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Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

Decoding the President, because someone has to: Did Trump just blow up concerted US effort to ban Chinese 5G kit?

Trust the public cloud Big Three to make non-volatile storage volatile

HPE's cold storage digit: 2% growth better than a kick in the teeth – but it's no Dell EMC

Redis kills Modules' Commons Clause licensing... and replaces it with one of their own

OK, team, we've got the big demo tomorrow and we're feeling confident. Let's reboot the servers

Oracle sued for $4.5m after ERP system delivery date 'moved from 2015 to 2016, then 2017, then... er, never'

Linux love hits Windows 10 19H1 amid a second round of zombie slaying

Entrust Datacard lined up to unburden Thales of nCipher biz as price for Gemalto buyout

Infosec in spaaace! NCC and Surrey Uni to pore over satellite security

WTF PDF: If at first you don't succeed, you may be Adobe re-patching its Acrobat, Reader patches

Black-hat sextortionists required: Competitive salary and dental plan

CI/CD outfit Shippable shipped off to adopt the green tinge of JFrog

Fancy a .dev domain? They were $12,500 a pop from Google. Now, $1,000. Soon, $17.50. And you may want one

Software development and deployment? Yeah, we can help you with that...

Git money, git paid: GitHub waves larger wads of dollar bills to tempt bug hunters

How politics works, part 97: Telecoms industry throws a fundraiser for US senator night before he oversees, er, a telecoms privacy hearing

Google: Hmm, this government regulation stuff looks important. Let's stick some more lobbyists on that

Sueballs at the ready? Google promises end to forced arbitration after wave of staff protests

Northern UK smart meter rollout is too slow, snarls MPs' committee

ZX Spectrum Vega+ 'backer'? Nope, you're now a creditor – and should probably act fast

Oracle: Major ad scam 'DrainerBot' is rinsing Android users of their battery life and data

Samsung pulls sheets off costly phone-cum-fondleslab Galaxy Fold – and a hefty 5G monster

The bigger they are, the harder they fall: Peak smartphone hits Apple, Samsung the worst

Geek's Guide

Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe has got the horn for space rock Ryugu – a sampling horn, that is

Lunar lander's brief jaunt will place Israel as fourth country to make soft landing on Moon

Eggheads want YOU to name Jupiter's five newly found moons ‒ and yeah, not so fast with Moony McMoonface

Deton-8. Blastobox-3. Demo-1... One of these is the name of a SpaceX crew capsule test now due to launch in March

Now you've read about the bonkers world of Elizabeth Holmes, own some Theranos history: Upstart's IT gear for sale

Artificial Intelligence: You know it isn't real, yeah?

What's the frequency, KeNNeth? Neural nets trained to tune in on radar signals to boost future mobe broadband

EPIC demand: It's time for Google to fly the Nest after 'forgetting' to mention home alarm hub has built-in mic

Verity Stob

Not so smart after all: A techie's tale of toilet noise horror

No yoke: 'Bored' Aussie test pilot passes time in the cockpit by drawing massive knobs in the air

'Occult' text from Buffy The Vampire Slayer ep actually just story about new bus lane in Dublin

You know the drill: SAP has asked Joe Public to name Munich arena so go forth and be very silly

Software

woman holds contract agreement to sign

Redis kills Modules' Commons Clause licensing... and replaces it with one of their own

Confusion not severe enough to stop $60m Series E round

22 Feb 18:29 | 5

Iced pink doughnut flies through the air as it is showered with sprinkles

OK, team, we've got the big demo tomorrow and we're feeling confident. Let's reboot the servers

On CallUhhh... we can't log in. Doughnut, anyone?

22 Feb 07:52 | 70

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Oracle sued for $4.5m after ERP system delivery date 'moved from 2015 to 2016, then 2017, then... er, never'

Lawsuit accuses Big Red of fraud, breach of contract

21 Feb 21:10 | 27

Linux love hits Windows 10 19H1 amid a second round of zombie slaying

For the BOFHs: Admin Center preview loaded with Software Defined Networking goodness

21 Feb 15:48 | 21

There's no 'My' in Office, Microsoft insists with new productivity hub

If you like that then you'll just LOVE our 365 range

21 Feb 12:58 | 37

Profs prep promising privacy-protecting proxy program... Yes, it is possible to build client-server code that safeguards personal info

Software framework teases shortcut to GDPR compliance

21 Feb 06:26 | 6

Chrome ad, content blockers beg Google: Don't execute our code! Wait, no, do execute our code – just don't kill us!

Worried devs list Manifest v3 problems they need tweaked

20 Feb 21:02 | 33

Germany, US staffers to be hit hardest as SAP starts shedding 4,400 bodies

ERP biz reportedly ringfencing jobs of machine learning and analytics types

20 Feb 12:59 | 14

WWW = Woeful, er, winternet wendering? CERN browser rebuilt after 30 years barely recognizes modern web

Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb code can't handle much, but hey, it now runs in a browser

19 Feb 22:04 | 109

Theory of evolution of man into programmer

CAST links arms with Software Heritage to tease out your open-source ancestry

Who do you think you are?

19 Feb 15:57 | 5

kremlin

Splunk does a bunk from Russia: No software and services for you, Putin!

Была́ не была́

19 Feb 12:30 | 12

man falls backwards down stairs

Down productivity tools: Microsoft Teams takes a Monday tumble

UpdatedIf only Slack would go down too, we could get some work done

18 Feb 16:03 | 28

two penguins walk along surf, "chatting". One embraces the other by slinging a wing over its pal's shoulder

Windows Subsystem for Linux adds pop to release, SAC-T sacked, crypto-jacking apps: It's Microsoft's week

RoundupMonero? When is this – 2017?

18 Feb 12:20 | 13

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After outrage over Chrome ad-block block plan, Google backs away from crippling web advert, content filters

Revised proposals attempt to address worries over Manifest v3 API changes

16 Feb 01:48 | 55

Missed Valentine's Day? Take your beloved to a Visual Studio 2019 launch event instead

Romantic Redmondians pick 14 February to announce April go date for the code wrangler

15 Feb 18:04 | 4

Billionaire Buffett's Berkshire liquidates $2.1bn stake in Oracle – months after buying the shares

Bill Gates' bridge chum's firm buys Red Hat stock

15 Feb 15:51 | 13

Dratted hipster UX designers stole my corporate app

Reg AppealDo you have a funky makeover horror story? We'd like to know

15 Feb 13:27 | 132

Want to know what 2020 holds? Microsoft has a little something for you

Windows 10 Insiders sent screaming into a future where, er, nothing much has changed right now

15 Feb 10:05 | 20

Why does that website take forever to load? Clues: Three syllables, starts with a J, rhymes with crock of sh...

Ex-Googler reveals study and, yes, we're lookin' at you, WordAds

15 Feb 05:57 | 107

Oracle's claims of secret deal is a bid to 'distract' from pay bias case, says US Department of Labor

Big Red is red, underpaid staffers are blue. No angry counter-claims can stop that being true

14 Feb 11:57 | 3

Azure Pipelines go Slack while Microsoft frees data breakpoints from the shackles of C++

Redmond opens up the .NET Core 3.0 big box of preview toys

13 Feb 21:00 | 6

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Oracle sued for $4.5m after ERP system delivery date 'moved from 2015 to 2016, then 2017, then... er, never'

Linus Torvalds with toy penguins

Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

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Fancy a .dev domain? They were $12,500 a pop from Google. Now, $1,000. Soon, $17.50. And you may want one

Mike Pompeo

You're on a Huawei to Hell, US Sec State Pompeo warns allies: Buy Beijing's boxes, no more intelligence for you

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Forbidden fruit of smut, gambling iOS apps found flourishing using Apple enterprise certs

13 Feb 15:35 | 3

Ask your data anything, says data viz biz Tableau as it flings 'patent-pending' tech at natural language tool

Plain language questions, automated data prep promised in first release of 2019

13 Feb 09:00 | 3

Ever yearn for the Windows 95 shutdown sound? TADA! There's an Electron app for that

JavaScript emulator gains audio support and proper '90s Doom

11 Feb 13:17 | 30

Microsoft

Skype goes blurry, Office gets a kick in the privacy, and Microsoft takes us back to 1990

RoundupNew Windows 10 build and Small Basic turns 1.0

11 Feb 10:00 | 18

Man with binoculars sees money

Google's stunning plan to avoid apps slurping Gmail inboxes: Charge devs for security audits

Requirement threatens to break the bank

11 Feb 06:05 | 38

beardy chap pulls beer tab and it sprays in his face

LibreOffice 6.2 is here: Running up a Tab at the NotebookBar? You can turn it all off if you want

A bit last-decade, but there are improvements – and it's free!

08 Feb 15:24 | 147

Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off

Microsoft: We know what we said then, listen to what we're saying now

08 Feb 12:10 | 61

Reliable system was so reliable, no one noticed its licence had expired... until it was too late

On Call'Never assume soon means less than lifetime of Universe... in software'

08 Feb 08:10 | 186

Born-again open-source enthusiast Microsoft rucks up at OpenChain

How do you solve a problem like compliance?

07 Feb 19:20 | 12

Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign

Get with the times, Grandad!

07 Feb 11:58 | 257

Chrome devs attempt to slip muzzle on resource-guzzling browser beast with 'Never-Slow Mode'

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain

07 Feb 09:15 | 29

Python code

Website programming? Pffft, so 2011. Python's main squeeze is now data science, apparently

Popular glue coding language sticks to everything

07 Feb 06:04 | 51

Smiling elder man on wheelchair with braided blanket on legs and reads book

Sure, you can keep Grandpa Windows 7 snug in the old code home – for a price

Microsoft turns the screws on those living in the past

06 Feb 15:43 | 159

What matters most to open-source chat plat Mattermost? To shove this fresh $20m into security, privacy

Slack: Cute Series A. Check out our proposed public listing...

05 Feb 15:59 | 1

lock

Windows Defender update: So secure, it wouldn't let Secure-Boot Windows PCs, er, boot

UpdatedOthers still can't even get that far

04 Feb 15:46 | 69

What's that, Skippy? You want a taste of Windows 10 19H2? Oops, too late

RoundupNew exec, new dev toys, and more from the world of Microsoft

04 Feb 11:55 | 24

Using WhatsApp for your business comms? It's either that or reinstall Lotus Notes

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Employers won't provide proper comms and insist it's YOUR fault

01 Feb 09:10 | 127

A second preview of .NET Core 3? Shucks, Microsoft. You spoil us

JSON writing gets snappier while Remond nails its colours to the IoT mast

31 Jan 18:48 | 21

Boffins debunk study claiming certain languages (cough, C, PHP, JS...) lead to more buggy code than others

Hard evidence that some coding lingo encourage flaws remains elusive

30 Jan 21:45 | 154

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