

Microsoft's Cortana booted off yet another service while Google and AWS get a bit catty over licensing shakeup

RoundupAlso: Redmond buddies up with Reliance Jio Infocomm (no, not that Infocom)

13 Aug 15:45 | 18

Hands up who likes gaming! Hands up who likes gaming on Macs! Er, OK. Well, Parallels has an update for you

DirectX 11 and Catalina support will please, the price may not

13 Aug 12:54 | 11

Canonical adds ZFS on root as experimental install option in Ubuntu

Not ready for production yet, warns team as it expands support for file system

12 Aug 13:42 | 78

Google to bury indicator for Extended Validation certs in Chrome because users barely took notice

Not working as intended, says browser security team

12 Aug 11:03 | 42

It's heads you win, tails you lose as Microsoft introduces CoinFlip™ for Windows 10

Hey, Insiders! Do you feel lucky? Well, do you?

09 Aug 13:37 | 31

Bit of a time-saver: LibreOffice emits 6.3 with new features, loading and UI boosts

Fix for security issue but LibreLogo still installed by default on Windows

09 Aug 10:04 | 100

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Microsoft spreads the Cortana love to more Insiders with new Windows 10 preview

Cortana: tell me a joke. No, I don't mean the terms and conditions...

08 Aug 17:41 | 15

Linux Journal runs `shutdown -h now` for a second time: Mag editor fires parting shot at proprietary software

We are letting the tech giants win, says Kyle Rankin

08 Aug 10:53 | 77

US court nixes Google's $5.5m court payoff over Safari Workaround – no one affected saw cash

Case settlement to be reheard for fresh decision

07 Aug 15:15 | 27

Chrome fans get that syncing feeling again as Google moves to bolster browser protections

Want the Advanced Protection Program? You're going to have to sign in. Soz

07 Aug 13:22 | 14

More Linux than Windows: El Reg takes Docker Desktop for WSL 2 preview out for a spin

Hands OnSome gripes at this stage, but the potential is there

07 Aug 08:06 | 28

Microsoft hikes cost of licensing its software on rival public clouds, introduces Azure 'Dedicated' Hosts

Use Microsoft software on dedicated servers hosted on public cloud? Get ready to pay more

05 Aug 14:26 | 56

Microsoft's Windows Terminal preview gets jiggy with Azure – but emphasis on 'preview'

Open-source command line fun and ga- oh. It crashed again.

05 Aug 13:00 | 1

Disabled by default: Microsoft ups the ante in its war against VBScript on Internet Explorer

Will the last IE 11 user please turn out the lights?

05 Aug 11:28 | 26

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Security? We've heard of it! But why be a party pooper when there's printing to be done

Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged

Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

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Everything old is new again in this week's Microsoft roundup

RoundupCode libraries, calculators, that advert and MSDN Magazine gives a final death rattle

05 Aug 08:07 | 5

Y2K, Windows NT4 Server and Notes. It's a 1990s Who, Me? special

Who, Me?Or: yet more uses for CD trays in racked servers

05 Aug 07:02 | 123

Google to offer users a choice of default search engine on Android in the EU – but it's pay to play

Neat, another revenue stream

02 Aug 11:07 | 38

LibreOffice handlers defend suite's security after 'unfortunately partial' patch

InterviewWhen is a macro not a macro? When it comes with the product, apparently

02 Aug 09:16 | 40

IBM ships software portfolio into containers thanks to Red Hat providing the packaging

Spreads the Openshift love around for Cloud Paks

01 Aug 18:00 | 8

Ouch. Reinstalling Windows 10 again? By 2020, a 'cloud download' may be all you need

Little longer to wait before a busted installation can be rescued by Redmond's servers

01 Aug 12:23 | 107

Omni(box)shambles? Google takes aim at worldwide web yet again

www and https are 'irrelevant information', insists ad giant

31 Jul 15:14 | 96

Official: Microsoft will take an axe to Skype for Business Online. Teams is your new normal

Blade to swing in 2021, but 'onboarding' for new Office 365ers starts in September

31 Jul 09:27 | 100

Drinks-for-stars promo on open-source GitHub project scrapped after disgusted devs shame it into oblivion

Red-faced SK Telecom coders say soz, reset repo

30 Jul 14:51 | 5

The April 2018 Update is so 1803, snort Windows 10 faithful as more settle down in 1903 town

Latest build hits 11% usage, year-old code still reigns at 54%

30 Jul 11:46 | 14

Microsoft drops 'Go Live' preview of .NET Core 3, complete with desktop app support

Fit for production if you are brave, but no Windows Forms designer yet

30 Jul 08:59 | 9

Stones, meet glass house: Mind behind Windows 8 GUI disses Windows 10 over leak

RoundupAlso: Your Phone sees double, Mac fans get Visual Studio love, and more

29 Jul 10:45 | 44

The inevitability of K8s: Pivotal CEO describes the pain and benefits of technology transition

InterviewKubernetes is becoming the 'standard API for infrastructure', says Rob Mee

29 Jul 08:15 | 12

Sailfish OS given a Jolla good buffing as version 3.1 bobs gently into port

Encryption, VPN and Android app support for Apple and Google refuseniks

26 Jul 17:20 | 20

Free supported Java turns up in latest SQL Server 2019 preview

Microsoft: Why pay Oracle when you can pay us for Big Data Clusters?

25 Jul 16:23 | 10

Hey, Windows Insiders! Sorry about that whole 20H1 build thing. Won't happen again – honest

CommentMicrosoft, you still have a problem

25 Jul 10:32 | 28

Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours

Patch your darn metal bird, sighs EU aviation agency

25 Jul 10:02 | 160

Screw MSPAC, man: Not in our name, Microsoft staff tell firm's political donation vehicle

Fund to be put on 'hiatus' after employee grumbles

24 Jul 17:30 | 27

Don't press the red b-... Windows Insiders' rings hit by surprise Microsoft emission

That's 20H1 for you, 20H1 for you and 20H1 for you

24 Jul 14:30 | 21

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