Google rolls out pro-privacy DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83... with a handy kill switch for corporate IT
Plus: Web giant hears developers' extension concerns, ignores them
20 May 2020 | 51
Software
PowerShell inventor Jeffrey Snover gets new gig driving ‘modern workforce transformation’
Which appears to involve buying lots of AI-infused Microsoft SaaS
20 May 2020 | 6
New Zealand releases Bluetooth-free COVID-19 tracing app
'Digital diary' with QR-code check-ins for now, wireless-capable upgrade in the works
20 May 2020 | 42
Microsoft aims to spread JAMstack through Azure App Service via GitHub and Visual Studio Code
BuildDevelopers, get ready to hook into Windows giant's cloud
19 May 2020 | 1
Project Reunion: Microsoft's attempt to tear down all those barriers it's built for Windows developers over the years
BuildPlus: Bye-bye Xamarin Forms, hello Multi-Platform App UI, for when Universal is not universal enough
19 May 2020 | 22
DB or not DB: Open-sourcer Percona pushes out plethora of SQL and NoSQL tweaks in bid to win over suits
Hopes to lure business types to shiny platform
19 May 2020 |
Microsoft promises big things for Edge... and they'll be ready for folks some time before universe's heat death
BuildFun goodies for developers... for everyone else, well, we hope you like Pinterest
19 May 2020 | 10
Could it be? Really? The Year of Linux on the Desktop is almost here, and it's... Windows-shaped?
BuildWindows Subsystem for Linux to gain out-of-the-box support for GUI apps, GPU chippery
19 May 2020 | 117
TLS termination, Teams toys – and holy 5G, Batman, Microsoft buys UK network software biz Metaswitch
RoundupAlso: 'Twas the night before Buildmas
19 May 2020 | 7
SAP proves, yet again, that Excel is utterly unkillable
It built a perfectly good analytics cloud yet has added a Microsoft spreadsheet plugin because that’s what punters want
19 May 2020 | 76
Podcast Addict banned from Google Play Store because heaven forbid app somehow references COVID-19
Meanwhile, Pushbullet pushes back after Chrome extension pulled
18 May 2020 | 59
India’s contact-tracing app unleashes KaiOS on feature phones
55 million users of $10 Bluetooth-enabled phones come into embrace of closed-source app
17 May 2020 | 6
Rust marks five years since its 1.0 release: The long and winding road actually works
Programming language ready to leave the wilderness for mass adulation
15 May 2020 | 75
Everything OK with Microsoft? Windows giant admits it was 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source
Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming
15 May 2020 | 45
Micros~1? ClippyZilla? BSOD Bob? There can be only one winner. Or maybe two
We asked for a new Microsoft nickname – and you answered. Goodness, you answered
15 May 2020 | 71
UK, Ireland users call on SAP to extend indirect licensing deadline again as COVID-19 ravages project plans
'People are going to lose a lot of time this year'
15 May 2020 | 6
ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree
Back to the time when tape was king
15 May 2020 | 164
NHS contact tracing app isn't really anonymous, is riddled with bugs, and is open to abuse. Good thing we're not in the middle of a pandemic, eh?
AnalysisPlus: There are some worrying data protection implications
14 May 2020 | 188
You overstepped and infringed British sovereignty, Court of Appeal tells US in software companies' copyright battle
Angry judgments fly as SAS and World Programming spat rolls on
14 May 2020 | 57
Node.js creator delivers Deno 1.0, a new runtime that fixes 'design mistakes in Node'
Please help us rewrite the TypeScript compiler in Rust
14 May 2020 | 36
Let's slip into something a bit more relational: SQL database crowd strikes back with brace of cloudy releases
And you thought this was purely a NoSQL release this week?
14 May 2020 | 1
Flashy new toys for the next Windows 10? Sorry, fun-seeking Fast Ringers must make do with DoH for now
There ain't no party like a privacy party
14 May 2020 | 4
The end really is nigh – for 32-bit Windows 10 on new PCs
It’s 64-bit or nothing for PC-makers from now on. And face it, this isn't the year of Linux on the desktop
14 May 2020 | 96
Oracle to take IT out of the equation for HR, ship prebuilt metrics, KPIs to analyse carbon-based lifeforms
You have been weighed, measured, you have been found wanting
13 May 2020 | 10
Latest Microsoft 365 'wave of innovation' really just involves adding or renaming a bunch of update channels
What was Monthly is to be Current as Insider is banished in favour of Beta
13 May 2020 | 11
Third time lucky for Windows 10 2004? Microsoft yet again fiddles with code and adds a go-live SDK licence
Ooh... Aah... Just a little fix
13 May 2020 | 8
It's not you, it's Slack: Chat app falls down – and at such a very convenient moment
UpdatedExperienced ‘degraded performance’ earlier in the day, now seems to just be TITSUP
13 May 2020 | 7
Nine in ten biz applications harbor out-of-date, unsupported, insecure open-source code, study shows
Free-as-in-speech software is wildly popular – keeping libraries, components up to date is not
12 May 2020 | 41
Microsoft's Family Safety app drills into kids' screen time, browsing habits to help 'facilitate a dialogue'
That discussion you were dreading has to happen sometime
12 May 2020 | 26
Facebook-for-suits puts on a fresh jacket. 'Classic' Yammer is so 2018. Behold, a public preview of 'New' Yammer
Didn't a soft drinks company try a similar stunt a few years ago?
12 May 2020 | 14
Yes sir, no sir, 3 bags NoSQL: Aerospike, DataStax, ScyllaDB all freshen up as community preps for cloudy future
'An entire database can be in one rack'
12 May 2020 | 2
Total Eclipse to depart: Open-source software foundation is hopping the pond to Europe
Bye-bye US, bonjour Brussels
12 May 2020 | 56
Microsoft doc formats are the bane of office suites on Linux, SoftMaker's Office 2021 beta may have a solution
We like finding non-Redmond alternatives, but the free options make it tough for commercial operations
12 May 2020 | 106
NHS contact-tracing app is best in the world, says VMware CEO... whose company helped build it
Virtzilla prepares to re-open some offices next week for staff who are willing to leave home
12 May 2020 | 74
Visual Studio Code 1.45 released: Binary custom editors and 'unbiased Notebook solution' in the works
But you wanted floating windows? Sorry, too hard
11 May 2020 | 22
Microsoft fingers foreign object in fracture furore, serves up fresh dollop of Duo, and another Windows 10 'Meh' Update
RoundupPlus: From the creator of axed Wunderlist, presenting... Superlist
11 May 2020 | 2
