Russia expected to pass experimental law that tracks foreigners in Moscow via smartphones
4-year trial is second major initiative this year that clamps down on 'illegal immigrants'
Applications22 May 2025 | 53
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Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade
Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu
Applications20 May 2025 | 50
Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms
Update before that proof-of-concept comes to bite
Patches20 May 2025 | 20
Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app
Search giant to restore critical Android permission after user outcry
Applications17 May 2025 | 25
Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away
Applications16 May 2025 | 29
Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade
Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained
SaaS16 May 2025 | 6
Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation
We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers
On-Prem16 May 2025 | 16
Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working
On Call Self-taught coders who work in HR and have a doctorate in English tend to do that
Applications16 May 2025 | 193
The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says
Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts
AI + ML14 May 2025 | 7
Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
Exclusive Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition
Applications13 May 2025 | 28
M365 apps on Windows 10 to get security fixes into 2028
Support for the underlying OS is another story
Applications12 May 2025 | 10
OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies
A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view
AI + ML08 May 2025 | 8
Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu
Plus it is solving the 'I can't find the settings' problem with AI. That's what you wanted, right?
OSes07 May 2025 | 108
Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme
A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption
Applications03 May 2025 | 88
Meta bets you want a sprinkle of social in your chatbot
Sharing is caring when your entire business is built on it
AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 3
Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
Cursor, Codium makers lose access as add-on goes exclusive
Devops24 Apr 2025 | 69
Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a new crew, including Researcher and Analyst bots
You. Will. Love. The. LLM.
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 5
Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA
Bad timing, claim industry watchers, who say rulings could seriously upset an already delicate US-EU relationship
Legal23 Apr 2025 | 54
RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox
Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a win for web giant's ad rivals
Applications22 Apr 2025 | 24
El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production
Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much
AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 10
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AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro
And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget
Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM
Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos
VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers
Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts
Russia expected to pass experimental law that tracks foreigners in Moscow via smartphones
4-year trial is second major initiative this year that clamps down on 'illegal immigrants'
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users
Open the pod bay door
Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts
Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over
Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping
A media-ready remix with KDE, codecs, and clutter from its BeOS-flavored past
Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data
Parents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected
What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer
It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination
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Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic's USB-C for AI
Hands On Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows
AI + ML21 Apr 2025 | 5
Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted
Just us or is AI increasingly appearing like an unwanted party guest?
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 63
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to
int main(enter the void)...
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 24
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure
Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed
PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 64
Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?
Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI
AI Software Development Week16 Apr 2025 | 33
Microsoft admits it's not you, Classic Outlook can be a real CPU, power hog sometimes
Bug or migration strategy for New Outlook, we wonder
Applications16 Apr 2025 | 16
Figma bucks market trends, plunges into IPO waters after Adobe's failed buyout
Timing not ideal with Wall Street fearing recession
Applications16 Apr 2025 | 6
Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing
Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first?
SaaS16 Apr 2025 | 32
Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector
£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC
Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 14
TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails
It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right?
Networks16 Apr 2025 | 23
New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029
IT admins, get ready to grumble
CSO14 Apr 2025 | 126
Windows 11 stops freaking out over wallpaper customization
Safeguard hold finally lifted as Microsoft realizes animated backgrounds aren't the end of the world
OSes14 Apr 2025 | 13
Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy
Will future techies feel the same way about Copilot?
Applications11 Apr 2025 | 67
Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana
Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing'
AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 3
UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract
Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers
Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 63
Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar
'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear
Applications08 Apr 2025 | 49
Microsoft’s AI masterplan: Let OpenAI burn cash, then build on their successes
Analysis Redmond’s not alone: AWS, Alibaba, DeepSeek also rely on others blazing the trail
AI + ML07 Apr 2025 | 9
Trump tariffs thwart TikTok takeover as China digs in heels
World War Fee Video app's future once again caught between trade war and political whiplash
Applications07 Apr 2025 | 24
Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers
Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers
Applications07 Apr 2025 | 4
Ukraine's techies a 'pillar of support' for national economy after Russian invasion
Experts in IT services held up while other sectors fell over the last 5 years, says report
Networks04 Apr 2025 | 17
Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox
Comment To be fair, it sounds like the team has ironed out the more controversial features
Applications03 Apr 2025 | 47
Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users
The UK government must be thrilled
Security01 Apr 2025 | 27
Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid
Opinion From smartphones to surveillance cameras to security snafus, there's no escape
Applications31 Mar 2025 | 83
UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago
FCA still splashing on customizing, integrating HR and finance system way after 2021 go-live
SaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8
When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making
Opinion Make things that work for the billions, not the billionaires
Applications31 Mar 2025 | 90
Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees
Redmond veteran proposes Zero Sugar and Caffeine Free variants
Applications25 Mar 2025 | 112
You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?
Just an FYI, like
Applications25 Mar 2025 | 18
A closer look at Dynamo, Nvidia's 'operating system' for AI inference
GTC GPU goliath claims tech can boost throughput by 2x for Hopper, up to 30x for Blackwell
Nvidia GTC23 Mar 2025 | 7
Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent
Consumer price hikes come amid interrogation of why customers have to opt out of added AI features
Applications21 Mar 2025 | 43
NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry
EXCLUSIVE A lone voice cries out from reply-all chaos: 'Someone tell DOGE to rehire whoever maintains this email list'
Applications21 Mar 2025 | 37
Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims
Broken commitment to deliver hyped Intelligence upgrade branded false advertising
AI + ML21 Mar 2025 | 45
Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update
Updated Testing? We've heard of it
Applications20 Mar 2025 | 57
Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point
Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot
Applications18 Mar 2025 | 28
Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords
Tall order for tiny market share techies but 'this is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO
Applications18 Mar 2025 | 21
Oracle JDK 24 appears in rare alignment of version and feature count
The 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals in Java 24 represent a stochastic sign
Applications18 Mar 2025 | 8
DoorDash sued for allegedly branding customer a fraudster after delivery photo query
Dispute over app privacy escalates into legal brawl
Applications18 Mar 2025 | 55
'Dead simple' hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat 'now actively exploited in the wild'
Updated One PUT request, one poisoned session file, and the server’s yours
CSO18 Mar 2025 | 8
Developer wrote a critical app and forgot where it ran – until it stopped running
Who, Me? What comes after testing in the software development lifecycle? Aaah, never mind ... let's skip to maintenance
Applications17 Mar 2025 | 55
We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is
Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries
AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 44
City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster
Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors
Databases13 Mar 2025 | 62
Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz
Root cert expiry may bring breakage or worse for add-ons, media playback, and more
Applications13 Mar 2025 | 45
Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money
Firefox maker: Looming antitrust inferno could burn us, too
Applications12 Mar 2025 | 17
ServiceNow's new AI agents will happily volunteer for your dullest tasks
Yokohama release also adds meta-observabiilty and takes a tilt at CRM
AI Software Development Week12 Mar 2025 | 11
Eight days later, Microsoft Outlook users still struggle on iOS devices
Cloudy email rises like a zombie, though its digital grave still marked by big red cross
Applications11 Mar 2025 | 33
Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live
Databases11 Mar 2025 | 61
Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball
$1M donation to inauguration fund and a personal appearance by Pichai appear to have been pointless
Applications10 Mar 2025 | 34
Microsoft tells abandoned Publisher fans to just use Word and hope for the best
PDFs and Powerpoint also lie in wait as 2026 looms
Applications07 Mar 2025 | 119
iOS users left refreshing in vain as Microsoft Outlook woes drag on
Native mail app? More like no mail app
Applications05 Mar 2025 | 17
Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365
Redmond says you could ask one for a 'list of deals ... at risk of falling through'
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 3
How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app
No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent
Security04 Mar 2025 | 91
Phantom of the Opera: AI agent now lurks within browser, for the lazy
Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant
AI + ML03 Mar 2025 | 12
Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke
Open source browser maker ties itself up in legalese and explanations
Applications02 Mar 2025 | 143
One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee
On Call Turns out you can be too careful checking that backups worked
Storage28 Feb 2025 | 180
No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce
Yet growth in its AI agent biz not enough to improve numbers
Applications27 Feb 2025 | 9
30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months
Updated Thousands of order lines not picked, causing delays to hospital deliveries
Applications27 Feb 2025 | 29
Windows 11 24H2 goes back to the drawing board over AutoCAD 2022 glitch
Safeguard hold applied after designer darling borked by problematic update
OSes26 Feb 2025 | 20
Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts
CEO assures investors he'll plough headcount savings into risk-management enterprise product
AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 21
Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface
Only a test at the moment, but a sign of things to come?
Applications25 Feb 2025 | 98
uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions
Chrome ad blocker stopped working? Time to look elsewhere
Applications24 Feb 2025 | 133
Your days of driver sync via Windows Server Update Services are numbered
Microsoft suggests a move to the cloud
Applications19 Feb 2025 | 22
Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot
Cloud-based revival should come with 'a corresponding discount scale,' customers say
Applications14 Feb 2025 | 4
LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
FOSDEM 2025 Standard FOSS office suite continues to evolve in interesting new directions
Applications13 Feb 2025 | 145
Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP
Users' sluggish migration of critical apps mean current deadline not workable, says analyst
Databases12 Feb 2025 | 21
Final cumulative update for Exchange Server 2019 lands at last
End of the road in sight for venerable server
Applications11 Feb 2025 | 2
Already three years late, NHS finance system replacement delayed again
Project to swap out Oracle E-Business Suite gets another red rating from projects watchdog
Applications11 Feb 2025 | 24
You know something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times
It looks like you want to irritate Windows users. Do you want some help with that?
Offbeat05 Feb 2025 | 27
Workday erases 8.5% of workforce because of ... AI
That's 1,750 positions about to join the employment queue and it's only February
SaaS05 Feb 2025 | 32
Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority,' says CEO
Um, does anyone wanna switch seats?
Applications04 Feb 2025 | 62
What does it mean to build in security from the ground up?
Systems Approach As if secure design is the only bullet point in a list of software engineering best practices
CSO02 Feb 2025 | 12
Even Windows 10 cannot escape the new Outlook
Microsoft fixes DAC woes and makes good on its New Outlook threat for Windows 10
Applications30 Jan 2025 | 54
Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues
Neither Labour, Conservatives, nor the Lib Dems offered a retort to rights org's report
Research30 Jan 2025 | 21
Citrix slated to axe its Technology Professional program
Advocates also cut as company focuses on 'priorities of our key customers'
Virtualization27 Jan 2025 | 13
OpenAI's Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task
Hello Operator? Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime?
AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 14
British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees
Collective Proceedings Order seeks £1.5B from iGiant
Applications15 Jan 2025 | 10
Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V
Patch Tuesday Plus: Excel hell, angst for Adobe fans, and life's too Snort for Cisco
Patches15 Jan 2025 | 7
Allstate accused of quietly paying app makers for driver data
Insurance giant sued by Texas for using surveillance without consent to jack up premiums, deny coverage
Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 24
Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares
38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger
Databases14 Jan 2025 | 5
WordPress drama latest: Leader Matt Mullenweg exiles five contributors
WordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off
Applications14 Jan 2025 | 29
Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club
Right as Uncle Sam pushes for Chrome sell-off, eh?
Applications10 Jan 2025 | 14
Microsoft preps for a year of enterprise-impacting M365 retirements
Hey administrators – buckle up. 2025 is going to be a wild ride
OSes09 Jan 2025 | 8
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