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If malware wants to bury deep inside your Lenovo or Gigabyte servers, they can just ask Vertiv's insecure BMC firmware

An email arrives. It's from the boss. Subject: Hybrid Cloud. You gulp. You get the cloud – but what's this 'hybrid' bit?

Office 365 verboten in Hessen schools: German state bans cloudy Microsoft suite on privacy grounds

In the US? Using Medicaid? There's a good chance DXC is about to boot your data into the AWS cloud

Chrome on, baby, don't fear The Reaper: Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong

No support for CloudEvents standard as AWS does its own thing with EventBridge

Alexa! When will Windows 10 19H2 ship? New version promises more toys for assistants

You can't say Go without Google – specifically, our little logo, Chocolate Factory insists

It was totally Samsung's fault that crims stole your personal info from a Samsung site, says Samsung-blaming Sprint

Let's open the Mystery Data Security Blunder box, and see what's inside today... Ah! Hotel reservations and more

Maybe double-check that HMRC email? UK taxman remains a fave among the phisherfolk

Patch now before you get your NAS kicked: Iomega storage boxes leave millions of files open to the internet

Share your story: Continuous Lifecycle 2020 call for papers is open NOW – what are you waiting for?

IBM drags Websphere devs towards Kubernetes with Kabanero package

Amazon brings serverless pie to Visual Studio Code party

Want to get deep into AWS Lambda or Azure Functions? Spend the day with us...

Awkward! Bernie tells Bezos-sponsored event he'd break up Amazon and other tech titans

'I AM NOT PUTTING UP WITH THIS SH*T' Mike Lynch raged at salesmen

Ex-Which? bod's £3bn Safari sueball has second shot at Google over UK data laws

Facebook chucks 1.5 hours' profit at Citizens Advice anti-scam charity to defuse consumer champ's defamation suit

Google nuked tech support ads to kill off scammers. OK. It also blew away legit repair shops. Not OK at all

Cough up, like, 1% of your valuation and keep up the good work, says FTC: In draft privacy deal, Facebook won't have to change a thing

US border cops' secret racist Facebook group a total disgrace, says patrol chief. She should know, she was a member

Farewell to function keys and swappable SSDs in the new two-port MacBook Pro

Geek's Guide

Bad news: Earth is not going to be walloped by asteroid 2006 QV89. Good news: Boffins have lost sight of it, so all hope is not yet lost

Experts: No need to worry about Europe's GPS satellites going dark for days. Also: What the hell is going on with those satellites?!

SpaceX reveals chain of events that caused the unplanned disassembly of Crew Dragon capsule

50 years ago today Apollo 11 slipped the surly bonds of Earth to put peeps on the Moon

Dear chip designers: It will no longer cost you an Arm and a leg to use these CPU cores (well, not at first, anyway...)

Amazon's bugging of homes has German boffins worried that Alexa may be an outlaw

A Facebook AI research chief and a machine-learning guru walk into MCubed in London...

AI solves Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds (that's three times slower than a non-AI algorithm)

Verity Stob

It just wasn't meant toupee: Bloke nicked at Barcelona Airport with €30k of blow under wig

Bulb smart meters in England wake up from comas miraculously speaking fluent Welsh

The Pi who loved me: Licensed to SSL

Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note

Software

Chrome on, baby, don't fear The Reaper: Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong

NIST boffin builds processor-busting buster

17 Jul 05:28 | 1

No support for CloudEvents standard as AWS does its own thing with EventBridge

We'd love to support the standard, says XML inventor Tim Bray - but why not adopt ours instead?

16 Jul 19:00 | 2

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Alexa! When will Windows 10 19H2 ship? New version promises more toys for assistants

Now, how about those Surface Book 2s?

16 Jul 11:07 | 2

You can't say Go without Google – specifically, our little logo, Chocolate Factory insists

We pay for the hosting so the big G stays: Open-source community-driven code lingo site must sport giant's brand

15 Jul 20:54 | 40

Quantum goes open and passwords must die in a week of Microsoft fun

RoundupAlso: a new build brings Android joy to more users. Assuming it actually installs

15 Jul 10:26 | 19

Facebook devs devise Hermes to push cross-platform JavaScript to godlike speeds

Not named after the French couturier but the Greek god of trade, roads, and thieves

12 Jul 06:04 | 17

Microsoft cracks the whip over quality of code in software souk AppSource, orders devs to run the QA gauntlet

InspirePartners also getting Azure Lighthouse, a new portal and API for Azure resources

11 Jul 20:13 | 9

JavaScript tracking punks given a thrashing by good old-fashioned server log analytics

Netlify dodges the blockers by going to the source

10 Jul 20:00 | 19

Firefox 68 arrives with darker dark mode, redesigned extensions dashboard

Long term release with enhanced controls for IT managers

10 Jul 14:37 | 16

I may have read Autonomy whistleblower emails about 'inflated' sales, founder Mike Lynch admits in court

Autonomy TrialA year before THAT ill-fated buyout

10 Jul 13:25 | 19

Who said 3 was the magic number? Microsoft previews new Azure SDK in 4 programming languages

No more cloud-based DLL Hell or libraries snafus, vows Redmond beastie

10 Jul 11:22 | 3

Internet imbeciles, aka British ISP lobbyists, backtrack on dubbing Mozilla a villain for DNS-over-HTTPS support

Claims nomination was 'light hearted' so they can laugh off this light-hearted article, too

10 Jul 06:09 | 125

Micro Focus pats itself on the back over SUSE jettison as licensing revenue shrinks

But the software museum model prevails

09 Jul 17:32 | 7

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Years late to the SMB1-killing party, Samba finally dumps the unsafe file-sharing protocol version by default

Although you can still use it if you like the thrill of danger

09 Jul 07:04 | 52

Imagine an Upside Down world where a vastly inferior OS went on to dominate... Stranger Things have happened

Confirmed: Windows 1.11 is a thing. Kind of

08 Jul 16:00 | 70

Who needs 4th July fireworks when there's a new Windows 10 build?

RoundupAlso: Service Fabric resumes rolling out. And for Insiders? One Hub to rule 'em all (kind of)

08 Jul 10:16 | 10

DoH! Secure DNS doesn't make us a villain, Mozilla tells UK broadband providers

Retort follows nomination for internet villain for helping people bypass UK web filters

06 Jul 09:18 | 175

MapR misses deadline for sale, biz prospects looking thinner than a Hadoop sales pitch

Clings to its own days of independence but no one is celebrating

04 Jul 16:00 | 8

Mmm, instant Java: Visual Studio Code 1.36 brings tasty updates – unless you run 32-bit Linux

In which case, you're sh!t out of luck because it's not supported

04 Jul 14:15 | 18

What will $15.5bn buy you? For Broadcom, it could nab itself a whole Symantec

Chip designer to make another foray into enterprise software... troubled security outfit in its sights

03 Jul 14:34 | 6

Microsoft has Windows 1.0 retrogasm: Remember when Windows ran in kilobytes, not gigabytes?

Redmond fires up the Delorean and heads back to simpler times

03 Jul 13:20 | 117

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Hell hath no fury like a radar engineer scorned

Industry reps told the UK taxman everything wrong with extending IR35. What happened next will astound you

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, where to go? Navigation satellite signals flip from degraded to full TITSUP* over span of four days

Malicious code ousted from PureScript's npm installer – but who put it there in the first place?

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ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer

Opines that there's 'absolutely no way on Earth this was written from a clean sheet'

03 Jul 11:47 | 198

Google's Fuchsia OS Flutters into view: We're just trying out some new concepts, claims exec

Really? Looks like a strategic project to us

03 Jul 08:15 | 174

NPM Inc settles union-busting complaints on third try – after CEO trolled for ordering internal mole hunt

Stuffed mole toys arrive at JavaScript biz after chief exec demands to know who was talking to El Reg

02 Jul 21:28 | 43

Microsoft wakes up, stretches, remembers: Oh yeah, we do Windows too. And lo, SQL Server 2019 Windows-based container emerges

Also: Still rocking SQL Server 2008? The end is near

02 Jul 18:49 | 3

Microsoft: OK, we admit it, spring is over. Here's your Windows 10 19H2

UpdatedMysteriously missing update finally arrives in preview form. World shrugs

02 Jul 09:15 | 29

Google open sources standardized code in bid to become Mr Robots.txt

Forget about past technical decisions made by fiat, this time your thoughts matter

02 Jul 07:03 | 16

Edge-lords crack down on trackers as Microsoft effortlessly kills off PBX phone system, and what's this? Windows Calculator on iOS?

RoundupAlso: It wasn't only the toilets that were whiffy at Glastonbury last weekend

01 Jul 14:00 | 27

A Register reader turns the computer room into a socialist paradise

Who, me?Terminate and do what?

01 Jul 07:27 | 123

Delphi RAD tool (remember that?) gets support for Linux desktop apps – again

Hands OnSeventeen years after Kylix, Embarcardero adds a complete Linux toolchain to Delphi

29 Jun 06:09 | 76

How do you know it's finally the weekend? Clock hits 5pm? No, Slack goes down on a Friday afternoon in June

Rap for crap yakety-yak app chaps as chats zapped in hours-long nap

28 Jun 20:32 | 14

This weekend you better read those ebooks you bought from Microsoft – because they'll be dead come early July

The major problem with anti-piracy DRM, part 1024

28 Jun 19:26 | 125

Firefox Preview for Android: Mozilla has another go at a mobile browser

Firefox Focus frozen as Mozilla redirects Android effort ... despite small market share

28 Jun 11:29 | 37

In Rust we trust: Brave smashes speed limit after rewriting ad-block engine in super-lang

See Google, there are other ways to run browser content blockers smartly

28 Jun 06:33 | 49

False IDOL claims reach High Court: Lynch mob launched 'new' SPE Autonomy product to fake sales, says HPE

Autonomy TrialPlus: Barristers spar amid reading comprehension test

27 Jun 20:41 | 15

Good news! We may be past peak Windows 10 October 2018 Update

May 2019 Update cautiously nibbles the toes of its predecessors

27 Jun 17:09 | 13

Sneaky fingerprinting script in Microsoft ad slips onto StackOverflow, against site policy

'We are NOT okay with it' says Architecture Lead

27 Jun 10:51 | 38

You're not Boeing to believe this, but... Another deadly 737 Max control bug found

Sim uncovers code-triggered hardware failure that pitches jetliner nose down

27 Jun 00:04 | 224

NHS Wales flings £39m at Microsoft for Office 365 and Windows 10

Far away, my Office is calling... Outlook alerts do chime

26 Jun 16:30 | 15

That's a sticky Siemens situation: Former coder blows his logic bomb guilty plea deal in court

Happy to admit I did a great job, says alleged firefighter-arsonist. Um, nope, says judge

25 Jun 21:00 | 58

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