ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Microsoft says bug, sorry, 'a latent defect' in Safe Deployment Process system downed Azure Active Directory

(2020/10/02)

We're taking steps to prevent this from happening again, says Redmond

Red Hat tips its Fedora 33: Beta release introduces Btrfs as default file system, .NET on ARM64, plus an IoT variant

(2020/10/02)

RHEL 7.9 also here – last major version in the 7.x family?

Adventures in SQL Server 2019: Microsoft updates the update that broke the update

(2020/10/02)

I don't know why she swallowed the fly...

Aussie telco Telstra says soz after accidentally diverting traffic meant for encrypted email biz through its servers

(2020/10/02)

Resource Public Key Infrastructure now, bellows ProtonMail

Revenues from in-app purchases swelled 32% to almost $30bn for Q3 2020 – and Apple snaffled most of it

(2020/10/02)

Despite Android dwarfing the iPhone ecosystem

Let's talk about data security in the age of the 'new normal' with folks from FireEye, Microsoft, Splunk – and more

(2020/10/02)

Catch up with cybersecurity heavyweights in the comfort of your living room via Rubrik's virtual Data Security Summit

Complexity has broken computer security, says academic who helped spot Meltdown and Spectre flaws

(2020/10/02)

Graz University of Tech's Daniel Gruss thinks natural sciences can save us

ISS? More like HISS, am I right? Space station air leakage narrowed down to Russia's Zvezda module

(2020/10/02)

Also: Scrubtember becomes Abortober, and the worm returns once more to NASA

IBM unleashes AI on two space problems: How to map all the junk in Earth's orbit, and how to put more up there

(2020/10/02)

Open-source projects aim to give researchers, startups a helping hand

SAP swallows Emarsys whole in quest for customer-facing software... with a personal touch

(2020/10/02)

Meanwhile, similar buy Qualtrics continues to enjoy quasi-independence

If the Samsung Galaxy S20 Fan Edition doesn't make you a fan, we don't know what will

(2020/10/02)

Why buy the full-fat version when you can have this?

Python charmer? Data science whizz? Linux engineer? There is a bunch of exciting career opportunities waiting within

(2020/10/02)

And if you're looking to hire techies, send us your job ads for free

GitHub users speak their brains on Microsoft's open-source efforts: ASP.NET shines, but WPF is 'a disaster'

(2020/10/02)

An open-source project that can't handle pull requests isn't a good look

Couchbase set to bring app multi-tenancy to its NoSQL document-store database

(2020/10/02)

7.0 release will give devs power to lay out their microservice architecture

Russia and China's 'digital authoritarianism' means we need to better arm our cyber troops, warns top UK general

(2020/10/02)

New era, new weapons needed, says Chief of the Defence Staff

Microsoft Exchange 2010 support ends in a matter of days and there are 139,000 internet-facing servers still up

(2020/10/02)

Research finds orgs taking big chances with unpatched email relays

Talk about working smarter: NASA scientists searching for craters on Mars train AI software to do the job for them

(2020/10/02)

Forty minutes of picture peering slashed to just five seconds

There ain't no problem that can't be solved with the help of American horsepower – even yanking on a coax cable

(2020/10/02)

Playing tug o' war with a 1970s IBM mainframe

Google adopts ‘value-neutral’ language to make selfies less about ‘beauty’

(2020/10/02)

Kids are being horrible about photo filters, so developers are being asked to help protect mental health

Your comms may be paperless, but are they actually secure? Thought so...

(2020/10/02)

Learn how to get it right with El Reg and Echoworx (...Echoworx) (...Echoworx)

Look at it this way: Your daughter just named the fresh turkey you brought
home "Cuddles", so you're going out to buy a canned ham. And you're still
drinking ordinary scotch?