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OpenRAN fan Vodafone trials white box radio tech in UK

Seagate, WD mull 10-platter HDDs as pitstop before HAMR, MAMR time

Promise of £5bn for rural fibre prompts Openreach to reach for the trench-digging diamond cutter

HPE's Eng Lim Goh on spaceborne computers, NASA medals and AI at the final frontier

Windows 10 update panic: Older VMware Workstation Pro app broken

Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

Windows builds, Azure axings and Microsoft pushes will.i.am's buttons

Licence to grill: A year on, MongoDB's Eliot Horowitz talks to The Reg about SSPL

A Nord VPN bug, a(nother) bad Microsoft patch, Zynga data farmed out, and more

Google sounds the alarm over Android flaw being exploited in the wild, possibly by NSO

GPS cyberstalking of girlfriend brings surveillance and indictment for alleged American mobster

Here we go again: US govt tells Facebook to kill end-to-end encryption for the sake of the children

Worried about the future? Learn how to apply chaos to your infrastructure with us...

Rolled out cloud-native apps? Successfully juggled containers? Tell us all how at Continuous Lifecycle London 2020

Serverless neither magically faster nor cheaper, dev laments

APIs, costs, vendor lock-in... Get expert answers to your serverless Qs – and dive in deep with practical workshops

Boris Brexit bluff binds .eu domains to time-bending itinerary

HP polishes the redundancy cannon, prepares to fire 16% of workforce

The immovable object versus the unstoppable force: How the tech boys club remains exclusive

Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn't use its software

Excited about dual-screen laptops? Make your own with duct tape and the ThinkVision M14

Cosmo Communicator: More phone than the Gemini, more pocket computer than phone

Linky revisited: How the evil French smart meter escaped Hell to taunt me

Here's that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y'all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

Geek's Guide

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

Diggerland comes to Mars as boffins battle to save InSight's mole

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

RAF pilot seconded to Virgin Orbit for three years of launching rockets from a 747

Google causing more facial recognition problems, machine learning goes quantum and losing a job if an AI doesn't like your face

Tetraplegic patient can now move his four limbs with the help of a badass neuroprosthetic suit

How much is your face worth? Google thinks a $5 Starbucks gift card should be good enough

The Reg strokes a talon across the HoloLens 2 and Surface Hub 2S

Verity Stob

£99,999, what's your emergency? Paramedics rush to OAP's aid after shock meter reading

UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians

BBC said it'll pull radio streams from TuneIn to slurp more of your data but nobody noticed till Amazon put its foot in it

'Six' in the city: Kiwi sportswear shop telly beamed X-rated flicks for hours over weekend

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Windows 10 update panic: Older VMware Workstation Pro app broken

Desperate users tinkering with compatibility system to get up and running again

07 Oct 15:00 | 4

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Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

Stop us if you've heard this one before – discussion over as far as Google is concerned

07 Oct 12:45 | 39

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Windows builds, Azure axings and Microsoft pushes will.i.am's buttons

RoundupIt wasn't all Surface, Surface, Surface in the Microsoft world last week. It just felt like it

07 Oct 11:15 | 1

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Licence to grill: A year on, MongoDB's Eliot Horowitz talks to The Reg about SSPL

InterviewLearning from the competition, luring relational fans and, yes, that licence

07 Oct 08:15 | 4

Software

Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool

Who, Me?Implementations, Moves and Changes were delighted – for a time

07 Oct 07:08 | 118

Software

Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

Boffins find sharing snippets of code has a downside

04 Oct 23:56 | 55

Software

PostgreSQL puts the pedal to the metal with some smart indexing tweaks in version 12

Open-source veteran not above the odd speed increase

04 Oct 12:56 | 22

Software

The OS is 'no longer' important to Microsoft, and yet new Surface kit has 3 Windows flavours

And an Android device – confusing or what?

03 Oct 16:22 | 40

Software

Devs getting stuck into Windows 10X on Surface Neo will have to tussle with UWP

Wonderbar: Compatibility issues ahoy

03 Oct 10:14 | 40

Software

Happy fifth birthday, Windows Insiders! We'd bake a cake, but it might explode without warning

CommentA bit like a dodgy Fast Ring build

02 Oct 10:05 | 26

Software

Remember Windows 8? Microsoft is still trying to reunify the API it split for the touchy OS's benefit

Old meets new in WinRT API Packs

01 Oct 13:30 | 18

Software

Percona packages PostgreSQL alongside existing MySQL and MongoDB products

InterviewFree should mean free, says open-source DB biz

01 Oct 11:00 | 2

Software

Edge, Internet Explorer users Czech their settings after MSN 'forgot' their language

Surfers faced with challenging feeds on a new tab

30 Sep 16:30 | 17

Software

An unbearable itch to migrate your OS to the cloud? You might have a case of Windows VD

Place to be for multi-session Windows 10 and life support for Windows 7

30 Sep 16:00 | 19

Software

Windows 10 May 2019 Update declared safe at last, which bodes well for upcoming 19H2 build

RoundupAlso: Azure, SQL Server and keeping the Windows 2008 R2 lights on

30 Sep 10:30 | 4

Software

Analyse this: IBM punts off algorithm risk biz

Financial specialist picks up part of Big Blue that eyes up quants' models, trades and more

27 Sep 19:00 |

Software

Visual Studio for Mac: A bunch of new features but Xcode and VS Code are tough competition

Hands OnMaking sense of Microsoft's dev tool family

27 Sep 09:51 | 5

Software

Windows 10 May 2019 Update inches toward the 50 per cent uptake as a new build drops

Microsoft gazes forlornly at the halcyon days of 2018, before that release happened

27 Sep 05:54 | 6

Software

Worst-case Scenarios? You've got it: Gremlin makes totally trashing your apps even easier

Chaos merchant's failure-as-a-service tests system resilience

26 Sep 17:00 | 11

Software

Haskell, Erlang, and Frank walk into a bar – and begin new project to work in Unison

It's not a joke, it's a programming language tuned for distributed systems

26 Sep 07:12 | 24

Software

macOS? More like mac-woe-ess: Google Chrome slip-up trips up SIP-less Apple Macs

Fresh code gives file systems a /var-sectomy – see inside for a manual fix

25 Sep 21:54 | 67

OpenRAN fan Vodafone trials white box radio tech in UK

Seagate, WD mull 10-platter HDDs as pitstop before HAMR, MAMR time

Promise of £5bn for rural fibre prompts Openreach to reach for the trench-digging diamond cutter

HPE's Eng Lim Goh on spaceborne computers, NASA medals and AI at the final frontier

Windows 10 update panic: Older VMware Workstation Pro app broken

Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

Windows builds, Azure axings and Microsoft pushes will.i.am's buttons

Licence to grill: A year on, MongoDB's Eliot Horowitz talks to The Reg about SSPL

A Nord VPN bug, a(nother) bad Microsoft patch, Zynga data farmed out, and more

Google sounds the alarm over Android flaw being exploited in the wild, possibly by NSO

GPS cyberstalking of girlfriend brings surveillance and indictment for alleged American mobster

Here we go again: US govt tells Facebook to kill end-to-end encryption for the sake of the children

Worried about the future? Learn how to apply chaos to your infrastructure with us...

Rolled out cloud-native apps? Successfully juggled containers? Tell us all how at Continuous Lifecycle London 2020

Serverless neither magically faster nor cheaper, dev laments

APIs, costs, vendor lock-in... Get expert answers to your serverless Qs – and dive in deep with practical workshops

Boris Brexit bluff binds .eu domains to time-bending itinerary

HP polishes the redundancy cannon, prepares to fire 16% of workforce

The immovable object versus the unstoppable force: How the tech boys club remains exclusive

Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn't use its software

Excited about dual-screen laptops? Make your own with duct tape and the ThinkVision M14

Cosmo Communicator: More phone than the Gemini, more pocket computer than phone

Linky revisited: How the evil French smart meter escaped Hell to taunt me

Here's that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y'all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

Diggerland comes to Mars as boffins battle to save InSight's mole

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

RAF pilot seconded to Virgin Orbit for three years of launching rockets from a 747

Google causing more facial recognition problems, machine learning goes quantum and losing a job if an AI doesn't like your face

Tetraplegic patient can now move his four limbs with the help of a badass neuroprosthetic suit

How much is your face worth? Google thinks a $5 Starbucks gift card should be good enough

The Reg strokes a talon across the HoloLens 2 and Surface Hub 2S

£99,999, what's your emergency? Paramedics rush to OAP's aid after shock meter reading

UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians

BBC said it'll pull radio streams from TuneIn to slurp more of your data but nobody noticed till Amazon put its foot in it

'Six' in the city: Kiwi sportswear shop telly beamed X-rated flicks for hours over weekend

Software

Windows 10 update panic: Older VMware Workstation Pro app broken

Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

Windows builds, Azure axings and Microsoft pushes will.i.am's buttons

Licence to grill: A year on, MongoDB's Eliot Horowitz talks to The Reg about SSPL

Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool

Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

PostgreSQL puts the pedal to the metal with some smart indexing tweaks in version 12

The OS is 'no longer' important to Microsoft, and yet new Surface kit has 3 Windows flavours

Devs getting stuck into Windows 10X on Surface Neo will have to tussle with UWP

Happy fifth birthday, Windows Insiders! We'd bake a cake, but it might explode without warning

Remember Windows 8? Microsoft is still trying to reunify the API it split for the touchy OS's benefit

Percona packages PostgreSQL alongside existing MySQL and MongoDB products

Edge, Internet Explorer users Czech their settings after MSN 'forgot' their language

An unbearable itch to migrate your OS to the cloud? You might have a case of Windows VD

Windows 10 May 2019 Update declared safe at last, which bodes well for upcoming 19H2 build

Analyse this: IBM punts off algorithm risk biz

Visual Studio for Mac: A bunch of new features but Xcode and VS Code are tough competition

Windows 10 May 2019 Update inches toward the 50 per cent uptake as a new build drops

Worst-case Scenarios? You've got it: Gremlin makes totally trashing your apps even easier

Haskell, Erlang, and Frank walk into a bar – and begin new project to work in Unison

macOS? More like mac-woe-ess: Google Chrome slip-up trips up SIP-less Apple Macs

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Google causing more facial recognition problems, machine learning goes quantum and losing a job if an AI doesn't like your face

Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool

Boris Brexit bluff binds .eu domains to time-bending itinerary

Excited about dual-screen laptops? Make your own with duct tape and the ThinkVision M14

Diggerland comes to Mars as boffins battle to save InSight's mole

Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

Licence to grill: A year on, MongoDB's Eliot Horowitz talks to The Reg about SSPL

Windows builds, Azure axings and Microsoft pushes will.i.am's buttons

Promise of £5bn for rural fibre prompts Openreach to reach for the trench-digging diamond cutter

Fairytale for 2019: GNOME to battle a patent troll in court

Bug fixes abound in Microsoft's freshly Cascadia fonted Windows Terminal

New CentOS Linux distro sips updates from RHEL codebase like an ever-flowing Stream

As Windows 10 lands on 900m devices, Microsoft shows us the shape of clunk to come (again)

The D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future

The Wun Show: Douglas Crockford has been sniffing JavaScript's bad parts again

It's beginning to look a lot like October, everywhere you go. Take a look at the Windows 10, primed for release again

Microsoft emits .NET Core 3.0, C# 8.0, Visual Studio 2019 16.3, and more at e-conference

Are you a Nim-by? C-ish language, gentler than Go, friendlier than Rust, reaches version 1.0

Better Bluetooth in Windows 10 and more local Azure toys via Docker containers

Calling all the Visual Basic snitches: Keep quiet about it and so will he...