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

SOFTWARE As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized

Software27 Aug 2026 | 2

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

SOFTWARE AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities

Software27 Aug 2026 | 9

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

virtualization Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse

Virtualization27 Aug 2026 |

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

SOFTWARE Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade

Software25 Aug 2026 | 15

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

SECURITY Disclosed in January and honeypots buzzed soon after, CISA says it’s finally time for the USG to plug the gap

Security25 Aug 2026 |

HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp

public sector Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era

Software25 Aug 2026 | 39

What is virtualization modernization?

SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Why you should take a long-term approach to rethinking your virtualization portfolio

Virtualization25 Aug 2026 |

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

DATABASES Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side

Databases24 Aug 2026 | 1

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

APPLICATIONS Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'

Applications24 Aug 2026 | 24

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

SOFTWARE Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine

Software24 Aug 2026 | 30

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

columnists Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement

Columnists24 Aug 2026 | 15

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

SOFTWARE It survived testing and the boss signed off, so who was really to blame?

Software24 Aug 2026 | 47

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

software Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing

Software23 Aug 2026 | 49

How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings

DEVOPS S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work

Devops23 Aug 2026 | 13

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

DEVOPS CTO promises architectural overhaul following second outage of the month

Devops21 Aug 2026 | 18

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

applicAtionS Functionality not all there yet, but at least Redmond's latest and greatest appears a bit more like its predecessor

Personal Tech21 Aug 2026 | 38

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

software After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job

Software21 Aug 2026 | 135

Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords

DEVOPS v 1.27 expands generics to support methods

Devops20 Aug 2026 | 16

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

SAAS Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot

SaaS20 Aug 2026 | 5

Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September

SOFTWARE Email client follows Firefox onto two-week release treadmill

Software20 Aug 2026 | 12

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

OS PLATFORMS Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work

OS Platforms20 Aug 2026 | 9

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

Broadcom’s VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure

Virtualization20 Aug 2026 | 14

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

DEVOPS Remote functions bring type-safe remote procedure calls right into Web page components

Devops19 Aug 2026 | 7

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

DATABASES Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker

Databases19 Aug 2026 | 23

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

SOFTWARE Both sides apparently start high then price in the inevitable haggle

Software19 Aug 2026 | 11

Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 71

SOFTWARE Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online

Software18 Aug 2026 | 25

Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions

SOFTWARE Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is

Software18 Aug 2026 | 18

Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment

SOFTWARE Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps

Software18 Aug 2026 | 5

Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced

software If you’re still talking about ‘DirSync’ or ‘Active Directory’ instead of ‘Entra’, and need to explain why, this is the site for you

Software18 Aug 2026 | 33

Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains

virtualization Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards

Virtualization18 Aug 2026 | 2

Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore

devops Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations

Devops17 Aug 2026 | 92

Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS

SOFTWARE Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads

Software17 Aug 2026 | 24

Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin

AI and Ml Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone

AI and ML17 Aug 2026 | 35

Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive

software Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service

Software17 Aug 2026 | 14

Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support

software Connecting a single power cord turned into a lucrative all-nighter

Software14 Aug 2026 | 80

Give Google the boot by building your own search engine

software Got $10 and a gig of storage space? Marlin lets you weight your crawl toward the parts of the web you actually care about

Software13 Aug 2026 | 23

Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages

databases Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify

Databases12 Aug 2026 | 17

Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare

DEVOPS Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure

Devops12 Aug 2026 | 5

OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models

ai and ml Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions

AI and ML12 Aug 2026 | 4

Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you

ai and ml $125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?

AI and ML10 Aug 2026 | 7

Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

Software A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared

Software10 Aug 2026 | 49

NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car

SOFTWARE PLUS: Infosys to wear Crocs for a decade; Fujifilm may quit printers; 2GW datacenter debuts in western China; and more!

Software10 Aug 2026 | 17

AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription

AI and ML Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms

Devops07 Aug 2026 | 5

Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard

APPLICATIONS Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation

SaaS07 Aug 2026 | 34

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

software What an idiot

Software07 Aug 2026 | 190

Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

devops Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits

Devops06 Aug 2026 | 21

Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it

devops PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era

Devops06 Aug 2026 |

Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro

Virtualization VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter

Virtualization06 Aug 2026 | 8

Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages

DEVOPS New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims

Devops04 Aug 2026 | 7

NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs

STORAGE Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says

Storage04 Aug 2026 | 4

UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware

software Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers

Software04 Aug 2026 | 80

Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak

ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education

Databases03 Aug 2026 | 14

Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer

DEVOPS Persistent sessions could be just the beginning

Devops31 Jul 2026 | 43

Software

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

Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions

Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment

Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced

Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains

Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore

Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS

Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin

Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive

Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support

Give Google the boot by building your own search engine

Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages

Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare

OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models

Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you

Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car

AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription

Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it

Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro

Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages

NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs

UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware

Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak

Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer