'We're finding bugs way faster than we can fix them': Google sponsors 2 full-time devs to improve Linux security
Interview Plus: Why the Chocolate Factory only uses code it builds from source
24 Feb 2021 | 13
Tim is based in the UK, and covers software development, open-source software, cloud platforms, and more for The Register.
Spotify to introduce lossless audio streaming: Better sound or inefficient gimmick?
'More about branding than it is quality,' reckons analyst
23 Feb 2021 | 70
Linux Mint users in hot water for being slow with security updates, running old versions
Automatic updates? 'We have ideas on how to improve this,' says founder
23 Feb 2021 | 67
VS Code acknowledges its elders: Makefile projects get an official extension – and VIM mode is on the backlog
Updates for modern code editor hark back to 40-year-old tools
18 Feb 2021 | 41
Microsoft pulls the sheets off first .NET 6 preview and... it's still a mess. Native Apple Silicon support, though
Unified? Kind of, but now there are two .NET runtimes in the official SDK
18 Feb 2021 | 18
Kinoite: Immutable Fedora variant with KDE Plasma desktop on the way
Better security and application management, but compatibility can be an issue
18 Feb 2021 | 8
Microsoft's most useful open-source project for Kubernetes, Dapr hits the 1.0 primetime
API now stable, more on the way
17 Feb 2021 |
Linux as root partition on Hyper-V: Microsoft submits patches for kernel 5.12
Next step in Redmond's 'complete virtualization stack with Linux'
17 Feb 2021 | 5
Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster
Review 'Every country will need to change its ways' says Microsoft billionaire
16 Feb 2021 | 130
People actually write novels about DevOps – and an author spoke about his take at Dynatrace's Perform event
Be honest, what's YOUR 'bus factor'?
16 Feb 2021 | 10
'It's where the industry is heading': LibreOffice team working on WebAssembly port
Second attempt to run entirely in the browser – but nothing works yet
16 Feb 2021 | 111
Wells Fargo patent troll case has finance world all aquiver so Barclays, TD Bank sign up to Open Invention Network
Boss reckons half a dozen institutions will follow suit this year
15 Feb 2021 | 60
helloSystem: Pre-alpha FreeBSD project chases simplicity and elegance by taking cues from macOS
Updated Rethinking the desktop with reference to Apple's early UI guidelines
12 Feb 2021 | 138
Better buckle up: Volkswagen puts Microsoft in driver's seat to deliver 'automated' platform
German car giant looks to Azure for AI smarts as Ford opts for Google's cloud
11 Feb 2021 | 52
Open Source Vulnerabilities database: Nice idea but too many Google-shaped hoops to jump through at present
Hands On Google Cloud Platform account required, API key comes with Ts&Cs
11 Feb 2021 | 20
Popular open-source library SDL moving development to GitHub despite 'calamitous design choices' in git
'I don't have the energy to be a server admin for something that's held together with scotch tape and prayers'
10 Feb 2021 | 47
What the heck is FinOps? It's controlling cloud spend – and new report says it ain't easy
Too much money wasted on on-demand pricing
10 Feb 2021 | 22
Google OS, phone home: Leaked Android 12 screenshots suggest new design, privacy features
Widgets tie in with promise to 'elevate people and conversations in the system surfaces'
09 Feb 2021 | 20
Terraria dev cancels Stadia port after Google disabled his email account for three weeks
Frustration with bot-like support leads to cancellation of popular game
08 Feb 2021 | 83
The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now?
Project will share more resources with Fedora and use a single login
08 Feb 2021 | 61
How do you fix a problem like open-source security? Google has an idea, though constraints may not go down well
'Try telling leaders of libpng, libjpeg-turbo, openssl, ffmpeg etc they can't make "unilateral" changes to their own projects'
04 Feb 2021 | 67
LibreOffice 7.1 Community released with support for M1 Arm Mac and 'user interface variants'
Community? 'The software isn’t changing at all. This is a label on the name, nothing else'
04 Feb 2021 | 64
Project Bicep: Microsoft muscles in on Terraform's territory to manage Azure resources with code
'We are using the word experimental right now'
03 Feb 2021 | 5
Same old complexity beneath Windows 10 Cloud Config means it's unlikely to compete with the likes of Chrome OS
Analysis Modernisation that happens to be an upsell to premium cloudy plans
03 Feb 2021 | 15
