Android marketplace gets automatic scanning and age limits
Google is cleaning up its app store to limit the amount of malware and age-inappropriate content.…
It’s just a flesh wound! Internet Explorer NOT DEAD, insists Microsoft
Redmond fires back as browser bullet brouhaha brews
The web has been aflutter with rumours that the nearly 20-year-old Internet Explorer browser is to be killed off – but Microsoft has told The Register there’s life in the old code yet.…
Apple Safari update BORKED private browsing
Saving private icons
At some point between Version 6.2.2 and Version 8.0.3, Apple has accidentally jettisoned private browsing in Safari.…
Microsoft announces Windows 10 and Azure for humanity’s implacable IoT foes
If you use a keyboard, forget it
Microsoft has announced Windows 10 for the Internet of Things and an Azure IoT suite.…
AMD, ARM, Imagination, Samsung alliance publish official shared GPU-CPU blueprints
HSA Foundation rolls out 1.0 spec to grab devs’ attention
An effort to tightly knit together graphics chips, processors and other hardware to boost things like video search on your desktop has taken a step forward.…
SAP admits – shock! – it sells to governments, denies that means backdoors
German media sees NSA on client list and gets excited
SAP is wrapped up in possibly the silliest conspiracy theorising The Register has seen yet, issuing an angry denial that having sold software to government agencies means it built backdoors into its products.…
Redmond boffins’ infosec trick will ship better code, faster
Automated attack surface analysis should make it easier to pinpoint p0wnage potential
Security boffins from Microsoft and North Carolina State University have developed a method to help software developers better identify attack surfaces and therefore ship code more quickly.…
Honey, I shrunk the Windows footprint
Microsoft explains how it will fit Windows 10 into cheaposlabs, maybe without bloatware
One of the challenges Microsoft has given itself with its goal of making Windows 10 run on almost anything is that lots of devices have rather less storage than PCs, which means Redmond can’t assume users will have hard disk space to burn.…
Musk: ‘Tesla’s electric Model S cars will be less crap soon. I PROMISE’
19 March software update will apparently end ‘range anxiety’
Billionaire biz baron Elon Musk has promised Tesla’s Model S customers that the electric cars will shortly receive a software update “to end range anxiety”.…
Leaked Windows 10 build hints at peer-to-peer patching
Downloading OS updates from random PCs? What could possibly go wrong with that?
A new build of Windows 10, number 10036, appears to have somehow found its way beyond Redmond’s firewalls, and folks running it report it has all manner of interesting additions.…