Blue Monday: Efforts to inspire teamwork with swears back-fires for n00b team manager
Who, Me? Ah yes, that cheque, just make it out to a Mr Stonking C*ck
On-Prem25 Feb 2019 | 84
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.
Redis kills Modules' Commons Clause licensing... and replaces it with one of their own
Confusion not severe enough to stop $60m Series E round
Software22 Feb 2019 | 13
Google: Hmm, this government regulation stuff looks important. Let's stick some more lobbyists on that
Ad giant plans reshuffle to focus on privacy, anti-trust – reports
On-Prem22 Feb 2019 | 14
Sueballs at the ready? Google promises end to forced arbitration after wave of staff protests
Search giant lifts ban on out-of-court talks, class-action suits
Legal22 Feb 2019 | 8
OK, team, we've got the big demo tomorrow and we're feeling confident. Let's reboot the servers
On Call Uhhh... we can't log in. Doughnut, anyone?
Software22 Feb 2019 | 100
Big names hurl millions of pounds at scheme to hoist UK's AI knowhow
We're Europe's tech hub, crows minister, but investment weedy compared to the US and China
AI + ML21 Feb 2019 | 15
Oracle: Major ad scam 'DrainerBot' is rinsing Android users of their battery life and data
App piracy fighter Tapcore strenuously denies involvement
Personal Tech21 Feb 2019 | 22
Data breach rumours abound as UK Labour Party locks down access to member databases
Breakaway MPs accused of making off with info
Security21 Feb 2019 | 63
UK.gov pens Carillion-proofing playbook: Let's run pilots of work before we outsource it, check firms' finances
Also makes vendor-luring pledge to take its fair share of risk
On-Prem21 Feb 2019 | 15
What's in a name? Quite a bit when it's the most hated abbreviation of 2018 (GDPR, of course)
Marketing biz decides 'GD PR' was getting it noticed in all the wrong ways
Legal20 Feb 2019 | 38
Germany, US staffers to be hit hardest as SAP starts shedding 4,400 bodies
ERP biz reportedly ringfencing jobs of machine learning and analytics types
Software20 Feb 2019 | 14
What has an 'open-door policy' with industry and puts the X into NHS? Brits, let app-happy Matt Hancock tell you
NHSX: UK.gov's new tech, data and digital quango
Legal20 Feb 2019 | 20
Unearthed emails could be smoking gun in epic GDPR battle: Google, adtech giants 'know they break Euro privacy law'
As ICO goes on fact-finding missions over 'concerns' about security, transparency
Security20 Feb 2019 | 64
Guess who's working on a health data-slurping digital tool? Bzzt! Nope, it's the UK Department for Work and Pensions
Anyone here keen to build tool to get 'right support' for sick, disabled?
Legal19 Feb 2019 | 61
Court sees Morissette Meter flip out as Oracle assumes anti-arbitration stance in pay dispute
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
Legal18 Feb 2019 | 15
You know the drill: SAP has asked Joe Public to name Munich arena so go forth and be very silly
The combined might of Reg readers can do better than SAPpy McSAPface
Bootnotes18 Feb 2019 | 57
Here come the riled MPs (it's private, huh), Facebook's a digital 'gangster' ('disingen-u-ous'). Zuckerberg he is a failure (on sharing data)
Na-nana-nana-nana-nana..nanana...nanana.... nana nana*
Legal18 Feb 2019 | 40
Techie in need of a doorstop picks up 'chunk of metal' – only to find out it's rather pricey
Who, Me? Seems to us like you would remember an incident like that...
On-Prem18 Feb 2019 | 173
Oracle throws toys out pram again, tells US claims court: Competing for Pentagon cloud contract isn't fair!
Address gate criteria, conflicts of interest – then we can play
SaaS15 Feb 2019 | 30
Billionaire Buffett's Berkshire liquidates $2.1bn stake in Oracle – months after buying the shares
Bill Gates' bridge chum's firm buys Red Hat stock
Software15 Feb 2019 | 13
Banking in 2019: Sure, we'd recommend TSB's online, mobe banking say cowed customers
TITSUP* bank gets thumbs up from personal banking users
Personal Tech15 Feb 2019 | 27
The algorithms! They're manipulating all of us! reckon human rights bods Council of Europe
Countries urged to consider regulating subliminal tech evil
Legal15 Feb 2019 | 31
Blockchain is bullsh!t, prove me wrong meets 'chain gang fans at tech confab
Stop making 'sexy noises' and 'get real', conference told
Science15 Feb 2019 | 78
Crash, bang, wallop: What a power-down. But what hit the kill switch?
On Call It was an easy solve, says techie, once we put our heads together
On-Prem15 Feb 2019 | 171
Facebook political data probe: £2.5m. Powers for the ICO: Priceless
UK watchdog denies project distracted from day-to-day enforcement
Legal14 Feb 2019 | 6
Oracle's claims of secret deal is a bid to 'distract' from pay bias case, says US Department of Labor
Big Red is red, underpaid staffers are blue. No angry counter-claims can stop that being true
Software14 Feb 2019 | 3
UK Home Office dumps huge sack of complex data sets on biometrics ethics board's desk, goes for beer (probably)
Roses are red, gave Violet pick 'n' mix. She didn't like the milk bottles. Now back to ethics
Legal14 Feb 2019 | 5
No fax given: Blighty's health service bods told to ban snail mail, too
Trusts to choose between secure email providers (not just Accenture's NHSmail)
Legal13 Feb 2019 | 67
One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once
Oh snap. UK netizens better hope they don't have twitchy mouse-click finger
Security13 Feb 2019 | 395
Ask your data anything, says data viz biz Tableau as it flings 'patent-pending' tech at natural language tool
Plain language questions, automated data prep promised in first release of 2019
Software13 Feb 2019 | 3
Sci-tech committee: UK.gov's 27-page biometrics strategy is great... as toilet paper
Document skirts around 'the fundamental issues involved'
Science12 Feb 2019 | 10
NHS needs to pull its finger out and prep staff for future robotics, genomics, data-led healthcare
Complexity of project no excuse to do nothing, chides review
Legal12 Feb 2019 | 29
Hold horror stories: Chief, we've got a f*cking idiot on line 1. Oh, you heard all that
Who, Me? 'Idiot? You're calling me a f*cking idiot?!'
On-Prem11 Feb 2019 | 166
Cop films chap on body-worn cam because he 'complains about cops a lot'. Chap complains
Snooping court says police kit can be surveillance tool
Security08 Feb 2019 | 74
Leaky child-tracking smartwatch maker hits back at bad PR
We're not convinced 'people who want to harm kids will follow the kid, not the watch' is a great comeback
Security08 Feb 2019 | 59
EE customer: Creepy ex used employee access to change my mobile number, spy on me
Chap slapped with harassment warning, sacked from UK mobile network
Security08 Feb 2019 | 12
HMRC: We 'rigorously tested' IR35 tax-check tool... but have almost nothing to show for it
'Normally you'd have reams of documentation... all they have is one page'
Legal08 Feb 2019 | 75
Housing biz made to pay £1.5k for sticking fingers in its ears when served a subject access request
If someone asks for their data, you give it to them, scolds ICO
Security08 Feb 2019 | 32
Reliable system was so reliable, no one noticed its licence had expired... until it was too late
On Call 'Never assume soon means less than lifetime of Universe... in software'
Software08 Feb 2019 | 186
Oracle accuses US of underhand tactics because discrimination case 'doomed to fail'
Big Red claims Labor Dept has 'secret pact' with private plaintiff's lawyers
Legal07 Feb 2019 | 16
Pants-purveyor in plea for popularity: It's not just any pork push... it's an M&S 'love sausage'
Marks & Sparks marketeers decide straight-up innuendo's what you want for Valentine's
Bootnotes07 Feb 2019 | 58
German competition watchdog tells Facebook to stop combining user data without consent
Social Network will appeal – for the people of Germany
Legal07 Feb 2019 | 34
Hey, UK.gov: If you truly spunked £45k on 1,300 Brexit deal print-outs, you're absolute mugs
Thank heavens it doesn't need to be, er, renegotiated ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Bootnotes06 Feb 2019 | 60
London's Met police confess: We made just one successful collar in latest facial recog trial
Force will run 1 more full-day rollout after snow stopped play
Security06 Feb 2019 | 67
Fujitsu pitched stalker-y AI that can read your social media posts as solution to Irish border, apparently
Me n tha bois gona smuggle loads 2nite lol #catchmeifucan
AI + ML06 Feb 2019 | 51
Investors dump $250m on analytics biz like a ton of Databricks
Series E funding round values company at $2.75bn
SaaS05 Feb 2019 |
Civil liberties groups take another swing at Brit snooping regime in Euro human rights court
Case referred up to the Grand Chamber
Legal05 Feb 2019 | 43
Er, good luck: UK.gov's data ethics centre has £2.5m to review biased algos, microtargeting
Chairman tells MPs its budget may need revising upwards in future
Legal05 Feb 2019 | 1
British cops told to scrap 'discriminatory' algorithms in policing
Predictive plod practices bake bias into systems people don't understand, says Liberty
Science05 Feb 2019 | 45
European Commission orders mass recall of creepy, leaky child-tracking smartwatch
Hackers can talk to and locate the wearer, warns notice
Security04 Feb 2019 | 64
Thanks for all those data-flow warnings, UK.gov. Now let's talk about your own Brexit prep. Yep, just as we thought
Senior officials briefed on public bodies that still need data milled or stored in EU
Legal04 Feb 2019 | 169
Techies tinker with toilet-topper to turn it into ticker-tracker
Are you sitting comfortably? Perhaps not for much longer
Bootnotes04 Feb 2019 | 57
Tedious Service Bulletin: No prizes for guessing which UK bank's services are DOWN for business users
TSB TITSUP: Tirelessly Sucky Banking, Total Inability To Shock Us, Period.
SaaS04 Feb 2019 | 37
El Reg talks to PornHub sister biz AgeID – and an indie pornographer – about age verification
Biz's tech lets infoseccers check it won't suck up your data
Legal04 Feb 2019 | 115
OK, it's early 2019. Has Leeds Hospital finally managed to 'axe the fax'? Um, yes and no
Shaking those digits is HARD: 'eFax' halfway-house to chuck machines and meet targets
Legal04 Feb 2019 | 62
Sysadmin's three-line 'annoyance-buster' busts painstakingly crafted, crucial policy
Who, Me? Whoops! I've broken the internet... but hey, everyone gets a coffee break
On-Prem04 Feb 2019 | 65
UK's ICO slaps £120k fines on Arron Banks' insurance biz and Leave.EU campaign
Commish also promises audit for the firms' data protection practices
Legal01 Feb 2019 | 22
Terribly Sorry Bank reports 165% drop in profits to a pre-tax loss of £105.4m
IT meltdown cost TSB £330m and 80,000 customers
On-Prem01 Feb 2019 | 44
Got a fancy but slurpy new product? The ICO would like you to stuff it in its sandbox
UK data watchdog's plan to stay on top of Internet of S*'%t
Legal01 Feb 2019 | 2
Bringing the Houzz down: Home design website tells users to reset passwords after copping to breach
Logins, IP address, personal data and the kitchen sink at risk
Security01 Feb 2019 | 7
Biting the hand that feeds IT
