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.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

Pst... Is that the sound of your Outlook backups leaking?

Huawei chairman says tech giant's goal is ‘survival’ as it battles ‘non-stop aggression’

Microsoft Arcs up and makes Azure's manage-all-the-servers service a reality

Microsoft muscles in on the comms API space to compete with Twilio and AWS Chime

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

Adidas now stands for All Day I'm Disconnecting All Servers as owners of 'smart' Libra scales furious over bricked kit

GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again

FBI boasts of dark-web drug bust: 179 collared around the world, $6.5m in cash and 500kg of narcotics seized

As you're scrambling to patch the scary ZeroLogon hole in Windows Server, don't forget Samba – it's also affected

It's been a vintage year for bug bounty hunters, says HackerOne as it boasts of $40m+ passing through its treasure chests

UK Parliament's human rights committee pushes for better protections of coronavirus contact-tracing data in law

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one

Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl

You can add comms API merchant Twilio to the list of tech firms that have seen biz booming thanks to lockdown

UK Ministry of Justice dangles £20m, seeks paper-free payroll services – this time for the judiciary

Ports in a storm: The Matebook 14 won't set your world on fire, but it's still a half-decent laptop

Oracle Zooms past rivals to run TikTok’s cloud, take stake alongside WalMart and ByteDance investors

It's IPO week and one of Wall Street's own is raising the spectre of a stock market crash

TikTok proposes coalition with other social apps to curb harmful content

Second lockdown? Perfect time to unveil Teams Breakout rooms and another ginormitor – the 85-inch Surface Hub 2S

Royole's no chicken: Chinese firm goes in for another round with sequel to panned foldable

Apple Watch Series 6 isn't a step back for repairability but in its own way that's a leap forward

Geek's Guide

To bring data down from the heavens, come to GSaaS, says Microsoft as it launches Azure Orbital

SpaceX scuppered by weather once more as skygazers win a Starlink reprieve

Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

China sets out world domination plan for its digital currency

Get ready for Clippy 9000: Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything

Humans suck so much at beating this pandemic that Microsoft has made an AI to enforce social distancing

UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition

Verity Stob

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of 'Advanced Night Repair' skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space

Behold the Bloo Screen of Death: Bathroom borkage stops spray play

As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!

Software

Ignite

Microsoft muscles in on the comms API space to compete with Twilio and AWS Chime

Azure Communication Services embeds real-time comms into any app, but sharing tech with Teams not a selling point for everyone

22 Sep 20:02 |

Ignite

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

This means Linus Torvalds has definitely won, doesn't it?

22 Sep 18:42 | 60

Software

Adidas now stands for All Day I'm Disconnecting All Servers as owners of 'smart' Libra scales furious over bricked kit

You can only use it to weigh yourself now... how disgustingly low-tech

22 Sep 12:35 | 41

Software

GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again

What strange magic is this? 41st release and sequel to version 3.38 will be called version 40

22 Sep 07:03 | 40

Software

Won't somebody think of the Oracle execs? No pay rises, bonuses, equity awards for top brass until 2022 at earliest

How will CEO Safra Catz manage on her $950k salary in this environment?

21 Sep 17:13 | 6

In Brief

Halloween approaches and the veil between worlds wears thin – the Windows 10 October 2020 Release walks among us

Also: Darkness beckons for Dev Channel Insiders, TypeScript 4.1 beta arrives, Xbox swallows Bethesda

21 Sep 15:40 | 17

Who, Me?

We don't need maintenance this often, surely? Pull it. Oh dear, the system's down

You've been visited by the Don Corleone of code

21 Sep 07:15 | 95

Software

Tencent in talks for 'longterm solution' to WeChat mess as injunction keeps the app alive

Ban on app ruled a restriction on free speech

20 Sep 23:30 | 11

Software

Your anti-phishing test emails may be too easy to spot. NIST has a training tool for that

Phish Scale hopes to make life easier for blue teams gazing at click rates

18 Sep 18:05 | 21

Software

Thunderbird implements PGP crypto feature requested 21 years ago

As Mozilla kills off secure file transfer tool because – shock! – it was being abused

18 Sep 05:03 | 58

Software

Flashy tabs and no Flash: Apple rolls out Safari 14 to macOS Catalina, Mojave users

End of the line for Adobe's multimedia nightmare on iGiant's browser

17 Sep 16:02 | 2

Software

Need to track IT kit? Business continuity? Legal? ServiceNow has a package of satellite apps for you... now

Biz is not going to make any impact in core areas – but there's much more to life than HR, supply chains, accounting, analyst tells us

17 Sep 06:58 | 7

Software

Apple takes another swing at Epic, says Unreal Engine could be a 'trojan horse' threatening security

Taking away the ability to impose rules on developers 'hugely damaging to the public.' claims iThing slinger

16 Sep 20:50 | 116

Software

Surprise! Apple launches iOS 14 today, and developers were given just 24 hours' notice

Plenty of time to get your apps through Cupertino's rigorous testing

16 Sep 15:15 | 45

Software

You won't need .NET Standard... except when you do need it: Microsoft sets out latest in ever-changing story

The arrival of .NET 5.0 brings yet another twist

16 Sep 12:05 | 28

Software

0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'

Inspectors tried to let them off the hook, council managers held firm

16 Sep 09:15 | 190

Logowatch

'Work is an activity not a place' got tired on LinkedIn about three months ago, but Citrix just based its new logo on the idea

Dot over an X instead of an I ‘illustrates our commitment to empowering every individual’

16 Sep 02:31 | 19

Software

At the very last Moment.js: Time-and-date JavaScript library fetched 12 million times a week ends development

Programmers put decade-old package out to pasture, advise devs to find alternatives

15 Sep 23:10 | 15

Software

Oracle's Java 15 rides into town, waving the 'we're number one' flag, demands 25th birthday party

'51 billion' active JVMs can't be wrong

15 Sep 19:03 | 41

In brief

Peek-a-boo! Windows Insiders play hide and seek with a Friday night update

Also: GitHub and Teams action while Universal Print presses on

15 Sep 18:07 | 6

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

Pst... Is that the sound of your Outlook backups leaking?

Huawei chairman says tech giant's goal is ‘survival’ as it battles ‘non-stop aggression’

Microsoft Arcs up and makes Azure's manage-all-the-servers service a reality

Microsoft muscles in on the comms API space to compete with Twilio and AWS Chime

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

Adidas now stands for All Day I'm Disconnecting All Servers as owners of 'smart' Libra scales furious over bricked kit

GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again

FBI boasts of dark-web drug bust: 179 collared around the world, $6.5m in cash and 500kg of narcotics seized

As you're scrambling to patch the scary ZeroLogon hole in Windows Server, don't forget Samba – it's also affected

It's been a vintage year for bug bounty hunters, says HackerOne as it boasts of $40m+ passing through its treasure chests

UK Parliament's human rights committee pushes for better protections of coronavirus contact-tracing data in law

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one

Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl

You can add comms API merchant Twilio to the list of tech firms that have seen biz booming thanks to lockdown

UK Ministry of Justice dangles £20m, seeks paper-free payroll services – this time for the judiciary

Ports in a storm: The Matebook 14 won't set your world on fire, but it's still a half-decent laptop

Oracle Zooms past rivals to run TikTok’s cloud, take stake alongside WalMart and ByteDance investors

It's IPO week and one of Wall Street's own is raising the spectre of a stock market crash

TikTok proposes coalition with other social apps to curb harmful content

Second lockdown? Perfect time to unveil Teams Breakout rooms and another ginormitor – the 85-inch Surface Hub 2S

Royole's no chicken: Chinese firm goes in for another round with sequel to panned foldable

Apple Watch Series 6 isn't a step back for repairability but in its own way that's a leap forward

To bring data down from the heavens, come to GSaaS, says Microsoft as it launches Azure Orbital

SpaceX scuppered by weather once more as skygazers win a Starlink reprieve

Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

China sets out world domination plan for its digital currency

Get ready for Clippy 9000: Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything

Humans suck so much at beating this pandemic that Microsoft has made an AI to enforce social distancing

UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of 'Advanced Night Repair' skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space

Behold the Bloo Screen of Death: Bathroom borkage stops spray play

As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!

Software

Microsoft muscles in on the comms API space to compete with Twilio and AWS Chime

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

Adidas now stands for All Day I'm Disconnecting All Servers as owners of 'smart' Libra scales furious over bricked kit

GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again

Won't somebody think of the Oracle execs? No pay rises, bonuses, equity awards for top brass until 2022 at earliest

Halloween approaches and the veil between worlds wears thin – the Windows 10 October 2020 Release walks among us

We don't need maintenance this often, surely? Pull it. Oh dear, the system's down

Tencent in talks for 'longterm solution' to WeChat mess as injunction keeps the app alive

Your anti-phishing test emails may be too easy to spot. NIST has a training tool for that

Thunderbird implements PGP crypto feature requested 21 years ago

Flashy tabs and no Flash: Apple rolls out Safari 14 to macOS Catalina, Mojave users

Need to track IT kit? Business continuity? Legal? ServiceNow has a package of satellite apps for you... now

Apple takes another swing at Epic, says Unreal Engine could be a 'trojan horse' threatening security

Surprise! Apple launches iOS 14 today, and developers were given just 24 hours' notice

You won't need .NET Standard... except when you do need it: Microsoft sets out latest in ever-changing story

0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'

'Work is an activity not a place' got tired on LinkedIn about three months ago, but Citrix just based its new logo on the idea

At the very last Moment.js: Time-and-date JavaScript library fetched 12 million times a week ends development

Oracle's Java 15 rides into town, waving the 'we're number one' flag, demands 25th birthday party

Peek-a-boo! Windows Insiders play hide and seek with a Friday night update

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Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one

She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off

We don't need maintenance this often, surely? Pull it. Oh dear, the system's down

Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

Coding unit tests is boring. Wouldn't it be cool if an AI could do it for you? That's where Diffblue comes in

Ports in a storm: The Matebook 14 won't set your world on fire, but it's still a half-decent laptop

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

Happy Hacking Professional Hybrid mechanical keyboard: Weird, powerful, comfortable ... and did we mention weird?

Feeling saucy? Microsoft would like you to use .NET 5.0 'go live' release in production to track down 'critical bugs'

As if you needed another reason not to use Visual Studio, C++ extension for Visual Studio Code is live

Mark Shuttleworth to revive Ubuntu Community Council after body shrinks to single member – Mark Shuttleworth

Infor pays UK construction retailer Travis Perkins £4.2m settlement following cancelled upgrade of 'Sellotape and elastic bands' ERP system

ByteDance rebuffs Microsoft's TikTok purchase proposal

Microsoft tweaks the editor. Reg news desk is fine – it's just the Visual Studio Code August update

Climb every mountain, wsl --mount every Linux disk in latest Windows Preview

QR-code based contact-tracing app brings 'defining moment' for UK’s 'world beating' test and trace system

IBM repays millions to staff after messing up its own payroll

India makes buying a used cow easier than buying a used car

Go Huawei, Android: Chinese telco biz claims it will spread Harmony OS for smartphone to devs come December

DPL: Debian project has plenty of money but not enough developers