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)

Sun shines on ServiceNow amid pandemic storm after belated spree of $1m+ deals

(2020/04/30)

Always be closing, especially when the economy's in a tailspin

Virtual meetings in Animal Crossing are so last month. Behold the virtual computer museum

(2020/04/30)

Social simulation in an era of social distancing

Microsoft unveils simpler, easier Windows Virtual Desktop: You no longer need to be a VDI expert to make this work

(2020/04/30)

Also: what does the Windows giant have in common with the Boomtown Rats? Neither seems keen on Mondays

Process miner Celonis pushes out application tools to tighten up how they're used in anger

(2020/04/30)

Better look into how users don't use software the way biz thinks they do

Lars Ulrich makes veiled threats of another Metallica album during web chat with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

(2020/04/30)

You know what, Lars? We're OK

Salt peppered with holes? Automation tool vulnerable to auth bypass: Patch now

(2020/04/30)

'The impact is full remote command execution as root on both master and all minions'

Vodafone issues a stay of execution for Demon domain hold-outs

(2020/04/30)

Expiration pushed to 1 September due to COVID-19 challenges

Prank warning: You do know your smart speaker's paired with Spotify over the internet, don't you?

(2020/04/30)

I can't stop people playing music at me, says Reg reader

Cheshire Police celebrates three-year migration to Oracle Fusion by lobbing out tender for system to replace it... one year later

(2020/04/30)

Updated Fighting crimes in between upgrading databases

Indian IT outsourcing giant Wipro picks Nutanix to help tame Oracle and SQL Server

(2020/04/30)

Managed databases that feel like they're caressed in cloud

You can get a mechanical keyboard for £45. But should you? We pulled an Aukey KM-G6 out of the bargain bin

(2020/04/30)

And it's not terrible

Alibaba takes VMware where AWS and Microsoft don't – behind the Great Firewall

(2020/04/30)

Only in China ‘for the moment’ which leaves the world to conquer

Red Hat’s new CEO on surviving inside Big Blue: 'We don’t participate in IBM's culture. It’s that simple'

(2020/04/30)

Interview Paul Cormier talks hybrid cloud growth and independence with El Reg

Facebook defers $3bn of infrastructure spend because it's hard to build bit barns when you're working from home

(2020/04/30)

The Social Network™ is predictably busy but says that won't last

In the cloud, who can hear your developers scream?

(2020/04/30)

Snyk wants to keep your software engineering teams safe in off-prem environments

In trying times like these, it's reassuring to know you can still get pwned five different ways by Adobe Illustrator files

(2020/04/30)

Make sure you update your software with these critical fixes

Free-speech-loving Cloudflare hooks up with China’s biggest retailer JD

(2020/04/30)

The spice must flow seems to be the gist of it, along with JD's cloudy ambitions

India to build contact-tracing app for feature phones that still use 2G, don't have Bluetooth and can't run apps

(2020/04/30)

There's hundreds of millions in India alone

Past three months were a rollercoaster for Microsoft: Ad spending down, PCs and gaming flat, cloud climbing amid work-from-home demand

(2020/04/30)

COVID-19 had 'minimal net impact' on sales, Windows giant claims

Lyft dumps 17% of staff, furloughs 5%, cuts pay as people stay home, avoid rides in possibly virus-ridden cars

(2020/04/29)

Uber is reportedly thinking about laying off 5,000-plus, too

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