Study finds humans not completely useless at malware detection
Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too
Security05 Aug 2025 | 5
Applications
Microsoft promises to eventually make WinUI 'truly open source'
Developer community skeptical following 'long silent stagnation' of the framework and accompanying SDK
Applications05 Aug 2025 | 41
Court upholds Epic win in Google Play Store antitrust battle
Appeals panel says Chocolate Factory abused its dominance in Android app distribution
Legal01 Aug 2025 | 8
Enterprise software giants weaponize AI to kill discounts and deepen lock-in
Oracle, SAP, Salesforce et al are tightening the screws, Forrester warns
AI + ML01 Aug 2025 | 10
Capgemini wins £107M HMRC extension – no competition needed
Updated Deal for legacy applications support reaches £322M as they continue to be decommissioned
Public Sector31 Jul 2025 | 14
Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy
Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves
AI + ML30 Jul 2025 | 29
Microsoft pops legacy Exchange public folders on the chopping block
Support for migrations to be scrapped come October
Applications29 Jul 2025 | 5
Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?
'Industry, national governments, and the EU' must pay for maintainers. El Reg says charity shouldn't start at home
Software24 Jul 2025 | 66
SAP warns of 'extended approvals' for spending in manufacturing, US public sector
Vendor sees 'slight deceleration' in cloud backlog as it offers mixed results
Applications23 Jul 2025 | 1
PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle
Linking can be helpful – but not always… while disinformation can spread like a virus
Applications17 Jul 2025 | 145
Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start
Opinion We need more paranoid Androids. And, well, everything else
Applications14 Jul 2025 | 34
More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn
Intro of package for cloud ERP is creating challenges, and more changes likely next year
Databases11 Jul 2025 | 5
Outlook takes another sick day
updated Millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamed
Applications10 Jul 2025 | 48
Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions
Version 140 has built-in MS Exchange support – and a year's updates ahead
Applications09 Jul 2025 | 27
Feds brag about hefty Oracle discount – licensing experts smell a lock-in
If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is
Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Jul 2025 | 12
Impact of Microsoft taking over Enterprise Account renewals starts to 'bite'
Cutting out middle man dents coffers of larger service providers, helps Redmond offset AI investments
SaaS02 Jul 2025 | 18
Figma files for an (A)IPO with prospectus that mentions AI 150+ times
Warns investors its codebase is harder to maintain as it bakes in brainboxes
Applications01 Jul 2025 | 2
AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all
Analysis More fiction than science
AI + ML29 Jun 2025 | 142
Microsoft is about to retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure
Interview 'Things will break,' Aviatrix CPO tells El Reg
Datacenter Networking Nexus24 Jun 2025 | 28
Microsoft 365 brings the shutters down on legacy protocols
FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of 'Secure by Default'
Applications19 Jun 2025 | 30
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Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safey Act gets rolling
But it's OK, claims Brit government, no personal data stored 'unless absolutely necessary'
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady
Who, Me? Startups aren't good at testing software, or respecting contracts
IT firing spree: Shrinking job market looks even worse after BLS revisions
The payroll growth we thought we experienced in May and June? Gone, like tears in the rain
China’s botched Great Firewall upgrade invites attacks on its censorship infrastructure
Attempts to censor QUIC traffic create chance to block access to offshore DNS resolvers
Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons
Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts
Microsoft briefly turned off Indian company’s cloud, perhaps due to EU sanctions on Russia
Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves
Antivirus vendors fail to spot persistent, nasty, stealthy Linux backdoor
Updated 'Plague' malware has been around for months without tripping alarms
Python-powered malware snags hundreds of credit cards, 200K passwords, and 4M cookies
PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome
Google agrees to pause AI workloads to protect the grid when power demand spikes
On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries
Lazarus Group rises again, this time with malware-laden fake FOSS
Infosec In Brief PLUS: Slow MFA rollout costs Canucks $5m; Lawmakers ponder Stingray ban; MSFT tightens Teams; And more!
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Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support
Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions
Applications18 Jun 2025 | 34
Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests
6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks
AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 55
Danish department determined to dump Microsoft
Comment Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from Vinland
Applications13 Jun 2025 | 125
Salesforce tags 5 CVEs after SaaS security probe uncovers misconfig risks
The 16 other flagged issues are on customers, says CRM giant
Research11 Jun 2025 |
Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome
AI could bring a new round of browser wars
AI + ML11 Jun 2025 | 21
Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO
Christian Klein sees little benefit from trying to compete with the dominant hyperscalers
On-Prem09 Jun 2025 | 63
LinkedIn CEO takes on second gig to lead Microsoft Office and M365 Copilot
Redmond doubles down on AI by doubling Ryan Roslansky's workload
Applications05 Jun 2025 | 13
Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors
Cyber-crime04 Jun 2025 | 24
Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs
February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says
SaaS03 Jun 2025 | 16
Best pricing model for AI? Work in progress, says Salesforce
Is that 'best' for customers or for shareholders? Any vendors that think they've got this 'all figured out is kidding themselves'
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 9
Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff
No, that's not someone on your team who doesn't pull their weight
Applications29 May 2025 | 3
Apple has only 30 days to comply with EU DMA rules
Users leaving App Store to make a third party payment must be free of charge, says Euro Commish
Applications29 May 2025 | 13
Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box
hands on Easy, medium, and the sledgehammer approach – or any combination you fancy
OSes28 May 2025 | 121
Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down
Commercial customers, STEM students all feeling the pain after mega outage of engineering data-analysis tool
Cyber-crime27 May 2025 | 23
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 | 56
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 | 53
Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms
Update before that proof-of-concept comes to bite
Patches20 May 2025 | 21
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 | 31
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 | 7
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 | 197
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 | 29
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 | 11
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 | 50
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 | 49
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 | 114
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
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