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Larry Ellison tiers Amazon a new one: Oracle cloud gets 'always' free offer, plus something about Linux

IBM looks to boost sales the same way it has for 65 years – yes, it's a new mainframe: The z15

Justice served: There is no escape from the long server log of the law

Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...

Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid Epstein email storm

I got 99 problems but a switch() ain't one: Java SE 13 lands with various tweaks as per Oracle's less-is-more strategy

Wi-Fi woes and broken browser target both young and old in Microsoft patch land

Linux 5.3 kernel bundles new, cuddlier, swear-free Torvalds with AMD Radeon Navi graphics support

How much pass could LastPass pass if LastPass passed last pass? Login-leaking security hole fixed

Just as Ecuador thought it had seen the back of leaks, over 20m citizen records are exposed

Australia didn't blame China for parliament hack in case it upset trade relations – report

You all know why you should encrypt your cloud data – now learn where and how…

Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!

Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We've got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you're quick

Freebie tier coming to issue-tracking Jira, but you'll have to cough up to unlock the good stuff

Think you’ve blown your chance to save with serverless? Not so FaaSt...

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google told: If you could cough up a decade of your internal emails, that'd be great

UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

Has outsourcing public-sector IT worked? The Institute for Government seems to think so, kinda

Pushing Verify in Brexit plans more about saving troubled project

Fitbit fitness fans furious following flummoxing flawed firmware float, fleeting feedback, failed fixes

The results are in… and California’s GDPR-ish digital privacy law has survived onslaught by Google and friends

Wall Street analyst slashes HP Inc's share rating amid mounting worries over printer supplies declines

Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

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Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

Face-recognizing cop body cams hit another hurdle, genderless voice assistants, and more

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

And the teeny-tiny bottle of AI whisky goes to...

France says 'non merci' to Facebook-backed Libra cryptocurrency

Verity Stob

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Au my bog: Bloke, 66, on bail after 'solid-gold' crapper called 'America' stolen from stately home

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

Time for another cuppa then? Tea-drinkers have better brains, say boffins with even better brains

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Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid Epstein email storm

InterviewGNU founder resigns after Minsky defense 'the final straw' for dev world

17 Sep 05:11 | 2

I got 99 problems but a switch() ain't one: Java SE 13 lands with various tweaks as per Oracle's less-is-more strategy

Code OneAll part of Big Red's regular small-ish release plan as opposed to large infrequent updates

16 Sep 20:02 | 6

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Wi-Fi woes and broken browser target both young and old in Microsoft patch land

The last Surface RT user just needs to fill in a web form to... oh heck

16 Sep 18:02 | 4

Linux 5.3 kernel bundles new, cuddlier, swear-free Torvalds with AMD Radeon Navi graphics support

Guv'nor explains regression again, without the expletives

16 Sep 16:38 | 8

Microsoft plays chicken with Extended Support for Exchange 2010 end date and swerves first

Extension to October 2020. But what of Server 2008 or... Windows 7?

16 Sep 15:16 | 6

COBOL: Five little letters that if put on a CV would ensure stable income for many a greybeard coder

EVALUATE COBOL-AGE WHEN 60 CONTINUE

16 Sep 09:09 | 122

I have no mouth and I must scream: You can add audio to wobbles in latest Windows 10 patch

Users find PCs silenced while Microsoft looks into search fix

13 Sep 11:12 | 41

Hold up, ace. Before you strap into Firefox's latest Test Pilot, ask yourself...

How much do I trust Mozilla with my data?

13 Sep 08:00 | 21

Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

On CallA magical journey into the brave new world of Start Menus and Recycle Bins

13 Sep 07:00 | 232

All three of the Insiders on Arm64 can now muck about with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

New shiny for Fast Ringers. Oh, and Cortana

12 Sep 12:00 | 30

Vulture Central team welcomed to our new nest by crashed Ubuntu that's 3 years out of date

UpdatedWhat Mark Shuttleworth would have wanted?

12 Sep 10:00 | 77

Breaking, literally: Microsoft's fix for CPU-hogging Windows bug wrecks desktop search

One step forward, er, one step back. Nobody gets too far like that

11 Sep 20:17 | 79

Care for a Flutter? Google emits fresh version of all-things-app-platform, plus a tart-up for Dart

iOS 13, macOS Catalina and calling C code in Mountain View's bundle of joy

11 Sep 10:25 | 3

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Enterprise Java spec packs bags, ready for new life under assumed name – Jakarta

Oops, hope we haven't blown Java EE 8's cover

10 Sep 12:00 | 13

Thinking about processing a payment, Sage Group? Biz confirms mulling sale of Sage Pay

A farewell to merchant services arm?

10 Sep 11:15 | 12

For real this time, get your butt off Python 2: No updates, no nothing after 1 January 2020

'Let's not play games,' says lang dad Guido van Rossum

09 Sep 15:00 | 124

D'aw! They still have hope! Interns make a song and dance of their summer at Microsoft

RoundupWhile browbeaten oldies try to focus on Windows 10, .NET Core, Visual Studio

09 Sep 11:01 | 10

Phone home: Indie Chromium browser Vivaldi goes mobile

Hands OnDesktop browser fans – and Vulture Central – get an Android client to play with

09 Sep 08:06 | 14

Everyone's a winner as Microsoft turns on new Windows 10 19H2 toys for all Slow Ring testers

Some Insiders are more equal than others (sorry, Release Preview)

06 Sep 14:10 | 6

Opal Fruits, Princess Diana and... PowerToys? Microsoft is dragging Windows 10 back to '95

Desktop layout suite granted 2019 reboot

06 Sep 12:06 | 28

Another sign of the End Times: Free software guru Richard Stallman speaks at Microsoft HQ

PhotoFirebrand in town to give Redmond a GNU lease of life

05 Sep 21:04 | 42

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Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...

Updated... And these punters are not happy

COBOL: Five little letters that if put on a CV would ensure stable income for many a greybeard coder

EVALUATE COBOL-AGE WHEN 60 CONTINUE

Justice served: There is no escape from the long server log of the law

Who, Me?A handover or handcuffs? Take your pick, eh?

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

Further investigation suggests she may actually have a point

You all know why you should encrypt your cloud data – now learn where and how…

PromoAWS spills the beans

UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

New validity rules in event of no deal for Brits travelling to EU

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google told: If you could cough up a decade of your internal emails, that'd be great

Oh, and you have four weeks to comply, says US antitrust probe

Has outsourcing public-sector IT worked? The Institute for Government seems to think so, kinda

Prepare Reg readers, it is time to enter an alternate reality where up is down, black is white and Capita is cuddly

Au my bog: Bloke, 66, on bail after 'solid-gold' crapper called 'America' stolen from stately home

Creator denies it's a prank

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Researchers debunk tax-fraud imposter theory

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Loss-making $15bn hipster chat biz Slack suddenly less appetising to investors as it predicts deeper losses

Battle with Microsoft not letting up

05 Sep 09:38 | 57

After banning adverts in command-line terminals, NPM floats idea of Patreon-style donations to open-source devs

Cash-burning biz sees itself following in the footsteps of GitHub Sponsors

04 Sep 07:04 | 24

Mozilla says Firefox won't defang ad blockers – unlike a certain ad-giant browser

Extensions still free to use uber-powerful webRequest API to filter crap out of webpages

03 Sep 22:32 | 42

Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words

Redmond suggests nuking 'profanity, geopolitical, diversity' terms from browser source

03 Sep 21:45 | 258

Today in tortured tech analogies: Mozilla lets Firefox loose in the hen house, and by hen house, we mean the tracking cookie jar, er...

Remember when people didn't use browsers from the one of world's biggest adtech giants?

03 Sep 19:57 | 59

Cortana makes your PC's heart beat faster: Windows 10 update leaves some processors hot under the cooler

Updated1903 patch turns Redmond's virtual assistant into a very power hungry bot

03 Sep 18:13 | 38

HPE lawyer claims key associates of Autonomy boss Mike Lynch 'refuse' to testify to High Court

Autonomy TrialWe don't actually need them, says Lynch's camp

03 Sep 14:15 | 30

Good news Flash lovers! Microsoft won't be disabling it by default (so long as you use IE or old Edge)

Axe to still fall at the end of 2020 as planned

03 Sep 08:15 | 35

Call Windows 10 anything you like – Microsoft seems to

RoundupAlso: Hololens 2 peekaboo and the not-so-mysterious decline of 1803

02 Sep 10:15 | 65

Developer reconsiders npm command-line ad caper after outcry

Effort to help fund open-source projects proves too much

30 Aug 23:08 | 34

TfL inks £6.5m deal with Sopra Steria to build traffic data-munching and control system

Tunnels, bridges, lights and other route constipation hardness to be eased by laxative of software goodness

30 Aug 15:00 | 9

No it's not Russell Brand's new cult, it's Microsoft's Office crew rolling out their Save Experience

Not one, not two, but three Save dialogs in updated Office 365 desktop applications

30 Aug 13:04 | 40

Clutching at its Perl 6, developer community ponders language name with less baggage

First Gim, er, Glimpse – now our web vultures' favorite coding lingo

30 Aug 00:11 | 250

Mozilla shaves down Beard to a luxuriant mustache, looks for new CEO by end of year

The clock is ticking to find replacement, he's off by Xmas

29 Aug 21:26 | 8

Zapped from the Play store: Another developer gets no sense from Google, appeals to the public

Five years' history not enough to get a meaningful human response

29 Aug 15:28 | 68

Brit software giant Micro Focus takes a bath after share price crashes 30%, sales tank

Slowing economy blamed for customers delaying software buys as storm clouds gather

29 Aug 14:10 | 21

Hey, it's 2019. Quit making battery-draining webpages – say makers of webpage-displaying battery-powered kit

Save the family joules, urge Apple's WebKit developers

29 Aug 01:08 | 73

Twice in one month: Microsoft updates new-style Terminal preview

Kills roaming settings, makes HTML copy 'incontrovertible'

28 Aug 18:15 | 16

Microsoft's only gone and published the exFAT spec, now supports popping it in the Linux kernel

exFAT heading towards Open Invention Network's Linux System Definition

28 Aug 16:00 | 105

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