Software

Hortonworks aims to entice enterprise with simple data management service

Hadoop-flinger promises one service to manage multiple platforms and use cases
25 Sep 17:09

Red Hat pledges patent protection for 99 per cent of FOSS-ware

Company has trove of 2,000 patents and won't enforce any of them if you licence right
19 Comments
22 Sep 06:29

Ah, good ol' Windows update cycles... Wait, before anything else, check your hardware

SponsoredIntel and Microsoft have been working together to ease the pain
75 Comments
21 Sep 15:16

Behold iOS 11, an entirely new computer platform from Apple

ReviewIt's a massive and ambitious upgrade for iPads, but older hardware can't cut it
98 Comments
20 Sep 16:29

More are paying to stream music, but YouTube still holds the value gap

Demand's there; compensating artists is another issue
14 Comments
20 Sep 14:23

Google Cloud's API knows the sort of thing you like to look at

And now has creepy 'entity' sentiment analysis too
13 Comments
20 Sep 10:50

Chap tames Slack by piping it into Emacs

And then filtering out all the stuff he doesn't need to read
27 Comments
20 Sep 05:44

macOS High Sierra more like 'Cry Sierra' for Mac-wielding beta testers

Early issues arise with new version of OS X 10.13
36 Comments
20 Sep 00:03

Black screen of death after Win10 update? Microsoft blames HP

OEM factory images create 'incorrect registry keys'
65 Comments
19 Sep 10:14

Microsoft Office 365 Exchange issues for users across Europe

UpdatedExpect problems and delays
41 Comments
18 Sep 10:04

Linux 4.14 'getting very core new functionality' says Linus Torvalds

Memory management wonks, this release is for you. And also you Hyper-V admins
90 Comments
18 Sep 00:25

Google to kill Chrome autoplay madness

Sorta, kinda, well not really
65 Comments
15 Sep 20:17
Coffee, photo via shutterstock

HP users moaning over 10-minute login lag during 'Win 10 update'

Like watching a black screen dry (literally)
40 Comments
15 Sep 18:21

Python explosion blamed on pandas

Data science fad just won't die
33 Comments
14 Sep 20:02

Unloved Microsoft Edge is much improved – but will anyone use it?

We saw what you did there, Windows 10 web browser bods
152 Comments
14 Sep 14:26

Opinion

Confessions of an ebook eater

StobIn which Chronicles of Delphi scribe Verity gives praise to post-book world

Ten new tech terms I learnt this summer: Do you know them all?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Let's assume you've already heard of 'clickbait headline'
145 Comments
21 Jul 09:11

You can't DevOps everything, kids. Off the shelf kit especially

CommentWaterfalling for the, er, 'boring' stuff
17 Comments
21 Jul 08:34

'OK, everyone. Stop typing, this software is DONE,' said no one ever

Open Source InsiderSome times it really is, though
144 Comments
20 Jun 09:00

News

Windows 10 Creators Update will add app-level privacy controls

Enterprises can lock down Telemetry a little more
61 Comments
14 Sep 01:16

Get out your specs: Java EE's headed to the Eclipse Foundation

Yes, we meant specifications... and think up a name, would you?
10 Comments
13 Sep 15:01

Slack re-invents the extranet and shared Notes databases with cross-company teams

Everything hip is new again
12 Comments
13 Sep 01:55

Government lab that gives a crap pushes open source

Boffins reveal code for turning cow pies into cash
10 Comments
13 Sep 00:26

Linus Torvalds' lifestyle tips for hackers: Be like me, work in a bathrobe, no showers before noon

Also be curious and constructive by working on Linux instead of breaking it
71 Comments
12 Sep 07:28

Microsoft fixing Windows 10 'stuttering' bugs in Creators Update

Insider build aims to address glitch spotted by gamers
57 Comments
11 Sep 23:53

BlackBerry admits: We could do better at patching

Still the most secure Android? It won't get last year's update
16 Comments
11 Sep 14:12

Everyone loves programming in Python! You disagree? But it's the fastest growing, says Stack Overflow

It's a grower not a, er, yeah...
107 Comments
09 Sep 01:03

F-35 firmware patches to be rolled out 'like iPhone updates'

'I see you're trying to land. Please reboot the flight control system to continue'
113 Comments
08 Sep 15:32

Atlassian releases 'Stride', because HipChat isn't hip enough to whack Slack

New collaboration tool is 'recommended upgrade' to HipChat, beats it on price
19 Comments
08 Sep 02:58

You are the one per cent if you read Firefox's privacy spiels

So Mozilla's going to give them their very own Tab, perhaps ahead of opt-out slurping
21 Comments
07 Sep 04:02

Google puts the last coat of polish on Chrome 61

WebUSB, WebShare, JavaScript Modules and more due any day now
25 Comments
07 Sep 01:57
Oracle's Java is 20 years old

Must go faster, must go faster! Oracle lobs Java EE into GitHub, vows rapid Java SE releases

Plenty of life left in this dinosaur
13 Comments
06 Sep 19:05
various flavors of gelato ice cream in italy

What's your flava? Ooo, tell me what's your flava... of Ubuntu

The options when 17.10 drops
80 Comments
06 Sep 08:03
Whatsapp running on an iPhone

WhatsApp irons a shirt, dons a suit, prepares business services

Slackers beware, Facebook-owned messaging platform thinks it can charge for chat
17 Comments
06 Sep 01:58
Man with head in the cloud

Facebook promised to open up its log storage system

LogDevice: how to make sense of 10 hyperscale data centres
04 Sep 04:17
Kidney stones and a ruler

Linus Torvalds passed a kidney stone and then squeezed out Linux 4.13

SMB 1.0 also deemed better out than in, as TLS makes it into the kernel
38 Comments
04 Sep 02:44

HPE wraps up $8.8bn Micro Focus software dump spin-off

Newly minted software giant formally begins operations
11 Comments
01 Sep 23:28
Microsoft's Terry Myerson, speaking at Build 2015

Microsoft sets the date for Fall Creators Update

After Lenovo leaks the details
OpenStack

OpenStack Pike release bites hard on microservices and scale

Project tries to move on to lifecycle management rather than initial setup
01 Sep 07:33

Privacy-focused search engine DeepSearch slinks out of hiding

New web crawler from TSignal doesn't care who you are
15 Comments
31 Aug 10:32
Google ARCore

Google ARCore brings augmented reality to relatively small audience

At least it doesn't require a bleeding-edge PC and costly goggles
31 Aug 00:08
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