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Don't drown in that Office 365 migration you've been putting off: There's help at hand – in the form of automation magic

When world+dog has a data platform too, Cloudera has to stand out before next new shiny distracts investors

Protesters backing Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou during her US extradition hearings were 'duped paid actors'

10nm woes, CPU supply shortages, competition from AMD... What? Sorry? Intel can't hear you over the cash register going bonkers

Rockstar dev debate reopens: Hero programmers do exist, do all the work, do chat a lot – and do need love and attention from project leaders

No big deal, Rogers, your internal source code and keys are only on the open web. Don't hurry to take it down

Keg-xistential issues: Fullers pours away £10m Infor ERP system after selling brewing business

In the red corner, Big Red, and in the blue corner... the rest of the tech industry

Russian super-crook behind $20m internet fraud den Cardplanet and malware-exchange forum pleads guilty

We need to make it even easier for UK terror cops to rummage about in folks' phones, says govt lawyer

Ooh, watch out Google. You've got competition. Verizon has a new 'privacy-focused' search engine

Still losing sleep over that awful Citrix bug? This scanner is here to help... you realize you've already been pwned

Jenkins creator steps back from CloudBees and flings himself at startup Launchable

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

Xerox names the 11 directors it hopes will oust most of HP's board and put $33bn hostile takeover to shareholders

One-time Brexit Secretary David Davis demands Mike Lynch's extradition to US is halted

Stiff upper lip time, Brits: After bullying France to drop its digital tax on Silicon Valley, Trump's coming for you next

Judge snubs IT outsourcers' plea to Alt-F4 tougher H-1B visa rules: Bosses told to fill out the extra paperwork

Beware the Friday afternoon 'Could you just..?' from the muppet who wants to come between you and your beer

Don't mention the seam! Microsoft releases Surface Duo Android SDK, more on Windows 10X

Looks like the party's over, folks: Global PC sales set to shrink as Windows 10 upgrade cycle tails off, says Gartner

Over a thousand electronic gizmos went missing from London councils last year

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SLS goes vertical at Stennis while NASA practises SRB stacking

Two billion years ago, snowball Earth was defrosted in huge asteroid crash – and it's been downhill ever since

Ancient Ore Crusher or KillBot 2000? NASA gets ready to pick a name for its Mars 2020 Rover

SpaceX ponders its next mission to blot out the Sun with another 60 Starlink sats

Amazing peer-reviewed AI bots that predict premature births were too good to be true: Flawed testing bumped accuracy from 50% to 90%+

If the words 'new', 'AI', 'for', 'the', 'physical', 'world', 'accelerate' and 'Facebook' scare you, click this headline

Rugby legend Will Carling tells El Reg: Techie stats bods will love this year's Six Nations

SAP co-CEO: I'm leavin' on a jet plane... Davos knows that I'll be back again...Oh babe, I hate to go (back to work)

Verity Stob

Beer necessities: US chap registers bevvy as emotional support animal so he can booze on public transport

Good folk of Forfar: Alan Hattel would like you all to know he's not dead despite what it says on his tombstone

The Foot of Cupid emits final burst of flatulence in honour of fallen Python Terry Jones

Alan Turing’s OBE medal, PhD cert, other missing items found in super-fan’s Colorado home by agents, says US govt

Software

Rockstar dev debate reopens: Hero programmers do exist, do all the work, do chat a lot – and do need love and attention from project leaders

Some engineers are just better than others... at being noticed

24 Jan 06:58 | 15

Software

No big deal, Rogers, your internal source code and keys are only on the open web. Don't hurry to take it down

'Closed source' blueprints available for all to gawp at – and potentially exploit

24 Jan 01:12 | 5

Software

Keg-xistential issues: Fullers pours away £10m Infor ERP system after selling brewing business

Weren't you going to use it for 'continuous improvement'?

23 Jan 12:06 | 10

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In the red corner, Big Red, and in the blue corner... the rest of the tech industry

Innovation freedom may not be so free if US Supreme Court rules Google ripped off Oracle's Java APIs

23 Jan 10:00 | 67

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If you never thought you'd hear a Microsoftie tell you to stop using Internet Explorer, lap it up: 'I beg you, let it retire to great bitbucket in the sky'

We say take off and nuke the entire codebase from orbit. It's the only way to be sure

23 Jan 01:44 | 75

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German taxpayers faced with €800k Windows 7 support bill due to Deutschland dithering

Total Inability To Secure Upgrade Programme in Berlin

22 Jan 12:59 | 49

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Flinging resource-hungry apps at landfill Android? Ubuntu daddy wants to lure you into Anbox Cloud

Canonical goes playing in the streams

22 Jan 12:27 | 9

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Microsoft boffin inadvertently highlights .NET image woes by running C# on Windows 3.11

Old? Windows-only? Community struggles with '40-year-old male' problem

22 Jan 09:16 | 122

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From WordPad to WordAds: Microsoft caught sneaking nagging Office promos into venerable text editor beta

Hidden for now, probably coming to a desktop near you, soon, ish

22 Jan 07:06 | 112

Software

David Attenborough voice And here we have, in the wild, a rare glimpse... of what may be... a positive IBM quarter

Big Blue rides Red Hat into the black

22 Jan 05:48 | 21

Software

Opera hits back at 'short seller' whose report claimed its 'predatory' microloan droid apps could hurt, er... investors

Nothing to see here, insists browser-maker

21 Jan 16:45 | 20

Software

'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer

Project author Nikolay Kim also given some community support after 'unsafe shitstorm'

21 Jan 12:55 | 87

Software

Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans

Suitable attire, seeing that it's dead

21 Jan 12:18 | 141

Software

Server-side Swift's slow support story sours some: Apple lang tailored for mobile CPUs, lacking in Linux world

AnalysisLook what you made me

21 Jan 06:28 | 20

Software

Whoa, whoa... Tesla slams brakes on allegations of 'unintended acceleration' bug: 'Completely false and was brought by a short-seller'

Grimes' boyfriend's biz says it's under financial attack

20 Jan 23:04 | 62

Software

It's update time – yes, again – for Insiders as the Windows 10 Slow Ring meanders towards release

RoundupAlso: pitching Windows gear at students, while Windows Terminal and TypeScript ring in the new

20 Jan 14:30 | 11

Software

The delights of on-site working – sun, sea and... WordPad wrangling?

Who, Me?Things can only get better, unless someone misplaces the source

20 Jan 08:15 | 92

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 | 194

Software

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 | 62

Don't drown in that Office 365 migration you've been putting off: There's help at hand – in the form of automation magic

When world+dog has a data platform too, Cloudera has to stand out before next new shiny distracts investors

Protesters backing Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou during her US extradition hearings were 'duped paid actors'

10nm woes, CPU supply shortages, competition from AMD... What? Sorry? Intel can't hear you over the cash register going bonkers

Rockstar dev debate reopens: Hero programmers do exist, do all the work, do chat a lot – and do need love and attention from project leaders

No big deal, Rogers, your internal source code and keys are only on the open web. Don't hurry to take it down

Keg-xistential issues: Fullers pours away £10m Infor ERP system after selling brewing business

In the red corner, Big Red, and in the blue corner... the rest of the tech industry

Russian super-crook behind $20m internet fraud den Cardplanet and malware-exchange forum pleads guilty

We need to make it even easier for UK terror cops to rummage about in folks' phones, says govt lawyer

Ooh, watch out Google. You've got competition. Verizon has a new 'privacy-focused' search engine

Still losing sleep over that awful Citrix bug? This scanner is here to help... you realize you've already been pwned

Jenkins creator steps back from CloudBees and flings himself at startup Launchable

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

Xerox names the 11 directors it hopes will oust most of HP's board and put $33bn hostile takeover to shareholders

One-time Brexit Secretary David Davis demands Mike Lynch's extradition to US is halted

Stiff upper lip time, Brits: After bullying France to drop its digital tax on Silicon Valley, Trump's coming for you next

Judge snubs IT outsourcers' plea to Alt-F4 tougher H-1B visa rules: Bosses told to fill out the extra paperwork

Beware the Friday afternoon 'Could you just..?' from the muppet who wants to come between you and your beer

Don't mention the seam! Microsoft releases Surface Duo Android SDK, more on Windows 10X

Looks like the party's over, folks: Global PC sales set to shrink as Windows 10 upgrade cycle tails off, says Gartner

Over a thousand electronic gizmos went missing from London councils last year

SLS goes vertical at Stennis while NASA practises SRB stacking

Two billion years ago, snowball Earth was defrosted in huge asteroid crash – and it's been downhill ever since

Ancient Ore Crusher or KillBot 2000? NASA gets ready to pick a name for its Mars 2020 Rover

SpaceX ponders its next mission to blot out the Sun with another 60 Starlink sats

Amazing peer-reviewed AI bots that predict premature births were too good to be true: Flawed testing bumped accuracy from 50% to 90%+

If the words 'new', 'AI', 'for', 'the', 'physical', 'world', 'accelerate' and 'Facebook' scare you, click this headline

Rugby legend Will Carling tells El Reg: Techie stats bods will love this year's Six Nations

SAP co-CEO: I'm leavin' on a jet plane... Davos knows that I'll be back again...Oh babe, I hate to go (back to work)

Beer necessities: US chap registers bevvy as emotional support animal so he can booze on public transport

Good folk of Forfar: Alan Hattel would like you all to know he's not dead despite what it says on his tombstone

The Foot of Cupid emits final burst of flatulence in honour of fallen Python Terry Jones

Alan Turing’s OBE medal, PhD cert, other missing items found in super-fan’s Colorado home by agents, says US govt

Software

Rockstar dev debate reopens: Hero programmers do exist, do all the work, do chat a lot – and do need love and attention from project leaders

No big deal, Rogers, your internal source code and keys are only on the open web. Don't hurry to take it down

Keg-xistential issues: Fullers pours away £10m Infor ERP system after selling brewing business

In the red corner, Big Red, and in the blue corner... the rest of the tech industry

If you never thought you'd hear a Microsoftie tell you to stop using Internet Explorer, lap it up: 'I beg you, let it retire to great bitbucket in the sky'

German taxpayers faced with €800k Windows 7 support bill due to Deutschland dithering

Flinging resource-hungry apps at landfill Android? Ubuntu daddy wants to lure you into Anbox Cloud

Microsoft boffin inadvertently highlights .NET image woes by running C# on Windows 3.11

From WordPad to WordAds: Microsoft caught sneaking nagging Office promos into venerable text editor beta

*David Attenborough voice* And here we have, in the wild, a rare glimpse... of what may be... a positive IBM quarter

Opera hits back at 'short seller' whose report claimed its 'predatory' microloan droid apps could hurt, er... investors

'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer

Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans

Server-side Swift's slow support story sours some: Apple lang tailored for mobile CPUs, lacking in Linux world

Whoa, whoa... Tesla slams brakes on allegations of 'unintended acceleration' bug: 'Completely false and was brought by a short-seller'

It's update time – yes, again – for Insiders as the Windows 10 Slow Ring meanders towards release

The delights of on-site working – sun, sea and... WordPad wrangling?

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

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Chrome suddenly using Bing after installing Office 365 Pro Plus... Yeah, that might have been us, mumbles Microsoft

WindiLeaks: 250 million Microsoft customer support records dating back to 2005 exposed to open internet

If you never thought you'd hear a Microsoftie tell you to stop using Internet Explorer, lap it up: 'I beg you, let it retire to great bitbucket in the sky'

Hapless AWS engineer spilled passwords, keys, confidential internal training info, customer messages on public GitHub

Sorry to be blunt about this... Open AWS S3 storage bucket just made 30,000 potheads' privacy go up in smoke

Capita Education Services accidentally spaffs email addresses in Helpdesk snafu

Safari's Intelligent Tracking Protection is misspelled, says Google: It should be Dumb Browser Stalking Enabler

German taxpayers faced with €800k Windows 7 support bill due to Deutschland dithering

The Foot of Cupid emits final burst of flatulence in honour of fallen Python Terry Jones

In the red corner, Big Red, and in the blue corner... the rest of the tech industry

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 grab 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

David Attenborough voice And here we have, in the wild, a rare glimpse... of what may be... a positive IBM quarter