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Software innovation just isn't what it used to be, and Moxie Marlinspike blames Agile

black hat Layers of abstraction and speedy development have left engineers unable to understand what lies beneath

Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2024 | 66

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

Interview Users just want stuff that works. How hard can it be?

Devops07 Aug 2024 | 92

How did a CrowdStrike file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code

Analysis Maybe next time some staged rollouts? A bit of QA too?

CSO23 Jul 2024 | 119

NARROWER TOPICS

Apple finally adds RCS support after years of mixed messages

WWDC WWDC sees Cupertino up to its old trick of adding features - in this case a password manager - that compete directly with third parties

Personal Tech11 Jun 2024 | 28

At Apple, AI stands for 'Apple Intelligence' – and it's coming to everything

WWDC Cupertino promises private smarts, on-device or in the cloud

AI + ML10 Jun 2024 | 53

Fragile Agile development model is a symptom, not a source, of project failure

Opinion Changing the fig leaf can't change what lies beneath ...

Software10 Jun 2024 | 84

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

In praise of knowing the requirements before you start cranking out code

Software05 Jun 2024 | 270

If you find Microsoft's Copilot offerings overwhelming, it's no wonder: There are 130-plus of them now

Build And now add Copilot connectors and extensions to that

AI + ML21 May 2024 | 20

Long-term supported distros' kernel policies are all wrong

Comment Or so says CIQ, which coincidentally has issues obtaining RHEL's kernel sources

OSes21 May 2024 | 36

Meet Pi-CARD: Serving up a digital assistant on Raspberry Pi

LLMs running on a dedicated card: The final frontier as hacker makes it so

AI + ML15 May 2024 | 5

When AI helps you code, who owns the finished product?

Opinion It's not settled law. And it's going to mean trouble

AI + ML15 May 2024 | 67

OpenAI says natively multimodal GPT-4o eats text, visuals, sound – and emits the same

The o is not short for 'Oh sh...' for Google and co

AI + ML13 May 2024 | 13

Apple confirms iPadOS will fall under its Alternative Business Terms in the EU

Cupertino drops the Core Technology Fee for hobbyist developers with no revenue

Applications03 May 2024 | 11

Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License

Interview Software doyen hopes to achieve a third impossible thing

Software30 Apr 2024 | 135

Python, Flutter teams latest on the Google chopping block

Updated Never mind the record revenues, costs must be cut

Software29 Apr 2024 | 45

Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset

Interview Pulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company

Software25 Apr 2024 | 4

Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful

Systems Approach Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters

Software25 Apr 2024 | 62

Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web

Anticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them

Applications17 Apr 2024 | 84

OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories

While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck

AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 6

YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids

EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move'

Applications16 Apr 2024 | 70

Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig

Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling

OSes16 Apr 2024 | 90

CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely

Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app

Security15 Apr 2024 | 49

Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs

That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability

Legal12 Apr 2024 | 18

PumpkinOS carves out a FOSS PalmOS-compatible runtime environment

And rePalm may yet bring real PalmOS to new hardware … even the Raspberry Pi

OSes11 Apr 2024 | 13

How this open source LLM chatbot runner hit the gas on x86, Arm CPUs

Way to whip that LLaMA's ass

Applications03 Apr 2024 | 3

What if AI produces code not just quickly but also, dunno, securely, DARPA wonders

As 70% of boffinry nerve center's projects involve machine learning

AI + ML02 Apr 2024 | 13

Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source

Analysis This time, we got lucky. It mostly affected bleeding-edge distros. But that's not a defense strategy

Devops01 Apr 2024 | 98

Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans

Government issues stern warning over despot money-making scheme

Cyber-crime28 Mar 2024 | 12

No App Store needed: Apple caves, will allow sideloading in EU

Think this'll help you escape the fees? Nope – Apple still wants a cut for letting devs install things on user devices

Applications12 Mar 2024 | 14

Grab shrank its superapp by a quarter in order to survive

Large APKs and disk footprints spell doom in a developing market

Software05 Mar 2024 | 12

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns

Maker of ML accelerators wants more people to use ML

AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 131

Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink

Exclusive After March, devs won’t be able to create new application resources, in 2027 the system will be shut down

Edge + IoT15 Feb 2024 | 24

Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases

FOSDEM 2024 The speedier computing cake is a lie... so we got software bloat instead

Software12 Feb 2024 | 119

Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen

Opinion We’ve still got time to make it better before it does

AI + ML12 Feb 2024 | 45

Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago

Interview It’s not NTP. There’s no way it’s NTP. It was NTP

On-Prem09 Feb 2024 | 32

Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code

Embrace, extend, and ... port?

Software31 Jan 2024 | 92

Wait, security courses aren't a requirement to graduate with a computer science degree?

Comment And software makers seem to be OK with this, apparently

CSO26 Jan 2024 | 64

Europe forces Apple to give its citizens some choice over iOS browser engine, app store

That's the way the Cook, he crumbles

Software25 Jan 2024 | 13

Burnout epidemic proves there's too much Rust on the gears of open source

Spotting and tackling a widespread problem is a challenge

Software22 Jan 2024 | 84

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

Retro Tech Week The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what's under the cobra's hood

Personal Tech18 Jan 2024 | 95

Insurance website's buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove

Pen-tester accessed more than 650,000 sensitive messages, and still can, at Indian outfit using Toyota SaaS

Security18 Jan 2024 | 3

US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws

But Congress is on top of that, right?

On-Prem12 Jan 2024 | 5

It's a preview party at Microsoft, but do you really want an invite?

Developers are not alone in losing track of which platform to back

Software11 Jan 2024 | 26

Late model: OpenAI GPT Store may debut next week

Devil is in the as-yet-undisclosed revenue sharing details

AI + ML05 Jan 2024 |

Microsoft kills off Windows app installation from the web, again

Unpleasant Christmas package lets malware down the chimney

Security04 Jan 2024 | 23

Microsoft prepares Visual Studio 2013 for retirement

Tick-tock, developers: End of the road comes on April 9, 2024

Software03 Jan 2024 | 9

Microsoft touts Visual Studio Code as a Java juggernaut

2.5 million devs can't be wrong – or can they?

Software05 Dec 2023 | 15

You can't deepfake diversity, and that's a good thing

Opinion Fresh thinking and new approaches can only come from varied cohorts of people

Devops04 Dec 2023 | 26

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

Anna? Oh, she was just a demo persona, says organizer

Devops28 Nov 2023 | 21

Open source work makes me appreciate software testing. It's not an academic exercise

Systems Approach Literally...

Devops07 Nov 2023 | 18

GPS leading your phone astray? We can just fix that in code, startup claims

Interview Zephr bags $3.5M, reckons its tech can pinpoint location to sub-60cm levels

Personal Tech02 Nov 2023 | 13

Don't fear the Thread Reaper, a Windows ghost of bugs past

Otherwise known as 0x13 – and not coming to a desktop near you

Software02 Nov 2023 | 21

X looks back at year of so-called 'engineering excellence' under Musk

Now please subscribe to premium and let us host your 'entire financial life'

Offbeat30 Oct 2023 | 60

Come work at HQ... or find a new job, Roblox CEO tells staff

Games developer latest to row back on WFH flexibility. 'Zoom fatigue is real,' says bigwig

On-Prem18 Oct 2023 | 39

Microsoft starts offering advice in how to code for Arm

In 2027 a quarter of PCs won’t use x86, and Redmond wants its ecosystem ready

OSes17 Oct 2023 | 28

LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 staff, engineers to suffer the most

Time to update that resume on, er ... oh.

Software16 Oct 2023 | 31

Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?

Opinion The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge

Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 82

Microsoft drops official support for Python 3.7 in Visual Studio Code

Should still work for the foreseeable future, but rely on it at your own risk

Software09 Oct 2023 | 25

Devs learn rival Godot engine in a week to poke fun at Unity

The result? Install Fee Tycoon

Offbeat27 Sep 2023 | 14

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Software innovation just isn't what it used to be, and Moxie Marlinspike blames Agile

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

How did a CrowdStrike file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code

FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans

Hey Microsoft – what ever happened to 'Developers, developers, developers'?

'Almost every Apple device' vulnerable to CocoaPods supply chain attack

NARROWER TOPICS

NARROWER TOPICS

Apple finally adds RCS support after years of mixed messages

At Apple, AI stands for 'Apple Intelligence' – and it's coming to everything

Fragile Agile development model is a symptom, not a source, of project failure

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

If you find Microsoft's Copilot offerings overwhelming, it's no wonder: There are 130-plus of them now

Long-term supported distros' kernel policies are all wrong

Meet Pi-CARD: Serving up a digital assistant on Raspberry Pi

When AI helps you code, who owns the finished product?

OpenAI says natively multimodal GPT-4o eats text, visuals, sound – and emits the same

Apple confirms iPadOS will fall under its Alternative Business Terms in the EU

Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License

Python, Flutter teams latest on the Google chopping block

Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset

Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful

Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web

OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories

YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids

Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig

CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely

Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs

PumpkinOS carves out a FOSS PalmOS-compatible runtime environment

How this open source LLM chatbot runner hit the gas on x86, Arm CPUs

What if AI produces code not just quickly but also, dunno, securely, DARPA wonders

Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source

Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans

No App Store needed: Apple caves, will allow sideloading in EU

Grab shrank its superapp by a quarter in order to survive

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns

Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink

Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases

Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen

Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago

Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code

Wait, security courses aren't a requirement to graduate with a computer science degree?

Europe forces Apple to give its citizens some choice over iOS browser engine, app store

Burnout epidemic proves there's too much Rust on the gears of open source

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

Insurance website's buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove

US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws

It's a preview party at Microsoft, but do you really want an invite?

Late model: OpenAI GPT Store may debut next week

Microsoft kills off Windows app installation from the web, again

Microsoft prepares Visual Studio 2013 for retirement

Microsoft touts Visual Studio Code as a Java juggernaut

You can't deepfake diversity, and that's a good thing

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

Open source work makes me appreciate software testing. It's not an academic exercise

GPS leading your phone astray? We can just fix that in code, startup claims

Don't fear the Thread Reaper, a Windows ghost of bugs past

X looks back at year of so-called 'engineering excellence' under Musk

Come work at HQ... or find a new job, Roblox CEO tells staff

Microsoft starts offering advice in how to code for Arm

LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 staff, engineers to suffer the most

Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?

Microsoft drops official support for Python 3.7 in Visual Studio Code

Devs learn rival Godot engine in a week to poke fun at Unity

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