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Infrastructure as Code could be game-changing for your business: Learn more with Google Cloud

Good news – America's nuke arsenal to swap eight-inch floppy disks for solid-state drives

Are you a Dapr Dan? Microsoft teases runtime for Kubernetes to make microservices sparkle

Three UK goes TITSUP*: Down and out for 10 hours and counting

This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats

OAMigod! Microsoft has a cloud app spec for you – and hopes Rudr can't fail

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Microsoft says .NET Framework porting project is finished: If your API's not on the list, it's not getting in

Google slings websites into Chrome's solitary confinement on Android to thwart Spectre-style data snooping

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

A cautionary, Thames Watery tale on how not to look phishy: 'Click here to re-register!'

Remember the Democratic National Committee email leak? Same hackers now targeting EU countries, say malware boffins

GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

The Hurt Docker: Mystery Hub repository, website outage leaves fuming devs unable to deploy containers

UK culture sec hints at replacing TV licence fee, defends encryption ban proposals and her boss in Hacker House inquiry

A funny thing happened on Huawei to the bank. We made even more money. Hahaha. Here till Friday

Scariest thing about Halloween? HMRC and Defra systems still a risk to post-Brexit borders

Well, well, well. Fancy that. UK.gov shelves planned pr0n block

A History of (Computer) Violence: Wait. Before you whack it again, try caressing the mouse

Any finger will do? Samsung Galaxy S10 with a screen protector reportedly easy to fool

Fancy yourself as a bit of a Ramblin' Man or Woman? Maybe brush up on your cartography

Lenovo unfolds time frame for bendy ThinkPad: Pricey Windows PC out in summer '20

Geek's Guide

Hubble grabs first snap of interstellar comet... or at least that's what we hope this smudge is

Some assembly required as Dream Chaser mini-shuttle's empty husk arrives in Colorado

So, what's fashion going to look like on the Moon in 2024? NASA's ready to show you the goods

Imagine finding this bad boy in your shower: Brit startup pulls the sheets off Moon spider mech

Not a good look, Google: Pixel 4 mobes can be face-unlocked even if you're asleep... or dead?

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

Does voice-controlled tech have a place in business? Talk it over with El Reg and fellow IT pros at breakfast

What the &% did you just $#&!# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

Verity Stob

I discovered the world's last video rental kiosk and it would make a great spaceship

We're going deeper Underground: Vulture clicks claws over London's hidden tracks

Telstra chairman: If those darn kids can earn $5m playing Fortnite, why can't execs?

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

Software

This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats

Out today: Experimental ZFS on root, diminished compatibility with 32-bit applications

17 Oct 11:23 | 32

Software

OAMigod! Microsoft has a cloud app spec for you – and hopes Rudr can't fail

The Open Application Model isn't a standard, but it could be

17 Oct 06:04 | 2

Software

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Includes setting to turn ads off – stop hissing at the back, Google

16 Oct 14:37 | 121

Software

Microsoft says .NET Framework porting project is finished: If your API's not on the list, it's not getting in

Unless you ask really nicely

15 Oct 15:36 | 24

Software

Is AWS sponsoring Rust? Only a bit – and so is Microsoft Azure

A confusing announcement from the cloud giant

15 Oct 12:03 | 10

Software

Dodging derailment by SUSE, OpenStack Train is scheduled to arrive this week

Choo choo mothertruckers

15 Oct 10:41 | 1

Software

Google unplugs AMP, hooks it into OpenJS Foundation after critics turn up the volume

You want this web tech to be independent? Sure, we'll just put it in an org we bankroll

14 Oct 18:08 | 20

Software

Visual Studio Code gets more touch-feely, new Windows Server builds arrive for brave admins

RoundupApple flogs Microsoft hardware and Puppet's CTO has a... notepad.exe tattoo?

14 Oct 13:41 | 8

Software

Remember, remember, it's now called November: Windows 10 19H2 update has a name

And a release date – sort of

14 Oct 10:58 | 27

Software

Microsoft Teams: The good, the bad, and the ugly

AnalysisWhy Teams is a key product despite its frustrations – and yes, a Linux client is on the way

14 Oct 09:19 | 73

Software

Lies, damn lies, and KPIs: Let's not fix the formula until we have someone else to blame

Who, Me?When 95 + (5 * RAND()) is all your spreadsheet needs

14 Oct 07:10 | 170

Software

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

Perl 6 set to be reincarnated as Raku, as favored by Larry Wall

11 Oct 22:51 | 44

Software

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

CommentDevs lament 'trash fire' 'Windows Vista-like' release

11 Oct 20:27 | 156

Software

SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Subspace communication over, enterprise commander out

11 Oct 10:00 | 5

Software

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Redmond's bundled group chat app draws fire from Slackville

11 Oct 05:10 | 74

Software

Creators Update meets its maker: It's 1903 or bust for those clinging to Windows 10 1703

1803 to be euthanised in November

10 Oct 16:00 | 49

Software

Father of Unix Ken Thompson checkmated: Old eight-char password is finally cracked

Aussie bod's AMD GPU smashes hash in just four days

09 Oct 19:26 | 270

Software

You rang? Windows 10 gets ever cosier with Android, unleashes Calls on Insiders

Plus: New build brings Cortana resizing to all. Hurrah!

09 Oct 12:47 | 31

Software

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

Still, it could be worse, you could be one of cloud slinger's Venezuelan customers

08 Oct 12:41 | 73

Software

Euro ISP club: Sure, weaken encryption. It'll only undermine security for everyone, morons

UK, Oz and US pleas to Facebook given short shrift

08 Oct 08:30 | 80

Software

MacOS 'Catalina' 10.15 comes packed with exclusive security fixes – gee, thanks, Apple

New OS squashes bugs, older versions may have to wait

07 Oct 23:36 | 22

Infrastructure as Code could be game-changing for your business: Learn more with Google Cloud

Good news – America's nuke arsenal to swap eight-inch floppy disks for solid-state drives

Are you a Dapr Dan? Microsoft teases runtime for Kubernetes to make microservices sparkle

Three UK goes TITSUP*: Down and out for 10 hours and counting

This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats

OAMigod! Microsoft has a cloud app spec for you – and hopes Rudr can't fail

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Microsoft says .NET Framework porting project is finished: If your API's not on the list, it's not getting in

Google slings websites into Chrome's solitary confinement on Android to thwart Spectre-style data snooping

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

A cautionary, Thames Watery tale on how not to look phishy: 'Click here to re-register!'

Remember the Democratic National Committee email leak? Same hackers now targeting EU countries, say malware boffins

GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

The Hurt Docker: Mystery Hub repository, website outage leaves fuming devs unable to deploy containers

UK culture sec hints at replacing TV licence fee, defends encryption ban proposals and her boss in Hacker House inquiry

A funny thing happened on Huawei to the bank. We made even more money. Hahaha. Here till Friday

Scariest thing about Halloween? HMRC and Defra systems still a risk to post-Brexit borders

Well, well, well. Fancy that. UK.gov shelves planned pr0n block

A History of (Computer) Violence: Wait. Before you whack it again, try caressing the mouse

Any finger will do? Samsung Galaxy S10 with a screen protector reportedly easy to fool

Fancy yourself as a bit of a Ramblin' Man or Woman? Maybe brush up on your cartography

Lenovo unfolds time frame for bendy ThinkPad: Pricey Windows PC out in summer '20

Hubble grabs first snap of interstellar comet... or at least that's what we hope this smudge is

Some assembly required as Dream Chaser mini-shuttle's empty husk arrives in Colorado

So, what's fashion going to look like on the Moon in 2024? NASA's ready to show you the goods

Imagine finding this bad boy in your shower: Brit startup pulls the sheets off Moon spider mech

Not a good look, Google: Pixel 4 mobes can be face-unlocked even if you're asleep... or dead?

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

Does voice-controlled tech have a place in business? Talk it over with El Reg and fellow IT pros at breakfast

What the &*%* did you just $#*&!*# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

I discovered the world's last video rental kiosk and it would make a great spaceship

We're going deeper Underground: Vulture clicks claws over London's hidden tracks

Telstra chairman: If those darn kids can earn $5m playing Fortnite, why can't execs?

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

Software

This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats

OAMigod! Microsoft has a cloud app spec for you – and hopes Rudr can't fail

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Microsoft says .NET Framework porting project is finished: If your API's not on the list, it's not getting in

Is AWS sponsoring Rust? Only a bit – and so is Microsoft Azure

Dodging derailment by SUSE, OpenStack Train is scheduled to arrive this week

Google unplugs AMP, hooks it into OpenJS Foundation after critics turn up the volume

Visual Studio Code gets more touch-feely, new Windows Server builds arrive for brave admins

Remember, remember, it's now called November: Windows 10 19H2 update has a name

Microsoft Teams: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Lies, damn lies, and KPIs: Let's not fix the formula until we have someone else to blame

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Creators Update meets its maker: It's 1903 or bust for those clinging to Windows 10 1703

Father of Unix Ken Thompson checkmated: Old eight-char password is finally cracked

You rang? Windows 10 gets ever cosier with Android, unleashes Calls on Insiders

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

Euro ISP club: Sure, weaken encryption. It'll only undermine security for everyone, morons

MacOS 'Catalina' 10.15 comes packed with exclusive security fixes – gee, thanks, Apple

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We're free in 3... 2... 1! Amazon unhooks its last Oracle database, nothing breaks and life goes on

Think your VMware snapshots are all good? Guess again if you're on Windows Server 2019

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Well, well, well. Fancy that. UK.gov shelves planned pr0n block

Three UK goes TITSUP*: Down and out for 10 hours and counting

Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home

IBM: Why yes, Red Hat is doing great. Thanks for asking. The rest of Big Blue? Sure, wait – someone's at the door...

A funny thing happened on Huawei to the bank. We made even more money. Hahaha. Here till Friday

We're going deeper Underground: Vulture clicks claws over London's hidden tracks

A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently

GNU means GNU's Not U: Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out as leader

Windows 10 update panic: Older VMware Workstation Pro app broken

Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

Windows builds, Azure axings and Microsoft pushes will.i.am's buttons

Licence to grill: A year on, MongoDB's Eliot Horowitz talks to The Reg about SSPL

Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool

Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

PostgreSQL puts the pedal to the metal with some smart indexing tweaks in version 12

The OS is 'no longer' important to Microsoft, and yet new Surface kit has 3 Windows flavours

Devs getting stuck into Windows 10X on Surface Neo will have to tussle with UWP

Happy fifth birthday, Windows Insiders! We'd bake a cake, but it might explode without warning

What the &% did you just $#&!# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat