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DXC: We axed 10k staff, shut nine data centres, closed 4.6m sq ft of office space... and sales tumbled, funnily enough

That's just Huawei it goes, shrugs founder as analysts forecast sales slump for embattled biz

Rough quarter? Just blame falling sales on China and US trade tensions – right, HPE?

What do our IT pro readers make of virtualization in 2019? Here are the poll results, plus our insight and tips

Headsup for those managing Windows 10 boxen: Microsoft has tweaked patching rules

Microsoft? Oh it's just another partnership, insists GitHub CEO

GitLab looks for users to CI to eye: Come join us on the happy path

Programmers' Question Time: Tiptoe through the tuples

Millions of personal files exposed by insurance biz, serial web hacker strikes again, and more from infosec land

Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker, blueprints and files dumped online

WikiLeaks boss Assange acted as a foreign spy, Uncle Sam exclaims in fresh rap sheet

Why telcos 'handed over' people's GPS coords to a bounty hunter: He just had to ask nicely

GitHub slurps open-source bug zapping automator Dependabot, chucks cash at devs

Serverless Computing London: Agenda on its way, blind birds heading off

All aboard the Windows Server container train as Google punts out Rapid Release GKE channel

Come join the Mirantis Kubernetes party, just be sure to BYOD – the D being distro, not drinks

Murdoch-backed adtech startup Unlockd ditches Google lawsuit: That'll be £200k, ta very much

Gee, SEC, how did that get out?! 'Leaked' Tesla email claims big boost in Model 3 production

While big orange spectre haunts certain Chinese firms, fiscal '19 treated Lenovo rather well

Kelway founder slurps Brit public sector supplier SBL, financials undisclosed

That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon

Activist shareholders to target Zuck with giant angry emoji inflatable at Facebook AGM

HP: Based on our Intel, don't hold your breath waiting for Chipzilla's CPU shortage to end

Facebook removes about as many fake accounts as it has actual monthly users (yes, billions) in effort to clean up online

Geek's Guide

Third time's a charm? SpaceX hopes to launch 60 Starlink broadband sats into orbit tonight

NASA boffins may just carve your name on a chip and send it to Mars if you ask nicely

Tim Peake's Soyuz lands in London after jaunt around the UK

UK Space Agency cracks open its wallet, fishes out a paltry £2m for Brit plans to return to orbit

HP's delayed Reverb: Jesus-headset dribbles out of the echo chamber and into the channel

Uber JUMPs at chance to dump load of electric bikes across Islington

AI can now animate the Mona Lisa's face or any other portrait you give it. We're not sure we're happy with this reality

We listened to more than 3 hours of US Congress testimony on facial recognition so you didn't have to go through it

Verity Stob

Let's make laptops from radium. How's that for planned obsolescence?

This is a sett-up! Mum catches badger feasting on contents of freezer

Honey, hive had it with this drone: Couple lived for years with thousands of bees in bedroom wall

Long-distance dildo devotee deploys ding-dong over data deceit

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Headsup for those managing Windows 10 boxen: Microsoft has tweaked patching rules

One category to rule them all? Er, maybe not...

24 May 12:11 | 39

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman

Microsoft? Oh it's just another partnership, insists GitHub CEO

We're a strong, independent company

24 May 08:10 | 15

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GitLab looks for users to CI to eye: Come join us on the happy path

InterviewSource code, pipelines and boiling frogs

23 May 11:04 | 4

Programmers' Question Time: Tiptoe through the tuples

StobAddressing the pro-horticulture/anti-nerdiculture bias

23 May 09:15 | 38

Apple arms web browser privacy torpedo, points it directly at Google's advertising model

Safari tech ready to be ignored by online ad giants like all other privacy proposals

22 May 21:01 | 38

Microsoft gently leads workhorse Windows Server 1903 for a pad around the paddock

KubeCon EuropeDon't mind me, I'm just the thing you run your business on

22 May 15:45 | 10

Microsoft Windows 10 'Burger King' build 1903: Have it your way... and it may still leave a nasty taste in your mouth

The May 2019 update is out and it's optional, for a while

22 May 00:58 | 86

if developer_docs == bad then app_quality = bad; Coders slam Apple for subpar API manuals

Sorry state of documentation baffles programmers as iGiant launches new MacBook Pros, promises better keyboards

21 May 21:11 | 24

Team OpenCensus or OpenTracing? It'll be neither and both now: Hello, OpenTelemetry

KubeCon EuropeHow do open-source projects play nicely? They get off Twitter

21 May 13:22 | 2

Liquor bottle. Pic: Shutterstock

Whisky business: Microsoft's spirited attempt to develop hooch with AI

RoundupPlus: Azure galore, and Your Phone app can now munch through mobile data

20 May 10:52 | 7

Google Android mascot takes off with a bindle

Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy: Run Huawei, Google Play, turns away, from Huawei... turns away

UpdatedAlone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face

20 May 08:15 | 178

It's been a lean month for Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, but look! Remote Development

Also: Accidental explosion in TypeScript type-checking de-borked in version 3.5

17 May 16:30 | 7

A man hiding from a lot of emails coming from a laptop

Microsoft sends partners hundreds of unwanted OPI: Other People's Invoices

Risky business: Azure cloud rains bills

17 May 09:39 | 15

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Shove this in your orafce: Microsoft fiddles with cloudy databases as Build 2019 recedes

Making that migration to Azure Database for PostgreSQL that little bit easier

16 May 15:04 | 4

Microsoft waves the wizard wand, emits the Web Template Studio

It looks like you're trying to build a full-stack web app in Visual Studio Code. Would you like some help with that?

16 May 11:59 | 5

Tangled in .NET: Will 5.0 really unify Microsoft's development stack?

Interview.NET Framework? Mono? Xamarin? .NET Core? Blazor? Java interop?

16 May 07:10 | 39

Have you always wanted an algorithm that can search like Bing? Well, if you change your mind, one's on GitHub now

Make your app answer all the easy questions, like, 'Where can I download Chrome?'

15 May 21:01 | 15

Microsoft goes to great lengths to polish Azure Active Directory's password policies

Get it? Lengths. Users now have 240 extra characters to play with

15 May 15:06 | 27

El Reg rifled through the history of Huawei's 'new' GaussDB – only 'new' bit is machine learning

Third version since 2016

15 May 13:07 | 18

Legal bombs fall on TurboTax maker Intuit for 'hiding' free service from search engines

UpdatedUnhappy taxpayers want refunds of a different kind, lodge lawsuits across Cali

14 May 19:54 | 72

How much open source is too much when it's in Microsoft's clutches? Eclipse Foundation boss sounds note of alarm

'Wouldn't it be ironic if all paths used by open-source developers lead to Microsoft?'

14 May 09:43 | 88

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Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft's Patch Tuesday run if they want PC to boot

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Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker, blueprints and files dumped online

Smashing windows

Bug-hunter reveals another 'make me admin' Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: 'There's more where that came from'

Disaster in the data center

Salesfarce to Failsforce: Salesforce database blunder outage enters day three as fix falters

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Apple won't be appy: US Supremes give green light to massive lawsuit over App Store prices

Legal action over 30% cut iGiant takes from software sales allowed to continue

13 May 19:59 | 50

Upgrade refuseniks, beware: Adobe snips away legacy versions of its Creative Cloud apps

Need something older than the last two major updates? Tough – get on the update treadmill

13 May 15:12 | 89

New builds, new Edge and some old friends: Everything that wasn't Azure from Microsoft's week that was

RoundupYep, PowerToys is back ... well, the open-sourcey reboot is, anyway

13 May 14:06 | 2

AI! Databases here we come, yells Huawei as it preps software you can fling your Arm around

Watch your back, Larry E: New tech's hitting Beijing on Wednesday

13 May 12:40 | 18

penguin with a baby

P-p-p-pick up a Pengwin: Windows Subsystem for Linux boffins talk version 2

It's all about the enterprise, dummy

10 May 10:30 | 48

Funny old man

I'll, er, get the tab? It's Internet Edgeplorer as browser pulls up chair to the Chromium table

BuildPlus: Privacy options abound and Collections attempts to fill Sets' boots

09 May 10:30 | 40

Man peeks into box

File Explorer tweaked and Your Phone borked. A fresh Windows 10 Insider build arrives

BuildMicrosoft answers whinges that there was not enough Windows at Build with fresh borkage

09 May 06:03 | 13

You're not still writing Android apps in Oracle's Java, are you? Google tut-tuts at dev conf

Google I/OAd giant pushes Kotlin language, Q beta 3, Flutter, ChromeOS, and more

09 May 05:14 | 67

Google puts Chrome on a cookie diet (which just so happens to starve its rivals, cough, cough...)

Google I/OBut it's for privacy! You know us. We're Google, privacy champions. Always championing privacy, us

08 May 19:35 | 60

Can I get a RHEL yeah? Version 8 arrives at last as IBM given go-ahead to wolf down Red Hat

All subsequent updates will have a Big Blue tint

07 May 15:07 | 48

EU lumbers towards Apple probe as Spotify cries foul over App Store's 30% cut

Competition commissioner finds grounds to investigate

07 May 11:05 | 42

Colorado Convention Center Bear

The OpenStack Foundation would like everyone to just get along and play nice, m'kay?

Joss sticks lit at the Open Infrastructure Summit

07 May 08:08 | 4

Visual Studio Code is going open source

Meet Microsoft's new Visual Studio Online... not the same as the old Visual Studio Online

BuildBrowser-based access to hosted code environments. Plus: .NET 5 and GitHub-Azure Active Directory sync

06 May 23:56 | 17

Windows Terminal

The Year Of Linux On The Desktop – at last! Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 brings the Linux kernel into Windows

BuildAlso: A new Windows Terminal is here and on GitHub

06 May 20:00 | 209

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Firefox armagg-add-on: Lapsed security cert kills all browser extensions, from website password managers to ad blockers

Mozillans scramble over the weekend to undo damage

06 May 18:56 | 112

Close Solitaire and open this: It’s everything-Microsoft's-up-to-that-isn't-at-this-year's-Build

RoundupWoeful 1809 market share, Google warns testers off Edge, and we fire up Visual Studio once again

06 May 18:31 | 9

Zuul and Kata Containers: OpenStack tosses top-level protonpacks to OS new cats

Projects lose 'pilot' bit, bask in glow of top-level love

30 Apr 09:17 | 1

Self-taught Belgian bloke cracks crypto conundrum that was supposed to be uncrackable until 2034

'It was easy, for some definition of easy,' solver tells El Reg

30 Apr 06:04 | 134

Apple hits back at devs of axed kiddie screen-time apps

It's about privacy, not competition, sniffs Jesus-phone maker

29 Apr 15:25 | 22

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