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The Register disappears up its own fundament with a Y2K prank to make a BOFH's grinchy heart swell with pride

Beware the Y2K task done too well, it might leave you lost in Milan

BOFH: The case of the Boss's hidden USB inkjet printer

El Reg presents: Your one-step guide on where not to store electronic mail

Behold Schrödinger's Y2K, when software went all quantum

Today's budget for application improvements is brought to you by the letters "Y", "K" and the number "2"

Remembering Y2K call-outs and the joy of the hourly contractor rate

Two missing digits? How about two missing employees in today's story of Y2K

Beware the three-finger-salute, or 'How I Got The Keys To The Kingdom'

Londoner who tried to blackmail Apple with 300m+ iCloud account resets was reusing stale old creds

To protect data and code in the age of hybrid cloud, you can always turn to Intel SGX

Patch now: Published Citrix applications leave networks of 'potentially 80,000' firms at risk from attackers

Continuous Lifecycle London 2020: First speakers revealed for our tip-top conference on DevOps, CI/CD – and more

Just an FYI: That cool funky CI/CD tool you're installing now could be next year's legacy tech

Devs face a choice: Go all in with a single cloud giant's toolset – or bring together best tools from a bunch of vendors

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

Senior health tech pros warn NHS England: Be transparent with mass database trawl or face public backlash

Uber forks out $4.4m to settle claims of rampant sexual harassment and retaliation in the Travis Kalanick era

Sir John Redwood backs IR35 campaign, notes review would have to start 'immediately' before new off-payroll working rules kick in

Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?

A user's magnetic charm makes for a special call-out for our hapless hero

There is a Santa! BT prises remnants of InLink from jaws of administration

No Motorola Razr comeback orders in 2019: Costly foldy nostalgia mobe pulled back

Fuming French monopoly watchdog is so incensed by Google's 'random' web ad rules, it's fining the US giant, er, <1% annual profit

Geek's Guide

European Space Agency launches planet-hunting Cheops while Rocket Lab starts on a third launchpad

Starliner: Boeing, Boeing... it's back! Borked capsule makes a successful return to Earth

This isn't Boeing very well... Faulty timer knackers Starliner cargo capsule on its way to International Space Station

No, Illyrian, Naqaỹa, Mastika, Automex aren't Hollywood's hottest baby names – they're new monikers for exoplanets

How do you ascertain user acceptability if you keep killing off the users?

Another free web course to gain machine-learning skills (thanks, Finland), NIST probes 'racist' face-recog – and more

Lessons data scientists can learn from extract, transform and load of yore – and apply to tomorrow's machine learning

The IoT wars are over, maybe? Amazon, Apple, Google give up on smart-home domination dreams, agree to develop common standards

Verity Stob

Y2K? It was all just a big bun-fight, according to one Reg reader

I caught Disco Elysium fever. No, not the Saturday Night kind. I was really quite poorly

A sprinkling of Star Wars and a dash of Jedi equals a slightly underbaked Rise Of Skywalker

Oh this 2019 timeline. Finish this sentence: Austrian politico accused of spending €3,000 a month on ...

Business

Policy

Senior health tech pros warn NHS England: Be transparent with mass database trawl or face public backlash

Son of Care.Data? Remember what happened to that first initiative. It didn't end well

24 Dec 12:30 |

Policy

Uber forks out $4.4m to settle claims of rampant sexual harassment and retaliation in the Travis Kalanick era

Dial-a-ride dev opens wallet to make complaints vanish

19 Dec 20:36 | 22

Policy

Sir John Redwood backs IR35 campaign, notes review would have to start 'immediately' before new off-payroll working rules kick in

Do election promises mean anything?

19 Dec 11:30 | 79

The Channel

Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?

Reg's Logowatch team sad to report UK outsourcing baddie didn't get too creative

19 Dec 10:45 | 52

Business

What’s that Skippy? Google’s coughed up $330m in tax Down Under?

Before you gasp, settlement does cover audit of a full decade

18 Dec 14:20 | 15

Policy

Post Office faces potential criminal probe over Fujitsu IT system's accounting failures

High Court judge passes file to prosecutors following £58m civil suit settlement

18 Dec 13:26 | 139

Business

Samsung says sorry as union-busting chairman and VP head off for 18 months in the chokey

Two dozen staff found guilty

18 Dec 11:04 | 17

Policy

Google security engineer says she was fired for daring to remind Googlers they do indeed have labor rights

Web giant claims she broke rules with pro-union popup code – fellow techies reckon that's rubbish

17 Dec 23:05 | 84

Policy

Digital Ministry merry-go-round set to continue as Nicky Morgan reappointed, made a life peer

'Turns out that leaving the Cabinet is harder than leaving the EU' - former MP

17 Dec 16:15 | 13

Business

US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war

Pending tariffs on notebooks, phones, monitors shelved as super powers strike 'prelimary' deal

13 Dec 19:00 | 53

Business

Lynch was 'willing to lie' to High Court over Autonomy whistleblower, claims HPE

Autonomy TrialPlus: Meg Whitman and Co had 'buyer's remorse' over $11bn purchase

13 Dec 16:45 | 25

Policy

GlaxoSmithKline ditches IR35 contractors: Go PAYE or go home

Flexible workforce look to pre-election promises

13 Dec 12:20 | 108

The Channel

Mmmm... fresh, delicious tenders: Forget G-Cloud, this £6.5bn Technology Products and Associated Services framework is where it's at

Will no one think of the SMEs? Oh, actually some have made the grade

13 Dec 09:04 |

Policy

Londoner admits illegally accessing National Lottery accounts

Sentencing due in January for Sentry MBA shenanigans

12 Dec 17:17 | 10

Business

HPE to Mike Lynch: You told either El Reg or High Court the right version of why former Autonomy execs won't testify

Autonomy trialYou know it's solid reporting when trial lawyers start quoting it

12 Dec 16:05 | 46

Business

Hey Dixons, you know what's mobile? Your rapidly shrinking sales

Loss-making unit still putting hurt on 'puters 'n' phones biz

12 Dec 13:15 | 27

Policy

Post Office coughs £57.75m to settle wonky Horizon IT system case

Split between 550 subpostmasters accused of theft, that's not much

12 Dec 12:38 | 46

Business

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

Problem: We have to do work. Solution: Delete all the work!

12 Dec 09:15 | 32

Policy

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Professional licensing rules collide with common parlance, again

11 Dec 01:42 | 242

Policy

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

But it's all anonymised data so who cares, right?

09 Dec 17:00 | 53

The Register disappears up its own fundament with a Y2K prank to make a BOFH's grinchy heart swell with pride

Beware the Y2K task done too well, it might leave you lost in Milan

BOFH: The case of the Boss's hidden USB inkjet printer

El Reg presents: Your one-step guide on where not to store electronic mail

Behold Schrödinger's Y2K, when software went all quantum

Today's budget for application improvements is brought to you by the letters "Y", "K" and the number "2"

Remembering Y2K call-outs and the joy of the hourly contractor rate

Two missing digits? How about two missing employees in today's story of Y2K

Beware the three-finger-salute, or 'How I Got The Keys To The Kingdom'

Londoner who tried to blackmail Apple with 300m+ iCloud account resets was reusing stale old creds

To protect data and code in the age of hybrid cloud, you can always turn to Intel SGX

Patch now: Published Citrix applications leave networks of 'potentially 80,000' firms at risk from attackers

Continuous Lifecycle London 2020: First speakers revealed for our tip-top conference on DevOps, CI/CD – and more

Just an FYI: That cool funky CI/CD tool you're installing now could be next year's legacy tech

Devs face a choice: Go all in with a single cloud giant's toolset – or bring together best tools from a bunch of vendors

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

Senior health tech pros warn NHS England: Be transparent with mass database trawl or face public backlash

Uber forks out $4.4m to settle claims of rampant sexual harassment and retaliation in the Travis Kalanick era

Sir John Redwood backs IR35 campaign, notes review would have to start 'immediately' before new off-payroll working rules kick in

Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?

A user's magnetic charm makes for a special call-out for our hapless hero

There is a Santa! BT prises remnants of InLink from jaws of administration

No Motorola Razr comeback orders in 2019: Costly foldy nostalgia mobe pulled back

Fuming French monopoly watchdog is so incensed by Google's 'random' web ad rules, it's fining the US giant, er, <1% annual profit

European Space Agency launches planet-hunting Cheops while Rocket Lab starts on a third launchpad

Starliner: Boeing, Boeing... it's back! Borked capsule makes a successful return to Earth

This isn't Boeing very well... Faulty timer knackers Starliner cargo capsule on its way to International Space Station

No, Illyrian, Naqaỹa, Mastika, Automex aren't Hollywood's hottest baby names – they're new monikers for exoplanets

How do you ascertain user acceptability if you keep killing off the users?

Another free web course to gain machine-learning skills (thanks, Finland), NIST probes 'racist' face-recog – and more

Lessons data scientists can learn from extract, transform and load of yore – and apply to tomorrow's machine learning

The IoT wars are over, maybe? Amazon, Apple, Google give up on smart-home domination dreams, agree to develop common standards

Y2K? It was all just a big bun-fight, according to one Reg reader

I caught Disco Elysium fever. No, not the Saturday Night kind. I was really quite poorly

A sprinkling of Star Wars and a dash of Jedi equals a slightly underbaked Rise Of Skywalker

Oh this 2019 timeline. Finish this sentence: Austrian politico accused of spending €3,000 a month on ...

Business

Senior health tech pros warn NHS England: Be transparent with mass database trawl or face public backlash

Uber forks out $4.4m to settle claims of rampant sexual harassment and retaliation in the Travis Kalanick era

Sir John Redwood backs IR35 campaign, notes review would have to start 'immediately' before new off-payroll working rules kick in

Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?

What’s that Skippy? Google’s coughed up $330m in tax Down Under?

Post Office faces potential criminal probe over Fujitsu IT system's accounting failures

Samsung says sorry as union-busting chairman and VP head off for 18 months in the chokey

Google security engineer says she was fired for daring to remind Googlers they do indeed have labor rights

Digital Ministry merry-go-round set to continue as Nicky Morgan reappointed, made a life peer

US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war

Lynch was 'willing to lie' to High Court over Autonomy whistleblower, claims HPE

GlaxoSmithKline ditches IR35 contractors: Go PAYE or go home

Mmmm... fresh, delicious tenders: Forget G-Cloud, this £6.5bn Technology Products and Associated Services framework is where it's at

Londoner admits illegally accessing National Lottery accounts

HPE to Mike Lynch: You told either El Reg or High Court the right version of why former Autonomy execs won't testify

Hey Dixons, you know what's mobile? Your rapidly shrinking sales

Post Office coughs £57.75m to settle wonky Horizon IT system case

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

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LibreOffice 6.4 nearly done as open-source office software project prepares for 10th anniversary

A sprinkling of Star Wars and a dash of Jedi equals a slightly underbaked Rise Of Skywalker

Londoner who tried to blackmail Apple with 300m+ iCloud account resets was reusing stale old creds

El Reg presents: Your one-step guide on where not to store electronic mail

Beware the three-finger-salute, or 'How I Got The Keys To The Kingdom'

BOFH: 'Twas the night before Christmas, and the ransomware struck

How do you ascertain user acceptability if you keep killing off the users?

Senior health tech pros warn NHS England: Be transparent with mass database trawl or face public backlash

Exploring AWS CodeGuru: New automated code review has smart features – but Java-only

European Space Agency launches planet-hunting Cheops while Rocket Lab starts on a third launchpad

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74

FTC kicks feet through ash pile that once was Cambridge Analytica with belated verdict

Ireland's B.ICONIC snaffles Stormfront to become largest Apple reseller in the UK

Listen up you bunch of bankers. Here are some pointers for less crap IT

Onestream slammed for 'slamming' vulnerable and elderly folk: That's £35k to Ofcom, please

Staffer representation on our board? LMAO! Good one, cackles Microsoft

Icahn and I will force a Xerox and HP wedding: Corporate raider urges HP shareholders to tell board to act 'NOW'

Take Sajid Javid's comments on IR35 UK contractor rules with a bucket of salt, warns tax guru

AT&T subscribers back in court to crack open telco giant's $60m FTC settlement over limited 'unlimited data' plans

Since the FCC won't act, Congress finally moves on robocalls by passing half-decent TRACED Act

Qualcomm to appeal against another antitrust whopper: This time it's $873m courtesy of South Korea