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Microsoft to pull support for PHP: Version 8? Exterminate, more like...

No support 'in any capacity' for PHP for Windows for v8 and beyond, but Windows users not to worry, says release manager

10 Jul 12:42 | 3

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The reluctant log trawler: The buck stops with the back-end

Hope for web success, but plan for every possible (and impossible) failure

10 Jul 07:03 | 25

Software

Commons cause: IBM, Oracle, CNCF protest over Google's handling of Istio governance

Deep upset at what is perceived as broken commitments

09 Jul 15:15 | 2

Software

SAP rolls out early Q2 numbers, says 18% decline in licensing revenue is an 'improvement'

CEO reckons team 'navigated a very challenging environment'

09 Jul 12:25 | 1

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.NET Core: Still a Microsoft platform thing despite more than five years open source

Making .NET cross-platform was a radical step but not enough for broad appeal

09 Jul 09:13 | 108

Video

Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

If you have to play by Redmond's strict rules, people are likely to go elsewhere

08 Jul 20:54 | 108

Software

Google forges Open Usage Commons to manage open-source project trademarks, lobs hot-potato Istio at it

Marks for Angular and Gerrit also handled by org designed to provide 'guidance' to industry

08 Jul 20:12 | 2

Software

Go on, devs, have a Flutter on Linux desktop apps: Google and Canonical launch alpha SDK

App framework extends its reach to Canonical's Snap Store

08 Jul 15:35 | 7

Software

You know what would look great on our database? Your machine learning model: GPUs and unstructured data on the menu for Exasol as it tries to unify BI and ML

Keeping up in performance stakes vital as data science sector explodes, says analyst

08 Jul 12:55 |

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LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions, board says: 'LibreOffice will always be free software'

Enterprise edition ahoy as project tries to puzzle out its business model

07 Jul 18:19 | 151

Software

Micro Focus COVID-19 costs: Carry the one, decimal 9 places to the right... hmm. Holy cow, it's a $1bn+ loss

Customers' decision to hit pause on spending compounds HP Software indigestion woes

07 Jul 15:45 | 6

In Brief

Microsoft to take a break from Edge releases: Hits pause button to align with Chromium

Plus: A release candidate for Azure DevOps, Pylance gallops into VS Code and hairdressing in Teams

07 Jul 10:00 | 6

Software

Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'

Move won't fix 'brutal system of human misery' but aims to encourage participation

06 Jul 13:30 | 293

Who, Me?

When a deleted primary device file only takes 20 mins out of your maintenance window, but a whole year off your lifespan

In praise of UNIX and knowing when to deliberately drive a server off a cliff

06 Jul 07:15 | 126

Software

Microsoft takes tweaking tongs to Windows 10's Start Menu once again

Icon backgrounds banished, but some Insiders may have to wait for new toys

02 Jul 11:30 | 56

Open Source Summit

Scala contributor: Open source and diversity key to tackling dev skills shortage

'If diversity is not important to you, then at least you might care about the bottom line'

02 Jul 09:15 | 27

Software

'90s retro resurrection PowerToys hits 0.19, bringing raft of fixes and a final flash from the desktop

Stability gains for Windows-fiddling throwback

01 Jul 19:01 | 3

Software

Firefox 78: Protections dashboard, new developer features... and the end of the line for older macOS versions

New Regular Expression evaluator borrowed from Chromium V8 – a sign of more collaboration to come?

01 Jul 17:02 | 19

Software

UK lawmakers welcome Microsoft's sack of training pressies for hard-pressed Brits as jobs searches spike

New skills aplenty and Teams tweaks from Uncles Brad and Satya

01 Jul 15:28 | 1

Software

Germany is helping the UK develop its COVID-19 contact-tracing app, says ambassador

Deutschland, uber alle allies

01 Jul 11:29 | 97

Smile? Not bloody likely: Day 6 of wobbly services and still no hint to UK online bank's customers about what's actually wrong

Where do you stand on self-service and automation? Tell us the pros and cons from your viewpoint

China’s preferred Linux distro trumpets Arm benchmark results

Show a little spine? Nokia whips out SR Linux, a new routing network OS for cloud clients

Microsoft to pull support for PHP: Version 8? Exterminate, more like...

The reluctant log trawler: The buck stops with the back-end

Commons cause: IBM, Oracle, CNCF protest over Google's handling of Istio governance

SAP rolls out early Q2 numbers, says 18% decline in licensing revenue is an 'improvement'

TomTom bill bomb: Why am I being charged for infotainment? I sold my car last year, rages Reg reader

Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle

FYI: Someone's scanning gateways, looking for those security holes Citrix told you not to worry too much about

How to build a cyber threat intelligence program while cutting through the noise

Rancher rides off into the SUSE-set after acquisition by Linux outfit

Microsoft integrates Azure Functions with Dapr – for when you run Azure Functions outside Azure. Confused yet?

Grappling with mixed infra, container security, service meshes? Our DevOps conf has practical help for you

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

Software biz Advanced set to lay off 6% of its workforce, blames that virus

South Korea joins the ‘we’re going to be self-sufficient in more tech and then export bucketloads’ club

Tata Consultancy Services says pandemic's most powerful punches landed in Q1 - and it's still dancing

Philippines government tech agency seeks 750 percent budget boost for COVIDigital transformation

Soft press keys for locked-down devs: Three new models of old school 60-key Happy Hacking 'board out next month

Pandemic proves just the tonic for PC sales as shipments shoot upwards

A volt from the blue: Samsung reportedly ditches wall-wart from future phones

Lovely new dongles and lusciously lengthy cables are Intel's new offerings

Here's how boffins can prove Solar System's mysterious 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole – wait, what?

Mars InSight to stretch its arm and look around as mole-mashing ops are paused

Road trip on Mars: Thrill as Curiosity rover races up to 0.06 miles per hour. Marvel as it takes a mile-long detour

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops upstart Clearview

Heir-to-Concorde demo model to debut in October

FYI: You do all know that America's tech giants, even Google, supply IT to the US military, right?

Hungry? Please enjoy this delicious NaN, courtesy of British Gas and Sainsbury's

Cereal Killer Cafe enters hipster heaven, heads online: Coronavirus blamed for shutters being pulled down

Boolean bafflement at British Airways' Executive Club: Sneaky little Avioses - Wicked, Tricksy, False!

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

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Microsoft to pull support for PHP: Version 8? Exterminate, more like...

The reluctant log trawler: The buck stops with the back-end

Commons cause: IBM, Oracle, CNCF protest over Google's handling of Istio governance

SAP rolls out early Q2 numbers, says 18% decline in licensing revenue is an 'improvement'

.NET Core: Still a Microsoft platform thing despite more than five years open source

Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

Google forges Open Usage Commons to manage open-source project trademarks, lobs hot-potato Istio at it

Go on, devs, have a Flutter on Linux desktop apps: Google and Canonical launch alpha SDK

You know what would look great on our database? Your machine learning model: GPUs and unstructured data on the menu for Exasol as it tries to unify BI and ML

LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions, board says: 'LibreOffice will always be free software'

Micro Focus COVID-19 costs: Carry the one, decimal 9 places to the right... hmm. Holy cow, it's a $1bn+ loss

Microsoft to take a break from Edge releases: Hits pause button to align with Chromium

Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'

When a deleted primary device file only takes 20 mins out of your maintenance window, but a whole year off your lifespan

Microsoft takes tweaking tongs to Windows 10's Start Menu once again

Scala contributor: Open source and diversity key to tackling dev skills shortage

'90s retro resurrection PowerToys hits 0.19, bringing raft of fixes and a final flash from the desktop

Firefox 78: Protections dashboard, new developer features... and the end of the line for older macOS versions

UK lawmakers welcome Microsoft's sack of training pressies for hard-pressed Brits as jobs searches spike

Germany is helping the UK develop its COVID-19 contact-tracing app, says ambassador

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Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

.NET Core: Still a Microsoft platform thing despite more than five years open source

Asia’s internet registry APNIC finds about 50 million unused IPv4 addresses behind the sofa

Oracle tempts users to run its cloud in their own data centres – for a mere '$6 million' commitment

Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle

Heir-to-Concorde demo model to debut in October

Show a little spine? Nokia whips out SR Linux, a new routing network OS for cloud clients

Microsoft sues coronavirus phishing spammers to seize their domains amid web app attacks against Office 354.5

Criminals auction off stolen domain admin credentials for up to £95k. Your bank account details? Barely get £50

One map to rule them all: UK's Ordnance Survey rolls out its Data Hub and the juicy API goodness that lies therein

Linux Mint 20 isn't exactly bursting with freshness but, hey, there's kernel 5.4 and it's a long-term support release

Database maestro Antirez says arrivederci to Redis: Seems he wants an unstructured life writing code, not a structured one managing software

'It's really hard to find maintainers...' Linus Torvalds ponders the future of Linux

You've accused Apple of patent infringement. You want to probe the iOS source in a closed-room environment. What to do in a pandemic?

LibreOffice slips out another 7.0 beta: Spreadsheets close gap with Excel while macOS users treated to new icons

India bans 59 apps it says have privacy, national security problems. In a massive coincidence, they’re all Chinese

Apple: We're defending your privacy by nixing 16 browser APIs. Rivals: You mean defending your bottom line

Poetry in lockdown: hiQ to Supremes / Please leave LinkedIn scrape ruling / well enough alone

Microsoft has a cure for data nuked by fat fingers if you're not afraid of the command line

Finding SAP hard to swallow? ERP giant says it's working on something more bite-sized

Unfortunately for SAP, major ERP upgrade projects are the last thing customers want to think about right now