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Mayday, mayday. Cray, you cray cray: Investor attempts to halt HPE's $1.3bn biz gobble

BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a 'cascading catastrophic failure' that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc

Packet hauls microservers out of dusty grave: Whoa! Necromancy is really edgy

Cloudflare hits the deck, websites sink from sight after the internet springs yet another BGP leak

The in and outs of Microsoft's new Windows Terminal

Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?

Out of Steam? Wine draining away? Ubuntu's 64-bit-only x86 decision is causing migraines

The Windows Terminal turns up in the Microsoft Store

Please stop regulating the dumb tubes, says Internet Society boss

What the cell...? Telcos around the world were so severely pwned, they didn't notice the hackers setting up VPN points

Biz tells ransomware victims it can decrypt their files... by secretly paying off the crooks and banking a fat margin

Iran is doing to our networks what it did to our spy drone, claims Uncle Sam: Now they're bombing our hard drives

Get a grip on Lambda, Kubernetes, Azure Functions, and more, at Serverless Computing London – save £100s today with blind bird tix

Kubernetes goes in for nip and tuck, comes out with 25 'enhancements': We take a look at v1.15

With speakers from iRobot, BBC, Lego, the worlds of Google, AWS and Azure, and more, do not miss Serverless Computing London 2019

Dev darling Docker embraces Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

UK police want to Airwave hello to some more mobile devices – survey

EE-k, a hundred grand! BT's mobile arm slapped for sending 2.5m+ unwanted texts

Remember the Nominet £100m dot-uk windfall it claims doesn't exist? Well, it's already begun

There's that phrase again: JP Morgan CIO told Autonomy's first HP boss it was 'a shit show'

Apple sued over fondleslab death blaze: iPad battery blamed for deadly New Jersey apartment fire

Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM...

Chrome ad-blocker crackdown preview due late July. Here's a half-dozen reasons why add-on devs are still upset

It's now officially the WhackBook Pro: If the keyboards weren't bad enough, now MacBook Pro batts are a fire risk

Geek's Guide

We've Falcon caught it! SpaceX finally nets a fairing half after a successful Heavy launch

Sputnik? No, comrade, this is Spunknik: Frozen sperm manages to survive zero-grav in this totally realistic test

One goes up, one stays on the ground and one gets ready: It's a week in space

Curioser and curioser: Little Mars rover sniffs out highest ever levels of methane

The Great IoT Protocol War may have been won: Thread's 1.2 release aims at business

Remember that crypto-exchange boss who mysteriously died after his customers' coins disappeared? Of course he totally stole them

Yay, for AI: Autonomous pizza-delivery robots. Nay for AI: Big Brother is real and it's powered by neural networks

Queue baa, Libra: People will buy what Facebook's selling. They shouldn't, but they will

Verity Stob

It's official. You can get FUCT, US Supremes tell scandalized bureaucrats in rude trademark spat

Bloody vultures! Cheeky Spanish paraglider firm pinched El Reg's mascot

Hot desk hell: Staff spend two weeks a year looking for seats in open-plan offices

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

Software

You can set a background for the new terminal - we like this one

The in and outs of Microsoft's new Windows Terminal

Hands OnHandy features in the Store applications, but the underlying infrastructure changes matter more

25 Jun 11:00 | 7

Bill Gates

Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?

Nope: It was not giving Android a run for its money...

24 Jun 14:00 | 85

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Out of Steam? Wine draining away? Ubuntu's 64-bit-only x86 decision is causing migraines

Updatedi386 binaries will still run, says Canonical, but it may not be good enough for key apps

24 Jun 11:50 | 66

The Windows Terminal turns up in the Microsoft Store

Also: Azure backup for SQL dinosaurs and Machine Learning hits Windows Update

24 Jun 10:30 | 14

Summer's here, where's Windows 10 19H2? For Microsoft, spring ends whenever the heck it says so stop asking

IF (DateTime.Now > Spring) { WHILE (Windows != Done) Spring++; }

21 Jun 14:31 | 22

Red Hat signs off last set of numbers before it is likely gobbled by IBM

Only the Chinese now to OK $34.5bn slurp

21 Jun 12:00 | 11

Hipster yap app chaps Slack finally strap into NYSE: Shares of 'WORK' open at $38.50 apiece

More like 'SHIRK' amirite

20 Jun 17:54 | 10

Now you can have a twist of 2019 in your 2012: Microsoft goes back to the future with Edge on Windows 7/8

It looks like your OS goes out of support in seven months. Would you like a new browser?

20 Jun 10:50 | 39

Kids can be so crurl: Lead dev unchuffed with Google's plan to remake curl in its own image

'Why use a copy when the original is free, proven and battle-tested?'

20 Jun 08:40 | 51

Banned

Vivaldi to give abusive sites the middle finger with built-in ad blocking

Same digit could be extended at Google as browser chaps 'evaluate the situation'

20 Jun 08:00 | 39

Young man covers face with jumper

Microsoft, you should look away now: Google's cloud second only to AWS in dev survey

Mountain View's white stuff used more than Azure among 7,000 code monkeys

19 Jun 15:02 | 16

PowerPoint to start telling you that your presentation is bad and you should feel bad

Ugh. Fly In, again? Really? And step away from the Comic Sans

19 Jun 13:56 | 100

Azure flock can stop faffing over bastion hosts: Microsoft has made it noob-friendly

PaaS the parcel: Click-and-forget fortification of Redmond's cloud

19 Jun 11:33 | 13

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Ubuntu says i386 to be 86'd with Eoan 19.10 release: Ageing 32-bit x86 support will be ex-86

UpdatedThink we're at RISC of overdoing the Intel puns

19 Jun 06:05 | 87

Youtube Queue Chrome extension booted out of store for search engine hijacking, revealing Google's lax dev checks

Follow us down the rabbit hole in uncovering who is possibly responsible

19 Jun 01:47 | 11

Fancy a fondleslab dab? Adobe pulls oilcloth off new iPad-first Fresco painting, drawing app

Photoshop-compatible files, 3 types of brushes in touchy app

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?

18 Jun 15:09 | 2

10 PRINT Memorial in New Hampshire marks the birthplace of BASIC

17 Jun 12:26 | 122

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 | 25

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 | 118

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Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM...

BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a 'cascading catastrophic failure' that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc

Flags of US and Iran

Iran is doing to our networks what it did to our spy drone, claims Uncle Sam: Now they're bombing our hard drives

Out of Steam? Wine draining away? Ubuntu's 64-bit-only x86 decision is causing migraines

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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 | 47

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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

CERN control room photo copyright CERN

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 | 277

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 | 77

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

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

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 GitHub mascot at GitHub Universe

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

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

Stashing in GitHub Desktop 2.0

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

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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

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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