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BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it

Those with 'sensitive' work-related information told to contact Beeb's security team

Security20 Mar 2023 | 69

India uses emergency powers to order takedown of BBC documentary

Is a critical account of PM's past actions a real emergency, a political emergency, or a free speech emergency?

Legal24 Jan 2023 | 58

BBC is still struggling with the digital switch, says watchdog

It brought you Monty Python and Jimi Hendrix, but Auntie Beeb must compete with digital monsters like Netflix

Offbeat16 Dec 2022 | 158

BBC points Russians to the Tor version of itself

Back to the future with short wave radio, plus Russia drop internet Iron Curtain

Security04 Mar 2022 | 74

Epoch-alypse now: BBC iPlayer flaunts 2038 cutoff date, gives infrastructure game away

Nobody expects the Linux malposition, do they, Michael Palin?

Bootnotes17 Jan 2022 | 105

Ceefax replica goes TITSUP* as folk pine for simpler times

But creator runs server from home – we can forgive him

Bootnotes06 Jan 2022 | 99

Beyond video to interactive, personalised content: BBC is experimenting with rebuilding its iPlayer in WebAssembly

QCON Something Wasm this way comes

Software20 May 2021 | 90

Reg reader's XXXbox oddity: The BBC4 topless thumbnail trauma whodunnit

NSFW-ish 'Not us, guv' from all involved – except TiVo, which fixed it while blaming nameless third party

Bootnotes22 Jan 2021 | 29

BBC makes switch to AWS, serverless for new website architecture, observers grumble about the HTML

Updated News aggregator says it's 'way more complicated and much harder to parse'

SaaS04 Nov 2020 | 101

BBC Micro:bit with boosted specs and onboard mic to go on sale from next month

16KB RAM becomes 128KB as the Beeb gets down with the kids again

Personal Tech13 Oct 2020 | 56

BBC voice assistant promises to summon streams even if you're just a little bit Brahms and Liszt

Would you Adam and Eve it? Your words will end up teaching Microsoft AI to speak proper English

Science03 Jun 2020 | 30

Fancy watching 'Bake Off' together with mates and alone at the same time? The BBC's built a tool to do that

Media Player add-on lets you and your mates watch shows in sync

Personal Tech19 May 2020 | 45

Who's going to pay for Britain's Aunty Beeb to carry on? Broadband users, broadcaster suggests to government

With licence fee under threat, where can corporation get the money from?

Legal01 Apr 2020 | 88

BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters

Clip 'could damage perceptions of our impartiality', says Auntie

Legal29 Nov 2019 | 147

Tor blimey, Auntie! BBC launches dedicated dark web mirror site

Censor-dodging news for those sat in ban-happy countries

Security24 Oct 2019 | 61

BBC said it'll pull radio streams from TuneIn to slurp more of your data but nobody noticed till Amazon put its foot in it

Hell hath no fury like a licence payer scorned

Bootnotes01 Oct 2019 | 178

Good old Auntie Beeb's mobile app berates kids for being rubbish online

TMI, luv. TMI. No, please don't look at Goatse. Stop. STOOOP

Software21 Sep 2019 | 38

UK taxman wins tribunal case against BBC presenters

The Beeb may have forced you into it, but you still have to cough up

Legal19 Sep 2019 | 54

Chinese bogeyman gets Huawei with featuring in EE's 5G network launch thanks to bumbling BBC

Pics Which then deleted all evidence – except this article

Networks30 May 2019 | 53

Fire up the FruityLoops! Sir David Attenborough wants someone to remix Balinese field recording

'Into a club-worthy Ibiza anthem,' apparently

Bootnotes08 May 2019 | 15

Tax the tech giants and ISPs until the bits squeak – Corbyn

To save the BBC, and local journalism

Legal23 Aug 2018 | 119

BBC websites down tools and head outside into the sun for a while

Auntie's outage comes on predicted hottest day of the year

Personal Tech26 Jul 2018 | 66

Relive your misspent, 8-bit youth on the BBC's reopened Micro archive

A simpler time at your fingertips

Software27 Jun 2018 | 121

Select few to watch World Cup in 4K high dynamic range colour on BBC iPlayer

All you need is access to 40Mbps and extreme masochistic tendencies

Personal Tech31 May 2018 | 65

The future of radio may well be digital, but it won't survive on DAB

It's neither the best technology, nor the most adaptable

Personal Tech22 May 2018 | 217

BBC extends Capita Audience Services contract to 25 years

Nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and Auntie's Capita deals

On-Prem19 Apr 2018 | 49

BBC Telly Tax heavies got pat on the head from snoopers' overseers

Updated Corporation belatedly says it hasn't asked for fewer independent inspections

Legal27 Feb 2018 | 93

BBC presenter loses appeal, must pay £420k in IR35 crackdown

IT contractors warned to get house in order

Legal15 Feb 2018 | 125

This is peak AI: Bot to guest edit Radio 4's Today programme

#F_AI_L How will you tell the difference?

AI + ML23 Nov 2017 | 44

Abolish the Telly Tax? Fat chance, say MPs at non-binding debate

125,000 people tried – and failed

On-Prem23 Nov 2017 | 257

Give us a bloody PIN: MPs grill BBC bosses over subscriber access

Sketch Now that's a hard one

Legal07 Nov 2017 | 104

BBC Telly Tax petition given new Parliament debate date

125k refuseniks to have their say after all

Legal03 Oct 2017 | 191

Quebec takes mature approach to 'grilled cheese' ban

It's for the grater good

Bootnotes21 Sep 2017 | 82

Take that, gender pay gap! Atos to offshore hundreds of BBC roles

Exclusive Beeb bigwig reckons £75m saved in IT could help pay parity. What?

On-Prem26 Jul 2017 | 93

Stop all news – it's time for us plebs to be told about BBC paycheques!

Comment Sexism in the Telly Tax, sexism in pay deals... where else, Auntie?

Bootnotes19 Jul 2017 | 120

Nearly three-quarters of convicted TV Licence non-payers are women

Good old Capita keeps Auntie's purse overflowing

Legal17 Jul 2017 | 145

Virgin Media admits it 'fell short' in broadband speeds ahead of lashing from BBC's Watchdog

And staff on chopping block unhappy with internal comms

Networks05 Jul 2017 | 64

BAE accused of flogging mass-spying toolkits to assh*le autocrats

Arab Spring meant ka-ching for merchants of death

Security15 Jun 2017 | 40

Labour says it will vote against DUP's proposed TV Licence reforms

Changes to funding model would 'jeopardise the BBC'

Legal14 Jun 2017 | 220

Auntie sh!tcans BBC Store after 18 months

Customers offered Amazon vouchers or a full refund

Personal Tech25 May 2017 | 73

Beeb hands £560m IT deal to Atos. Again

Well it's sustainable ... it's a single source producer... Yep! Boutique massive outsourcing

Legal12 May 2017 | 54

Oh dear, Prime Minister! Nearly 100 Beeb bosses make more than you

MPs find BBC job creation offsets redundo positions

Legal26 Apr 2017 | 31

BBC hooks up with ITV, launches long awaited US subscription VoD

Analysis We're coming to America

Personal Tech13 Mar 2017 | 41

Anti-TV Licensing petition gets May date for Parliament debate

Passes 100k mark and the MPs' sanity filter, unusually

Legal09 Mar 2017 | 196

Facebook shopped BBC hacks to National Crime Agency over child abuse images probe

+Comment PR 101: How not to head off an embarrassing investigation

Security07 Mar 2017 | 110

Two-thirds of TV Licensing prosecutions at one London court targeted women

Exclusive Doorstepped by the 'inspectors'

Legal02 Mar 2017 | 187

Licence-fee outsourcer Capita caught wringing BBC tax from vulnerable

Enforcement officers bully their way to catching 28 offenders per week for £15,000 bonus

Legal27 Feb 2017 | 113

BBC admits iPlayer downloads are broken

Updated We're working on it

Software23 Feb 2017 | 57

BBC and Snap. But, why?

Vertical Millennials meet your Dad at the Disco

On-Prem06 Feb 2017 | 28

A non-Standards Soviet approved measure of weight? Sod off, BBC!

Our 1,600 KiloJubs beat your 23 Kelpies

Bootnotes06 Feb 2017 | 47

Who do you want to be Who? VOTE for the BBC's next Time Lord

Poll Decisions, decisions. Lucky number 13?

Bootnotes03 Feb 2017 | 204

Baird is the word: Netflix's grandaddy gets bronze London landmark

HD TV in 1945? Nearly

Networks30 Jan 2017 | 39

Bloke launches twinkly range of BBC Micro:bit accessory boards

Pics zbit:connect, as built by one-time Nexsan man

Edge + IoT26 Jan 2017 | 24

BBC surrenders 'linear' exclusivity to compete with binge-watch Netflix

Vows to dump entire series on iPlayer before they air on TV

Personal Tech11 Jan 2017 | 142

Fake History Alert: Sorry BBC, but Apple really did invent the iPhone

iPhone at 10 Mad Mazz strikes again

Personal Tech09 Jan 2017 | 115

Beeb flings millions more £s at Capita for telly tax collection

Contract extended to 2022... that'll be two decades and well over ONE BEELION spent

On-Prem19 Dec 2016 | 58