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Customers furious over days-long outage as A2 Hosting scores a D- in Windows uptime

BOFH: It's not just an awesome app, it'll look great on my Insta. . a. a. AAAARRRRRGGH

Is that a stiffy disk in your drive... or something else entirely?

Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names

Turn on, tune in, cash out: Hipster chat plat Slack whacks beardie millennials with features

Microsoft's Edge on Apple's macOS? It's more likely than you think for new browser

Now Ponder Mistakes: NPM's heavy-handed management prompts JS code registry challenger

QEMU 4 arrives with toys for Arm admirers, RISC-V revolutionaries, POWER patriots... you get the idea

Thank you, your DNA data will help secure your… oh dear, we've lost that too

There's NordVPN odd about this, right? Infosec types concerned over strange app traffic

Zuck it up: Facebook hit with triple whammy of legal probes, action in Canada, US, Ireland

NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans' phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don't need that no more

What happens when your legacy platforms meet DevOps, Containers and CD?

DevOps grandpa Electric Cloud absorbed into youthful CloudBees

We can help you get on top of DevOps, CI/CD and containers, all in one month's time...

What exactly is everyone doing with DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes and Serverless?

A copy-paste of Europe and a '5G' hotel: El Reg's Adventures in Huawei Land were fairly wacky

Samsung to invest $115bn in logic chip biz over next 11 years as volatile memory mart cools

Clear Ventures does an Electric Boogaloo with sequel fund to splash $180m on 'Industry 4.0'

High Court confirms the way UK banned GSM gateways was illegal

Huawei P30: New No-Pro's cameras are flash ... but there are some curious bits

ood new, fanbys. Apple spds up n-str McBook latop kyboad rpairs, ccrding t hs leakd mmo

Facebook: Not saying we've done anything wrong but... we're just putting $3bn profit aside for an FTC privacy fine

5G is Chinese firms' foot in the door to Europe as Oppo launches flagship Reno mobe in Zurich

Geek's Guide

What are we more like to see? A smooth Windows 10 May release... or a xenon-124 decay? Oh dear, bad news, IT folks

Rising sea levels? How about the rising risk of someone using a nuke?

Thanks to the NASA InSight probe (and British tools), you can now listen to the sound of a Martian earthquake

It was that gosh-darn anomaly again, says SpaceX as smoke billows from Crew Dragon test site

Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete, not when the end result is this dumb

Boffins bring home the bacon as AI-powered robo-medic performs heart surgery on pigs

Docker raises Arm to make itself handier for IoT edge data pushing

Baffling tale of Apple shops' 'non-facial' 'facial recognition', a stolen ID, and a $1bn lawsuit after a wrongful arrest

Verity Stob

Owner of Smuggler's Inn B&B ordered to put up a sign warning guests not to cross into Canada

Jocasta? Jocasta! Don't ram that trolley into the man: New tech promises an end to this scenario

Parents slapped with dress code after turning school grounds into a fashion crime scene

President Trump sits down with Twitter boss for crunch talks: Why am I losing followers?

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Bearded hipster gent wearing straw fedora

Turn on, tune in, cash out: Hipster chat plat Slack whacks beardie millennials with features

But is it enough to combat the Microsoft juggernaut?

25 Apr 17:07 | 7

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Microsoft's Edge on Apple's macOS? It's more likely than you think for new browser

Chromium base should ease porting pains substantially

25 Apr 12:02 | 21

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Now Ponder Mistakes: NPM's heavy-handed management prompts JS code registry challenger

Contender hopes to one day become the preferred Node.js Package Manager

25 Apr 10:09 | 10

QEMU 4 arrives with toys for Arm admirers, RISC-V revolutionaries, POWER patriots... you get the idea

Plenty of CPU goodness to spread around in the first big 2019 update

25 Apr 06:02 | 15

It's an Easter Jesus miracle: MS Paint back from the dead (ish) and in Windows 10 'for now'

Aging awful art app to remain in May 2019 OS upgrade after its, wait for it, wait for it... brush with death

24 Apr 18:59 | 63

SAP's cloud revenues swell 45% – just don't ask about the gaping €136m hole in profits

Qualtrics slurp and restructure aren't making any money yet

24 Apr 15:30 | 3

Remember Windows Media Center? Well, the SDK is now on GitHub to be poked at your leisure

If you ever wanted to write an extension for Microsoft's long-dead media hub, you can

24 Apr 14:03 | 23

Windows 10 May 2019 Update thwarted by obscure tech known as 'external storage'

USBs and SD cards can result in a drive-letter switcheroo

24 Apr 09:15 | 124

Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp

Rental firm fuming after consultancy 'never delivered a functional site or mobile app'

23 Apr 21:12 | 140

Javascript photo via Shutterstock

Node.js version 12 is now out: Let's pop the hood and see what's inside this JS runtime

TLS 1.3, speedups, reduced memory overhead, and more

23 Apr 19:03 | 6

man hatches out of easter egg

Microsoft fans celebrate the Easter weekend with some Sets-based upsets

RoundupPlus: Windows 10 May 2019 Update on MSDN, Surface Hub 2S has a trolley

23 Apr 11:15 | 15

Big trouble on big China

Fed up with 72-hour, six-day working weeks, IT workers emit cries for help via GitHub repo

Help! Help! We're being held prisoner in a software factory!

23 Apr 05:56 | 48

NPM is Not Particularly Magnanimous? Staff fired after trying to unionize – complaints

Special reportPlus: Employee diversity, harassment brouhahas within Microsoft, Google

22 Apr 20:33 | 55

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Hands off Brock! EFF pleads with Google not to kill its Privacy Badger with its Manifest destiny

It's not hard, we just need some coding tweaks to make sure Privacy Badger stays sane

19 Apr 08:31 | 31

Disco Dingo fever: Ubuntu 19.04 has an infrastructure bent, snappier GNOME and another stupid name

New Linux kernel, new build

18 Apr 09:37 | 39

Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript

InterviewHere's that regularized programming you wanted. Bish, bash, er, Bosque

18 Apr 07:04 | 196

Hey criminals, need a getaway vehicle? There's an app for that... Car share tool halts ops amid crime wave, arrests

You wouldn't download a car – oh actually...

18 Apr 00:58 | 32

App-y now? UK health secretary spammed with pics of flowers that look like ladies' private parts

Social media hits back at suggestion women are too shy to get a smear test

15 Apr 12:51 | 22

Firefox arrives for Snapdragon Windows and Slack sidles up to Office 365

RoundupAlso: Azure goes big in Britain, Bletchley Park to teach tech and Skype shares some more

15 Apr 10:03 | 20

Motion detectors: say hello, wave goodbye and… flushhhhhh

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Some things are better left without a video greeting

12 Apr 08:07 | 165

My HPE-funded lawyer wrote my witness statement, reseller boss tells High Court

Autonomy trialAutonomy helped Capax Discovery repay its own contracts, he added

11 Apr 18:30 | 48

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A digitized fingerprint

FYI: Yeah, the cops can force your finger onto a suspect's iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge

Samsung Galaxy Fold iFixit teardown

Behold, the insides of Samsung's Galaxy Fold: The phone that tears down all on its own

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Sophos antivirus tools. Working Windows box. Latest Patch Tuesday fixes. Pick two: 'Puters knackered by bad combo

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Gather round, friends. Listen close. It's time to list the five biggest lies about 5G

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Be wary, traveller: There is no going back if you step over the Windows 10 20H1 threshold

Insiders play 'Where's 19H2?' and every day is an Edge day

11 Apr 12:10 | 20

Do you want salt with that? Salesforce phallus 'shopped out' of Oracle Park calendar cover

Nah, it's just an old photo, claims spokesborg

10 Apr 18:01 | 16

Jamf Nation Roadshow aims to cure your Apple device management headaches

PromoSoftware provider tackles growing market sector

RIP: Microsoft finally pulls plug on last XP survivor... POSReady 2009

Welcome to Day One of the post NT 5.1 era

10 Apr 12:41 | 148

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Windows Subsystem for Linux distro gets a preening, updated version waddles into Microsoft's app store

If you're feeling a little bit Linux, p-p-p-pick up a p-p-p-Pengwin...1.2

10 Apr 11:31 | 71

Bored cat on computer, photo via Shutterstock

Rust never sleeps: C++-alike language tops Stack Overflow survey for fourth year in a row

Python still popular. Visual Basic for Applications liked about as much as meetings

09 Apr 19:00 | 100

Dipping a toe to test the water

Microsoft realises more testing wouldn't hurt and plonks Windows 10 May update into Preview ring

You can take the plunge a bit early... if you dare

09 Apr 15:15 | 9

The Reg takes a trip over the New Edge. Mmmm... New Coke with extra fizz

The Vulture hooks a talon into Microsoft's Edge-y take on Chromium

09 Apr 11:40 | 28

Karma chameleon: Reg hack takes SUSE mascot plushy right in the kisser

InterviewThen talks cloud, devs and Functions as a Service with engineering boss

09 Apr 10:14 | 8

It's alive! Hands on with Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser

Hands onYou say Edgium, they say Chredge, we say Chrexplorer – let's call the whole thing off

08 Apr 18:46 | 91

Microsoft buffs its rings, emits Code and goes global with Kaizala

For those moments when four rings just aren't quite enough

08 Apr 10:00 | 11

Apple Safari icon

One step forward and one step back for Apple's privacy campaign with latest Safari build

Intelligent Tracking protection arrives as off switch for website tattling trait is removed

06 Apr 17:47 | 30

Metal gig in small club

Raise some horns: Red Hat's MetalKube aims to make Kubernetes on bare machines simple

OpenInfra Days UK 2019Open-source project borrows bits of OpenStack

after-party mess

Prepare yourselves for Windows 10 May-hem. Or is it June, no, July?

Microsoft's latest update for its ageing OS due to hit Soon™

05 Apr 10:49 | 78

Big panda

Xen 4.12 shrinks code, beefs up security, rethinks x86 support

Plus, it’s now actually two hypervisors in one

Google pholds! Just kidding. But Android Q Beta 2 drop supports those cool bendy mobes

Toying with UI, burstin' bubbles

04 Apr 16:58 | 21

No Widevine DRM for you! Developer left with two years of work stymied by Google snub

Take your media viewing ideas somewhere else

03 Apr 06:04 | 58

NPM clings to its cuddly image – as senior staff vote with their feet: Now longtime product boss quits JS package biz

npm uninstall iarna

03 Apr 00:49 | 8

GA'day, mate: Open the plonk, turn up a banger, Visual Studio 2019 is officially here (don't get too excited, Mac devs)

Striding into its third decade, dev suite is now ready to Share

02 Apr 21:37 | 21

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