‘Veteran Unix Admins’ fear desktop emphasis is betraying open source
A group of “Veteran Unix Admins” reckons too much input from GNOME devs is dumbing down Debian, and in response, is floating the idea of a fork.…
Web developers: Special guests will give you a leg-up to Azure
Weekly webinars becoming pleasantly crowded
Promo Microsoft’s weekly Get Started with Azure webinars will be hosting a number of special guests this month.…
‘George Orwell was an OPTIMIST. Show me a search history, I’ll show you a perv or a crook’
Hm. Do optimists really have more fun?
QuoTW Google researchers came clean about a nasty little security vulnerability they discovered in SSL 3.0 this week, though not before El Reg first caught wind of it.…
Whisper chief: ‘We’re not infallible but strive to do right by our anonymous users’
ILLEGAL ACTIVITY? ‘Limited info is shared with Feds’
Whisper’s CEO Michael Heyward responded late on Saturday to claims that his company’s anonymous messaging app was quietly tracking the location of its users.…
Yahoo! finally! releases! Flickr! app! for! iPad! BUT! shuns! Windows! fans!
Purple Palace got selective hearing, much?
Yahoo! has finally developed a Flickr app for Apple’s iPad – but the move has upset Microsoft Windows’ fans who have accused the Purple Palace of having “selective hearing” about its userbase.…
Apple releases MEGA security patch round for OS X, Server and iTunes
Brings POODLE to heel
While the world+dog was distracted by all the shiny new iThings Tim Cook was showing off on Thursday, Apple quietly puMPED out patches for 150 CVE-issued bugs in its server and desktop operating systems and the iTunes media player.…
Sign off my IT project or I’ll PHONE your MUM
Honestly, it’s a piece of piss
Something for the Weekend, Sir? When you have to go, you have to go. And when you do, don’t rush it otherwise you can end up with damp socks… as my father-in-law discovered during a hurried slash-and-dash in a not-so-lonely lay-by one night.…
Ploppr: The #VultureTRENDING App of the Now
This organic crowd sourced viro- social fertiliser just got REAL
#VultureTRENDING We here at #VultureTRENDING are quite literally shitting in our pants with excitement over the latest app startup to take the internet by storm – Ploppr!…
Flesh-flapping, image-zapping app Snapchat NOW slapped with ads
Time for users to HIT self-destruct button permanently?
Snapchat has begun serving up adverts to its willy-waving, boob-jiggling users in the US.…
Careless Whisper? Anonymous messaging app accused of stalking users, blabbing to Feds
Startup denies outing peeps posting witty gags
The makers of Whisper have denied claims that the anonymous messaging app is secretly tracking the whereabouts of its privacy-conscious users.…