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Challenging dodgy generalisations on IT spending

Reg Reader ResearchI think you'll find it's not as simple as that
21 Jun 09:58

Debian 9 feels like home with security upgrades and a flaming vulpine warming your toes

ReviewStrong and stable release from conservative distro
41 Comments
21 Jun 08:23

Google, Mozilla both say they sped up the web today. One by blocking ads. One with ads

Guess which was which. Hint: Firefox now crushes trackers on Android
58 Comments
21 Jun 04:16

MongoDB tries to entice time-poor devs with new Backend as a Service

Document database company has Google’s Firebase in its sights
20 Jun 16:00

A private equity titan has just forked out £700m for IT training biz QA

Education provider has 'ambitious growth plans'
20 Jun 15:46

'OK, everyone. Stop typing, this software is DONE,' said no one ever

Open Source InsiderSome times it really is, though
139 Comments
20 Jun 09:00

Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman both have new Linux in mind

4.12 might emerge next week, 4.14 dubbed next LTS release
20 Jun 02:29

WhatsApp app in flap over chap's snap of URL mishap

Secure messaging springs leak when looking up URLs
18 Comments
19 Jun 22:23

That's random: OpenBSD adds more kernel security

'Kernel address randomised link' masks memory locations
13 Comments
19 Jun 01:56

Debian devs dedicate new version 9 to the late Ian Murdock

'Stretch' debuts, with MariaDB replacing MySQL
21 Comments
18 Jun 23:48

Oops! Facebook outed its antiterror cops whilst they banned admins

C'mon, what were they expecting? Privacy? On Facebook?
27 Comments
16 Jun 20:20

Software dev bombshell: Programmers who use spaces earn MORE than those who use tabs

PollWell, of course – anyone using tabs should be paid zero
251 Comments
16 Jun 06:03
Y2K embedded in code

Yeah, if you could just stop writing those Y2K compliance reports, that would be great

Uncle Sam scraps rules 17 years on from when the world ended, oh wait...
45 Comments
16 Jun 05:02
Hadoop

Hortonworks feathers nest with IBM deal

IBM BigInsights users migrating to Hadoop-flinger’s HDP
12 Comments
15 Jun 09:33
Firefox logo

Firefox 54 delivers sandboxes Mozilla's wanted since 2009

Project Electrolysis means Firefox spawns four processes and shares them between tabs
62 Comments
14 Jun 04:58

Opinion

'OK, everyone. Stop typing, this software is DONE,' said no one ever

Open Source InsiderSome times it really is, though

At the feet of the Great Monad, or, How the functional programming craze plays out

StobDost thou know the Seven Immutable Laws of FP?
61 Comments
31 May 12:01
The Seventh Seal

The eternal battle for OpenStack's soul will conclude in three years. Again

CommentBeyond cars, toasters and American Gods
22 May 08:08
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Bye bye MP3: You sucked the life out of music. But vinyl is just as warped

Something for the Weekend, Sir?You scratch mine, I'll scratch yours
285 Comments
19 May 09:29

News

Apple frees a few private APIs, makes them public

Glacial thaw brings a bit more openness to hermit kingdom
13 Jun 23:58

It's 2017 and Microsoft is still patching Windows XP+ – to plug holes exploited by trio of leaked NSA weapons

Bugs used by stolen tools fixed among 96 software holes
40 Comments
13 Jun 22:37

Ever wonder why those Apple iPhone updates take so damn long?

Turns out Apple execs were testing new file system on you
132 Comments
13 Jun 21:41

Windows 10 Creators Update preview: Lovin' for Edge and pen users, nowt much else

What about the rest of us?
95 Comments
09 Jun 15:02

Microsoft officially hangs up on old Skype phones, users fuming

Then again it has been four years coming
74 Comments
09 Jun 10:06

Hadoop-flinger MapR: Yes to IPO, profits 'soon after'

Call of Cloudera and Hortonworks?
08 Jun 16:37

Apple appears to relax ban on apps fetching, running extra code – remains aloof as always

AnalysisArbitrary exes, no, but friendlier rules for dev tools
13 Comments
07 Jun 18:49

Microsoft SCOM crashed some web apps, but the fix didn't fix it

System Center app monitoring wouldn't play nice with .Net and still doesn't after 78 days
10 Comments
07 Jun 06:03

Hotel guest goes broke after booking software gremlin makes her pay for strangers' rooms

Updated'Anomaly' drained my bank account, techie complains
132 Comments
06 Jun 19:46

Microsoft totters from time machine clutching Windows 10 Workstation

It's 1994 all over again, it seems
121 Comments
06 Jun 03:26

The open source community is nasty and that's just the docs

Survey of ~6,000 contributors also finds widespread harassment, gender imbalance
124 Comments
05 Jun 06:58

Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop return as Linux desktop

'Maxx Interactive Desktop' lets you relive the workstation wars and maybe do serious work
65 Comments
05 Jun 05:58

Sage flogs North American Payments biz for $260m

Apple and Google have eaten its lunch
02 Jun 16:21

Whoops! Microsoft accidentally lets out a mobile-'bricking' OS update

Do not install build 16212
84 Comments
02 Jun 13:11

Google to give 6 months' warning for 2018 Chrome adblockalypse – report

We're talking 'bout blockage, blockage... Eyeo, Eyeo* away
103 Comments
02 Jun 11:55
Penguin in a car

Toyota's entertaining the idea of Linux in cars

2018 Camry's infotainment system will run Automotive Grade Linux
57 Comments
02 Jun 03:58
Apple Swift Playgrounds

Apple Swift Playgrounds admit robots

Gated community sees life beyond its borders
01 Jun 21:29

Microsoft's cunning plan to make Bing the leading search engine: Bribery

Binging for pennies
54 Comments
01 Jun 16:05
HMS Vengeance returns to HMNB Clyde. Crown copyright

Trident nuke subs are hackable, thunders Wikipedia-based report

Look, here's some stuff I read on the internet about infosec and it's terribly worrying isn't it?
Java microservice, photo via Shutterstock

Oracle asks for more time to finish Java 9

Eight weeks needed to sort out missing pieces of Jigsaw platform module system
17 Comments
01 Jun 04:58

At the feet of the Great Monad, or, How the functional programming craze plays out

StobDost thou know the Seven Immutable Laws of FP?
61 Comments
31 May 12:01
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WebAssembly fandom kills Google's Portable Native Client

Homegrown tech dumped for trendy native code scheme
17 Comments
31 May 05:01
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