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Who bought the most powerful commercial supercomputer? Come on, it's Total-ly obvious

Virty boys Parallels bring machine learning, Windows Server 2019 support to RAS VDI line

Video: The future of faster enterprises

Brit hosting provider tsoHost takes needleful of 'unauthorized code' to the servers, suffers week of outages

Get your coat, you've pulled a Pull Panda: GitHub goes home with code collab specialists

10 PRINT Memorial in New Hampshire marks the birthplace of BASIC

Microsoft's Edge gang pops a head above the parapet to give Linux fans a strong 'maybe'

settlement.js not found: JavaScript package biz NPM scraps talks, fights union-busting claims

Parliament IT bods' fail sees server's naked OS exposed to world+dog

Freaking out about fiendish IoT exploits? Maybe stop disable telnet and change that default password first?

Smash GandCrab: Free tools released to decrypt files scrambled by notorious ransomware

Samsung reminds rabble to scan smart TVs for viruses – then tries to make them forget

Dev darling Docker embraces Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Fsck it, we've lost Bitbucket: Quay.io webhook integration fails after API tweaked

Microsoft throws lifeline to .NET orphans in the brave new Core world

AWS goes live with Windows containers... but contain yourselves: It's going to be niche

Human-rights warriors crack on with legal challenge to UK's lax surveillance laws

London opens stock market for a tickling from Chinese tentacles

Blighty's online pr0n gatekeepers are begging for a regulatory beating, says digital rights org

UK industry calls for delay of IR35 off-payroll tax rules to private sector

FYI: Your Venmo transfers with those edgy emojis aren't private by default. And someone's put 7m of them into a public DB

Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam

Atari finally launches its VCS console. Again.

Flight Simulator 2020: Exciting new ride or a doomed tailspin in a crowded market?

Geek's Guide

What price the Moon? Tips from the past might save the present

Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g

Bonjour, mon chum! Québécois IT giant CGI snaps up freshly Irish Galileo botherer SCISYS

Gonna be so cool when we finally get into space, float among the stars, work out every day, inject testosterone...

Boffins' neural network can work out from your speech whether you'll develop psychosis

Finally, an AI that can reliably catch and undo Photoshop airbrushing. Who made it? Er, Photoshop maker Adobe

TPM now stands for Tiny Platform Module: TCG shrinks crypto chip to secure all the Things

Politically linked deepfake LinkedIn profile sparks spy fears, Apple cooks up AI transfer tech, and more

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UK.gov whacks export ban on 'grotesque' crab made by famous Brit potter bros

You gotta be kitten me: Pakistan politicos feline silly after filter farce hits purrrfect conference

We asked readers what DXC should be known for... and of course you came up with the goods

Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP

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Get your coat, you've pulled a Pull Panda: GitHub goes home with code collab specialists

What next? Tugging the Test Plans? Grappling with GitLab?

Usborne intro to programming

10 PRINT Memorial in New Hampshire marks the birthplace of BASIC

17 Jun 12:26 | 102

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Microsoft's Edge gang pops a head above the parapet to give Linux fans a strong 'maybe'

RoundupAlso: storage migration, Mac development and The Trillion Dollar Man performs the dividend dance

17 Jun 11:40 | 22

settlement.js not found: JavaScript package biz NPM scraps talks, fights union-busting claims

Special reportCEO speaks to The Reg as we dig into labor complaints, future of npm CLI

14 Jun 01:11 | 12

ALIS through the looking glass: F-35 fighter jet's slurpware nearly made buyers pull out – report

Customers didn't like how much data spare parts package was funnelling back to America

13 Jun 18:00 | 116

The joy of six: Microsoft emits latest preview of .NET Core 3 with plenty of pipes, perfs, loads...

All the while more WPF source trickles into GitHub

13 Jun 17:00 | 3

Hongmeng, there's no need to feel down: It's patently obvious this is Huawei's homegrown mobe OS

It's fun to trademark your brand in CA, it's fun to trademark your brand in SK...ay

13 Jun 14:01 | 46

Halleluja! The Second Coming of Windows Subsystem For Linux blesses Insider faithful

OMG, emoji panel also fixed in Microsoft's 2020 OS

13 Jun 11:45 | 44

Behold the might of dynamic crimefighting duo Captain Met Police and the Microsoft Kid

Office 365 to demonstrate legendary ability to not fall over when pushed to the front line

13 Jun 09:10 | 31

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Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike

UpdatedEuro super-boffins embrace MAlt right after academic discount axed

13 Jun 06:53 | 271

Overprotective parent illustration, a child under glass

Google: We're not killing ad blockers. Translation: We made them too powerful, we'll cram this genie back in its bottle

AnalysisWe want to make Chrome safer... by taking away the API we used to race Firefox

13 Jun 01:59 | 75

Money laundering and crypto-coin legislation could hurt open-source ecosystem – activists

Rights groups slam UK.gov's customer due diligence plans

11 Jun 11:24 | 58

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This Free software ain't free to make, pal, it's expensive: Mozilla to bankroll Firefox with paid-for premium extras

Browser will remain gratis, optional $$-per-month services to be offered later this year

11 Jun 00:27 | 129

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Salesforce shells out $15.7bn for data viz biz Tableau

Because nobody really likes spreadsheets

10 Jun 15:39 | 17

What's up at Microsoft this week? Windows 10 builds of course, Skype screen sharing... zzzzz... New Flight Simulator?!

RoundupAzure Kubernetes Service reaches China, and did we mention Flight Simulator?

10 Jun 12:47 | 24

Like using the latest version of Microsoft Office? Love Offline Files? Not for long!

UpdatedIf you want to use offline files then you need to, er, stay online

07 Jun 15:09 | 97

The best and worst of GitHub: Repos wiped without notice, quickly restored – but why?

UpdatedThat feel when the 'beating heart' of your project returns a 404

07 Jun 08:10 | 72

Zorin OS 15 nods at Ubuntu and welcomes Windows escapees

Fit and finish, spit and polish, and Zorin Connect make the leap from 12 to 15

06 Jun 20:30 | 72

Powers of stash and rebase fall into the hands of noobs with GitHub Desktop 2.0

Still no official Linux version?

06 Jun 19:30 | 7

Visual Studio Code 1.35: Remote Development, TypeScript and (sigh) another new icon

More toys for everyone's favourite source-code editor

06 Jun 16:30 | 11

Help the Macless: Apple’s iPadOS is a huge update that will enable more people to do without a Mac... or a PC

WWDCEven mouse support. Kind of

06 Jun 08:15 | 73

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Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster – and are fighting to secure it

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Sad SACK: Linux PCs, servers, gadgets may be crashed by 'Ping of Death' network packets

Embarrassed/exhausted man sits in front of laptop in hipstery office. Photo by Shutterstock

Greatest threat facing IT? Not the latest tech giant cockwomblery – it's just tired engineers

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Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g

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Still sniggering at that $999 monitor stand? Apple just got serious about the enterprise

WWDCAzure Active Directory integration and super secret APFS volumes? Oh my

05 Jun 10:28 | 80

Dissed Bash boshed: Apple makes fancy zsh default in forthcoming macOS 'Catalina' 10.15

echo "And we're ok with this"

04 Jun 21:13 | 63

LibreOffice 6.3 hits beta, with built-in redaction tool for sharing those █████ documents

Free open source office suite gets better, but use the redaction tools with care

04 Jun 15:14 | 62

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Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5, update 2 plops from Oracle's Linux-shaped orifice

Bruce Willis thankfully not involved

04 Jun 13:40 | 6

Apple's Craig Federighi, Senior VP Software Engineering, introduces SwiftUI at WWDC

Apple's tailored SwiftUI makes coding Mac and iOS apps RAD again

WWDCDeveloping for iGiant's platform just got way easier

04 Jun 10:40 | 19

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Microsoft Bing is 10: That thing you accidentally use to search for Chrome? Still alive and kicking

Used in 34% of American searches. Really

04 Jun 10:00 | 71

CJ Silverio at JSConf EU 19

Return of the JSedi: After being ousted from NPM Inc, former CTO is back with rival package registry Entropic

CJ Silverio floats open-source federated approach to save JavaScript community from corporate clutches

04 Jun 01:00 | 3

Microsoft: A new Windows 10 build arrives while another remains in hiding

RoundupAlso: Excel gets OCR smarts and Win 10 Oct 2018 Update hits 30%

03 Jun 12:42 | 14

Microsoft doles out PowerShell 7 preview. It works. People like it. We can't find a reason to be sarcastic about it

Popular admin tool shifts to .Net Core 3.0 amid talk of future features

31 May 19:25 | 53

Former unicorn MapR desperately seeking cash as threat of closure looms

Deadline for offers is June 14

31 May 17:00 | 21

Refactoring whizz: Good software shouldn't cost the earth – it's actually cheaper to build

InterviewRepeat after me, better software costs less...

31 May 08:10 | 79

Not wanting to share Facebook's fate, Google puts devs on data diet, tightens lid on cookie jar

Chrome extension creators and Drive app makers face pending API and policy limitations

31 May 00:07 | 5

Microsoft execs Nick Parker, Roanne Sones and Rodney Clark on stage at Computex 2019 in Taipei

'Evolution of the PC ecosystem'? Microsoft's 'modern' OS reminds us of the Windows RT days

And we've been hurt before

29 May 11:59 | 155

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Pivotal adds OpenJDK support to Spring in response to 'concerns' around Oracle's Java

'We're big fans,' says company's announcement

29 May 10:55 | 4

Your ad here, on a movie screen

Google relents slightly in ad-blocker crackdown – for paid-up enterprise Chrome users, everyone else not so much

Freeloaders will be limited to less capable content filtering

29 May 05:54 | 75

Fixes for Windows 10 arrive (for Insiders, soz) and covers are pulled from Edge for macOS

RoundupMore Mac tickling with Defender ATP and Visual Studio gets a point one

28 May 09:30 | 21

What's next on agenda for DataStax? APIs, Kubernetes, and checks notes a desktop distro?

DataStax AccelerateThe good, the bad and the weird

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 | 49

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

We're a strong, independent company

24 May 08:10 | 17

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