Software

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

UpdatedSpotted on carrier control room screens - reports
130 Comments
27 Jun 13:52

Sony open-sources NNabla neural network learnings

En-NNabla-blement of answer to Google's TensorFlow?
27 Jun 11:36

Software glitch led to London Ambulance Service outage – report

Update 18 months earlier meant recycle bin drained system resources, leading to crash
23 Comments
27 Jun 10:00

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

'I stopped trying to be polite about their BS', says Torvalds who plans Linux 4.12 next week
93 Comments
26 Jun 07:01

Microsoft recommends you ignore Microsoft-recommended update

Left hand quits trying to meet right hand, waves at customers saying 'don't break Skype'
54 Comments
26 Jun 01:11

Tech giants flash Russia their code blueprints in exchange for access

What could possibly go wrong?
27 Comments
24 Jun 00:57

Red Hat dons hyperconverged headware

When is a server a hyper-server? When it bundles V12N, RHEL, Gluster and Ansible
23 Jun 06:58

Tesla's driverless car software chief steps down

Chris Lattner 'wasn't the right fit', says Elon Musk-led biz
31 Comments
21 Jun 11:55

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
42 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
Money falling, image via Shutterstock

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
141 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

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
288 Comments
19 May 09:29

News

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

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
63 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
Man on old phone, image via Shutterstock

Microsoft officially hangs up on old Skype phones, users fuming

Then again it has been four years coming
74 Comments
09 Jun 10:06
NYSE photo via Shutterstock

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

Call of Cloudera and Hortonworks?
08 Jun 16:37
Apple iOS 11

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
Linus Torvalds flips the bird

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

Survey of ~6,000 contributors also finds widespread harassment, gender imbalance
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
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