San Francisco upstart in series-B round

Code-sharing website GitHub is pursuing a new round of venture capital based on a US$2bn (£1.26bn) valuation.…

Clocks three billion sneaky searches a year.

Sleepy project hits nightly builds

Mozilla looks ready to revamp its Firefox web browser so tabs and user interfaces can run in separate processes.…

Keep your containers close and your data closer

ClusterHQ has inked an agreement that will see its Flocker container management code integrate with EMC’s flashy fare.…

Someday you’ll code for the web in any language, and it’ll run at near-native speed

Brendan Eich, the former CEO of Mozilla, has announced a new project that could not only speed up web applications but could eventually see the end of JavaScript as the lingua franca of web development.…

More polished, but a bit slow and buggy

First look  Microsoft has released Build 10136 of Windows 10 Mobile, part of the “One Windows” wave set to be released later this year.…

Retail giant hopes machine learning will weed out tricksters

Amazon has rejigged its product reviews systems for customers in the US, in an apparent move to mute fake ratings on the retail giant’s service.…

Funny, that

Microsoft has been forced to quietly edit a misleading blog post that seemed to suggest that anyone could get their mitts on Windows 10 for free – if they first installed a test version of Redmond’s upcoming operating system for PCs.…

Linux Foundation to oversee specs for containers and runtime

DockerCon 2015  Docker has joined forces with the Linux Foundation to create a new organization that will oversee and manage open standards for application containers.…

Linux Foundation-led effort promises a single spec for all

DockerCon 2015  For a while, it looked as though software containers were heading for the kind of standards squabble that has plagued the tech industry too often in its history.…