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Switching to edge computing needn't be a gamble. We've got some aces up our sleeves to help you make the move

Wait a minute, we're supposed to haggle! ISPs secretly want folk to barter for broadband

I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™

A Pivotal moment for VMware: Software biz gobbled up along with Carbon Black for $5bn

Oracle OKs Oracle investors to sue Oracle: Put NetSuite suit before a judge – board panel

The story so far: How's that Autonomy High Court battle with HPE looking at half-time?

Latest sneak peek at PowerShell 7 ups the telemetry but... hey... is that an off switch?

Shiny new toys take backseat in Android Studio 3.5 for now as '600 bugs' squished

Security gone in 600 seconds: Make-me-admin hole found in Lenovo Windows laptop crapware. Delete it now

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

GitHub upgrades two-factor authentication with WebAuthn support

Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outrage

Devs invited to bake 'Run on Google Cloud' button into git repos... By Google, of course

How Lego, Bayer and iRobot use serverless tech to get ahead – find out with us this autumn

There once was a biz called Bitbucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected

Python the latest language to slither into Microsoft's serverless Azure Functions service

Google bans politics, aka embarrassing stuff that gets leaked, from internal message boards

Uncle Sam is asking Americans if they could refrain from slapping guns on their drones

Contractor association blasts UK.gov guidance on hated IR35 tax law's arrival in private sector

Leaked EU doc plots €100bn fund to protect European firms against international tech giants

Dion? He off: HP Inc CEO Weisler quits over 'family health matter', Lores will be High-res

Samsung Note10+ torn apart to expose three 5G antennas: One has to pick up something

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

Cali court backs ex-Apple engineer who says he invented Find My iPhone and Passbook

Geek's Guide

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

End of an era for ULA as the last Delta IV Medium rocket leaves launch pad

Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Got a burning desire for a Hololens 2.0? Microsoft insists its math coprocessor won't be too hot for headgear

Join us at MCubed to find out how machine learning can fight fraudsters, cut pager noise, and much more

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

Don't trust Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, boffins warn: Zuck & Co know that hash is king

Verity Stob

Pokemon Go becomes Pokemon No as games biz Niantic agrees to curb trespassing addicts

Overstock dot-gone: Surplus biz CEO now surplus to requirements, ejects after Russian spy fling, deep state rant

Eighty-year-old US 'web scam man' on the run after pocketing $250,000 in Dem 'donations'

US soldier cleared of taking armoured vehicle out for joyride – because he's insane, court says

Software

Oracle OKs Oracle investors to sue Oracle: Put NetSuite suit before a judge – board panel

Investors peeved Larry Ellison owned 40% of the biz he paid billions in Big Red cash to buy

23 Aug 20:50 | 1

The story so far: How's that Autonomy High Court battle with HPE looking at half-time?

Autonomy trialIt hasn't gone away, you know

23 Aug 09:05 | 18

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Latest sneak peek at PowerShell 7 ups the telemetry but... hey... is that an off switch?

UpdatedWhere is Microsoft and what have you done with them?

21 Aug 13:16 | 34

Shiny new toys take backseat in Android Studio 3.5 for now as '600 bugs' squished

'Project Marble' focuses on quality ahead of big features

21 Aug 12:30 | 5

Microsoft Chrom... Edge hits beta as new browser prepped for biz testing

Where will you stand now that Redmond has raised the web-surfing stakes?

20 Aug 17:53 | 38

Microsoft shares twin previews of Windows 10 with Insiders: Toys for some, coal for others

You say mode, they say policy, S call the whole thing off

20 Aug 11:30 | 3

Behold, the quantum lawsuit in which both sides claim victory: Rimini St fails to bag $30m refund from Oracle

Order banning any further infringement stays, as does Big Red's legal bill

19 Aug 23:38 | 4

Microsoft gets some jClarity on Azure Java workloads, swallows London-based firm

Write once, optimise everywhere amirite?

19 Aug 15:40 | 3

Four more years! Four more years! Svelte Linux desktop Xfce gets first big update since 2015

Hop from 4.12 to 4.14 fixes 'a boatload of bugs'. Hooray!

19 Aug 15:00 | 56

Microsoft Notepad: If it ain't broke, shove it in the Store, then break it?

RoundupFor the love of Windows, please leave that poor text editor alone

19 Aug 12:05 | 76

It will never be safe to turn off your computer: Prankster harnesses the power of Windows 95 to torment fellow students

Who, Me?Screen says 'Data save failed' so it must be true

19 Aug 07:01 | 178

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 | 125

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 | 12

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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 | 43

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

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

15 Aug 23:44 | 2

Friends, 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

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Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

Disgruntled bug-hunter drops Steam zero-day to get back at Valve for refusing him a bounty

Don't trust Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, boffins warn: Zuck & Co know that hash is king

I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™

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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

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

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 | 124

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 | 97

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 | 101

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