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The time that Sales braved the white hot heat of the data centre to save the day

Google Cloud rolls out of bed, slips on suit, draws up premium support, vows to take it SLO to lure enterprises

Remember when Netscout got so upset at 'challenger' label in Gartner Magic Quadrant, it sued? Well, top court just ended all those shenanigans

Load of Big Green for Microsoft: Lloyds Banking Group inks company-wide Managed Desktop deal

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

Time to burst out graphing: Get the Windows Insider experience... by taping a calculator to your monitor

Autonomous Logistics Information System gets shoved off the F-35 gravy train in favour of ODIN

WebAssembly: Key to a high-performance web, or ideal for malware? Reg speaks to co-designer Andreas Rossberg

To catch a thief, go to Google with a geofence warrant – and it will give you all the details

It's Friday, the weekend has landed... and Microsoft warns of an Internet Explorer zero day exploited in the wild

'Friendly' hackers are seemingly fixing the Citrix server hole – and leaving a nasty present behind

Stolen creds site WeLeakInfo busted by multinational cop op for data reselling

Get hands on with Kubernetes, service meshes – and more – at our fantastic Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Software engineering performance monitoring: Do your metrics measure up in the modern DevOps age?

Continuous Lifecycle London 2020: First speakers revealed for our tip-top conference on DevOps, CI/CD – and more

Just an FYI: That cool funky CI/CD tool you're installing now could be next year's legacy tech

Microsoft picks a side, aims to make the business 'carbon-negative' by 2030

Azure consultant's Google image search results hotlinking sueball booted off the pitch by High Court

The $4.3bn trial of the century is over! Now we wait for judgment

This is also a system for GPs, right? UK doctors seek clarity over Health dept's £40m single sign-on funding

EU declares it'll Make USB-C Great Again™. You hear that, Apple?

A fine host for a Raspberry Pi: The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2

Leaks point to Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with mammoth 108MP camera and ... what? 16GB of RAM

APEX predator? Chinese phone-flinger Vivo teases upcoming concept phone

Geek's Guide

The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded

15 years on, Euroboffins finally work out what it took to send the Huygens Titan probe into such a spin

NASA is Boeing to get to the bottom of that Starliner snafu... plus SpaceX preps to blow up a Falcon 9

Geoboffins find the oldest matter on Earth: Ancient stardust created before the Solar System formed

Europe mulls five year ban on facial recognition in public... with loopholes for security and research

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, muaha... Boffins build laser-eyed intelligent cam that sorta sees around corners

The dream of a single European patent may die next month – and everyone is in denial about it

Facial-recognition algos vary wildly, US Congress told, as politicians try to come up with new laws on advanced tech

Verity Stob

Who says HMRC hasn't got a sense of humour? Er, 65 million Brits

Help! I'm trapped on Schrodinger's runaway train! Or am I..?

World's richest bloke battles Oz catastro-fire with incredible AU$1m donation (aka load of cheap greenwashing)

Pomp and ceremony: When the US Secretary of State meets Oracle overlord Larry

Software

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

Jetliner's return to the skies likely to be delayed by more tech glitches

17 Jan 23:32 | 140

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Time to burst out graphing: Get the Windows Insider experience... by taping a calculator to your monitor

Microsoft releases a Windows 10 Fast Ring refresh and previews new calc toys

17 Jan 13:34 | 20

Software

Autonomous Logistics Information System gets shoved off the F-35 gravy train in favour of ODIN

Snafu-ridden maintenance software behemoth to be replaced

17 Jan 12:11 | 52

Interview Software

WebAssembly: Key to a high-performance web, or ideal for malware? Reg speaks to co-designer Andreas Rossberg

State of Wasm: 'Better support for high-level languages', plus interesting cross-platform news

17 Jan 09:16 | 76

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Copy-left behind: Permissive MIT, Apache open-source licenses on the up as developers snub GNU's GPL

Share all our code modifications with others? Think again, hippie

17 Jan 01:58 | 38

Software

The Curse of macOS Catalina strikes again as AccountEdge stays 32-bit

Apple: 'The apps you use every day.' Except that one. And that one. And those are right out

16 Jan 16:10 | 159

Software

Shhhhhh: Fujitsu bags another £12m from Libraries NI as bosses fail to bookmark replacement

Software licensing issues made it harder to turn the page

16 Jan 12:26 | 11

Software

Google reveals new schedule for 'phasing out support for Chrome Apps across all operating systems'

June 2020 is the end for users on Windows, Linux and Mac

16 Jan 11:45 | 52

Software

No Mo'zilla for about 100 techies today: Firefox maker lays off staff as boss talks of 'difficult choices' and funding

Enjoy that new version 72? Donate.mozilla.org is a thing, folks

16 Jan 01:02 | 73

Software

Microsoft's on Edge and you could be, too: Chromium-based browser exits beta – with teething problems

Redmond loves Linux so much this Internet-Explorer-replacement is for Windows, macOS only right now

15 Jan 20:41 | 52

Software

Look sharp: Microsoft Blazor's gone mobile. Fancy developing mobile apps with C# web technology?

Going like Blazor(s) everywhere, says Microsoft, but will this enthusiasm last?

15 Jan 19:00 | 11

Software

Huawei invites app developers to board the HMS Core to gran their pieces of eight

£20k 'incentive' up for grabs if you can get something into the App Gallery before the end of Jan

15 Jan 18:00 | 3

Software

It's just semantics: Bulgarian software dev Ontotext squeezes out GraphDB 9.1

Now sing with us: Validation, governance and security

15 Jan 14:20 |

Software

Boeing aircraft sales slump to historic lows after 737 Max annus horribilis

This is what happens when you scrimp on software dev, testing and docs

15 Jan 12:33 | 146

Software

IBM, Microsoft, a medley of others sing support for Google against Oracle in Supremes' Java API copyright case

Legal war could rest on nineteenth century mapping ruling by past court

15 Jan 02:08 | 96

Software

What can we rid the world of, thinks Google... Poverty? Disease? Yeah, yeah, but first: Third-party cookies – and classic user-agent strings

AnalysisAd giant chides rivals for encouraging invasive tracking techniques

14 Jan 22:26 | 24

Software

Tabletop battle-toys purveyor Games Workshop again warns of risks in Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP project

Project holding steady for resident techies but white knuckle ride continues

14 Jan 15:40 | 36

Software

Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls

Only Linux, um, Windows 10 can save you!

14 Jan 13:19 | 210

Software

Google's clever-clogs are focused on many things, but not this: The Chrome Web Store. Devs complain of rip-offs, scams, wait times

Support? Hello? Is anyone here?

14 Jan 10:08 | 12

Software

Step away from that Windows 7 machine, order UK cyber-cops: It's not safe for managing your cash digitally

Mainstream support officially ends today

14 Jan 06:05 | 133

The time that Sales braved the white hot heat of the data centre to save the day

Google Cloud rolls out of bed, slips on suit, draws up premium support, vows to take it SLO to lure enterprises

Remember when Netscout got so upset at 'challenger' label in Gartner Magic Quadrant, it sued? Well, top court just ended all those shenanigans

Load of Big Green for Microsoft: Lloyds Banking Group inks company-wide Managed Desktop deal

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

Time to burst out graphing: Get the Windows Insider experience... by taping a calculator to your monitor

Autonomous Logistics Information System gets shoved off the F-35 gravy train in favour of ODIN

WebAssembly: Key to a high-performance web, or ideal for malware? Reg speaks to co-designer Andreas Rossberg

To catch a thief, go to Google with a geofence warrant – and it will give you all the details

It's Friday, the weekend has landed... and Microsoft warns of an Internet Explorer zero day exploited in the wild

'Friendly' hackers are seemingly fixing the Citrix server hole – and leaving a nasty present behind

Stolen creds site WeLeakInfo busted by multinational cop op for data reselling

Get hands on with Kubernetes, service meshes – and more – at our fantastic Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Software engineering performance monitoring: Do your metrics measure up in the modern DevOps age?

Continuous Lifecycle London 2020: First speakers revealed for our tip-top conference on DevOps, CI/CD – and more

Just an FYI: That cool funky CI/CD tool you're installing now could be next year's legacy tech

Microsoft picks a side, aims to make the business 'carbon-negative' by 2030

Azure consultant's Google image search results hotlinking sueball booted off the pitch by High Court

The $4.3bn trial of the century is over! Now we wait for judgment

This is also a system for GPs, right? UK doctors seek clarity over Health dept's £40m single sign-on funding

EU declares it'll Make USB-C Great Again™. You hear that, Apple?

A fine host for a Raspberry Pi: The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2

Leaks point to Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with mammoth 108MP camera and ... what? 16GB of RAM

APEX predator? Chinese phone-flinger Vivo teases upcoming concept phone

The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded

15 years on, Euroboffins finally work out what it took to send the Huygens Titan probe into such a spin

NASA is Boeing to get to the bottom of that Starliner snafu... plus SpaceX preps to blow up a Falcon 9

Geoboffins find the oldest matter on Earth: Ancient stardust created before the Solar System formed

Europe mulls five year ban on facial recognition in public... with loopholes for security and research

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, muaha... Boffins build laser-eyed intelligent cam that sorta sees around corners

The dream of a single European patent may die next month – and everyone is in denial about it

Facial-recognition algos vary wildly, US Congress told, as politicians try to come up with new laws on advanced tech

Who says HMRC hasn't got a sense of humour? Er, 65 million Brits

Help! I'm trapped on Schrodinger's runaway train! Or am I..?

World's richest bloke battles Oz catastro-fire with incredible AU$1m donation (aka load of cheap greenwashing)

Pomp and ceremony: When the US Secretary of State meets Oracle overlord Larry

Software

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

Time to burst out graphing: Get the Windows Insider experience... by taping a calculator to your monitor

Autonomous Logistics Information System gets shoved off the F-35 gravy train in favour of ODIN

WebAssembly: Key to a high-performance web, or ideal for malware? Reg speaks to co-designer Andreas Rossberg

Copy-left behind: Permissive MIT, Apache open-source licenses on the up as developers snub GNU's GPL

The Curse of macOS Catalina strikes again as AccountEdge stays 32-bit

Shhhhhh: Fujitsu bags another £12m from Libraries NI as bosses fail to bookmark replacement

Google reveals new schedule for 'phasing out support for Chrome Apps across all operating systems'

No Mo'zilla for about 100 techies today: Firefox maker lays off staff as boss talks of 'difficult choices' and funding

Microsoft's on Edge and you could be, too: Chromium-based browser exits beta – with teething problems

Look sharp: Microsoft Blazor's gone mobile. Fancy developing mobile apps with C# web technology?

Huawei invites app developers to board the HMS Core to gran their pieces of eight

It's just semantics: Bulgarian software dev Ontotext squeezes out GraphDB 9.1

Boeing aircraft sales slump to historic lows after 737 Max annus horribilis

IBM, Microsoft, a medley of others sing support for Google against Oracle in Supremes' Java API copyright case

What can we rid the world of, thinks Google... Poverty? Disease? Yeah, yeah, but first: Third-party cookies – and classic user-agent strings

Tabletop battle-toys purveyor Games Workshop again warns of risks in Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP project

Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls

Google's clever-clogs are focused on many things, but not this: The Chrome Web Store. Devs complain of rip-offs, scams, wait times

Step away from that Windows 7 machine, order UK cyber-cops: It's not safe for managing your cash digitally

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ICANN finally reveals who’s behind purchase of .org: It’s ███████ and ██████ – you don't need to know any more

It's a no to ZFS in the Linux kernel from me, says Torvalds, points finger of blame at Oracle licensing

If you haven't shored up that Citrix hole, you were probably hacked over the weekend: Exploit code now available

A fine host for a Raspberry Pi: The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2

Google reveals new schedule for 'phasing out support for Chrome Apps across all operating systems'

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls

Totally Subcontracted Business: TSB to outsource entire IT estate to IBM for a cool $1bn after 2019 meltdown

Y2K quick-fix crick? 1920s come roaring back after mystery blip at UK's vehicle licensing agency

Welcome to the 2020s: Booby-trapped Office files, NSA tipping off Windows cert-spoofing bugs, RDP flaws...

It's your walkie-talkie Teams mate, over. 'You don't have to say Over, over'. Copy that. Stop making the static noise, over and out

It's a no to ZFS in the Linux kernel from me, says Torvalds, points finger of blame at Oracle licensing

What was Boeing through their heads? Emails show staff wouldn't put their families on a 737 Max over safety fears

Hey kids! Ditch that LCD and get ready for the retro CRT world of Windows Terminal

I am broot: The Reg chats to French dev about Rust tool that aims to improve directory navigation

Shhh! It's us, Microsoft. Yes, it's 2020. We're here with a new build of Windows 10

Windows 7 and Server 2008 end of support: What will change on 14 January?

Firefox 72: Floating videos, blocking fingerprints, and defeating notification pop-ups

Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if pilots land on specific runways

Improved Java support poured into Microsoft's Visual Studio Code – will it be enough to tempt developers?

Reusing software 'interfaces' is fine, Google tells Supreme Court, pleads: Think of the devs!

Cloudflare buys browser isolation biz S2 Systems in bid to realize Sun's network computing vision at long last