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Is your SQL Server installation old enough to go to high school? We need to talk
Join us and Pure Storage online to find out how to pay back borrowed time
02 Dec 19:00 |
Software
Software
Christmas comes early for chameleons: SUSE feels jolly after closing Rancher deal
Kubernetes, Kubernetes, how shalt I manage thou, Kubernetes?
02 Dec 18:10 | 1
Software
Whoa BlackBerry: Firm hooks up with AWS on cloud telematics platform for vehicle data
Ivy league data inhalation as BB vows to grass on teen drivers
02 Dec 17:07 | 5
Software
Microsoft celebrates undead MS Paint with festive knitwear
Did someone mention multithreading?
02 Dec 13:46 | 20
Software
Microsoft engineer thinking ahead? Troubleshooter doc for Active Directory references 'Florida Retirement System'
If you're mixing that up with File System Replication, maybe it is indeed time
02 Dec 10:27 | 8
Software
Salesforce to buy Slack for $28bn in cash, shares – and vows to make it the new face of Customer 360
If shareholders like the somewhat small-ish premium offered
01 Dec 23:25 | 25
Software
OpenZFS v2.0.0 targets Linux and FreeBSD – shame about the Oracle licensing worries
Various enhancements but merging still a big no-no
01 Dec 15:25 | 44
Software
Are You Experienced? Microsoft packs up features developed independent of OS to flash at Windows Insiders
Windows Feature Experience Pack attempts to make beast more modular
01 Dec 13:01 | 6
Software
Tokyo Stock Exchange lets CEO resign to atone for October outage, other execs take pay cuts and rebukes
Wobbly NAS tended by Fujitsu crashed trading – and automatic failover failed
01 Dec 03:21 | 12
Software
Internet Explorer fails to make the cut, banished from Microsoft Teams for good
Someone needs to make a 'Best viewed with anything but IE' badge for websites
30 Nov 21:24 | 34
In Brief
The Ghost of Windows Past gains spooky second wind as the October 2020 Update nears double digits
Plus: Insider fixes and support extensions for old versions of Win 10
30 Nov 17:10 | 14
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Yes you’ve got lots of data…but have you got lots of information? And is anyone using it?
Here’s some information that will really help
27 Nov 14:45 |
Software
The price is right? Capita confirms Education Software back in talks with new bidder
Must have lowered the asking price to one that isn't higher than entire group's market cap
27 Nov 13:15 | 10
Software
AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock
Cloud giant has a lust for Rust so needs top minds and wants them to advance the language
27 Nov 06:01 | 24
Software
Marmite of scripting languages PHP emits version 8.0, complete with named arguments and other goodies
Hallucinate, Desegregate, Mediate, Try not to hate: INXS of 25 years on, PHP liberates the number eight
26 Nov 17:00 | 74
Software
Master boot vinyl record: It just gives DOS on my IBM PC a warmer, more authentic tone
And on the B-side: Linux?
26 Nov 14:59 | 109
Software
Salesforce reportedly poised to scoop Slack for billions
Which rather kicks a hole in the planned debut of Slack-like Salesforce Anywhere
26 Nov 01:59 | 18
Software
China 'firmly opposes' India's new round of app bans, says it has violated trade laws
Left last couple of bans alone but now says national security argument is bogus and calls for mutual co-operation
26 Nov 00:12 | 11
Software
Boeing 737 Max will return to flight after software updates, says EU's aviation regulator
It flew OK without MCAS – but not well enough to be certified as safe
25 Nov 20:27 | 152
Software
Sopra Steria: Adding up outages and ransomware cleanup, Ryuk attack will cost us up to €50m
French IT outsourcer says its overall losses will deepen as direct result
25 Nov 19:30 | 13
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Science
Arecibo Observatory brings forward 'controlled demolition' plans by collapsing all by itself
Star of science and celluloid is no more
Cloud
'We've heard the feedback...' Microsoft 365 axes per-user productivity monitoring after privacy backlash
Redmond rips out usernames, says it will focus on customer orgs, not staffers
Analysis
Supreme Court mulls whether a cop looking up a license plate for cash is equivalent to watching Instagram at work
America's outdated Computer Fraud and Abuse Act gets a roasting
Exclusive
Cayman Islands investment fund left entire filestore viewable by world+dog in unsecured Azure blob
Blank share certificates, passport scans, you name it
Cloud
Six months after Oracle trumpeted Zoom as a cloud customer, AWS says it is Zoom’s ‘preferred’ cloud
Big Red said it was picked for its 'superior' cloud, but marketing minutiae and conference-eve thunder stealing have intruded
Cloud
Bare-metal Macs-as-a-service come to AWS. Intel for now, M1 silicon in 2021
Mac Minis in the cloud, still with the SmartNIC-powered Nitro isolation subsystem
Cloud
Amazon’s cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own Mac
Other Mac hosts are rather cheaper. And Azure has had cloudy Macs for months. But AWS still has a play here
Software
OpenZFS v2.0.0 targets Linux and FreeBSD – shame about the Oracle licensing worries
Various enhancements but merging still a big no-no
Business
IBM warns Global Tech Services staff that 346 UK heads will roll in latest redundancy action
Volunteers sought to join the COVID-ravaged jobs market
Interview
GitHub's journey towards microservices and more: 'We actually have our own version of Ruby that we maintain'
The Reg talks to Software Engineering veep Sha Ma
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Software
Thought the M3 roadworks took a while? Five years on, Vivaldi opens up a technical preview of its email client
Take the M3 exit to offline mail and calendar shenanigans
25 Nov 15:00 | 30
Software
Retired engineer confesses to role in sliding Microsoft Bob onto millions of XP install CDs
'While Bob never got to play on the big stage, he always followed the band around and got to ride on the bus'
25 Nov 12:46 | 54
Software
MongoDB loses its mind with marketing budget movie mania: Yep, it's choose-your-own-adventure Hackers with drop-down menus
This must have cost a packet...
25 Nov 09:03 | 12
Software
VMware says faster growth will come once customers get back inside data centres
SaaS revenue tops licences for the first time in solid Q3
25 Nov 05:58 |
Software
India takes aim at Alibaba with new round of Chinese app bans
43 apps axed, including those helping buyers and sellers of digital tat bazaar
25 Nov 00:01 | 4
Software
Cut-price Microsoft 365 seats mark Small Business Saturday – but only US firms need apply
Any opportunity to nudge customers cloudwards, but no word on whether generosity will extend to Europeans
24 Nov 17:14 | 4
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Whatever is stopping your team from building great apps, this can help
Check out this OutSystems Tech Talk
24 Nov 08:31 |
Software
Apple gives real-world events longer pandemic-prompted App Store fee reprieve
Nice tweak, but nothing epic enough to erode monopoly money
24 Nov 07:03 | 4
In Brief
Windows Insiders give thanks for latest release... Hang on. Where's the 64-bit Intel on Arm stuffing?
Also: Edge to take to the M1, and TypeScript 4.1 is here
23 Nov 16:46 |
Software
The GIMP turns 25 and promises to carry on being the FOSS not-Photoshop
Image Manipulation Program spawned GTK, which begat GNOME
23 Nov 07:38 | 146
Software
China offers world its COVID QR Code movement passport at G20 Leaders' Meeting
Declaration puts a handbrake on global digital currencies, includes usual 'let's use the internet and AI to make the world a better place' stuff
23 Nov 03:01 | 22
Software
Linus Torvalds worried Linux kernel might get messy around Christmas
LTS release 5.10 is currently unruly and looks like colliding with the holiday season
23 Nov 01:08 | 16
Software
Bloated middle age beckons: Windows 1.0 turns 35 and is dealing with its mid-life crisis, just about
Red trousers and a Porsche or respectable middle age for Windows?
21 Nov 11:01 | 111
Software
EU says Boeing 737 Max won't fly over the Continent just yet: The US can make its own choices over pilot training
Safety first, politics second
20 Nov 20:26 | 174
Software
Teams seeks 24-hour party people for consumer chat
Skype? We've heard of it
20 Nov 18:15 | 14
Software
Internet Archive to preserve Flash content for posterity with Ruffle emulator
WebAssembly-powered sandbox promised to be safer than the notorious plugin
20 Nov 06:01 | 31
Software
CodeWeavers' CrossOver ran 32-bit Windows Intel binary on macOS on Arm CPU emulating x86 – and nobody died
Trying to get that one weird app working on new Mac silicon?
19 Nov 16:13 | 74
Software
Google tells Chrome extension devs to declare their code's usage of personal data
Ad biz is serious about making others disclose information collection
19 Nov 11:04 | 10
Software
Microsoft emits Preview 3 of next-gen WinUI framework, says Linux support 'is not off our roadmap'
One framework to rule them all? Or yet another one to add to the confusion?
19 Nov 10:21 | 22
