Screw everything! French swingers campsite up for sale, owners 'tired' Voulez-vous acheter le hotspot pour le shagging en plein air? Bootnotes09 Mar 2018 | 106
France gives les citoyens the right to cock up official paperwork Forgot your tax return, mon ami? Pas de problem! Legal24 Jan 2018 | 29
France to lend Brexit Britain sore souvenir of Norman yoke – the Bayeux Tapestry Prez Macron expected to agree loan when he meets PM Bootnotes17 Jan 2018 | 67
Frenchman comes eye to eye with horror toilet python 'I could very well have been bitten in a sensitive place, if you know what I mean' Bootnotes16 Jan 2018 | 46
France may protect citizens' liberté with ban on foreigners buying local big data firms AI and other tech could go on 'not to be acquired' list Legal15 Jan 2018 | 37
French gov files €10m complaint: Claims Amazon abused dominance Probe found unfair contracts for sellers On-Prem18 Dec 2017 | 10
French senator demands public inquiry into Microsoft military deal C'est mauvais, le framework de beaucoup d'argent pour le Redmond Legal31 Oct 2017 | 17
Facebook fined €1.2m by Spain for… you'll never guess what Yes, yes, privacy failings On-Prem11 Sep 2017 | 13
Paris nightclub red-faced after booze-for-boobs offer exposed Pervy 2-for-1 deal condemned by Wanderlust management Bootnotes23 Aug 2017 | 111
The cheek of it! Beach bar owner shoots nude bather in the booty Gerroff moi land! Bootnotes15 Aug 2017 | 56
Guess who doesn't have to pay $1.3bn in back taxes? Of course it's fscking Google Dieu merci, nous n'avons pas mis en place un bureau à Paris, le grand fromage of ads sighed Legal12 Jul 2017 | 66
French general accused of nicking fast jet for weekend trips to the Sun Defence ministry announces full inquiry Security29 Jun 2017 | 86
Microsoft throws its weight behind Parisian AI startup factory Redmond to support fledgling firms at Station F initiative AI + ML20 Jun 2017 | 7
French fling fun-sized fine at Facebook for freakin' following folk And it's going to get a whole lot worse for Zuckerberg and pals Security16 May 2017 | 44
Team Macron praised for feeding phishing spies duff info Campaign planted bogus details on bogus websites but ultimately still got hacked Security08 May 2017 | 28
Hackers emit 9GB of stolen Macron 'emails' two days before French presidential election Hmm, who could possibly do such a thing? Security06 May 2017 | 140
Germany, France lobby hard for terror-busting encryption backdoors – Europe seems to agree Crypto shouldn't hold back cops, sniffs commission Security28 Feb 2017 | 135
Zut alors! Uber wrecked my marriage, fumes French businessman Now give me €45 MEEELLION to make up for it Software09 Feb 2017 | 18
Teen in the dock on terror apologist charge for naming Wi-Fi network 'Daesh 21' Zut alors! Bootnotes05 Nov 2016 | 103
Burgundian iPhone wrecker hit with damages, suspended sentence Begloved Dijonaise Mac fan attacked Apple store with outsized metal ball Personal Tech26 Oct 2016 | 21
Today is the 211th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar Toast the Immortal Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson, shipmates Bootnotes21 Oct 2016 | 55
Orange blows up French govt website in terrorism censorship snafu Accidental DDoS with Facebook and Google redirects Legal18 Oct 2016 | 11
Apple's Breaxit scandal: Frenchman smashes up €50,000 of iThings with his big metal balls Fuming frenchie causes a oui bit of damage Bootnotes30 Sep 2016 | 74
French, German ministers demand new encryption backdoor law But is it just a matter of looking tough with elections around the corner? Channel24 Aug 2016 | 54
French submarine builder DCNS springs leak: India investigates The French are said to be going ballistic Security24 Aug 2016 | 31
French data wrangler Talend has done it: Voila, it's a tech IPO Cet article est également livré avec un peu de Français On-Prem29 Jul 2016 | 4
Microsoft ordered to fix 'excessively intrusive, insecure' Windows 10 Updated Vous avez trois mois, Nadella Software20 Jul 2016 | 139
Gun-jumping French pols demand rapid end to English in EU Brexit English-speaking Irish speakers cry ‘cad é an ag f*ck’ Bootnotes27 Jun 2016 | 177
French duck-crushing device sells for €40k Fancy canard à la presse? It'll cost you Bootnotes10 May 2016 | 76
French maverick sniffs around O2 Ooh la la! Sex shops, Le Monde and a mobe network On-Prem09 May 2016 | 15
Apple faces €48.5m fine from furious French Regulators say deals with carriers went too far Legal06 Apr 2016 | 12
French mobe repair shop chaps trash customer's phone Broadcast live vid of outrage, proceed directly to dole queue Personal Tech04 Apr 2016 | 49
French publishers join Swedish 'Block Party' to pester ad refuseniks France pulls Blocky McBlockface Legal22 Mar 2016 | 85
French parliament votes to jail tech execs who refuse to decrypt data Because terrorism Security04 Mar 2016 | 49
France joins India in telling Facebook to just Zuck off Orders The Social NetworkTM to stop sending data to USA, tracking non-members Security09 Feb 2016 | 56
French say 'Non, merci' to encryption backdoors Minister brands crypto skeleton keys 'vulnerability by design' – is the US listening? Security15 Jan 2016 | 44
Sigh ... c'est la vie: France mulls mandatory encryption backdoors Europe at odds over secure comms Legal12 Jan 2016 | 29
France says 'non' to Wi-Fi and Tor restrictions after terror attack Daesh-bags won't kill liberté, égalité, fraternité Security11 Dec 2015 | 60
Uber fined $150,000 and forced to embarrass itself by French court Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time! Legal07 Dec 2015 | 28
France mulls tighter noose around crypto Gendarmes seek powers to decrypt tout le monde Legal06 Dec 2015 | 80
France's 3-month state of emergency lets govt censor the web Constitutional amendment has already passed lower lawmakers Legal20 Nov 2015 | 79
French Playmobil heist: El Reg denies involvement Thousands of boxes lifted from lorry Bootnotes17 Nov 2015 | 42
Wheels come off parents' plan to dub sprog 'Mini Cooper' Prince William's mum and dad also dragged into French court Bootnotes16 Oct 2015 | 140
French hacks go after new surveillance law … with the help of the ECHR Meanwhile, plans are afoot to extend it beyond France Legal06 Oct 2015 | 14
Spirit of the Ghost: Taking a Rolls-Royce Wraith around France Vulture at the Wheel There and back again in seriously British hi-tech luxury Personal Tech27 Sep 2015 | 62
UK in Frenchy cyber love-in to ward off 'information bomb' Qu'est-ce que la bombe informatique? Security24 Sep 2015 | 26
Get that OFF dot-com, hysterical France screeches at Google Chocolate Factory's appeal rejected as 'right to be forgotten' battle escalates Legal21 Sep 2015 | 49
Sacré bleu! Apple, Nokia, Samsung et al end their three-year sulk over 'home taping' tax Big names decide they DO want a say in copying levies Legal03 Sep 2015 | 18
French hacker besmuts road sign right under Les Plods' noses Vid+update Méchant matey denies Dominique Strauss Kahn protest Security02 Sep 2015 | 30
French woman gets €800 a month for electromagnetic-field 'disability' Liberté, égalité, électrosensibilité Science27 Aug 2015 | 142
French say 'non' to Netflix, reveals entertainment report Massive Gallic digital shrug, while Brits go OTT Legal19 Aug 2015 | 23
French dating sites spanked for laissez faire data protection Data watchdog advises eager Gallic singles to say 'Non' to naked selfies Security30 Jul 2015 | 1
Vive le Act Patriotique: Liberté, égalité, fraternité, pick any two. No, not those Le Charteur des Snoopeurs gets go-ahead despite fears Legal24 Jul 2015 | 12
Les Américains order a MEEELLION doughnuts ... from French baker Will a million hotdogs be going the other way? Probably not Legal06 Jul 2015 | 26
Assange™'s emotional plea for asylum in France rejected 'Didn't make any such plea anyway, what everr', tweets Wikileaks Legal03 Jul 2015 | 105
Oi, Commish. Get off the fence over French snooping law, says MEP Le Charteur des Snoopeurs interferes with EU rights list, say aggrieved folk Legal03 Jul 2015 | 4
‘Clandestines' prompt British border blockade in France National Barrier Asset set to appear across the Channel Legal01 Jul 2015 | 30
WikiLeaks docs show NSA's 10-year economic espionage campaign against France Details of every business deal over $200m slurped Security29 Jun 2015 | 49
French Uber bosses talk to Le Plod over 'illicit activity' allegations Euro nation targets not-a-taxi-firm-honest's chiefs Legal29 Jun 2015 | 31
WikiLeaks spaffs files showing NSA spied on French presidents Cheese-eating surrender monkeys call emergency meeting Legal24 Jun 2015 | 33