software New software dependency validation process increases speeds by 54x Overhead reduced by as much as 99.7%
software Office 2016 and 2019 holdouts blame update for license deactivation bug But was the update at fault? Microsoft isn't saying
software Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze A desktop pitch and an attempt to curb LLM slop descended into very human mayhem
software DoJ: Uncle Sam bought forensics software from same Russian operation supplying FSB Russian devs alleged to have built tools for US agencies as software from same op was sold to Moscow's security services
saas Experts question whether Salesforce demo breaches SAP API policy For the German vendor, greater challenges may lie ahead, as rivals seek to control the user experience
software Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation' Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications
software Commodore's forgotten Amiga Unix gets a modern revival Amix gains newer CPU support and a package manager as Open Look joins the retro comeback
software Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how Seats, Flex Credits, and all-you-can-eat contracts make for an 'anxiety-filled architecture'
software Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake From Waterfox to LibreWolf and Pale Moon, there's a browser for almost every Mozilla dissenter
software Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years
software KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
software Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting
software Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics DHH's Arch-based desktop becomes the latest front in FOSS's culture wars
software Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 51
software Give Xfce a Mac or Unity-style makeover The existing layouts are fun, but there's much more we can do
software How to make Xfce look like almost any desktop you want Panel Profiles handles the heavy lifting, once you've installed the plugins it expects
software Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux A radical new way to resolve the Gordian knot of X11 versus Wayland
software Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on It’s a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too
software German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration 'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'
software Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI
software Microsoft closes the book on Publisher and unplugs Project Online Office 2021 joins the October retirement list as customers weigh pricier alternatives
software Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments
software Oracle may be next in EU software licensing hot seat following SAP deal Commission reportedly seeks third-party views, although no formal investigation is underway
software The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech Why now? Well, the Linux desktop market share in the EU doubled between 2024 and 2025 (to 5.7%). That's why!
offbeat AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend
software Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for
software Orbify.eu pitches warped Inception-style 3D maps for navigation 'You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling'
ai and ml OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness
software Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries Promises ‘secure artifacts’ for Spring and RabbitMQ, and other projects that matter to its Tanzu suite
software Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut
ai and ml Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you
security Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it’s drawing customers’ blood The fix is either an unvalidated and unofficial emergency patch or taking the server offline
software Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages No one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage
personal tech Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of) Twitter.now aims to fill the bird-shaped hole left by X. For a fee
software Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more' As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized
software Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities
databases AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company
software Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through
ai and ml McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI' Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat
software Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade
software HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era
applications I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime… or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'
software Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine
columnists Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement
software Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory It survived testing and the boss signed off, so who was really to blame?
software Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing
Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic Functionality not all there yet, but at least Redmond's latest and greatest appears a bit more like its predecessor
Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job
saas Slack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot
software Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September Email client follows Firefox onto two-week release treadmill
software SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims Both sides apparently start high then price in the inevitable haggle
software Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 71 Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online
software Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is
software Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps
Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced If you’re still talking about ‘DirSync’ or ‘Active Directory’ instead of ‘Entra’, and need to explain why, this is the site for you
virtualization Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards
software Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads
ai and ml Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone
software Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service
software Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support Connecting a single power cord turned into a lucrative all-nighter
software Give Google the boot by building your own search engine Got $10 and a gig of storage space? Marlin lets you weight your crawl toward the parts of the web you actually care about
databases Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset survived months of hunting and required a new logging tool to identify
ai and ml OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions
ai and ml Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you $125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?
software Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared
software NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car PLUS: Infosys to wear Crocs for a decade; Fujifilm may quit printers; 2GW datacenter debuts in western China; and more!
devops Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits
ai and ml Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?
software UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers
software Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar A nice little summer job for someone
software Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects
ai and ml Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting
software Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest Capex spending? What? Me worry?
software Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans
ai and ml Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives Up to 8 AI models running in the cloud weighing in on ambiguous business issues? Sounds affordable
ai and ml College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought
ai and ml Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks AI seems to have a liberal bias
software Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle £270M ValueLicensing case remains mostly paused while Redmond pursues permission to appeal
software Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data Never believe a suit who says they're handy with tech
software Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it Sleep doesn't pay
ai and ml OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap
software IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets
software Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job
software GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
software Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other
software Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal
software Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this' Developer was hired to write VB, used C# instead, and thought he mostly made it work
software Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close
software EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids The Chocolate Factory is not amused
software AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year
software Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model.
columnists Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling
software SAP makes it easier for customers to shop for legacy product support, ending EU antitrust probe
software Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams
software Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
software ZTE ensures 2026 Jiangsu Football City League opening ceremony with 5G-A, powering robot traffic police debut
