Software
Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers
First woman to win the Turing Award and be made an IBM Fellow
10 Aug 07:56 | 11
Software
Software
Google offers first part of its in-house M:N thread code as open source to Linux kernel
If this fine-grained thread control tech can run The Chocolate Factory, imagine it unleashed in Android
10 Aug 06:55 | 21
Software
India awards apps that offer citizens Microsoft and Google alternatives
And bans future imports of much military tech
10 Aug 01:16 | 11
Software
Have I Been Pwned to go open source – 10bn credentials, not so much, says creator Hunt
Heavy burden for one valiant man to carry, and it needs sharing
07 Aug 18:39 | 12
Software
British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers' newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu
Those who won lost; those who lost won
07 Aug 14:30 | 61
Software
Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code
Keep up, old-timer
07 Aug 10:10 | 5
Software
Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app
Continuum reborn? Not quite, and some features are Sammy-only for now
06 Aug 12:15 | 20
Software
UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit
Case continues over failed Project Emerald
06 Aug 08:30 | 20
Software
Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus
UK govt portal among those borked
06 Aug 07:03 | 30
Software
Google creates secure file locker for countries where people often share smartphones
Handy service for India and Nigeria, or feature creep that constricts competition?
06 Aug 05:09 | 9
Software
Google reports 80% spike of Flutter-built apps in Play Store as 1.20 is released
Autofill arrives for mobile forms, plus new viewer widget, performance and tooling updates
05 Aug 17:12 | 1
Software
Wrap it before you tap it? No, say Linux developers: 'GPL condom' for Nvidia driver is laughed out of the kernel
Facebook's man told: 'OK, now you are just trolling us'
04 Aug 15:45 | 85
Software
Maker of SonarQube defends DevOps product's security after source code leaks blamed on bad configurations
'Most companies' want to make code 'completely transparent' SonarSource claims – but not outside the firewall
04 Aug 09:26 | 1
Software
China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs
Gotta catch 'em all
04 Aug 07:32 | 35
Software
Apple's big trouble in not-so-little China – culls 30,000 apps from its Middle Kingdom App Store in legal crackdown
Game developers face local license law that could 'devastate' iOS revenues
03 Aug 19:39 | 8
Software
Brit local authority appoints a systems integrator in leap to Oracle cloud, but support time-bomb is already ticking
This should have been started a year ago, Solihull council docs say
03 Aug 08:30 | 5
Software
Linus Torvalds pines for header file fix but releases Linux 5.8 anyway
Lots of love for AMD and POWER 10 and a hint of some Google's operational code making it into future releases
03 Aug 01:24 | 36
Software
Microsoft confirms pursuit of TikTok after Satya Nadella chats to Donald Trump
‘Appreciates President Trump’s personal involvement’ and promises so much security, you’ll be tired of securing
03 Aug 00:38 | 91
Software
IT giant CSC coughs up $2m after helping New York City bill Medicaid for child therapy rather than insurance cos
Biz and city officials 'frequently ignored' invoice rules, prosecutors said
01 Aug 00:13 | 14
Updated
We give up, Progressive Web Apps can track you, says W3C: After 5 years, it decides privacy is too much bother
You lot sort it out
31 Jul 20:02 | 32
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Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks
Industry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec
Who, Me?
You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit
You're so BASIC
Data Centre
VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately
No new orders, limited support options and a very sketchy roadmap
Software
Google offers first part of its in-house M:N thread code as open source to Linux kernel
If this fine-grained thread control tech can run The Chocolate Factory, imagine it unleashed in Android
Business
Apple's at it again: Things go pear-shaped for meal planner app after iGiant opposes logo
It's all in the 'right-angled leaf', people
In brief
Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs
Plus: Sec wizard shows another way to pwn Mac users
Personal Tech
Huawei running out of smartphone CPUs as US sanctions begin to bite
Chinese giant suggests current Kirin SoC could be last of its kind
Software
Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers
First woman to win the Turing Award and be made an IBM Fellow
Software
India awards apps that offer citizens Microsoft and Google alternatives
And bans future imports of much military tech
Science
NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects
‘Horsehead Nebula’ is okay, ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’ is not
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Software
Venerable text editor GNU Nano reaches version 5.0 and adds the modern frippery that is scrollbars
Three big upgrades since 2018 suggests it's far from terminal
31 Jul 07:28 | 56
Software
Intel, boffins invent an AI Clippy for code: Hi, I see you're writing another lock-free bloom filter. Can I help?
Proof-of-concept algorithm-matching system paves way for more complex recommendation engine
31 Jul 00:07 | 9
Software
Firefox 79: A thin release for regular users, but plenty for developers to devour
Reverse tabnapping is no more
30 Jul 16:53 | 20
Software
Microsoft finally spills the beans on everything you need to know about its low-code platform, Dataflex for Teams
Or maybe you want a List. Or a Task. Or a Planner. Just bung it into Teams
30 Jul 15:26 | 11
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What developers really, really want: Document databases
Why MongoDB tops DB devs' wish-lists
30 Jul 10:00 |
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From a trickle to an Application Stream: Red Hat opens barriers for RHEL 8.3 beta
System Roles another key ingredient in six-monthly update
29 Jul 16:08 | 5
Software
Oh, you shouldn't have: Microsoft whips up website for devs that makes it easier to moan about Windows issues
Just be careful it's not 'out of scope'
29 Jul 13:33 | 3
Software
It's been five years since Windows 10 hit: So... how's that working out for you all?
Most of the things Microsoft said would be great were not
29 Jul 10:45 | 216
Poll
GitHub starts publishing roadmap of future features
Microsoft’s trashing the place, clearly. Or is it?
29 Jul 05:29 | 7
Software
UK housing associations offer framework worth up to £400m to eBay-for-plumbers startup (but it won't get to keep it all)
'Equity-backed' DB-'n'-services biz hooks up tenants with vetted local repair shops
28 Jul 15:38 | 7
Software
IDE like an update, please: JetBrains freshens IntelliJ, adds improved GitHub integration, Java support
Issues? Visit the website or use Visual Studio Code
28 Jul 14:35 | 21
Software
Class move, Java. Coding language slips to third place behind Python in latest popularity contest
Rust enters the top 20, and yes, JavaScript is still number one
28 Jul 07:04 | 38
Software
Tencent set to slurp Sogou, China's second largest search engine, and snaffle its super-popular text editor
Half a billion users for $3.5bn - bargain!
28 Jul 03:54 |
Software
Named arguments squeak into PHP 8.0, 7 years after first RFC
How about inheritance? 'One of the bigger open questions' says author of proposal
27 Jul 17:01 | 14
Software
SAP to list Qualtrics, less than two years after convincing it not to list
Plans to retain sales and dev umbilical cord to CX outfit
27 Jul 00:42 | 4
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Just what you want when stuck working from home: Microsoft domain mixup downs Remote Web Access
'Supported' Windows Server customers cut off from their subdomains
24 Jul 19:47 | 7
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Want to win $15,000? Enter Huawei's app development contest – and it could be yours
Create an innovative mobile application or game with AppsUp and you could win big
24 Jul 15:00 |
Software
Microsoft wants to show enterprises that Edge means business, rather than the thing you use to download Chrome
Roadmap, release schedule will tease fancy upcoming features in browser
24 Jul 11:37 | 58
Software
We told you remote working is quite good, says Citrix as its numbers head higher
Q2 revenue and subs surge, annual guidance boosted again
24 Jul 05:01 | 1
