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Windows 10 October 2020 Update arrives: Nothing that will drop your jaw, but we've had enough of 2020's fun surprises anyway

Steady as she goes for Microsoft as Edge turns up and Start gets a buffing

21 Oct 11:30 | 1

Software

India floats superior ship-management software as a route to regional relevance

If ever there was a job for Docker and containers, this is it

21 Oct 05:02 | 5

Software

Microsoft unleashes production-ready Edge Runtime. WebView2: This time it's Chromium

Distributes it in self-updating Evergreen flavour and Fixed for people who hate surprises

20 Oct 12:33 | 11

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When you tell Chrome to wipe private data about you, it spares two websites from the purge: Google.com, YouTube

Is this another case of one rule for the Chocolate Factory and one for everyone else?

19 Oct 22:25 | 101

In Brief

Here's the new build, Insiders... wait for it... wait for it... Is it Windows 10X's upcoming ... Oh. You can change refresh rate of the display

Also: Teams goes native on Arm and Calculator pops up in Canonical's snap store

19 Oct 16:15 | 14

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Gamers are replacing Bing Maps objects in Microsoft Flight Simulator with rips from Google Earth

So much for showcasing Redmond's Chocolate Factory alternative

19 Oct 08:30 | 39

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Linux 5.10 to make Year 2038 problem the Year 2486 problem

XFS timestamp tweak extends Unix time for a few centuries

19 Oct 05:01 | 100

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Come on, Amazon: If you're going to copy open-source code for a new product, at least credit the creator

Developer wishes cloud giant gave more thought to not stepping on toes

16 Oct 23:32 | 59

Software

Software billionaire accused of hiding $2bn in income from IRS – potentially the largest tax scam in US history

CEO charged with tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, etc

16 Oct 20:57 | 47

Software

RPA firms: We have our own process mining tools. Process miner Celonis: We're all about automation now

German biz: You won't need an RPA tool, or not as often. FIGHT, FIGHT!!!

16 Oct 13:59 | 4

Software

Lift us up where we belong: UK's Network Rail puts elevators online

Where the data flies, and the travellers cry.....

16 Oct 08:30 | 32

On Call

When you're On Call, only you can hear the silence of the clicks

Automated alerting? Escalating robo-calling? All ok, but beware the inebriated meatbag in the system

16 Oct 07:15 | 88

Software

Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so

After only one public Git commit this year, penguinstas think: Fork it, we don't need Cupertino

15 Oct 20:30 | 115

Software

Vivaldi heads back to '80s with a pixel-pushing release of its Chromium-based browser

Fiddling with configuration and getting nostalgic in version 3.4

15 Oct 16:45 | 4

Software

Microsoft will adopt Google Chrome's controversial Manifest V3 in Edge

Thought Microsoft would resist Google's ad-friendly tweaks to the browser extension API? Think again

15 Oct 12:36 | 22

Software

Even 2020 cannot bring forth the Year of Linux on the Desktop

Windows Subsystem for Linux or Linux Subsystem for Windows? Who cares, 'open source has won', says Microsoft MVP and Canonical engineer lead

15 Oct 11:34 | 47

Software

LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die

And point everyone at LibreOffice, ta

15 Oct 10:12 | 133

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Oracle starts to lose patience with Solaris holdouts

Users who won’t upgrade to 11.4 given three-year warning of unpleasantness to come

15 Oct 06:02 | 76

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UK's Cheshire Police tenders for whole new ERP system after Oracle Fusion went live with 'significant deficiency'

Did we say £11m? Contract value now ranges from £19m to, er, £190m!

14 Oct 08:30 | 44

Software

Shots fired! WordPress's Matt claims Jamstack's marketing is 'not intellectually honest' in debate with Netlify's Matt

End of the WordPress era? No, we're aiming for 50% of web, says founder

13 Oct 16:46 | 14

Software

Windows 10 October 2020 Update arrives: Nothing that will drop your jaw, but we've had enough of 2020's fun surprises anyway

India floats superior ship-management software as a route to regional relevance

Microsoft unleashes production-ready Edge Runtime. WebView2: This time it's Chromium

When you tell Chrome to wipe private data about you, it spares two websites from the purge: Google.com, YouTube

Here's the new build, Insiders... wait for it... wait for it... Is it Windows 10X's upcoming ... Oh. You can change refresh rate of the display

Gamers are replacing Bing Maps objects in Microsoft Flight Simulator with rips from Google Earth

Linux 5.10 to make Year 2038 problem the Year 2486 problem

Come on, Amazon: If you're going to copy open-source code for a new product, at least credit the creator

Software billionaire accused of hiding $2bn in income from IRS – potentially the largest tax scam in US history

RPA firms: We have our own process mining tools. Process miner Celonis: We're all about automation now

Lift us up where we belong: UK's Network Rail puts elevators online

When you're On Call, only you can hear the silence of the clicks

Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so

Vivaldi heads back to '80s with a pixel-pushing release of its Chromium-based browser

Microsoft will adopt Google Chrome's controversial Manifest V3 in Edge

Even 2020 cannot bring forth the Year of Linux on the Desktop

LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die

Oracle starts to lose patience with Solaris holdouts

UK's Cheshire Police tenders for whole new ERP system after Oracle Fusion went live with 'significant deficiency'

Shots fired! WordPress's Matt claims Jamstack's marketing is 'not intellectually honest' in debate with Netlify's Matt

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Let’s check in with that 30,000-job $10bn Trump-Foxconn Wisconsin plant. Wow, way worse than we'd imagined

When you tell Chrome to wipe private data about you, it spares two websites from the purge: Google.com, YouTube

2020 hasn't been all bad – a new Raspberry Pi Compute Module is here

Atlassian pulls the plug on server licences, drags customers to the cloud

Cisco warns VMware vCenter bug puts hyperconverged tin in ‘unrecoverable’ state

First, Patch Tuesday. Now, Oh Hell, Monday: Microsoft emits bonus fixes for Visual Studio, Windows 10 security bugs

AMD scores 200,000 cores worth of secret silicon at new Australian supercomputer

UK test-and-trace coronavirus data may be handed to police to nab those who aren't self-isolating as required

GSM gateways: Parliament obviously cocked up, so let minister issue 'ignore the law' decree, UK.gov barrister urges court

Here's the new build, Insiders... wait for it... wait for it... Is it Windows 10X's upcoming ... Oh. You can change refresh rate of the display

Open Invention Network adds Microsoft's exFAT to Linux System Definition, Satan spotted throwing snowballs

German-speaking SAP user survey sees S4/HANA upgrade projects either sink or swim as coronavirus cuts into revenue

We won't leave you hanging any longer: Tool strips freeze-inducing bugs from Java bytecode while in production

Visual Studio Code 1.50 goes hard on extensions support, but tackling add-on bloat is becoming more onerous

Eight release candidates later and it's out: New hardware and more AMD in Linux 5.9

So, what exactly are you planning to do with this new PC? Windows Insiders face new questions during OOBE

Excel is for amateurs. To properly screw things up, those same amateurs need a copy of Access

Guess whose app store claims to champion 'choice, fairness and innovation'. It's Microsoft's, funnily enough

One would assume that they like to 'Moovit, Moovit'. Intel-owned transport app hitches ride on Huawei AppGallery

The next time Microsoft 359 craps itself, at least it'll be easier to hunt down help

After ten years, the Google vs Oracle API copyright mega-battle finally hit the Supreme Court – and we listened in

A decades-old lesson on not inserting Excel where it doesn't belong

Excel Hell: It's not just blame for pandemic pandemonium being spread between the sheets

FFS FSF, you're 35 already? Hands up if you just sprouted a grey hair or felt a craving for a Werthers Original on reading that. Happy birthday, folks

Consultant leading Surrey County Council's £30m jump to new ERP system will bag £177,000 as £83m cuts bite local citizens

Yak-yak app Slack cracks, flacks gobsmacked: Can this bug be whacked or will code be rolled back?

What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases

Windows 10 to let you know that your SSD is dying rather than throwing out a BSOD when it's already too late

Red Hat tips its Fedora 33: Beta release introduces Btrfs as default file system, .NET on ARM64, plus an IoT variant

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