Mandiant open sources tool to prevent leaky Salesforce misconfigs AuraInspector automates the most common abuses and generates fixes for customers SaaS13 Jan 2026 |
Microsoft euthanizes ancient deployment toolkit Immediate retirement for freebie automation platform Software12 Jan 2026 | 10
2026 brings a bumper crop of Microsoft tech funerals A busy year of end-of-support dates awaits unwary admins Software12 Jan 2026 | 9
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence Software11 Jan 2026 | 78
Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment Let the bots figure out what to sell for how much Applications09 Jan 2026 | 10
CISA flags actively exploited Office relic alongside fresh HPE flaw Max-severity OneView hole joins a PowerPoint bug that should've been retired years ago Cyber-crime08 Jan 2026 | 6
HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid Security07 Jan 2026 | 111
Brave refurbishes Rust adblocking engine for reduced memory footprint Have your privacy cake and consume the web too Applications06 Jan 2026 | 16
StockHistory function becomes StockMystery as Microsoft Excel bugs out New Year glitch leaves users staring at connection errors instead of market data Applications06 Jan 2026 | 11
EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them US trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes Legal05 Jan 2026 | 33
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse Applications05 Jan 2026 | 149
Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who’d rather skip AI assistants Applications02 Jan 2026 | 37
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud Exclusive Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution PaaS + IaaS19 Dec 2025 | 75
Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on Coalition for App Fairness warns App Store fees remain unlawful despite non-compliance ruling Applications16 Dec 2025 | 20
Delay to European Central Bank messaging project cost the Bank of England £23M Watchdog links schedule change to replanning of UK payments system overhaul Public Sector15 Dec 2025 | 7
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems SaaS12 Dec 2025 | 39
Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability Analysts say the shift is part of a trend which offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure some vendors keep control AI + ML12 Dec 2025 | 9
Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030 Exclusive Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms Databases11 Dec 2025 | 17
SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integration Databases09 Dec 2025 |
Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers Younger finance pros are just as loyal to Microsoft's venerable spreadsheet app as their elders Offbeat09 Dec 2025 | 83
Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause Who, Me? UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals
Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut Asia in Brief PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic’s noodle shop plan; And more!
Meta admits to Instagram password reset mess, denies data leak infosec in brief PLUS: Veeam patches critical vuln; Crims bribing dark web insiders; UK school takedown; And more
The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age Opinion Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware
How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant
Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware Dutchman fails to convince judges his trial was unfair because cops read his encrypted chats
Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows Satya Nadella's call to accept and embrace desktop brainboxes faces skepticism
Infamous BreachForums forum breached, spilling data on 325K users Updated Website built around buying and selling stolen data has lost control of its own
Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas Can’t take decades more synthetic case studies? Get those digital daggers out Software08 Dec 2025 | 11
Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed Applications05 Dec 2025 | 11
Salesforce finds new AI monetization knobs to twist With seat and usage-based deals back on the table, CRM giant tells investors agent prices are going up SaaS05 Dec 2025 | 4
Irish Excel whiz sheets all over the competition in Vegas showdown Diarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals Applications05 Dec 2025 | 35
Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours On Call Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security Applications05 Dec 2025 | 108
UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle Databases04 Dec 2025 | 8
Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival Overbudget Project Future will continue to cause problems into Q2 next year, chairman admits On-Prem01 Dec 2025 | 29
Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit Exclusive Google Workspace switch drags on amid Excel dependencies, compliance requirements, and compatibility issues SaaS26 Nov 2025 | 109
Employee trust in SAP board dips amid ongoing restructure German mega vendor responds to latest in-house survey Databases25 Nov 2025 | 5
Microsoft wedges tables into Notepad for some reason WordPad died for this? Applications24 Nov 2025 | 63
You are likely to be eaten by the MIT license: Microsoft frees Zork source Redmond dusts off Infocom's classic text adventures and puts the originals into public hands Applications21 Nov 2025 | 50
Lawsuit seeks to probe Uncle Sam's role in ICE-tracking app takedowns EFF wants to know if citizens had their First Amendment rights violated Applications21 Nov 2025 | 42
PHP 8.5 lays down long-awaited pipe operator, adds new URI tools Unfashionable web workhorse refreshed for its ongoing run Applications20 Nov 2025 | 8
Thunderbird 145 finally adds ‘native’ Exchange support EWS-powered email only for now, with calendars and contacts still on the to-do list Applications20 Nov 2025 | 18
Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh Burnout and slowing growth push Eugen Rochko into an advisory role after nearly a decade in charge Applications19 Nov 2025 | 18
SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain Databases19 Nov 2025 | 10
UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal Applications14 Nov 2025 | 69
Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight On Call Org chart games were more important than speed and accuracy Applications14 Nov 2025 | 123
Avalonia brings Linux, browser support to Microsoft's MAUI cross-platform app solution Third-party framework builds alternative backend using its own renderer and WebAssembly Applications13 Nov 2025 | 12
MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code Applications12 Nov 2025 | 47
OWASP Top 10: Broken access control still tops app security list Risk list highlights misconfigs, supply chain failures, and singles out prompt injection in AI apps Applications11 Nov 2025 | 4
Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen Applications06 Nov 2025 | 9
Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners Cyber-crime06 Nov 2025 | 6
Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer hands on For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store Applications05 Nov 2025 | 9
International Criminal Court kicks Microsoft Office to the curb Rough justice? Redmond out as Germany's openDesk judged a better fit Applications31 Oct 2025 | 64
9 in 10 Exchange servers in Germany still running out-of-support software Cybersecurity agency urges organizations to upgrade or risk total network compromise Security29 Oct 2025 | 32
AI bubble to deflate as enterprises defer spending to 2027 ai-pocalypse Gap between vendor promises and business results set to trigger market correction, research firm predicts AI + ML28 Oct 2025 | 10
Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to Good luck to the 1,000 enterprise guinea pigs on the initial preview Applications28 Oct 2025 | 20
Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong Column AI wasn't the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 56
Apple faces £1.5B payout after losing UK App Store case iPhone maker overcharged devs and users, says competition court Applications24 Oct 2025 | 38
Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything iPhone and iPad users vexed by denial of spreadsheets Applications23 Oct 2025 | 17
A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2025 | 115
Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem Survey probes interest in AI assistance for locally hosted email setups AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 30
Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI YouTube and Gmail already running on both x86 and homebrew Axion silicon, 70,000 more apps in the conversion queue PaaS + IaaS22 Oct 2025 | 28
AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2025 | 148
Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge DevOps guru and ex-Googler say vibes beat reading diffs but there are risks AI + ML21 Oct 2025 | 47
Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day That's 46 minutes in which more work can be done, not an extended lunch AI + ML20 Oct 2025 | 129
SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade Databases17 Oct 2025 | 23
Salesforce's Benioff warns of AI 'false prophets' while promising true profits by 2030 CRM messiah preaches data discipline while rivals chase LLM miracles SaaS16 Oct 2025 | 5
Oracle goes all-in on AI, customers still figuring out how they'll use it It's all agents and LLMs in Vegas, and even legacy users can partake AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 5
NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3 Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago Networks16 Oct 2025 | 11
Locked out of your Gmail account? Google says phone a friend Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail Personal Tech16 Oct 2025 | 13
End of support for older Office and Windows Server versions pile on the pain for admins Windows 10 is the least of some people's problems Applications16 Oct 2025 | 40
X to combat bot problem by showing more info about users Meet [user] from [location] Applications15 Oct 2025 | 17
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses Applications15 Oct 2025 | 50
Unwary SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, warns Gartner On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing Databases14 Oct 2025 |
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR SaaS13 Oct 2025 | 25
Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-off Applications13 Oct 2025 | 9
Exchange Online will start archiving your oldest emails before your inbox bursts Microsoft promises fewer 'mailbox full' errors in face of message deluge Applications08 Oct 2025 | 17
UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project Department eyes new app to tap national ANPR data for live alerts, searches, and integrations Public Sector07 Oct 2025 | 50
Lowercase leaving you cold? Introducing Retrocide Dropping descenders to achieve a perfect baseline Applications06 Oct 2025 | 49
Apple ices ICE agent tracker app under government heat Cupertino yanks ICEBlock citing safety risks for law enforcement Applications03 Oct 2025 | 82
Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast On Call Cool kids drank the aggressive micro-management Kool-Aid Databases03 Oct 2025 | 115
Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance Apple's bad QA or poor coding by developers? Applications02 Oct 2025 | 10
Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running Software01 Oct 2025 | 11
UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check Experts ask: Where will staff come from, and what about gran's flip phone? Public Sector01 Oct 2025 | 29
Forget vibe coding - Microsoft wants to make vibe working the new hotness Adds more Anthropic into the mix as Redmond hedges its bets AI + ML29 Sep 2025 | 16
Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project' Open source Android app store cannot exist if Google's plans go ahead, says F-Droid board member Applications29 Sep 2025 | 90
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity Comment A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling SaaS29 Sep 2025 | 76
SAP's 'simplified' licensing leaves users more confused Business Suite nostalgia unlikely to ease customers' public cloud journey SaaS25 Sep 2025 | 2
UK.gov ditching 'Red' risk data sharing project after slashing £0.5B budget in half Meanwhile Lotus Notes still lurks in some Office of National Statistics systems, for now Public Sector23 Sep 2025 | 5
HCL stretches support window for Domino v9/v10 despite repeated end-of-life deadlines The corpse of Lotus Notes keeps twitching Applications23 Sep 2025 | 5
Node4's £45M Tisski takeover ends in tears – and £2.4M in damages Messy ruling details a perfect storm of NAO, MoD, and Aquila contract failures Public Sector23 Sep 2025 | 3
British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown Q: How many Excel users do you need to correctly set the number formatting of a cell? A: Monday, January 1st, 1900 Applications19 Sep 2025 | 68
Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel On Call Contractor sneakily fired after pointing out odious ignorance Applications19 Sep 2025 | 187
Workday U-turns on rehiring pledge as activist investors take $2B stake Layoffs to stand following $1.1B AI acquisition SaaS18 Sep 2025 | 7
Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do Jared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it' AI + ML17 Sep 2025 | 42
Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25 But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity Software17 Sep 2025 | 8
Rust-style safety model for C++ 'rejected' as profiles take priority Safe C++ proposal author claims that 'will not ever work' Applications16 Sep 2025 | 58
The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it Beware the meeting room zombies Personal Tech16 Sep 2025 | 18
Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power – just ask Larry Ellison Opinion As doubts grow over who will pay to stuff Oracle's cloud pipeline, the octogenarian spreads his wings AI + ML15 Sep 2025 | 32
EU regulators let Microsoft off the hook after Teams unbundling pledge Slack's complaint sparked a five-year investigation, but Redmond walks away fine-free SaaS12 Sep 2025 | 6
Microsoft reminds developers VBScript really is going away Classes moved to VBA, but upgrading and testing is unavoidable Software10 Sep 2025 | 22
Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up Comment With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality AI + ML10 Sep 2025 | 10
SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoric PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2025 | 13
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex Public Sector04 Sep 2025 | 118
UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding Public Sector03 Sep 2025 | 20
Stolen OAuth tokens expose Palo Alto customer data Security firm's Salesforce instance accessed using credentials stolen from Salesloft's Drift platform breach Cyber-crime02 Sep 2025 | 3
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector Register debate series As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking Public Sector02 Sep 2025 | 86
Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026 Microsoft shifts cellular management to Settings and the web Applications29 Aug 2025 | 7