Software Wine pops cork on version 6.0 of the Windows compatibility layer for *nix systems We'll drink to that 15 Jan 21:59 | 17
Interview 20 years of Drupal: Founder Dries Buytaert on API first, the end of breaking compatibility, and JavaScript bloat Commercial involvement in open source is essential, says CMS boss 15 Jan 18:12 | 3
Software SAP offers mixed preliminary results at the 'top end' of its downwardly revised outlook Uphill battle shifting business applications to the cloud laid bare 15 Jan 16:24 |
Software Games Workshop finds that in the grim darkness of the 3rd millennium, there is only ERP 'Long and complex' saga shifts into next phase as new heroes enter battlefield 15 Jan 11:27 | 13
Software Flash still works in China, but you need to ask Adobe nicely before running it Extreme Networks flings flaky Flash-free fix and Cisco all-but-sighs as it reminds users to upgrade 15 Jan 05:50 | 7
Software Teasing HANA database upgrade, SAP leaves crowd wondering if software giant has lost its innovation mojo Great to know they 'remain committed' 14 Jan 20:10 | 1
Software Debian 'Bullseye' enters final phase before release as team debates whether it will be last to work on i386 architecture Security, lack of suitable hardware for testing makes full 32-bit support hard 14 Jan 15:35 | 47
Software JavaScript survey: React everywhere, Jest, Webpack on the up... if only it had static typing, sigh developers The world's favourite language has complex ecosystem in which build tools are now fundamental 14 Jan 14:01 | 13
Software Another Rust-y OS: Theseus joins Redox in pursuit of safer, more resilient systems This one is not just written in Rust – its design is based on Rust features 14 Jan 11:03 | 30
Software India’s top techies form digital foundation to fight Apple and Google App store fees and ‘privacy’ arrangements under fire 14 Jan 03:56 | 5
Software NHS COVID-19 app is trying to tell Android users something but buggy notification appears stuck on 'Loading...' screen The suspense could quite literally be killing us 13 Jan 13:15 | 36
Software Cockroach Labs scuttles its way to $160m funding, $2bn valuation thanks to the database that doesn't die Upstart hopes to do for transactional databases what Snowflake did for data warehousing 12 Jan 15:15 | 8
Software Apologies for the wait, we're overwhelmed. Yes, this is the hospital. You need to what?! Do a software licence audit? Vendors slammed for 'lack of proper judgement' during the pandemic 12 Jan 13:46 | 54
Software Pork-tracking website problems add extra crackling to US-Taiwan-China tensions Data describing controversial supplement ractopamine didn’t render online 12 Jan 04:58 | 7
In brief ZIP folders were originally a Microsoft engineer's side hustle until bosses figured out he worked for Microsoft Also: Edge on Apple arrives in the Dev Channel, HealthBot goes to the cloud, and Chile to get an Azure Region 11 Jan 21:04 | 20
Software Last stop before MAUI: Xamarin Forms 5.0 released for cross-platform mobile, new features, new bugs Microsoft's cross-platform .NET tools get a refresh, but with a relatively short life before newer tools sweep it away 11 Jan 19:59 | 13
Software Linux developers get ready to wield the secateurs against elderly microprocessors Use it or lose it 11 Jan 17:03 | 79
Software Linux Mint sticks by Snap decision – meaning store is still disabled by default in 20.1 A few improvements and a handy web app utility, but older kernel causes problems for some hardware 11 Jan 13:15 | 42
Column Developers! These 3 weird tricks will make you a global hero Good for users and good for you 11 Jan 09:30 | 70
Software Linus Torvalds rates his own words 'incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man' Defying expectations, kernel devs roared back to work 11 Jan 00:25 | 20
In brief ZIP folders were originally a Microsoft engineer's side hustle until bosses figured out he worked for Microsoft Also: Edge on Apple arrives in the Dev Channel, HealthBot goes to the cloud, and Chile to get an Azure Region
Science Theranos destroyed crucial subpoenaed SQL blood test database, can't unlock backups, prosecutors say CEO Holmes also accused of funding extravagant lifestyle through fraud
Networks China showing signs of brewing IPv6 eruption China Telecom, world’s largest carrier, and China’s premier ISP, has accelerated - hard
Security That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave Post-Flashpocalypse, we stumble outside, hoping no one ever creates software as insecure as that ever again
Policy Social network Parler dumped by AWS, says it prepared for this by only using bare metal Says it'll rebuild in a week, but evidence of DR plan is scant
Storage Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere The Reg speaks to Stanford boffin behind decade-long push for SI prefix
Comment Trump's gone quiet, Parler nuked, Twitter protest never happened: There's an eerie calm – but at what cost? Tech giants leap between positions, leave policy makers uncomfortable
Security How I found a bug in YouTube that let me watch private videos I wasn't allowed to, says compsci student Theft-by-a-thousand-cuts flaw fixed
DevOps It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol Questions go unanswered as CEO, COO launch probe
Personal Tech Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech Meanwhile, hello Epson drivers?
Software Buggy code, fragile legacy systems, ill-conceived projects cost US businesses $2 trillion in 2020 Software quality crisis made worse by developer shortage, report claims 09 Jan 11:45 | 118
Software UK watchdog sniffs around Google Chrome's Privacy Sandbox as it may give Choc Factory all the sweeties Ad giant's cookie replacement plan runs into resistance 09 Jan 07:18 | 19
Software Boeing will cough up $2.5bn+ to settle US fraud charge over 737 Max safety Cash will go to airlines that bought the danger jets, victims' fund 08 Jan 00:57 | 64
Software MariaDB releases connector for Reactive Java developers R2DBC uses declarative techniques to create 'more powerful, efficient and scalable JVM solutions' 07 Jan 18:15 |
Sponsored How Redis helps banks embrace digital transformation And without having to rip and replace legacy infrasturcutre 07 Jan 17:16 |
Software Crowdfunded Asahi project aims for 'polished' Linux experience on Apple Silicon Project wins sponsorship, and Torvalds is interested, but can it succeed without the mothership's cooperation? 07 Jan 16:30 | 31
Software Breaking? Microsoft pushes 'News and Interests' with first Windows 10 Insiders build of the year Hmm, anything happening in the world at the moment? 07 Jan 14:59 | 9
Software Deloitte's Autonomy auditor 'lost objectivity' when looking at Brit software firm's disputed books, says regulator FRRP's full report will be uncomfortable reading for ex-CEO Mike Lynch 06 Jan 17:12 | 38
Software Microsoft's Mojang brings pixellated axe down on AR Minecraft game because it's not like folk are going outside Leaving-the-house version has, er, left the building 06 Jan 12:35 | 8
Software Scottish council awards Unit4 £4.75m support and hosting contract as it seemingly runs out of options Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? 06 Jan 11:36 | 4
Interview Assembly language, arcade games, and YouTube: The Reg speaks to former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer SmartDrive, DiskCopy... it's life at Redmond in the DOS era 06 Jan 09:10 | 16
Software Facebook appeals ruling that it stole tech. So, Italian judge issues new judgment: Pay 10 times the original fine Everyone’s favorite social media giant ordered to pay 3.8m euros 06 Jan 08:01 | 43
Feature America says banks can now transact using so-called stable crypto-coins. What does that actually mean? We talk to the experts after US Treasury's OCC blesses blockchains, digi-bucks 06 Jan 01:00 | 27
Webcast SQL Server 2008? We say out with the old, in with the new Here’s how to call time on aging databases, according to Pure Storage 05 Jan 18:00 |
Updated UK's NHS Digital hands £8m contract to lab data biz after trouble matching COVID-19 tests to health records Without competition due to 'extreme urgency' around pandemic 05 Jan 15:59 | 32
Software Open-source contributors say they'll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only 'There'll be no more work from external/unpaid contributors' – dev 05 Jan 14:11 | 71
In brief Windows 10 ends the year with more than half of PCs on a 2020 flavour Also: Hints of Windows 10X, and don't press that red button, Dougal 04 Jan 17:07 | 11
Updated Slack serves up out-of-order messages, shaky comms as world goes back to work Where are the documents? I'm waiting! Fancy a coffee? Happy new year! 04 Jan 16:15 | 17
Updated Canadian uni blamed users after Workday HR switch, but some teaching assistants say they're still waiting to be paid 'No concrete solutions' as of mid-December 04 Jan 14:59 | 16