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Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

DEVOPS Shopify acquisition will give open-source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'

Devops10 Sep 2026 | 5

Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution

DATABASES Existing customers can carry on for now, but Microsoft offers no like-for-like successor

Databases10 Sep 2026 |

German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration

SOFTWARE 'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'

Software10 Sep 2026 | 11

Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter

software Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI

Software10 Sep 2026 | 5

VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals

virtualization Says license was never about moving VMs

Virtualization10 Sep 2026 | 25

Microsoft closes the book on Publisher and unplugs Project Online

SOFTWARE Office 2021 joins the October retirement list as customers weigh pricier alternatives

Software09 Sep 2026 | 21

Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

software Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments

Software09 Sep 2026 | 21

Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter's chamber of ads

os platforms No defense against the dark arts Microsoft is practicing on your wallpaper

OS Platforms08 Sep 2026 | 70

Oracle may be next in EU software licensing hot seat following SAP deal

software Commission reportedly seeks third-party views, although no formal investigation is underway

Software07 Sep 2026 | 4

My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement

applications Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month

Personal Tech04 Sep 2026 | 12

PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries

DATABASES Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up

Databases04 Sep 2026 | 5

JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up

DEVOPS Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.

Devops04 Sep 2026 | 8

The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech

software Why now? Well, the Linux desktop market share in the EU doubled between 2024 and 2025 (to 5.7%). That's why!

Software04 Sep 2026 | 32

Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now?

SPONSORED POST: A free event with Nutanix on Oct 7 can win some of it back

Virtualization03 Sep 2026 |

VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade

virtualization Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds

Virtualization02 Sep 2026 | 30

Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November

DEVOPS The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data

Devops02 Sep 2026 | 41

AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip

offbeat Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend

Offbeat02 Sep 2026 | 26

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Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux

Microsoft annoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language

Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution

German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration

Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter

VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals

Microsoft closes the book on Publisher and unplugs Project Online

Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter's chamber of ads

Oracle may be next in EU software licensing hot seat following SAP deal

My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement

PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries

JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up

The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech

Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now?

VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade

Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November

AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip

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Microsoft annoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language

Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script

Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand

OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought

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Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill

A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter

Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss

AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate

If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers

VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD

Orbify.eu pitches warped Inception-style 3D maps for navigation

Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries

The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit

LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI

Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it

Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting

Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it’s drawing customers’ blood

Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages

Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of)

Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more'

Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap

Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year

Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1

GitHub Actions was down yet again

CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027

AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database

Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over

McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI'

You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack

Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing

CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw

HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp

What is virtualization modernization?

Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain

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

Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI

Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring

Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory

Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave

How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings

'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up

Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic

Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it

Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords

Slack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat

Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September

NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots

Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles

SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs

Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world

SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims

Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 71