Dutch watchdog fines Booking.com €475k after it kept customer data thefts quiet for more than 3 weeks
Thousands of people's personal information purloined after UAE hotels compromised
01 Apr 2021 | 21
Jude Karabus is The Register's UK news editor. She cut her teeth in national tabloids and newswires and prefers driving with a manual transmission. Because it's better.
Clothes retailer Fatface: Someone's broken in and accessed your personal data, including partial card payment details... Don't tell anyone
Updated 'Strictly private and confidential'? SERIOUSLY?
24 Mar 2021 | 42
Talk about a Blue Monday: OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder
Updated Servers affected include those used by ESA, Villarreal football club, and some misused by malware miscreants
10 Mar 2021 | 62
'Screen access technology has existed for decades': Visually impaired man sues Dell over 'inaccessible' website
Updated Suit says he couldn't tell 'old' price from 'new', nor perceive pop-up window
05 Mar 2021 | 44
O2 UK overcharged exiting customers by £40.7m over 7+ years: Ofcom slams senior managers, fines it £10.5m
Nearly 8 years of extra fees after it 'initially identified issues' with billing in 2011... but nothing came of it
12 Feb 2021 | 20
'Massive game-changer for UK altnet industry': BT-owned UK comms backbone Openreach hikes prices on FTTP-linked leased line circuits
Alternative networks have Ofcom on speed-dial
03 Dec 2020 | 81
What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases
Updated All amid a second wave of the bio-nasty
05 Oct 2020 | 286
Reseller gives Brits Insight into value webcam shipments of the future-ture-ture-ture
Updated Pull on your gold hoodie and Darth Vader breathing apparatus and take a trip with us to 2051
18 Sep 2020 | 4
Microsoft forks out $3m in back pay settlement to make Feds' hiring discrimination probe go away
Updated Agreement puts a stop to the audit, but isn't an admission of wrongdoing
17 Sep 2020 | 22
Fighting an insurer over lockdown payout? UK policyholders just won an important COVID-19 test case
After wrangling the small print over countless Skype for Business meetings (yes really)
16 Sep 2020 | 9
Stop asking for Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud with 'no justification': US Library of Congress told to drop its 'brand-name'-tastic RFP
Oracle wins protest after agency failed to get it kicked out for not being a reseller
11 Sep 2020 | 23
Unexpected victory in bagging area: Apple must pay shop workers for time they spend waiting to get frisked
Yes, Cupertino appealed last time. It has been 7 years now
03 Sep 2020 | 60
What a time for a TITSUP*: Santander down and out on pre-Bank Holiday payday
Updated What happened? No info. *Total Inability To Support Users with the Particulars
28 Aug 2020 | 30
NetApp reorg: Plans to 'scale public cloud', grow storage systems biz as company sheds hundreds of staffers
Q1 beat analysts' expectations
27 Aug 2020 | 3
Epic move: Judge says Apple can't revoke Unreal Engine dev tools, asks 'Where does the 30 per cent come from?'
But no, Fortnite can't come back to the App Store for now either
25 Aug 2020 | 62
Oh dear, what a pity! It seems you can't join the directors at the Zoom meeting today
Not great news for students going back to school, however
24 Aug 2020 | 8
Worldwide Google services – from GCP to G Suite – hit with the outage stick
Updated Not all users affected, but it's not a great start. Oh and Slack's out too. Good morning everyone
20 Aug 2020 | 18
50%+ of our office seats are going remote, say majority of surveyed Register readers. Hi security, bye on-prem
Reader research We asked hundreds of IT decision makers where their priorities lie – here are the results
20 Aug 2020 | 49
UK.gov shakes hands on cloud agreement with 'non-cloud service provider' HPE
'The world is hybrid,' the enterprise tech goliath keeps saying
18 Aug 2020 | 8
Texas jury: Apple on the hook for half a billion dollars after infringing 4G LTE patents
Famed IP holder pops champers as Cupertino plots appeal
12 Aug 2020 | 30
Ancestry.com: Let arbitrator decide on auto-enrolling membership lawsuit
This is not a matter for the San Diego court, says digital family history service
07 Aug 2020 | 34
Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'
These are the class-action-suit-joining 'droids lawyers are looking for. (We'll get our coats)
07 Aug 2020 | 41
Working from home on Virgin Media's broadband? Too bad. Outage hits English capital
Updated ISP and London users are both TITSUP* (Too Irritated To Smile at Usual Platitudes)
25 Jun 2020 | 38
Speaker for yourself: Looks like 5 patents are table stakes as Google countersues Sonos
You copied our technology! No, YOU copied our technology!
12 Jun 2020 | 18
