Easter is approaching – and British pr0n watchers still don't know how long before age-gates come into force
Multiple delays have dogged a government policy with a lot to prove
Legal16 Apr 2019 | 121
Rebecca was a reporter for The Register, covering data science, analytics, databases, privacy, and more. She is currently an advocacy and engagement manager at the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
App-y now? UK health secretary spammed with pics of flowers that look like ladies' private parts
Social media hits back at suggestion women are too shy to get a smear test
Software15 Apr 2019 | 22
IT meltdown outfit TSB to refund all customers that fall victim to fraud in 'UK banking first'
After all, it has had a lot of practice in scam payouts
On-Prem15 Apr 2019 | 26
A quick cup of coffee leaves production manager in fits and a cleaner in tears
Who, Me? Lockable doors on the server room? Those are for losers
On-Prem15 Apr 2019 | 227
Amazon boss snubs 'expensive', 'sub-optimal' relational databases. Here's looking at you, Larry
Also in letter to shareholders, Cargo Jeff admits Echo is a bit creepy: 'A black, always-on cylinder in your kitchen...'
On-Prem12 Apr 2019 | 65
Hole lotta crud: Chinese stock photo pusher tries to claim copyright on Event Horizon pic
Issues grovelling apology, promises to fix 'weak links' in management
Legal12 Apr 2019 | 15
New UK counter-terror laws come into force today – watch those clicks, people. You see, terrorist propag... NOOO! Alexa ignore us!
Officer, um, we were just explaining how viewing terrorist content online's an offence
Legal12 Apr 2019 | 82
Kent bloke incurs the anchor of local council after fly-tipping boat
Boatnotes Authority barged in after disposal caught on camera, ordered chap to pay costs of almost £3k
Bootnotes12 Apr 2019 | 80
User secures floppies to a filing cabinet with a magnet, but at least they backed up daily... right?
On Call Techie learns the hard way there's more than one way to interpret 'make a copy'
On-Prem12 Apr 2019 | 272
IBM, Oracle JEDI bids weighed, measured and found wanting: Amazon, Microsoft last standing in Pentagon cloud race
Possible 'ethical violations' found but no conflict of interest
SaaS11 Apr 2019 | 12
Uncle Sam charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion
As Brit judge finds him guilty of breaching his bail conditions
Security11 Apr 2019 | 188
London's Metropolitan Police arrest Julian Assange
All 11 fingers* cuffed as Ecuador strips WikiLeaks founder of political Assange, er asylum
Legal11 Apr 2019 | 425
Do you want salt with that? Salesforce phallus 'shopped out' of Oracle Park calendar cover
Nah, it's just an old photo, claims spokesborg
Software10 Apr 2019 | 16
Telly production biz films maternity clinic, doesn't tell patients, gets fined £120,000
Opt-out? We can just tie a carrier bag over the cam – it doesn't have a stop button
Legal10 Apr 2019 | 33
Facebook acknowledges asking you to invite your dead pals to parties is 'painful', plans to fix it
Also promises to tell users that they are the product... like many of you didn't already know
Legal10 Apr 2019 | 20
Who had 'one week in' for a Making Tax Digital c0ckup? Well done, you win... absolutely nothing
Software vendors report UK VAT API returning spurious data, confusing users
On-Prem10 Apr 2019 | 36
Turn me up some: Smart speaker outfit Sonos blasted in complaint to UK privacy watchdog
Tech lawyer argues that 'give us all your data or your kit gets it' doesn't count as valid consent
Legal10 Apr 2019 | 54
Sick of being the bad guy, UK taxman needs YOU(?) to help it be more 'customer-centric'
HMRC seeks AI, voice, digital engagement bods as part of tech group's overhaul
On-Prem09 Apr 2019 | 15
Analysts get hot under collar as ex-Oracle cloud guru ditches corporate wardrobe for Google
But Chocolate Factory hopes Kurian's business chops will help win over the enterprise
SaaS09 Apr 2019 | 9
UK watchdog reveals naughty list of which companies haven't paid data protection fees
NetApp, Jive Software, Gigya and more in the doghouse
Legal09 Apr 2019 | 5
SEC says no to Amazon bid to stop shareholders voting on use of facial recognition system
Proposal seeking to halt sale of Rekognition to US agencies to be heard at annual meeting
Science08 Apr 2019 | 22
Cloud prez Robert Enslin is latest SAP exec to ditch German ERP firm amid restructuring pains
Three decades of experience gone as staff voice fears for HANA platform
SaaS08 Apr 2019 | 3
Oops! Almost a year in and ICO staff haven't been handed a GDPR privacy notice yet
Data watchdog: All our staffers are 'aware' of policies...
Legal08 Apr 2019 | 12
HMRC accused of not understanding its own IR35 tax reforms ahead of private sector rollout
MPs also voice concerns about accuracy of status-check tool
Legal08 Apr 2019 | 74
Overzealous n00b takes out point-of-sale terminals across the UK on a Saturday afternoon
Who, Me? Finds his security pass doesn't work the next day
On-Prem08 Apr 2019 | 161
Back to drawing board as Google cans AI ethics council amid complaints over right-wing member
Chocolate Factory says it will have to find 'different ways' of getting outside opinions
AI + ML05 Apr 2019 | 90
Google Pay tells Euro users it has ditched UK for Ireland ahead of Brexit
As politicos struggle over deal, firms continue bracing for Britain's departure
On-Prem05 Apr 2019 | 79
UK health tech quango strikes Gould, reckons digital policy wonk has NHSX-factor to run org
Body plans to stick data experts on cancer, mental health teams
Legal05 Apr 2019 | 5
Blundering London council emails unredacted version of notorious Gangs Matrix to 44 people. Data ends up on Snapchat
Cops £145k fine for blabbing deets on 200 people
Security05 Apr 2019 | 88
Hello, tech support? Yes, I've run out of desk... Yes, DESK... space
On Call Another day, another user failing to figure out basic IT kit
On-Prem05 Apr 2019 | 179
Frontline workers urged to help stop UK.gov automating data slurps for immigration checks
'Shadowy' data-sharing deals undermine public trust, says pressure group
Legal04 Apr 2019 | 10
UK tech's gender pay gap: HP Inc closest to parity with 1.8% sliver – Civica, Huawei, Siemens straddle 40% chasm
Meanwhile, PlusNet and BT pay women more than blokes
Legal04 Apr 2019 | 30
Hands up who can tell me which pupil details transfer system has glitched. Yes, Capita's
Schools told not to use it 'until further notice'
Legal04 Apr 2019 | 16
Edtech will save our schools from cuts and spare our teachers from burnout, booms UK.gov
But handle with care to dodge dominance of Google, Microsoft
Legal03 Apr 2019 | 26
CIA notices Big Red sh!tstorm around Pentagon's JEDI: Um, can we have multiple cloud vendors, please?
US spy agency plans to award multibillion-dollar deal in 2021
SaaS03 Apr 2019 | 5
Google UK forks out £65m tax in 2018, a boost of 40% on previous year
Increase in tax payout comes as UK.gov threatens digital sales tax on revenues
On-Prem03 Apr 2019 | 19
Fortune favours the Brave: Privacy browser chap takes gripes over adtech body's website to Irish data watchdog
Prepare to scale the cookie wall
Legal03 Apr 2019 | 36
Don't know how to do the Kubernetes? MapR says it'll hold your hand
Firm pushes its customers to containers, recoils from Hadoop
Devops02 Apr 2019 | 2
UK MPs' disinformation sub-committee is sure to bring Facebook chief to heel (in Opposites Land)
Damian Collins' band just can't quit fake news, babe
Legal02 Apr 2019 | 25
Amazon consumer biz celebrates ridding itself of last Oracle database with tame staff party... and a Big Red piñata
Fulfilment promise fulfilled
Software02 Apr 2019 | 54
Risky business: Data cloud outfit Cloudera bares all to investors with annual report
Firm warns of $1.1bn deficit, continued net losses after Hortonworks merger
SaaS01 Apr 2019 | 3
UK taxman plans to, er, Crown Hosting boss. Who'll take £115k to be its champion in HMRC?
Seeks willing body to 'take services live' plus another senior type for networks role
Legal01 Apr 2019 | 9
Naming your company 101: Probably best not to have the word 'Oracle' anywhere near branding
Big Red flag: UK transport biz made to pay £800 after tech vendor wins appeal
On-Prem01 Apr 2019 | 61
It was all Yellow: Mass email about a Coldplay CD breaks the internet
Who, Me? Let's be honest, probably for the best no one could buy the record
Systems01 Apr 2019 | 54
Cop watchers to probe UK police sharing data on witnesses' migration status with Home Office
Handing over info on migration status deters crime reports, say rights groups
Legal29 Mar 2019 | 12
UK's data protection watchdog preps to 'get its hands dirty' with beta of regulatory sandbox
Scheme to test compliance of innovative products accepting applications until 24 May
Legal29 Mar 2019 | 2
IT meltdown bank TSB: It's as good a week as any to announce we're taking back control
Firm to prise its platform away from Spanish owner Sabadell
On-Prem29 Mar 2019 | 41
Are you sure you've got a floppy disk stuck in the drive? Or is it 100 lodged in the chassis?
On Call Bruce Vs Sheila: The Floppy Disk Files
On-Prem29 Mar 2019 | 212
Tough cookies: MEPs call for EU websites to be scrubbed of trackers
It's not a great look for the home of GDPR, y'know
Legal28 Mar 2019 | 21
Take a dip in our joint data lake, 'seamlessly' hoover up intel on customers – Microsoft, SAP and Adobe
Tech trio put Accenture, EY, WPP on advisory council for 'Open Data Initiative'
Software28 Mar 2019 | 2
Data-slurping biz Palantir scoops US Army contract worth up to $800m – reports
Peter Thiel's firm said to have won face-off against Raytheon
Software28 Mar 2019 | 6
Cloudera's machine learning head honcho: Collaboration? Data scientists have heard of it
Interview Hilary Mason: Agile 'doesn't work for research', we need to build 'network' workflow
SaaS28 Mar 2019 | 4
Google plonks right-wing think tanker and defence drone mogul on AI ethics advisory board
Most of the internet: Yikes
Legal27 Mar 2019 | 42
Humanitarian champ or sex-trafficking profiteer? Fresh sueball argues Salesforce is the latter
CRM biz accused of knowingly helping epic rise of abuse website Backpage
Software27 Mar 2019 | 22
But we hired a consultant, cries UK pensions biz as it swallows £40k fine for 2 million spam emails
A legal boffin also gave us some useless advice, moans Grove Pensions
Legal26 Mar 2019 | 39
UK pr0n viewers plan to circumvent smut-block measures – survey
'Sexit' means... more VPNs, says xHamster veep
Legal26 Mar 2019 | 138
6 days to go, no sweat, just more than a million UK firms still to sign up to Making Tax Digital
Cashflow software biz says it is 'confident' taxman will go easy
Legal26 Mar 2019 | 31
UK.gov flushed away £15k defending pupil nationality data slurp – then canned scheme
Department for Education slammed over wasting cash
Legal26 Mar 2019 | 15
Brit broadband giants slammed as folk whinge about crap connections, underwhelming speeds
TalkTalk and Sky are the worst, but Vodafone is falling fast
Networks25 Mar 2019 | 67
Max Schrems schreds another 'blockade' to challenging Facebook data transfers in Austria
Antisocial network: They gotta go to a DPA, man. Normal ppl can't sue us! Vienna court: I think you'll find...
Legal25 Mar 2019 | 15
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