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Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

VideoRelive that sphincter-loosening Blue Screen of Death

CEO insisted his email was on server that had been offline for years

On-CallWhen the dotcom bubble burst, the surviving techies learned the true meaning of just-in-time training

BOFH: We know where the bodies are buried

Episode 6You're here to audit us? Hi! Fancy a coffee?

Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...

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Internet of Things

Time to ditch the front door key? Nest's new wireless smart lock is surprisingly convenient

ReviewBut it's still hard to shake some concerns
21 Apr 07:06
Business

Facebook privacy audit by auditors finds everything is awesome!

FTC's heavily redacted report says everything's hunky dory
21 Apr 00:09
Security

Oh, baby! Newborn-care website leaves database of medics wide open

Health Stream, are you out there? The guy that found your data leak wants a word
20 Apr 23:30
Business

Kaspersky Lab loses the privilege of giving Twitter ad money

Twitter's loss is the EFF's gain
10 Comments
20 Apr 22:06
Security

No way, RSA! Security conference's mobile app embarrassingly insecure

Sorry about the hard-coded passwords, can we sell you some crypto now?
20 Apr 21:20
Personal Tech

Amazon, LG Electronics turned my vape into an exploding bomb, says burned bloke in lawsuit

Scalded smoker wants injury damages, healthcare bills paid
28 Comments
20 Apr 20:07

Don't miss Tech bribes: What's the WORST one you've ever been offered?

Security

British Crackas With Attitude chief gets two years in the cooler for CIA spymaster hack

Kane Gamble gambles and loses on hacking skills
20 Comments
20 Apr 19:21
Software

Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...

Because 10.13.4 is seemingly unstable and performing poorly
25 Comments
20 Apr 18:33
Software

Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

VideoRelive that sphincter-loosening Blue Screen of Death
18 Comments
20 Apr 17:53
Bootnotes

Drama brews on high seas as Playmobil ship running out of steam

Vessel charts a course to pirate tax haven
20 Apr 16:06
Security
Super-villain Dr Evil puts finger to lip in scheming manner, asks for one million dollars. Pic: New Line Cinema

Planned European death ray may not need Brit boffinry brain-picking

Plenty of laser research already going on – but there's more than one way to melt a drone
36 Comments
20 Apr 15:06
Emergent Tech
Cell tower, view from below. Image by Shutterstock.com

Samsung-backed gizmo may soon juice up your smartphone over the air

What a time to be alive
18 Comments
20 Apr 14:26
Storage
New York Stock Exchange floor view

It's a Pivotal moment: Dell's cloudy soft limb hits the stock market

Still firmly in Big Mike's clutches despite IPO
20 Apr 13:52
Policy

Creaky NHS digital infrastructure risks holding back gene boffinry, say MPs

Ask for clear budgets, better training and yup, public engagement
12 Comments
20 Apr 13:21
Personal Tech

Two's company, Three's unbowed: You Brits will pay more for MMS snaps

UK mobe network ups charges for sunshine selfie-takers, just in time for their hols
48 Comments
20 Apr 12:08
Storage

And so it begins: Veritas lays off UK workers, R&D bods hit hardest

At least 100 out at cloud data wrangling biz, sources claim
11 Comments
20 Apr 11:41
Policy

Government demands for people's personal info from Microsoft reach all-time low

Just 23k requests in first half of 2017, says Windows giant
20 Apr 10:59
Policy

EU under pressure to slap non-compliance notice on Google over pay-to-play 'remedy'

Comparison shopping websites won't use Chocolate Factory fix
23 Comments
20 Apr 10:13
Personal Tech

LESTER gets ready to trundle: The Register's beer-bot has a name

And garners industry attention
38 Comments
20 Apr 09:44
BOFH

BOFH: We know where the bodies are buried

Episode 6You're here to audit us? Hi! Fancy a coffee?
54 Comments
20 Apr 09:09
Bootnotes

Tech bribes: What's the WORST one you've ever been offered?

Bros gig, smellies, branded socks... Here are our tales. Tell us yours
152 Comments
20 Apr 08:41
Bootnotes

There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Grumble grumble where's me suet pudding in Bovril etc
237 Comments
20 Apr 08:05
DevOps
image of Apple and hard drive

Apple unleashes FoundationDB as an open source project

Secretive company talks up the need for open community
11 Comments
20 Apr 07:27
Business
A fiber optic cable

CEO insisted his email was on server that had been offline for years

On-CallWhen the dotcom bubble burst, the surviving techies learned the true meaning of just-in-time training
81 Comments
20 Apr 06:57
Policy
US/China conflict

ZTE to USA: Sure, ban us, but you cannot afford such victories

We’ve done everything you asked - even implemented SAP - pleads Chinese vendor
53 Comments
20 Apr 06:32
Science

Here's another headline where NASA is dragged through the mud for cheap Mars wise cracks

PicOh no, wait, that is the news. Except the cheap part
23 Comments
20 Apr 06:02
Software

Oracle pledges annual Solaris updates for you to install each summer

And a plan to have users of Sun hardware upgrade if they want Solaris 11.4 and proper patches
11 Comments
20 Apr 03:08
Business

Will Dell eat VMware? Or will Carl Icahn snack on Dell? And where does Uber fit in? Yes, Uber!

Let’s get up to date on the crazy world of reverse mergers
20 Apr 02:16
Business

Qual-gone: 1,200+ axed from Snapdragon, Centriq giant Qualcomm

Chip designer pushes hundreds out the door in cost-cutting drive
20 Apr 00:25
Security

Oracle whips out the swatter, squishes 254 security bugs in its gear

Java fixes lobbed out, Spectre Solaris patches issued
11 Comments
19 Apr 22:07
Networks

Google kills off domain fronting – and so secure comms just got tougher

Cloud tech tweaks end anti-censorship workaround
10 Comments
19 Apr 22:01
Networks

Nominet drains mug of tea, leans back, calmly explains how to make Whois GDPR-compliant

.UK registry not entirely sure what all the fuss is about
29 Comments
19 Apr 20:39
Science

Bloke fruit flies enjoy ejaculating, turn to booze when starved of sexy times

Closer to human beings than previously thought, clearly
40 Comments
19 Apr 20:01
Business

Facebook puts 1.5bn users on a boat from Ireland to California

Social media giant continues its loving embrace of GDPR privacy rules
53 Comments
19 Apr 19:14
Security

Yahoo! webmail! hacker! faces! nearly! eight! years! in! the! cooler!

Prosecutors ask judge to give Baratov 94 months for stealing accounts on behalf of FSB
13 Comments
19 Apr 18:25
Security

Eight months after Equifax megahack, some Brits are only just being notified

I'm fsck-ed off it took this long, rages affected Reg reader
16 Comments
19 Apr 16:39
Artificial Intelligence

Beware! Medical AI systems are easy targets for fraud and error

You can fake diagnoses with adversarial examples
16 Comments
19 Apr 16:00
Business
Peter Capaldi in bbc2 political satire The Thick of It. Copyright BBC

BBC extends Capita Audience Services contract to 25 years

Nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and Auntie's Capita deals
46 Comments
19 Apr 15:31
Security

Millions of scraped public social net profiles left in open AWS S3 box

Poorly configured cloud buckets strike again – this time, Localbox fingered
12 Comments
19 Apr 15:00
Science

Musk: I want to retrieve rockets with big Falcon party balloons

NASA: Been there, done that
21 Comments
19 Apr 14:06
Business

Mad Leo tried to sack me over Autonomy, says top HP Inc beancounter

Court hears Catherine Lesjak recall vicious infighting over doomed $11bn buyout
34 Comments
19 Apr 13:06
Networks

BT pushes ahead with plans to switch off telephone network

Consultation next month following plan to shift Brits over to VoIP
181 Comments
19 Apr 12:14
Data Centre

Evolving elephants: Hortonworks trumpets its '3.0 vision' of global data management

CTO Scott Gnau on open source, partnerships and simplifying Hadoop
19 Apr 11:23

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