-Werror pain persists as Linus Torvalds issues Linux 5.15rc2
And celebrates Linux's 'true anniversary' – 30 years since upload of version 0.01
20 Sep 2021 | 14
Software
Apple, Google yank opposition voting strategy app from Russian software stores
Oh, sorry, we thought you wanted us to obey the law?! – Silicon Valley
18 Sep 2021 | 37
Google extends right-to-be-forgotten to app permissions on older Android devices
Software unused after a few months will lose access to sensitive features unless exempted
17 Sep 2021 | 13
Microsoft does and doesn't require VMs to meet hardware requirements for Windows 11
Either way, it's bad news for VirtualBox – it's stopped working
17 Sep 2021 | 82
Microsoft doles out Office Long Term Servicing Channel for cloud refuseniks
Redmond doesn't do things by half – unless it's Long Term Support
17 Sep 2021 | 15
Stressed-out IT workers, software devs – we're not being funny but have you tried rebooting your breathing?
Forget productivity, find a way to unplug and recover
17 Sep 2021 | 27
Build it fast and they will come? Yeah, but they’ll only stay if you build it right
Sponsored Here’s where to start
17 Sep 2021 |
Royal Navy will be getting autonomous machines – for donkey work humans can't be bothered with
DSEI 2021 No robot killers 'in my lifetime' says admiral
17 Sep 2021 | 33
Businesses put robots to work when human workers are hard to find, argue econo-boffins
The lure of shiny new tech isn't a motivator, although in the USA bots are used to cut costs
17 Sep 2021 | 15
After eight years, SPEC delivers a new virtualisation benchmark
Jumps from single-server tests to four hosts – but only for vSphere and RHV
17 Sep 2021 |
It's bizarre we're at a point where reports are written on how human rights trump AI rights
But that's what UN group has done
16 Sep 2021 | 13
The age of the Service Pack is over. The time of the Modern Servicing Model has come
It's CUs and GDRs here on out for Microsoft's SQL Server
16 Sep 2021 | 7
OpenSilver throws Microsoft Silverlight devs a lifeline as end of support looms – or you could forget it ever happened
Open-source project migrates deprecated apps to WebAssembly
16 Sep 2021 | 7
If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this
Interested in poking away at machine-learning models? This academic study could be a good start
16 Sep 2021 | 41
UK Cabinet Office calls off its search for a 'partner' in Whitehall SaaS ERP migration
'This is not the outcome you were hoping for,' bidders told
16 Sep 2021 | 3
Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov on CLU and why programming is still cool
Interview Error handling and encapsulation remain the name of the game
16 Sep 2021 | 13
Oracle sets its own JDK free, sort of, for a while
Analysis Welcome to the No-Fee Terms and Conditions, which makes the Java dev kit a bit more appealing
16 Sep 2021 | 17
Travis CI quietly fixed a bug that exposed secret keys
For at least a week, cloning a public repo made upstream environmental variables accessible
15 Sep 2021 |
Feeling saucy? Wave of Microsoft releases includes go-live licence for .NET 6
On track for November release, but why is ASP.NET more loved than wanted?
15 Sep 2021 | 4
Vector database Pinecone promises to bring ML data management under control with 2.0 release
Hybrid disk and RAM system should slash costs, firm says
15 Sep 2021 |
Linux kernel minimum compiler raised to GCC 5.1, allowing potential C11 use
Change also has handy side effect of fixing some warnings as errors
15 Sep 2021 | 27
Measuring your carbon footprint? There's no app for that
Column Smartphones can keep us informed about everything other than environmental impact. That needs to change
15 Sep 2021 | 58
Imagine a world in which Uber's hot new business is lending money
It's happening already in Singapore, where Uber-analog Grab says lending and deliveries are post-COVID highlights
15 Sep 2021 | 2
Future of Jekyll project (engine behind GitHub Pages) in doubt?
Updated Some development continues (or maybe it's just feature complete)
14 Sep 2021 | 5
US Air Force puts Godzilla in charge of autonomous warfare effort with Project Kaiju
Pulls Mothra, Mecha Rodan, King Ghidorah, Kumonga, and even King Kong along for the $150m ride
14 Sep 2021 | 15
Java 17 arrives with long-term support: What's new, and is it falling behind Kotlin?
Text blocks, sealed classes, switch expressions, records, and more
14 Sep 2021 | 22
Cloud is fundamentally more profitable than on-prem, says Oracle's Safra Catz as revenue misses mark for investors
In case you were wondering why vendors are so excited about it
14 Sep 2021 | 9
When ERP migrations go bad: Games Workshop says project issues are delaying refresh of 'dated' online store
Commissar Yarrick's bale eye focuses on company's web retail presence as 'long and complex' saga continues
14 Sep 2021 | 16
Facebook building 'on-demand executable file format' that self-inflates using homebrew compression
Already shrinks The Social Network’s™ Android apps by 20 per cent compared to rivals, has uses beyond that
14 Sep 2021 | 47
South Korea fines Google ₩207 billion for forking up attempts at creating Android variants
LG and Samsung probably aren't smiling – and not only because that sum translates to a tolerable US$177M
14 Sep 2021 | 6
EU open source study highlights economic benefits but says Union is 'on the back foot' with industrial policy
Interview 'There is already too much time gone' researcher tells The Reg
13 Sep 2021 | 7
How AWS created Aurora, a database built for the cloud
Sponsored Rewriting the rules with logs
13 Sep 2021 |
Spending watchdog blames British Home Office for delays to £1bn crime-fighting IT system
Department says it's prepared to run ailing Police National Computer out of support if it has to
13 Sep 2021 | 11
Report: Microsoft and AWS scored $50m in contracts after Google pulled out of Pentagon's AI drone plan
In Brief Plus: Smart software ugrade means Roomba can recognise dog poo
13 Sep 2021 | 2
AI caramba, those neural networks are power-hungry: Counting the environmental cost of artificial intelligence
Feature (And, also worryingly, its increasing financial cost)
13 Sep 2021 | 64
Ghosts in the machine learning pipeline will be impossible to exorcise
Opinion Who wants to live forever? It could be the offer you can't refuse
13 Sep 2021 | 38
