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Big Blue lures big biz object storage teams with VersaStack, COS

Oh my Tosh: WDC submits fresh bid for Toshiba memory biz

Wanna write a Cloudflare app? No? Would $100m change your mind?

Working in maintenance? Stop reading, we need you in the server room

HMS Windows XP: Britain's newest warship runs Swiss Cheese OS

Sony open-sources NNabla neural network learnings

Software glitch led to London Ambulance Service outage – report

Linus Torvalds slams 'pure garbage' from 'clowns' at grsecurity

See you in 2023 – Bitcoin exchange Coin.mx bigwig gets 66 months in the slammer

Pwned UK SME fined £60K for leaving itself vulnerable to hack attack

50th anniversary of the ATM opens debate about mobile payments

Huge ransomware outbreak spreads in Ukraine and beyond

Reg Radicals lecture encompasses far right, libertarians, and mushrooms...

So despite all the cash ploughed into big data, no one knows how to make it profitable

HPE: You're rubbish at hybrid cloud – so we'll cook a NüStack to fix it

HPE claims new gen-10 ProLiants have more mem persistence, more secure server firmware

JFrog leaps, wolfs down CloudMunch

Amazon and others sniffing around Slack

Atlassian wants you to put all your eggs in one Bitbucket and beyond

I still haven't found what I'm malloc()ing for: U2 tops poll of music today's devs code to

Costly, under-featured MyGov is just fine, says Oz national auditor

Koh-no! Silicon Lucy blocks Qualcomm from wriggling out of FTC's chip monopoly trial

Former GDS head Mike Bracken quits Co-op

What? What? Which? Former broadband minister Ed Vaizey dismisses report

Games rights-holders tell ZX Spectrum reboot firm: Pay or we pull titles

Despite high-profile hires, Apple's TV plans are doomed

Verizon!-owned! Yahoo! bins! AT&T! IDs! for! Tumblr! logins!

Apple, LG, Huawei, ZTE, HTC accused of pilfering 'find my phone' tech

Geek's Guide

Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight

India's Martian MOM clocks up 1,000 days circling the red planet

No way to sugarcoat this: I'm afraid Uranus opens and closes to accept particle streams

Researchers blind autonomous cars by tricking LIDAR

Blunder Down Under: Self-driving Oz cars still thwarted by kangaroos

Skynet? More like Night-sky-net. AI hunts for Milky Way's turbo stars

Catch up with fast-moving automotive developments at FISITA PLUS

IoT coverage for 95% of UK by 2019? We can't even do 4G, Sigfox

Verity Stob

The 'DUP' joins El Reg’s illustrious online standards converter

Snoop Dogg swerves Glasto, plays Pure Storage gig #keepitreal

Men charged with theft of free newspapers

Ex-NASA bod on Gwyneth Paltrow site's 'healing' stickers: 'Wow. What a load of BS'

Software

HMS Queen Elizabeth on her first sortie out of Rosyth, 26 June 2017. Crown copyright

HMS Windows XP: Britain's newest warship runs Swiss Cheese OS

UpdatedThe Royal Navy’s brand new £3.5bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is running Windows XP in her flying control room, according to reports.

Gareth Corfield, 27 Jun 2017

Sony open-sources NNabla neural network learnings

Last night, Tokyo-based Sony open-sourced its deep learning framework, which it has dubbed NNabla – Neural Network Libraries.

Andrew Silver, 27 Jun 2017

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

59 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

140 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

JavaScript/Node code for Google Assistant

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

Opinion

News

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

Hortonworks feathers nest with IBM deal

IBM BigInsights users migrating to Hadoop-flinger’s HDP

12 Comments

15 Jun 09:33

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

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

Maxx Desktop SGI Indigo Magic Desktop clone for Linux

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

Spotlight

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

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

Boy with binoculars photo via Shutterstock

Distro watch for Ubuntu lovers: What's ahead in Linux land

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

Bye bye MP3: You sucked the life out of music. But vinyl is just as warped

Kill Google AMP before it KILLS the web

Microsoft's Fluent Design System, announced at Build

Windows 10: Triumphs and tragedies from Microsoft Build

The real battle of Android's future – who controls the updates

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Big Blue lures big biz object storage teams with VersaStack, COS

Oh my Tosh: WDC submits fresh bid for Toshiba memory biz

Wanna write a Cloudflare app? No? Would $100m change your mind?

Working in maintenance? Stop reading, we need you in the server room

HMS Windows XP: Britain's newest warship runs Swiss Cheese OS

Sony open-sources NNabla neural network learnings

Software glitch led to London Ambulance Service outage – report

Linus Torvalds slams 'pure garbage' from 'clowns' at grsecurity

See you in 2023 – Bitcoin exchange Coin.mx bigwig gets 66 months in the slammer

Pwned UK SME fined £60K for leaving itself vulnerable to hack attack

50th anniversary of the ATM opens debate about mobile payments

Huge ransomware outbreak spreads in Ukraine and beyond

Reg Radicals lecture encompasses far right, libertarians, and mushrooms...

So despite all the cash ploughed into big data, no one knows how to make it profitable

HPE: You're rubbish at hybrid cloud – so we'll cook a NüStack to fix it

HPE claims new gen-10 ProLiants have more mem persistence, more secure server firmware

JFrog leaps, wolfs down CloudMunch

Amazon and others sniffing around Slack

Atlassian wants you to put all your eggs in one Bitbucket and beyond

I still haven't found what I'm malloc()ing for: U2 tops poll of music today's devs code to

Costly, under-featured MyGov is just fine, says Oz national auditor

Koh-no! Silicon Lucy blocks Qualcomm from wriggling out of FTC's chip monopoly trial

Former GDS head Mike Bracken quits Co-op

What? What? Which? Former broadband minister Ed Vaizey dismisses report

Games rights-holders tell ZX Spectrum reboot firm: Pay or we pull titles

Despite high-profile hires, Apple's TV plans are doomed

Verizon!-owned! Yahoo! bins! AT&T! IDs! for! Tumblr! logins!

Apple, LG, Huawei, ZTE, HTC accused of pilfering 'find my phone' tech

Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight

India's Martian MOM clocks up 1,000 days circling the red planet

No way to sugarcoat this: I'm afraid Uranus opens and closes to accept particle streams

Researchers blind autonomous cars by tricking LIDAR

Blunder Down Under: Self-driving Oz cars still thwarted by kangaroos

Skynet? More like Night-sky-net. AI hunts for Milky Way's turbo stars

Catch up with fast-moving automotive developments at FISITA PLUS

IoT coverage for 95% of UK by 2019? We can't even do 4G, Sigfox

The 'DUP' joins El Reg’s illustrious online standards converter

Snoop Dogg swerves Glasto, plays Pure Storage gig #keepitreal

Men charged with theft of free newspapers

Ex-NASA bod on Gwyneth Paltrow site's 'healing' stickers: 'Wow. What a load of BS'

Software

Tech giants flash Russia their code blueprints in exchange for access

Red Hat dons hyperconverged headware

Tesla's driverless car software chief steps down

Challenging dodgy generalisations on IT spending

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That's random: OpenBSD adds more kernel security

Debian devs dedicate new version 9 to the late Ian Murdock

Oops! Facebook outed its antiterror cops whilst they banned admins

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

Opinion

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

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

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

Bye bye MP3: You sucked the life out of music. But vinyl is just as warped

News

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

Hortonworks feathers nest with IBM deal

Firefox 54 delivers sandboxes Mozilla's wanted since 2009

Apple frees a few private APIs, makes them public

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

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

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

Microsoft officially hangs up on old Skype phones, users fuming

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

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

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

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

Microsoft totters from time machine clutching Windows 10 Workstation

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

Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop return as Linux desktop

Sage flogs North American Payments biz for $260m

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

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