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.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

Pst... Is that the sound of your Outlook backups leaking?

Huawei chairman says tech giant's goal is ‘survival’ as it battles ‘non-stop aggression’

Microsoft Arcs up and makes Azure's manage-all-the-servers service a reality

Swift tailored for Windows no longer folklore: Apple's programming language available for Microsoft OS

Another body for the Google graveyard: Chrome Web Store payments. Bad news if you wanted to bank some income from these apps

With the robotic process automation market taking off, it wouldn't be like Microsoft to not grab a slice of the action

Microsoft muscles in on the comms API space to compete with Twilio and AWS Chime

Doppelpaymer ransomware crew fingered over attack on German hospital that allegedly caused death of a patient

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here

Proposed US fix for Boeing 737 Max software woes does not address Ethiopian crash scenario, UK pilot union warns

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one

Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl

You can add comms API merchant Twilio to the list of tech firms that have seen biz booming thanks to lockdown

UK Ministry of Justice dangles £20m, seeks paper-free payroll services – this time for the judiciary

Ports in a storm: The Matebook 14 won't set your world on fire, but it's still a half-decent laptop

Oracle Zooms past rivals to run TikTok’s cloud, take stake alongside WalMart and ByteDance investors

It's IPO week and one of Wall Street's own is raising the spectre of a stock market crash

Samsung throws more frugal followers a bone* with cheaper Galaxy S20 Fanboi Fan Edition

Tesla to build cars made of batteries and hit $25k price tag about three years down the road

TikTok proposes coalition with other social apps to curb harmful content

Second lockdown? Perfect time to unveil Teams Breakout rooms and another ginormitor – the 85-inch Surface Hub 2S

Geek's Guide

Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles

And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time

To bring data down from the heavens, come to GSaaS, says Microsoft as it launches Azure Orbital

SpaceX scuppered by weather once more as skygazers win a Starlink reprieve

China sets out world domination plan for its digital currency

Get ready for Clippy 9000: Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything

Humans suck so much at beating this pandemic that Microsoft has made an AI to enforce social distancing

UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition

Verity Stob

Onwards! To the airport and adventure! And this rather lachrymose Linux screen

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of 'Advanced Night Repair' skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space

Behold the Bloo Screen of Death: Bathroom borkage stops spray play

As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!

Articles about Software

Swift tailored for Windows no longer folklore: Apple's programming language available for Microsoft OS

The Redmond-aligned can try the Cupertino-spawned lingo thanks to a Googler's intervention

Another body for the Google graveyard: Chrome Web Store payments. Bad news if you wanted to bank some income from these apps

Extension developers told to look elsewhere for a sales provider

Online fraud prevention biz fails to prevent CEO's alleged offline fraud

Security upstart NS8, which raised $123m in funding, let its leader have sole control over revenue records

Google bans stalkerware apps from Android store. Which is cool but... why were they allowed in the first place?

Disclosed tracking, helicopter parenting programs are still kosher

Video encoders using Huawei chips have backdoors and bad bugs – and Chinese giant says it's not to blame

Telecom kit maker points finger in the general direction of Middle Kingdom's complicated supply chain

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL versions vanish from the mega-cloud for days, leaving customers in the dark

Disappeared databases since returned with no memory of what happened, speculation of bug abounds

At the very last Moment.js: Time-and-date JavaScript library fetched 12 million times a week ends development

Programmers put decade-old package out to pasture, advise devs to find alternatives

Oracle's Java 15 rides into town, waving the 'we're number one' flag, demands 25th birthday party

'51 billion' active JVMs can't be wrong

Infosec big names rally against US voting app maker's bid to outlaw unsanctioned bug hunting via T&Cs

Probing systems during a live election 'to be treated as hostile unless authorization granted,' Voatz insists

Don't be BlindSided: Watch speculative memory probing bypass kernel defenses, give malware root control

VideoSilently side-step software safeguards

AI in the enterprise: Prepare to be disappointed – oversold but under appreciated, it can help... just not too much

Register DebateToday we launch our Register Debates in which we spar over hot topics and YOU decide which side is right – by reader vote

Microsoft: We're getting rid of Flash by the end of the year - except you can still use it

Disabled by default at the end of 2020, but it will linger on like a bad smell

Hidden Linux kernel security fixes spotted before release – by using developer chatter as a side channel

Data mining of code commits and chat gives hackers a cunning edge

Surprise! Voting app maker roasted by computer boffins for poor security now begs US courts to limit flaw finding

We should be able to outlaw unauthorized inquiry, Voatz argues

Sigh. Another day, another reason for WordPress users to get patching: Hackers abuse bug in popular plugin

Sites with WP File Manager should update ASAP – exploits in the wild

Apple: Yeah, about those ground-breaking privacy features in iOS 14 – don't expect them until next year

'Fundamental right to privacy' can wait – Facebook and others are annoyed

Homeland Security demands a 911 for reporting security holes in federal networks: 'Vulns in internet systems cause real-world impacts'

Great – and who will be the first responders?

GitHub debuts Container Registry that's only a little bit redundant for developers

Never mind GitHub Packages or Azure Container Registry, we've reinvented the wheel... er, box

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