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Cloud makes it rain for Microsoft: IT giant turns green with Azure, cash poured all over investors

Soon Google will have more bit barns in Texas than you can shake a stick at: Second facility planned for Ellis County

DRAM, is it cold in here? Semiconductor market expected to shrink 12% in 2019

Hip and modern IBM can't beat legacy kit and services IBM: That's four consecutive quarters of revenue decline now

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

It's never good when 'Magecart' and 'bulletproof' appear in the same sentence, but here we are

Bulgaria hack: 20-year-old infosec whizz cuffed after 'adult population's' finance deets nicked

Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee

Microsoft demos end-to-end voting verification system ElectionGuard, code will be on GitHub

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...

Big fat doubt hovers over UK.gov's Making Tax Digital, customs declaration IT projects

Qualcomm fined €242m over 'predatory pricing' that helped to knock off British competitor Icera

Red flag: Verify to be marked 'undeliverable' by gov projects watchdog

You ain't getting around UK data laws on a technicality, top judge tells Google

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

2019 set to be the worst year yet for smartphone market as lack of worthy upgrades dents demand

Brit consumers still holding off on buying new PCs until that Brexit thing is over and done with

Geek's Guide

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

Experts: No need to worry about Europe's navigation sats going dark for days. Also: What the hell is going on with those satellites?!

SpaceX reveals chain of events that caused the unplanned disassembly of Crew Dragon capsule

We don't mean to poo-poo this, but... The Internet of S**t has literally arrived thanks to Pampers smart diapers

Elon Musk's new idea is to hook your noggin up to an AI – but is he just insane about the brain?

Don't give it away, give it away, give it away now, bot busting biz tells reCAPTCHA data serfs

Well I'm looking to AI to save me, looking 'cos it's my design: Could you make my drone learn to fly hybrid?

Verity Stob

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

Bulb smart meters in England wake up from comas miraculously speaking fluent Welsh

The Pi who loved me: Licensed to SSL

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

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

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 | 6

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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 | 135

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 | 38

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 | 32

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 | 23

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 | 125

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

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

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

The Empire Strikes Back: Trump discovers $10bn JEDI cloud deal may go to nemesis Jeff Bezos, demands probe

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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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