nav search
Data Centre Software Security DevOps Business Personal Tech Science Emergent Tech Bootnotes
BOFH
Lectures

Software

Premiere Pro bug ate my videos! Bloke sues Adobe after greedy 'clean cache' wipes files

Videographer stung after app nukes '$250k' of footage

Ex-Microsoft manager sues former coworkers and Windows giant over claims of sex assault, gender discrimination

Software goliath says it's all about diversity ... and the bit about retaliation isn't true

International politicos line up to get shot down by Facebook

Firm: We know you wanna chat, guys, but Zuck won't Friend you

Facebook's open-source license drama-zone GraphQL gets swanky digs in Linux mansion

Modern data-fetching scheme could become industry standard

Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS. Go on, git outta here

In the market for a MacBook Air, eh Linus?

The nights are drawing in. Pour a cup of cocoa and join us for Windows 10 Autumnwatch

Fireworks night has been and gone. Microsoft stayed home

Till Microsoft finds it a place on the path unwinding, it's the circle, the circle of Skype

Roundup What's that coming over the hill? Is it ProcDump, a Linux ProcDump?

Woke Linus Torvalds rolls his first 4.20, mulls Linux 5.0 effort for 2019

Kernel release candidate adds support for two Chinese CPU families... will these be the final new CPU archs?

Veracode Software gobbled by private equity house Thoma Bravo for $950m

Home of McAfee and SonicWall slurps app security testing biz from Broadcom

We love Kubernetes, but it's playing catch-up with our Service Fabric, says Microsoft Azure exec

Interview Jason Zander on cloud native, Red Hat, and figuring out open source

'Pure technical contributions aren’t enough'.... Intel commits to code of conduct for open-source projects

Chipzilla joins strangely controversial movement to encourage civility, inclusion

In memoriam: See you in Valhalla, Skype Classic. Version 8 can never replace you

Microsoft hammers the final nail into 7's coffin

Bean-counting outfit Sage appoints bean-counter as new CEO

Will arrival of Hare accelerate tortoise-like performance?

Carlo has a head for apps and a body (tag) for rendering: Google takes on Electron with JS desktop app toolset

Chrome Labs experiment adds another option for building website-ish applications

We (may) now know the real reason for that IBM takeover. A distraction for Red Hat to axe KDE

Popular desktop Linux environment due for deprecation in RHEL... by 2024

Graph database biz Neo4j doubles total funding courtesy of $80m E-series splurge

Firm plans to stuff a sizeable chunk into AI, naturally

Facebook sets Linux kernel tools free

Code to help those managing lots of servers unleashed, designated by jumbles of letters

Tiny Twitter thumbnail tweaked to transport different file types

Troll preserve's images can be used to distribute code, PDFs and other stuff

Haha, good times: Larry Ellison regales noobs about when Oracle staff almost didn't get paid

CTO reveals all in cosy chat with startup founders

Microsoft claims Office 364 back to business as usual. Oh no it isn't, say suffering sysadmins

Utilitarian fix leaves minority of users still moaning

Google Project Zero zeroes in on Google project: Security hole spotted in gVisor sandbox fence

Horn flags up flaw that can be exploited to breakout out of software containers

EU Android latest: Critics diss Google's money-spinning 'cure'

You shouldn't profit from punishment

Mac users burned after Nuance drops Dragon speech to text software

Dictation tool was more than just another app for those with disabilities

People outperform computer programs for 'compressing' pix

Don't chuck away the software away just yet, though

Microsoft teaches a 10-year-old Red Dog new tricks and the Windows 10 1809 delay hits Exchange 2019

Plus Blighty goes full Kubernetes and Windows Mixed Reality still a thing in this week's round up

Microsoft to staff: We remain locked and loaded with US military – and will keep adding voice to AI ethics debate

Servicemen and women 'deserve' access to our tech... even if that includes Windows 10 October 2018 Update

What can we learn from Microsoft's 'QA crisis'? We need your expertise, smart Register readers

Survey Tell us of the pain and practicality of chasing code blunders, software diagnostics

Microsoft promises a fix for Windows 10 zip file woes. In November

You don't want fixes. You really want a shiny new Windows Search. Of course you do

Grumbling about wobbly Windows 10? Microsoft can't hear you over the clanging cash register

Redmond runs rampant, reaps ridiculous record revenues

Break out the jelly and ice cream! Microsoft's Small Basic turns 10

Open sourcing BASIC for the kool kids

Sysadmin running a Mac fleet? IBM has just thrown you a lifeline

'Zero touch' setup, Mac@IBM, lands at GitHub

'We broke a few things and will continue to do so... in a careful way' – Oracle's Reinhold on Java renovation work

CodeOne Language is still free, it's the support that will cost you plenty

Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait

Comment Three urgent changes Redmond must make to stop the QA crisis

Zip it! 3 more reasons to be glad you didn't jump on Windows 10 1809

So fonts are funny and archives aren't ace but, hey, at least it isn't deleting files, right?

Roughly 30 years after its birth at UK's Acorn Computers, RISC OS 5 is going open source

Original Arm operating system relicensed under Apache 2.0

PC version of Linux 4.19 lands with PC version of Linus Torvalds: Kernel handed back to creator

And the updated code of conduct is now live, too

SQLite creator crucified after code of conduct warns devs to love God, and not kill, commit adultery, steal, curse...

Database creator explains Christian-based rules to El Reg

Stealthy UK startup drops veil on next frontier of speech wizardry

The power's in the phone, not the cloud

Skype bot airport action, Retpolining into 2019, old Kubernetes versions for the chop in Azure, and much more Microsoft

Roundup Boop beep boop beep boop, your flight's cancelled

So, about that Google tax on Android makers in the EU – report pegs it at up to $40 per phone

Fee offset if Search and Chrome included alongside Play Store, of course

The code's crashed again, but why? Tell us your war stories of bugs found – and bugs fixed

Reader study We need your help in understanding how software issues are solved in production environments

Peter Thiel's Palantir reportedly eyeing up $41bn IPO

Spies' fave data mining biz could go public as early as late 2019 – reports

The Register - Independent news and views for the tech community. Part of Situation Publishing