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Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch
Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
23 Oct 00:38 | 45
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'Windows 11 has been successfully downloaded,' says update for Xbox version of Microsoft Flight Simulator
What? No. Noooooooooooooooooo
21 Oct 16:12 | 16
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Facebook posts job ad for 10,000 'high-skilled' roles to 'build the metaverse' – and they'll all be based in the EU
Announcement uses the phrase 'world-leading' without referring to UK once
18 Oct 14:30 | 47
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Heart FM's borkfast show – a fine way to start your day
Jamie and Amanda have a new co-presenter to contend with
18 Oct 10:01 | 25
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Missouri governor demands prosecution of reporter for 'decoding HTML source code' and reporting a data breach
Salus populi suprema lex esto ... or perhaps not
15 Oct 19:31 | 103
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Windows terminates here. Please remember to finish setting it up on arrival
Washington Metro admin has taken an early lunch
15 Oct 17:17 | 23
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
All I want for Christmas is a delivery address that a delivery courier can find
Send me an SMS and I’ll tell you everything
15 Oct 09:28 | 157
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E
Thanks Windows! Now this is the kind of hospital data-sharing we like to see...
14 Oct 09:15 | 18
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Macintosh Classic II and triceratops skull on auction: One's a dinosaur, the other has three horns on its face
Christie's 'Science and Natural History' collection isn't joking when it says it's 'a journey in time'
13 Oct 11:30 | 19
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Twitch increases bug bounty payouts after source code leak by... wait, is that it?
Reg reader sighs at 'Orwellian gig economy' sums
12 Oct 17:01 | 33
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Instagram is testing feature that tells panicking users the service is broken again
Have you tried reading books?
12 Oct 11:30 | 46
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Meatballs, Abba, and bork: 3 things Sweden is famous for
It's what The Chef would want
12 Oct 10:01 | 15
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US nuclear submarine bumps into unidentified underwater object in South China Sea
Definitely not another sub, oh no sir
08 Oct 19:55 | 101
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Confusion at Gare de Rennes as Windows shuffles off for a Gauloise
Je suis un bork star
04 Oct 10:47 | 20
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Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – Euro cops
Vid filming ended in deadly disaster
02 Oct 07:10 | 155
Roundup
Danish artist pockets museum's cash and calls it art... and other stories
Another convocation of confusion from around the world that you may have missed
01 Oct 17:15 | 16
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Cheeky chappy rides horse around London filling station, singing: 'I don't need petrol 'cos he runs on carrots'
Yes, it's UK's turn for a fuel shortage
01 Oct 12:45 | 192
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US school districts blame Amazon for nationwide bus driver shortage
PA, MA bring in National Guard to plug gaps, while Boston teacher tells of stripper bus hired for school trip
29 Sep 17:47 | 91
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Years of development, millions of lines of code, and Android can't even run a toilet
I'll show you 'highly targeted'
29 Sep 11:34 | 70
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'Extraordinary' pigs step in to protect Schiphol airport from marauding geese
Plane-wrecking idiot fowl sent packing by heroic porcine defenders of commercial aviation
28 Sep 19:45 | 74
Popular
Personal Tech
Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections
Amended Texas complaint alleges backroom efforts to maintain ad dominance and more
Security
Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser
A death by a thousand cuts
Bootnotes
'Windows 11 has been successfully downloaded,' says update for Xbox version of Microsoft Flight Simulator
What? No. Noooooooooooooooooo
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Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch
Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
Software
If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002
Alternative headline: Yet another widely used project maintained thanklessly by 'some random person in Nebraska'
Feature
Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone
WebKit engine is well behind the competition
Updated
Microsoft under fire again from open-source .NET devs: Hot Reload feature pulled for sake of Visual Studio sales
Windows giant has a funny way of 'loving' Free software
Security
You've heard of HTTPS. Now get a load of HTTPA: Web services in verified remote trusted environments?
Intel duo propose fresh use of, yes, SGX but also Arm's TrustZone and similar TEEs
Updated
Microsoft called out as big malware hoster – thanks to OneDrive and Office 365 abuse
Infosec pro: 'OneDrive abuse has been going on for years'
Opinion
Think your phone is snooping on you? Hold my beer, says basic physics
Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape
STORIES
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A crypto-trading hamster is outperforming the S&P 500, Nasdaq, Bitcoin
As much as I wanted to be Gordon Gekko, I'll always be Mr Goxx
28 Sep 14:15 | 20
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Chocgate: The fallout. Partially taxpayer-funded £6k+ staff luxury treats land ICO in lukewarm water
But it's OK. What's it gonna do – fine itself?
28 Sep 11:20 | 25
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Take a look, and you'll see... Windows XP? Bit of Dairy Milk, Fruit and Bork at Cadbury World
It's quite the show at the OTHER chocolate factory
28 Sep 10:01 | 18
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Want to feel old? Aussie cyclist draws Nirvana baby in Strava on streets of Adelaide because Nevermind is 30
Meanwhile, Nirvana baby unchuffed about being Nirvana baby
27 Sep 12:13 | 38
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Parking is expensive. It can cost an arm, a leg, and a Windows licence
Activate Windows and put up a parking lot
24 Sep 11:29 | 11
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Nothing works any more. Who decided that redundant systems should become redundant?
It'll all come out in the wash
24 Sep 09:14 | 115
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it's just Windows suffering from a bit of vertigo
Up above the streets and houses, XP's flying high
23 Sep 09:15 | 11
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Angry birds ground some Google Wing drones in Australia
Between COVID and corvids, Canberrans can't catch a break
23 Sep 06:01 | 23
NSFW
Ofcom swears at the general public for five days during obscenity survey
'Warning: this report contains highly offensive language and discussion of content which may cause offence'
22 Sep 16:03 | 80
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Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status
Inclusion of Weetabix in charity coffee accompaniment tweet creates predictable brewhaha
21 Sep 06:55 | 154
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A Burger King where the only Whopper is the BSOD font
Come for the bork, stay for the burger
20 Sep 18:15 | 13
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Punchy Biden-lookalike grandad goes viral for fighting boxing gadget
'If you don't get your timing right you get whacked round the back of the head' admits scrappy octogenarian
17 Sep 17:53 | 14
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Sometimes we all feel a bit like Shutting Down. So just imagine how tired Windows 7 is
So many stuck trains, so many cancellations. Giant blue screen of Nope, we salute you.
17 Sep 10:01 | 10
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
So I’ve scripted a life-saving routine. Pah. What really matters is the icon I give it
J’appuie sur le starter et voici que je quitte la terre
17 Sep 09:13 | 119
Updated
Bepanted shovel-toting farmer wins privacy payout from France TV
Unwitting star of #Slipgate viral images awarded reduced damages, tempts Streisand effect
16 Sep 17:10 | 21
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The Register speaks to one of the designers behind the latest Lego Ideas marvel: A clockwork solar system
Who needs a 3,000-piece orrery? We do, of course
15 Sep 09:13 | 44
