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7*7 = a simple equation for taking total control of multiple VMware-powered clouds

Tell us all about the lessons you learned during lockdown – we want to understand the challenges you faced

Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft's carefully crafted Surfaces are having trouble with its carefully crafted Windows 10 May 2020 Update

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

Contact-tracer spoofing is already happening – and it's dangerously simple to do

Had a bad weekend? Probably, if you're a Sectigo customer, after root cert expires and online chaos ensues

Get rich quick! Work from home! Earn $100,000 easy – just find a critical flaw in Apple's sign-in system

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

UK.gov dangles £100m for service slingers for back office 'transformation' that'll kill off bespoke systems

India reveals plans to make electronics manufacturing its top industry

Mozilla cautions India's national open digital plan is 'open-washing'

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Boffins step into the Li-ion's den with sodium-ion battery that's potentially as good as a lithium cousin

Fujitsu unveils new laptops 'optimized for remote work' – erm, isn't that what laptops have always been for?

As the US maybe gets serious about coronavirus-tracking apps, Congress wakes up to the privacy risks

As anti-brutality protests fill streets of American cities, netizens cram police app with K-Pop, airwaves with NWA

Geek's Guide

Ever felt down after staring at your phone late in bed? It's not just you – mice do too

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch an oblivious Tesla Model 3 smash into an overturned truck on a highway 'while under Autopilot'

Blight the power: Jamming attack cripples wireless signals using clever reflective technology

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

Verity Stob

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Software

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

Wanna be a developer? Your coworkers want to learn Go and like to watch, er, Friends and Big Bang Theory

So no one told you life was gonna be this way

11 May 2020 | 47

Back of the net! Norfolk County Council kicks off £18m Oracle cloud ERP deal

Knowing me Big Red, knowing you, Norwich authorities: Aha?

11 May 2020 | 9

DBA locked in police-guarded COVID-19-quarantine hotel for the last week shares his story with The Register

Holiday did not go as planned, but he’s working remotely, participating in agile rituals and happy at the half-way mark of a two-week stretch

11 May 2020 | 159

Source code for seminal adventure game Zork circa-1977 exhumed from MIT tapes, plonked on GitHub

Revisit what it’s like to run a PDP-10 and be eaten by a grue

08 May 2020 | 52

7*7 = a simple equation for taking total control of multiple VMware-powered clouds

Tell us all about the lessons you learned during lockdown – we want to understand the challenges you faced

Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft's carefully crafted Surfaces are having trouble with its carefully crafted Windows 10 May 2020 Update

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

Contact-tracer spoofing is already happening – and it's dangerously simple to do

Had a bad weekend? Probably, if you're a Sectigo customer, after root cert expires and online chaos ensues

Get rich quick! Work from home! Earn $100,000 easy – just find a critical flaw in Apple's sign-in system

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

UK.gov dangles £100m for service slingers for back office 'transformation' that'll kill off bespoke systems

India reveals plans to make electronics manufacturing its top industry

Mozilla cautions India's national open digital plan is 'open-washing'

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Boffins step into the Li-ion's den with sodium-ion battery that's potentially as good as a lithium cousin

Fujitsu unveils new laptops 'optimized for remote work' – erm, isn't that what laptops have always been for?

As the US maybe gets serious about coronavirus-tracking apps, Congress wakes up to the privacy risks

As anti-brutality protests fill streets of American cities, netizens cram police app with K-Pop, airwaves with NWA

Ever felt down after staring at your phone late in bed? It's not just you – mice do too

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch an oblivious Tesla Model 3 smash into an overturned truck on a highway 'while under Autopilot'

Blight the power: Jamming attack cripples wireless signals using clever reflective technology

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Software

Project Reunion: Microsoft's attempt to tear down all those barriers it's built for Windows developers over the years

DB or not DB: Open-sourcer Percona pushes out plethora of SQL and NoSQL tweaks in bid to win over suits

Microsoft promises big things for Edge... and they'll be ready for folks some time before universe's heat death

Could it be? Really? The Year of Linux on the Desktop is almost here, and it's... Windows-shaped?

TLS termination, Teams toys – and holy 5G, Batman, Microsoft buys UK network software biz Metaswitch

SAP proves, yet again, that Excel is utterly unkillable

Podcast Addict banned from Google Play Store because heaven forbid app somehow references COVID-19

India’s contact-tracing app unleashes KaiOS on feature phones

Rust marks five years since its 1.0 release: The long and winding road actually works

Everything OK with Microsoft? Windows giant admits it was 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source

Micros~1? ClippyZilla? BSOD Bob? There can be only one winner. Or maybe two

UK, Ireland users call on SAP to extend indirect licensing deadline again as COVID-19 ravages project plans

ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree

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?

You overstepped and infringed British sovereignty, Court of Appeal tells US in software companies' copyright battle

Node.js creator delivers Deno 1.0, a new runtime that fixes 'design mistakes in Node'

Let's slip into something a bit more relational: SQL database crowd strikes back with brace of cloudy releases

Flashy new toys for the next Windows 10? Sorry, fun-seeking Fast Ringers must make do with DoH for now

The end really is nigh – for 32-bit Windows 10 on new PCs

Oracle to take IT out of the equation for HR, ship prebuilt metrics, KPIs to analyse carbon-based lifeforms

Latest Microsoft 365 'wave of innovation' really just involves adding or renaming a bunch of update channels

Third time lucky for Windows 10 2004? Microsoft yet again fiddles with code and adds a go-live SDK licence

It's not you, it's Slack: Chat app falls down – and at such a very convenient moment

Nine in ten biz applications harbor out-of-date, unsupported, insecure open-source code, study shows

Microsoft's Family Safety app drills into kids' screen time, browsing habits to help 'facilitate a dialogue'

Facebook-for-suits puts on a fresh jacket. 'Classic' Yammer is so 2018. Behold, a public preview of 'New' Yammer

Yes sir, no sir, 3 bags NoSQL: Aerospike, DataStax, ScyllaDB all freshen up as community preps for cloudy future

Total Eclipse to depart: Open-source software foundation is hopping the pond to Europe

Microsoft doc formats are the bane of office suites on Linux, SoftMaker's Office 2021 beta may have a solution

NHS contact-tracing app is best in the world, says VMware CEO... whose company helped build it

Visual Studio Code 1.45 released: Binary custom editors and 'unbiased Notebook solution' in the works

Microsoft fingers foreign object in fracture furore, serves up fresh dollop of Duo, and another Windows 10 'Meh' Update

Wanna be a developer? Your coworkers want to learn Go and like to watch, er, Friends and Big Bang Theory

Back of the net! Norfolk County Council kicks off £18m Oracle cloud ERP deal

DBA locked in police-guarded COVID-19-quarantine hotel for the last week shares his story with The Register

Source code for seminal adventure game Zork circa-1977 exhumed from MIT tapes, plonked on GitHub

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80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

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