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Openreach's cunning plan to 'turbocharge' the post-Brexit economy: Getting everyone on full-fibre broadband by 2025

Experts warn UK court digitisation is moving too fast and breaking too many things

I can't believe you've done this: Cisco.com asks visitors to explain to IT why they have broken the website

The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Stalker attacks Japanese pop singer – after tracking her down using reflection in her eyes

Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos

Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users' from Dutch brothel forum

Just let us have Huawei and get on with 5G, UK mobe networks tell MPs

Ditch Chef, Puppet, Splunk and snyk for GitLab? That's the pitch from your new wannabe one-stop DevOps shop

Puppet to start pulling a few strings in the cloud-native world with Project Nebula

Serverless Computing London: Doors open in one month – grab your ticket now and join us

Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology

Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It's time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

Forget Brexit, ignore Trump, write off today: BT's gonna make us all 'realise the potential of tomorrow'

Aria Technology takes £750k VAT fraud case to Court of Appeal

HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

Tokyo Olympics, US tariffs Trump Europe's Brexit shakes as global PC shipments balloon to fattest figure in 7 years

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts

US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong

Geek's Guide

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

From Libra to leave-ya: eBay, Visa, Stripe, PayPal, others flee Facebook's crypto-coin

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

2001 fiction set to be science fact? NASA boffin mulls artificial intelligence to watch over the lunar Gateway

Verity Stob

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience

£99,999, what's your emergency? Paramedics rush to OAP's aid after shock meter reading

UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians

Software

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

Perl 6 set to be reincarnated as Raku, as favored by Larry Wall

11 Oct 22:51 | 32

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How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

CommentDevs lament 'trash fire' 'Windows Vista-like' release

11 Oct 20:27 | 81

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SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Subspace communication over, enterprise commander out

11 Oct 10:00 | 5

Software

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Redmond's bundled group chat app draws fire from Slackville

11 Oct 05:10 | 59

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Creators Update meets its maker: It's 1903 or bust for those clinging to Windows 10 1703

1803 to be euthanised in November

10 Oct 16:00 | 47

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Father of Unix Ken Thompson checkmated: Old eight-char password is finally cracked

Aussie bod's AMD GPU smashes hash in just four days

09 Oct 19:26 | 265

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You rang? Windows 10 gets ever cosier with Android, unleashes Calls on Insiders

Plus: New build brings Cortana resizing to all. Hurrah!

09 Oct 12:47 | 29

Software

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

Still, it could be worse, you could be one of cloud slinger's Venezuelan customers

08 Oct 12:41 | 72

Software

Euro ISP club: Sure, weaken encryption. It'll only undermine security for everyone, morons

UK, Oz and US pleas to Facebook given short shrift

08 Oct 08:30 | 78

Software

MacOS 'Catalina' 10.15 comes packed with exclusive security fixes – gee, thanks, Apple

New OS squashes bugs, older versions may have to wait

07 Oct 23:36 | 22

Software

GNU means GNU's Not U: Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out as leader

Now-removed personal website statement sparks confusion

07 Oct 19:39 | 182

Software

Windows 10 update panic: Older VMware Workstation Pro app broken

Desperate users tinkering with compatibility system to get up and running again

07 Oct 15:00 | 65

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Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

UpdatedStop us if you've heard this one before – discussion over as far as Google is concerned

07 Oct 12:45 | 106

Software

Windows builds, Azure axings and Microsoft pushes will.i.am's buttons

RoundupIt wasn't all Surface, Surface, Surface in the Microsoft world last week. It just felt like it

07 Oct 11:15 | 3

Software

Licence to grill: A year on, MongoDB's Eliot Horowitz talks to The Reg about SSPL

InterviewLearning from the competition, luring relational fans and, yes, that licence

07 Oct 08:15 | 5

Software

Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool

Who, Me?Implementations, Moves and Changes were delighted – for a time

07 Oct 07:08 | 210

Software

Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

Boffins find sharing snippets of code has a downside

04 Oct 23:56 | 70

Software

PostgreSQL puts the pedal to the metal with some smart indexing tweaks in version 12

Open-source veteran not above the odd speed increase

04 Oct 12:56 | 24

Software

The OS is 'no longer' important to Microsoft, and yet new Surface kit has 3 Windows flavours

And an Android device – confusing or what?

03 Oct 16:22 | 40

Software

Devs getting stuck into Windows 10X on Surface Neo will have to tussle with UWP

Wonderbar: Compatibility issues ahoy

03 Oct 10:14 | 40

Software

Happy fifth birthday, Windows Insiders! We'd bake a cake, but it might explode without warning

CommentA bit like a dodgy Fast Ring build

02 Oct 10:05 | 28

Openreach's cunning plan to 'turbocharge' the post-Brexit economy: Getting everyone on full-fibre broadband by 2025

Experts warn UK court digitisation is moving too fast and breaking too many things

I can't believe you've done this: Cisco.com asks visitors to explain to IT why they have broken the website

The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Stalker attacks Japanese pop singer – after tracking her down using reflection in her eyes

Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos

Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users' from Dutch brothel forum

Just let us have Huawei and get on with 5G, UK mobe networks tell MPs

Ditch Chef, Puppet, Splunk and snyk for GitLab? That's the pitch from your new wannabe one-stop DevOps shop

Puppet to start pulling a few strings in the cloud-native world with Project Nebula

Serverless Computing London: Doors open in one month – grab your ticket now and join us

Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology

Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It's time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

Forget Brexit, ignore Trump, write off today: BT's gonna make us all 'realise the potential of tomorrow'

Aria Technology takes £750k VAT fraud case to Court of Appeal

HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

Tokyo Olympics, US tariffs Trump Europe's Brexit shakes as global PC shipments balloon to fattest figure in 7 years

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts

US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

From Libra to leave-ya: eBay, Visa, Stripe, PayPal, others flee Facebook's crypto-coin

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

2001 fiction set to be science fact? NASA boffin mulls artificial intelligence to watch over the lunar Gateway

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience

£99,999, what's your emergency? Paramedics rush to OAP's aid after shock meter reading

UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians

Software

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Creators Update meets its maker: It's 1903 or bust for those clinging to Windows 10 1703

Father of Unix Ken Thompson checkmated: Old eight-char password is finally cracked

You rang? Windows 10 gets ever cosier with Android, unleashes Calls on Insiders

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

Euro ISP club: Sure, weaken encryption. It'll only undermine security for everyone, morons

MacOS 'Catalina' 10.15 comes packed with exclusive security fixes – gee, thanks, Apple

GNU means GNU's Not U: Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out as leader

Windows 10 update panic: Older VMware Workstation Pro app broken

Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

Windows builds, Azure axings and Microsoft pushes will.i.am's buttons

Licence to grill: A year on, MongoDB's Eliot Horowitz talks to The Reg about SSPL

Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool

Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

PostgreSQL puts the pedal to the metal with some smart indexing tweaks in version 12

The OS is 'no longer' important to Microsoft, and yet new Surface kit has 3 Windows flavours

Devs getting stuck into Windows 10X on Surface Neo will have to tussle with UWP

Happy fifth birthday, Windows Insiders! We'd bake a cake, but it might explode without warning

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Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

American intelligence follows British lead in warning of serious VPN vulnerabilities

The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look

Remember the FBI's promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens? Well, guess what…

Twitter: No, really, we're very sorry we sold your security info for a boatload of cash

Stalker attacks Japanese pop singer – after tracking her down using reflection in her eyes

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

Remember Windows 8? Microsoft is still trying to reunify the API it split for the touchy OS's benefit

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Edge, Internet Explorer users Czech their settings after MSN 'forgot' their language

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Windows 10 May 2019 Update declared safe at last, which bodes well for upcoming 19H2 build

Analyse this: IBM punts off algorithm risk biz

Visual Studio for Mac: A bunch of new features but Xcode and VS Code are tough competition

Windows 10 May 2019 Update inches toward the 50 per cent uptake as a new build drops

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Haskell, Erlang, and Frank walk into a bar – and begin new project to work in Unison

macOS? More like mac-woe-ess: Google Chrome slip-up trips up SIP-less Apple Macs