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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 ...

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

Are those currants compliant? WELL ARE THEY?

30 Dec 11:02 | 71

The RPG Bootnotes

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

Burn baby burn!

27 Dec 11:30 | 14

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

The Register's spoiler-free take on the last of the Skywalker movies (for now, at least)

24 Dec 15:30 | 106

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

Nobody at The Reg guessed (alleged) Clash of Clans microtransactions

23 Dec 16:15 | 24

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Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

'Divisive and humiliating' terms are bad as the N-word, uni lecturer argues

18 Dec 06:07 | 270

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Cool 'joke', bro, you could have killed someone: Epilepsy Foundation sics cops on sick flashing-light Twitter trolls

Non-profit says seizure-inducing posts were a deliberate attempt at harm

18 Dec 05:04 | 78

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The National Museum of Computing goes Marie Kondo at Christmas: Luckily all the Lego sparks joy

Until you step on one...

17 Dec 10:02 | 9

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Buzz kill: Crook, 73, conned investors into shoveling millions into geek-friendly caffeine-loaded chocs that didn't exist. Now he's in jail

Scammer and pals blew the cash on cosmetic surgery, jewelry, swanky pads, flash motors

16 Dec 06:09 | 80

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Hit one up on Insta, would you? Her Maj is after a social media manager

Like Trump’s Twitter feed, except not

13 Dec 11:35 | 26

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Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing

But Danish boffins tapped cans on the side, not the top – we demand a retrial

13 Dec 10:00 | 116

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Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart

OpenWorld moving to Vegas, baby: SF now too expensive not to mention the filthy streets, open drug use...

12 Dec 16:43 | 42

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Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Excessive use of body spray causes school bus evacuation

You are the weakest Lynx

11 Dec 17:30 | 48

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Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

That's quite the appetite you've got there

11 Dec 12:30 | 121

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And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Now, about the history with the South China Sea...

10 Dec 17:30 | 207

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Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

Lawyer attempted to argue theft of domain name at gunpoint was too stupid to be true

10 Dec 01:35 | 63

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Behuld – zee-a internet ouff tuilet tissuoe at Meecrusufft Sveden. Bork bork bork!

Windows giant shows off smart-metered, connected office in Stockholm

09 Dec 13:20 | 38

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Brian Eno's latest composition: A giant Christmas card with Julian Assange on it

Not 'Music For Extraditions'

28 Nov 17:03 | 75

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Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy

Is that true, Mummy?

27 Nov 15:00 | 188

Verity Stob

In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze

StobMy, what beautiful curly braces you have

27 Nov 09:04 | 112

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Irish eyes aren't smiling after govt blows €1m on mega-printer too big for parliament's doors

Never complain about installing a printer again

27 Nov 05:24 | 160

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 ...

Bootnotes

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 ...

Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

Cool 'joke', bro, you could have killed someone: Epilepsy Foundation sics cops on sick flashing-light Twitter trolls

The National Museum of Computing goes Marie Kondo at Christmas: Luckily all the Lego sparks joy

Buzz kill: Crook, 73, conned investors into shoveling millions into geek-friendly caffeine-loaded chocs that didn't exist. Now he's in jail

Hit one up on Insta, would you? Her Maj is after a social media manager

Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing

Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart

Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Excessive use of body spray causes school bus evacuation

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

Behuld – zee-a internet ouff tuilet tissuoe at Meecrusufft Sveden. Bork bork bork!

Brian Eno's latest composition: A giant Christmas card with Julian Assange on it

Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy

In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze

Irish eyes aren't smiling after govt blows €1m on mega-printer too big for parliament's doors

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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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You live where you live ... and ex-SAP boss Bill McDermott lives in a house like this

'Horndog hackers' have a Wales of a time slinging smut from UK gov Twitter account

A short note to say I'm off: Vulture taps claws on Reg keyboard for last time

What a load of bollards! Object of bloke's street furniture romp run over

What a boar! Wild pigs snort and snuffle €20k worth of marching powder stashed in Tuscan forest

I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train

All bets are Hoff: DXC exec is standing for Brexit Party in UK General Election

Beardy biologist's withering takedown of creationism fetches $564,500 at auction

Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice

Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?

Antarctic researchers send an SOS to the world: Who wrote this message in a bottle?

That's not long division, Timmy! China school experimented on pupils with mind-reading tech