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Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close

An unexpected round of Just A Minute for a unsuspecting Weather Presenter

27 Sep 07:30 | 38

This won’t hurt a bit, says Veeam, as it flags end of socket-based licensing

Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced

27 Sep 04:01 | 2

Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS

Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden

24 Sep 18:41 | 8

EurekAI... Neural network leads chemists to discover 'four new materials'

All said to conduct lithium atoms, may be useful for electric car batteries

24 Sep 17:36 | 20

With just over two weeks to go, Microsoft punts Windows 11 to Release Preview

What's that coming over the hill? Is it new hardware? Is it new hardware?

24 Sep 15:33 | 36

You have to bring AI tools into your CI/CD workflow? We've got it covered. Watch this

Join us in October for the next MCubed webcast in which you'll learn all about deploying real-life machine learning in a DevOps world

CutefishOS: Unix-y development model? Check. macOS aesthetic? Check (if you like that sort of thing)

Also a range of homegrown apps. Still in beta, so plenty of rough edges, though

24 Sep 10:01 | 65

Getting Kubernetes up and running is one thing. Managing it successfully is quite another

Don’t be a Kubernetes dummy, download this ebook

GNOME 41: Slick with heaps of new features for users and devs – but annoyances remain

It'll take time for desktop environment to make its way into Linux distros anyway

23 Sep 17:30 | 27

DORA explorers see pandemic boost in numbers of 'elite' DevOps performers

Or is it that they're just more inclined to complete surveys about themselves?

23 Sep 12:14 | 22

Infosys admits it still hasn't fully fixed Indian tax portal

Deadline came and went, but over 750 'resources' are still hard at work

23 Sep 07:58 | 14

Unable to test every tourist and unable to turn them away, Greece used ML to pick visitors for COVID-19 checks

Inside the software built to figure out groups of potentially infected, asymptomatic passengers

23 Sep 06:26 | 31

Britain publishes 10-year National Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Aw, look. It wants to be a 'global science superpower'

22 Sep 21:18 | 18

Nvidia cosies up to Open Robotics for hardware-accelerated ROS

Hopes to tempt roboticists over to its Jetson platform with new simulation features, drop-in acceleration code

22 Sep 17:13 | 2

Ubuntu-on-a-phone folks UBports emit OTA-19, warn some devices face the chop in future

This could very well be the last release based on 16.04

22 Sep 15:17 | 2

Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back

22 Sep 12:14 | 37

Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box

Apple-flavored approach running as test 'for a small percentage of users'

22 Sep 10:43 | 41

An easier way to Flutter? Custom functions improve visual code builder but devs may still be frustrated

FlutterFlow is a visual application builder for the popular framework

22 Sep 08:31 | 6

Nutanix reckons cloud is a concept, not a place – and guess who it reckons has nailed the concept?

Adds security and networking to platform, hoping you use it to repatriate apps

Would you like to clone your best programmer?

Now you can. By using OutSystems on AWS, as this webinar shows

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Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close

An unexpected round of Just A Minute for a unsuspecting Weather Presenter

'Quad' group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry

USA, India, Australia, and Japan pledge to build own 5G tech, share space data, secure rare earth supply chains, and more

This won’t hurt a bit, says Veeam, as it flags end of socket-based licensing

Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced

Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams

1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs

If your head's not in the cloud, you're not in the right place

'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay

Metrobank techies placed at risk of redundancy, severance terms criticised

Now sing with us: Agile, agile, agile...

Airbus to help build Mexican Moon-mining automata

Commercial partner's ad-funded expedition plans the ultimate pop-up in 2022

Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past

Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot

Yet another Big Tech exec heads to central government: This time IBMer Dan Bailey in 6-month stint

Big Blue UK and Ireland cloud man hired as 'interim' CTO, tasked with creating fellowship of the cloud

Want to feel old? Aussie cyclist draws Nirvana baby in Strava on streets of Adelaide because Nevermind is 30

Meanwhile, Nirvana baby unchuffed about being Nirvana baby

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Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor

'A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person'

22 Sep 06:35 | 45

Swift 5.5 unleashed with async keyword to fix 'pyramid of doom', plus other changes in 'massive release'

Full concurrency model at last

22 Sep 05:32 | 19

Canonical gives administrators the chance to drag their feet a bit more on Ubuntu upgrades

Two more years! Two more years!

21 Sep 17:42 | 12

Open Source Jobs Report: Explosive cloud growth knocks Linux off top spot for desired skillsets

455% hike in demand for Kubernetes qualifications causes a stir

21 Sep 16:03 | 2

UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns

How about being an anonymous face in a crowd? Is that not allowed anymore?

21 Sep 13:45 | 12

This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins

No more pandemic-inspired extensions to exam dates or certs, warns Linux-slinging giant

21 Sep 07:55 | 25

GitLab all set to go public as revenues – and losses – rise

IPO was expected last year but then we had a pandemic

20 Sep 15:14 | 10

Kali Linux 2021.3 released with new tools

Most users better off with rolling release, but quarterly build has more quality testing

20 Sep 14:31 | 6

Yikes, tough crowd: Only 30% of German-speaking users are happy with SAP's cloud push

Licensing, integration and security remain challenges, says DSAG survey

20 Sep 12:15 | 3

Crank up the volume on that Pixies album: Time to exercise your Raspberry Pi with an... alternative browser

The Register dips another toe in the Flow

20 Sep 10:47 | 22

A low-key good experience for Thor-oughly new penguins: Elementary OS 6, aka Odin

Flatpak-only app store, two-finger swiping for screen-fondlers... but it's not for the fiddlers

20 Sep 08:30 | 14

If you’re plotting AI success, you need graph algorithms

Connect with experts of all stripes at the Graph+AI Summit

-Werror pain persists as Linus Torvalds issues Linux 5.15rc2

And celebrates Linux's 'true anniversary' – 30 years since upload of version 0.01

20 Sep 02:58 | 14

Apple, Google yank opposition voting strategy app from Russian software stores

Oh, sorry, we thought you wanted us to obey the law?! – Silicon Valley

18 Sep 00:57 | 37

Google extends right-to-be-forgotten to app permissions on older Android devices

Software unused after a few months will lose access to sensitive features unless exempted

17 Sep 22:58 | 13

Microsoft does and doesn't require VMs to meet hardware requirements for Windows 11

Either way, it's bad news for VirtualBox – it's stopped working

17 Sep 21:03 | 82

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