LibreOffice 7.1 beta boasts impressive range of features let down by a lack of polish and poor mobile efforts
Somebody get this project more investment
03 Dec 2020 | 8
Tim is based in the UK, and covers software development, open-source software, cloud platforms, and more for The Register.
75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022, says Gartner while dishing on the weak points of each provider
AWS 'reluctant to embrace a multicloud world' but Azure 'often more expensive than on-premises'
02 Dec 2020 | 19
OpenZFS v2.0.0 targets Linux and FreeBSD – shame about the Oracle licensing worries
Various enhancements but merging still a big no-no
01 Dec 2020 | 45
GitHub's journey towards microservices and more: 'We actually have our own version of Ruby that we maintain'
InterviewThe Reg talks to Software Engineering veep Sha Ma
01 Dec 2020 | 15
AWS Chime SDK gets the message: Chat API added to videoconferencing service
New API has same name but little integration with existing service
30 Nov 2020 |
AWS includes open-source Suricata for stateful inspection with Network Firewall service
UpdatedEnhanced network security for AWS virtual private cloud – while Microsoft previews Azure Firewall Premium
19 Nov 2020 |
Docker finally enforces pull rate limits, but reckons only 1.5% of users are affected
Amnesty period ends, time to control those 'runaway processes' or pay up
19 Nov 2020 | 2
Microsoft emits Preview 3 of next-gen WinUI framework, says Linux support 'is not off our roadmap'
One framework to rule them all? Or yet another one to add to the confusion?
19 Nov 2020 | 22
HTTPS-only mode arrives in Firefox 83 as Mozilla finds new home for Rust-y Servo engine
Another notch towards the SSL-only web
18 Nov 2020 | 67
KDE maintainers speak on why it is worth looking beyond GNOME
InterviewThe Qt advantage? 'We're a weird by-product of coffee machines and cars'
16 Nov 2020 | 134
Android without Google – and yes it has apps: The Reg talks to founder about the /e/ smartphone
InterviewHow the de-Googled phone works
12 Nov 2020 | 57
ASP.NET Core 5.0 released with performance bump ... and a bunch of breaking changes
Upgrade now on Azure App Service, if you can tolerate a 'cold start'
11 Nov 2020 |
Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalation
'Unusual for a vulnerability on a modern operating system to be this easy to exploit,' says bughunter
11 Nov 2020 | 20
Cutting the ties: European hosting provider OVHCloud to offer Google Anthos, no Google account needed
Full Euro data sovereignty, promises cloud company
11 Nov 2020 | 15
The evolution of C#: Lead designer describes modernization journey, breaks it down about getting func-y
InterviewAs C# 9.0 is released, a look back at functional programming adoption, what the language is for, and what was a mistake
11 Nov 2020 | 29
Apple cracks down on iOS terminal apps because they can download code
iSH spared for now, but what will happen to a-Shell?
09 Nov 2020 | 51
Blazor: Full stack C# and Microsoft's pitch for ASP.NET Web Form diehards
'Two to three times faster' in .NET 5.0 - but is running .NET in the browser a good idea?
06 Nov 2020 | 22
GitHub's new security scanner definitely works, says Jenkins: It found 7 flaws in our plugins
DevOps tool's maintainer says he's 'very happy with the results'
05 Nov 2020 | 1
Google previews Document AI for parsing forms: Just a catch-up with AWS and Azure?
Convert a jumble of documents into neatly structured data - if you are lucky
05 Nov 2020 | 2
BBC makes switch to AWS, serverless for new website architecture, observers grumble about the HTML
UpdatedNews aggregator says it's 'way more complicated and much harder to parse'
04 Nov 2020 | 96
Google Project Zero to GitHub: You've had 104 days to sort out injection vuln – now we're telling world-plus-dog
Code shack describes issue as 'moderate' security flaw, plans to disable risky commands gradually
03 Nov 2020 | 14
Mozilla's MDN web standards reference platform makes move to GitHub, now in beta
Jamstack, Kubernetes, community contributions, and automatic translation – what could go wrong?
03 Nov 2020 | 5
AWS to create its own public container registry in response to Docker pull rate limit
Plus: Faster on-demand supercomputing. P4d VMs with Nvidia A100 and GPUDirect RDMA
03 Nov 2020 | 7
Travis CI complains of 'significant abuse' of its free deal, creates new pricing that has developers riled
Open-source coders to get 'upgraded' to a trial plan that's not great
02 Nov 2020 | 15
