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Exam-monitoring biz Proctorio tried to silence a critic using copyright law. Now EFF sues to put an end to this tactic

Tweets linking to source code were fair use, say digital-rights warriors

22 Apr 20:31 | 2

Away with legacy networks as healthcare providers power modern medical apps

Converged, future-ready networks unlock operational efficiencies, improve patient experience, says CommScope

Anyone for Palantir? UK.gov names gaggle of vendors to fight for contracts in £1.2bn back office application framework

It's time to crack open the public sector pork barrel.... like it was ever closed

21 Apr 09:30 | 7

Microsoft realises constant meetings stress people out, adds Office 365 settings to cut them short or start them late

Where's the PowerShell command to ban all meetings forever?

20 Apr 19:23 | 43

Microsoft calls time on Timeline: Don't worry, more features that nobody asked for coming your way

Activity history tracker over mobile devices set to become history

15 Apr 09:40 | 29

NHS COVID-19 app update blocked by Apple, Google over location privacy fears

New version for England dead on arrival just as UK eases lockdown rules

13 Apr 06:27 | 32

Oracle vs Google: No, the Supreme Court did not say APIs aren't copyright – and that's a good thing

Anyone wanting to bring a similar case in the future will have to be very, very bold and very, very rich

12 Apr 10:31 | 53

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

Passenger weight blunder led to wrong thrust used on takeoff, says watchdog

08 Apr 19:14 | 311

Gitpod ditches Eclipse Theia for Visual Studio Code under redesign, sponsors new dev experience event

'Allowing everyone to use their favourite IDE just makes a lot of sense'

08 Apr 13:12 | 4

A swarm in May is worth a load of hay, is it? JetBrains Code With Me collaborative programming tool released

Swarm programming with audio, video, and everyone editing at once – what could go wrong?

07 Apr 13:00 | 4

Post Office awards Fujitsu a £42.5m contract extension for the IT system behind wrongful subpostmaster prosecutions

Yes, that Horizon branch office management IT system

07 Apr 10:25 | 29

Another SAP in the face for Oracle: Alphabet soups up financial software by moving off Big Red systems

Nothing to do with THAT court case or lack of Oracle certification on GCP. Nope. Definitely not

06 Apr 12:22 | 17

Apple begins rejecting apps that use advertising SDKs for fingerprinting users

Google comes in late too

02 Apr 19:50 | 44

In a devastating blow to all eight of you, Microsoft pulls the plug on Cortana's Android, iOS apps

Chatty digital assistant can still be found on Outlook, Teams, Windows

01 Apr 22:22 | 32

X.Org says it's saving a packet with Packet after migrating freedesktop.org off Google Kubernetes Engine

The hidden cost of multi-cloud, and how full open source reduces lock-in

01 Apr 08:07 | 16

Amazon eyes up space startups for an AWS Accelerator, dangles $1m of cloud credits for a chosen ten

Planting that Bezos flag in the newest cloud sector: spaaaaaace

31 Mar 13:03 | 4

Island in the Stream: AlmaLinux project issues first stable release of CentOS replacement

New CloudLinux-sponsored distribution hits GA ahead of Rocky Linux

30 Mar 15:01 | 16

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Use Windows and POS in the same sentence... Yes, that's right: Point of Sale. What were you thinking?

Microsoft's finest takes a break in the US retail space

30 Mar 09:33 | 19

Beijing's new privacy rules ban apps collecting unnecessary data, require free service without data slurps

Rules are tight, but also leave plenty to the imagination

30 Mar 01:35 | 14

Mysterious case of Arizona state senators skipping a vote on tackling Apple and Google's app commissions

Law bill to give developers a choice to opt out vanishes this week

26 Mar 01:39 | 19

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University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired

'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress

Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure

Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference

Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world

Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed

Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'

CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack

We seem to have materialized in a universe in which Barney the Purple Dinosaur is designing iPhones for Apple

Is there a back button for reality?

UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch

IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file

More a declaration of war than turning the tables

Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity

The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set

But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Bender, Handbrake, and ... Hypercard?

He was there the day Steve Jobs moved off PowerPC to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better

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Tired: Linux fans using the Edge browser. Wired: Linux fans using a Microsoft account to sign into the Edge browser

And now the circle is complete

24 Mar 17:56 | 30

Microsoft and Google, sitting in a tree, working on browser compatibility

Software behemoths to spend 2021 fixing CSS pain points

23 Mar 14:06 | 19

The kids aren't all right: Fall in GCSE compsci students is bad news for employers and Britain's future growth plans

Student numbers have plunged 40% since 2015

23 Mar 09:30 | 109

Canonical: Flutter now 'the default choice for future desktop and mobile apps'

Cross-platform appeal outweighs performance penalty, argues Linux flinger

22 Mar 17:05 | 22

The Audacity of it all: Version 3.0 of open-source audio fave boasts new file format, 160+ bug fixes

Major upgrade for sound editor – as long as you don't need FAT32 support

19 Mar 11:23 | 39

Northern Ireland hands deal worth up to £87m to Fujitsu: Now keep our 15-year-old Oracle HR system up and running

Competition? We've heard of it

18 Mar 10:15 | 17

The great Microsoft cull continues as paid content set to be stripped from Business and Education Store

So how's that UWP thing working out for you?

12 Mar 14:19 | 6

The Document Foundation updates LibreOffice Community to 7.1.1

Ninth anniversary celebrated with bug fixes for enthusiasts and power users

05 Mar 17:01 | 5

UK monopoly watchdog launches probe after iOS app makers slam Apple software store's draconian T&Cs

The walls are closing in on the iGiant

05 Mar 07:34 | 33

'Major update': Microsoft snips the life support lines for its Delve mobile apps

Come to Outlook Mobile. The water's lovely

04 Mar 16:56 | 2

Royal Navy and Air Force get low-code bridge in UK military recruitment saga

We don't want to take 'first past the post' candidates, says contract award notice. Ahem

04 Mar 11:28 | 21

Upgrade from .NET Framework to .NET 5 can be hard. New official tool may help... slightly

'This tool is not supported in any way. Nobody will be on the hook for fixing any issues with it'

04 Mar 09:30 | 7

Chancellor launches £500m business software subsidy in the UK. What's 'approved' software then?

UK targets 100,000 small businesses with up to £5,000 boost

04 Mar 07:17 | 24

If Google and Apple won't help us, we'll sort it out the Linux way: 21 companies form Mobile Native Foundation

Lyft, Microsoft, Slack, Capital One, Airbnb become bedfellows

04 Mar 06:37 | 6

Google's multi-platform app framework Flutter reaches version 2, expands to the web

The same tech inside Google Pay, Shopping, Analytics, Ads, etc

03 Mar 17:50 | 7

Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version

Pitches pro-privacy platform with customizable results filter dubbed Goggles

03 Mar 14:00 | 30

Excel-lent: Microsoft debuts low-code Power Fx language... but it is not really new

Citizen development platform where everything looks like Excel

02 Mar 16:30 | 30

Netflix reveals massive migration to new mix of microservices, asynchronous workflows and serverless functions

Goes deep on Docker and adopts ‘strangler fig’ pattern to replace legacy platform

02 Mar 06:58 | 39

Japanese bank botched data migration, which somehow turned its ATMs into card-eating monsters

Online banking and thousands of machines went offline while the mess was cleaned up

02 Mar 00:39 | 10

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