Software WebAssembly gets nod from W3C and, most likely, an embrace from cryptojackers online Standardization of wasm for the web offers a new take on the same old problems 06 Dec 21:31 | 27
Comment Software If you want an example of how user concerns do not drive software development, check out this Google-backed API App detection interface sparks privacy worries 06 Dec 01:42 | 40
Software Windows 10 Insiders: Begone, foul Store version of Notepad! You say 20H1, they say 2004, let's call the whole thing off 05 Dec 12:59 | 67
Software Microsoft emits long-term support .NET Core 3.1, Visual Studio 16.4 Ready to go, but beware 'unfortunate breaking change' in Windows Forms 05 Dec 11:06 | 27
Software Customers in 'standoff' with SAP over 2025 end of support for Business Suite: Who'll blink first? Users doubtful 5 years enough to get everyone moved in time 04 Dec 12:22 | 26
Software Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks Mozilla continues exploring privacy as a source of revenue 04 Dec 06:01 | 101
Software Mayday in Moscow as devs will be Russian to Putin mandatory apps on phones, laptops, TVs Don't be Stalin, you only have until July, thanks to new law 03 Dec 22:04 | 55
Software It's Hipp to be square: What happened when SQLite creator met GitHub The 'Hub is not really about Git any more, says Fossil architect 03 Dec 12:13 | 41
Software I'll give you my Windows 7 installation when you pry it from my cold, dead hands (and other tales) RoundupPlus: New Surface SDKs, Outlook as web app, Azure updates and more 02 Dec 10:58 | 67
Software Vote rigging, election fixing, ballot stuffing: Just another day in the life of a Register reader Who, Me?Nudity, inebriation and a desire to see a band live on stage. The Christmas countdown has begun! 02 Dec 08:02 | 105
Software After four years, Rust-based Redox OS is nearly self-hosting A better operating system thanks to Rust's combination of safety and performance? 29 Nov 17:13 | 118
Software That's Microsoft price: Now you can enjoy a BSOD from the comfort of your driving seat Windows struck down at Asda Click & Collect 'Drive Thru' 29 Nov 11:24 | 58
Software We've found it... the last shred of human decency in an IT director – all for a poxy Unix engineer On CallYeah, we're gonna need you to bring us his head 29 Nov 08:15 | 123
Software Open-source Windows Terminal does the splits: There ain't no party like a multi-pane party Latest preview will also 'crash less'! Hooray! 27 Nov 13:09 | 29
Software Microsoft takes us to 2004 with new Windows 10 so you don't mistake it for Server 2003 Spices up your life with change to naming conventions 27 Nov 11:00 | 68
Software See you on the other side, Egon: Confluent invites relational devs to dip toe into Kafka's streams with ksqlDB KSQL gains point-in-time queries, becomes ksqlDB 26 Nov 10:45 |
Software Microsoft stocking fillers: Powershell 7, maybe even next year's Windows 10. But forget about Surface Earbuds RoundupAlso: Teams and Slack get the handbags out 25 Nov 13:30 | 9
Software Microsoft finds Huawei to get Chinese biz back on its sales ledger: US permits Redmond software supply line But doesn't stop Commerce Secretary saying he's still 'frightened' of Chinese tech biz 22 Nov 18:00 | 7
Software That code that could never run? Well, guess what. Now Windows thinks it's Batman On CallYou left your landline number in an error message, you doughnut 22 Nov 08:15 | 189
Software WinUI and WinRT: Official modern Windows API now universal thanks to WebAssembly C# and XAML devs get path to what UWP promised but never delivered 20 Nov 09:09 | 35
Servers Ohhh, you're so rugged! Microsoft swoons at new Lenovo box pushing Azure to the edge Fix it to a wall, stick it on a shelf
Security China fires up 'Great Cannon' denial-of-service blaster, points it toward Hong Kong Protest organizers come under fire from network traffic barrage
Security OpenBSD bugs, Microsoft's bad update, a new Nork hacking crew, and more Meanwhile, the DOJ sets its sights on money mules
Personal Tech Apple: Mysterious iPhone 11 location pings were because of 'ultra-wideband compliance' NVM, we'll give you a toggle to deactivate UWB... in the future-ture-ture
Personal Tech Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit CEO's tweeted taunt totally fine, twelve jurors decide
Personal Tech Nokia 2.3: HMD flings out €109 budget 'droid with a 2-day battery But get ready to flip your cables cos it's microUSB
Security Reasons to be fearful 2020: Smishing, public Wi-Fi, deepfakes... and all the usual suspects Too soon for New Year Resolutions?
Personal Tech Samsung Galaxy S11 tipped to escalate the phone cam arms race with 108MP sensor Squaring up to the iPhone 11
Business Listen up you bunch of bankers. Here are some pointers for less crap IT UK regulators hash out cheat sheet to avoid total meltdown
Science Forget sharks with lasers, NASA kits out an elephant seal with a sensor-studded skullcap We're never gonna survive unless, we get a little crazy
Software IBM, Microsoft and Linux Foundation link arms to fight patent trolls with 'multimillion' scheme Linux was a 'cancer' but Microsoft is now defending it 20 Nov 06:01 | 41
Software Security giants line up behind push to stop stalkerware being used on smartphones Coalition aims to help users spot and remove covert trackers 20 Nov 01:10 | 14
Software AWS shoves Java 11 support into Lambda serverless toy box As well as managed nodes for K8s and new FireLens container logging service 19 Nov 16:07 |
Software Email! HUH! Yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing... Who, Me?... thanks to today's entrant in the Who, Me? hall of shame 18 Nov 08:15 | 62
Software Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes The case that just won't die 15 Nov 21:09 | 83
Software White Screen of Death: Admins up in arms after experimental Google emission borks Chrome Change rolled back, but it's not a good look 15 Nov 16:00 | 36
Software Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites *Cough cough* 15 Nov 09:15 | 70
Software GitHub gathers friends for a security code cleanse to scrub that software up to spec Rallies partners and shares tools to reduce software bugs 14 Nov 22:02 |
Software Microsoft's first build of Armium Edge now lurks in Canary channel – go have a play if you dare Plus: Windows 10 19H2 quietly shuffles out of the shadows 14 Nov 17:07 | 6
Software Fancy renting your developer environment? Visual Studio goes online Or you could try Gitpod... 13 Nov 10:00 | 29
Software Four go wild for wasm: Corporate quartet come together to build safe WebAssembly sandbox Chipzilla, Mozilla, Fastly, and IBM's red-hatted stepchild plot browser-breakout 13 Nov 08:01 | 14
Software Next year's Windows 10 comes bounding into the Slow Ring, which means 19H2 waits in the wings Insiders can no longer jump off the testing train 12 Nov 12:07 | 26
Software Without any apparent irony, Google marks Chrome's 'small' role in web ecosystem Chrome Dev Summit also brings resolution of tabs vs. spaces fight, for now 12 Nov 08:01 | 76
Software What's that, Skippy? A sad-faced Microsoft engineer has arrived with an axe? Skippy? RoundupPlus: New toys for Teams, a fresh Visual Studio Code, and more 11 Nov 10:01 | 19
Software Microsoft's phrase of the week was 'tech intensity' and, no, we're not sure what it means either Ignite(Tech adoption x tech capability ) ^ trust, anyone? 08 Nov 15:04 | 20
Software Google throws new version of Dart at the desktop, will be hoping it sticks with app devs Reformed JavaScript killer now useful on the command line 08 Nov 05:00 | 15
Software Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript Data analytics helps to boost contributions by 151% 07 Nov 18:00 | 14
Software Microsoft looks to React Native as a way to tackle the cross-platform development puzzle IgniteWindows and Office teams shun Xamarin in favour of JavaScript/C++ solution 07 Nov 15:00 | 19
Software Chrome OS: Yo dawg, I heard you like desktops so we put a workspace in your workspace So you can work on something while you work on something 06 Nov 17:42 | 52