Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess Opinion Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment Science15 May 2023 | 417
UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan Still no deal as new Science and Tech dept head claims Britain has 'global-facing alternative' in the wings Science13 Feb 2023 | 174
IBM doesn't think Brexit is such a bad thing these days Big Blue now claims upsides to EU exit that others have failed to see Off-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 45
UK launches 'consultation' with EU over exclusion from science programs Billions in funding at stake as PM hopeful Liz Truss says bloc 'in breach of agreement' Science17 Aug 2022 | 307
Browsers could face two regimes in Europe as UK law set to diverge from EU British government wants to boost innovation but lawyers warn of risk to adequacy ruling Legal25 Jul 2022 | 128
UK, South Korea strike data-sharing pact Time to bone up on Hancom Office, the productivity suite that's big in Korea – and nowhere else Software06 Jul 2022 | 22
Tech pros warn EU 'data adequacy' at risk if Brexit Britain goes its own way Show us that benefits outweigh the cost, BCS challenges government Legal17 May 2022 | 84
Vital UK customs system outage contributes to travel chaos at its borders Updated Remember warning about hurried release to meet Brexit deadline? Never forget On-Prem08 Apr 2022 | 132
UK science stuck in 'holding pattern' on EU funding by Brexit, says minister This may be time for plan B Science07 Feb 2022 | 254
UK's new Brexit Freedom Bill promises already-slated GDPR reform, easier gene editing rules Claims it will make it easier to amend ‘retained EU law’ AI + ML31 Jan 2022 | 249
UK government responds to post-Brexit concerns and of course it's all the fault of those pesky EU negotiators 'Incalculable cost' of non-participation in Horizon programme 'continues to rise' Science28 Jan 2022 | 183
Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned' Originally launched as 'minimum viable product', GVMS has the necessary upgrades, UK taxman says Applications05 Jan 2022 | 276
UK science suffers as lawmakers continue to dither over Brexit negotiations Horizons Europe carrot dangled amid protocol wrangling Science27 Oct 2021 | 201
IBM looks to pandemic and post-Brexit fallout, sees nothing but money-making opportunities Makes prediction as revenue sinks and profits evaporate at UK trading arm Off-Prem01 Sep 2021 | 8
Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain Will this nightmare ever cease? Bootnotes24 Aug 2021 | 313
SAP uses Scalpel to carve shape of post-Brexit UK ambitions Multinational software peddler decides suburban Feltenham just doesn't have the je ne sais quoi it needs Databases19 Jul 2021 | 8
UK gains 'adequacy' status on data sharing with EU, but making that stick all depends on how much post-Brexit law diverges Updated TIGRR threatens to bounce through unacceptable changes to the rules Legal22 Jun 2021 | 33
Wanted: Brexit grand fromage. £120k a year. Perks? Hmmmm… Successful applicant must 'change existing thinking', which is odd as it's all been going so well up to now Offbeat18 Jun 2021 | 107
Gov.UK taskforce publishes post-Brexit wish-list: 'TIGRR' pounces on GDPR, metric measures Let's 'free up data for innovation and in the public interest,' says paper Legal17 Jun 2021 | 123
God bless this mess: Study says UK's Christian beliefs had 'important' role in Brexit Church of England first left the European bloc in the 16th century Bootnotes20 Apr 2021 | 284
Pigeon fanciers in a flap over Brexit quarantine flock-up, seek exemption from EU laws It won't fly. 'We are collateral damage' Bootnotes15 Apr 2021 | 179
Delayed UK digital border system was only stable enough to be used by 4% of intended users, MPs say Go-live deadline of 2019 whooshed by - and that's going to cost taxpayer £173m On-Prem15 Mar 2021 | 42
Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands Well, Brexit meant Brexit Storage26 Feb 2021 | 323
Leave.EU takes back control – and shifts its domain name to be inside the European Union A gesture of Churchillian solidarity with all they hold dear Networks08 Jan 2021 | 79
Brexit freezes 81,000 UK-registered .eu domains – and you've all got three months to get them back After years of waffle, potentially thousands of web addresses suspended Networks05 Jan 2021 | 205
Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA A simple cut-and-paste text job from a 2008 EU treaty for genetic databases Legal31 Dec 2020 | 182
Expect to work between Christmas and New Year as Brexit uncertainty continues, UK SAP users told T minus 23 days and there will very likely be last minute export/import changes Software09 Dec 2020 | 25
It may date back to 1994 but there's no end in sight for the UK's Chief customs system as Brexit rules beckon Software dinosaur will run alongside new CDS platform, says HMRC On-Prem24 Nov 2020 | 266
Northern Ireland announces £165m full-fibre rollout funded by 2017 DUP agreement with Theresa May's UK government We got Brexit, they also got broadband Networks18 Nov 2020 | 17
UK's 'minimum viable product' for Brexit transit software will not be ready until December, leaving no time for testing Fills you with confidence, doesn't it? Software06 Nov 2020 | 59
With less than two months left, let's check in on Brexit: All IT systems are up and running and ready to go, says no one Oh sorry, did you expect this headline to work out differently? On-Prem04 Nov 2020 | 155
UK tech supply chain in dark over Brexit preparations months ahead of final heave-ho Canalys Forum 2020 - updated How can it be OK when nobody knows what to prepare for, ask IT players On-Prem16 Oct 2020 | 140
UK taxman waves through £168.8m Fujitsu contract because no one else can hold up 30-year-old infrastructure What's another three years amid project delays and Brexit uncertainty? On-Prem13 Oct 2020 | 25
EU's decision on UK data adequacy set to become 'political football' in broader Brexit negotiations There are bigger fish to fry, but policy changes could still scupper a deal Security29 Sep 2020 | 34
Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April Beta means fully operational? Haha! Good one! Software25 Sep 2020 | 191
We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS* *Brexit Satellite. What did you think we meant? GPS continues to rule the roost in Blighty for now Science21 Sep 2020 | 221
How do you solve 'disruption' at the UK border after Brexit? Let's call Peter Thiel! AI biz Palantir – you're hired Oh, and Smart Freight System software in beta by April... will be used from December. WCGW? AI + ML17 Sep 2020 | 76
UK and Japan agree to free trade deal that excludes data localisation requirements Template for post-Brexit bilateral deals excludes algorithmic disclosures too Legal14 Sep 2020 | 55
Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan Opinion State aid needed to nurture the UK’s first-trillion dollar tech company, political puppet-master claims Legal08 Sep 2020 | 252
SMEs to UK.gov: We need vouchers for tech and training ahead of final Brexit curtain falling 'Still no clear sense of what we'll be transitioning to' warns Fed of Small Biz On-Prem07 Sep 2020 | 18
Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December? New supply chains, brand new system, and ... oh dear, it's still not ready yet Software04 Sep 2020 | 296
UK formally abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court, Germany plans to move forward nevertheless Analysis But will the UPC be legal – or even worthwhile – without Britain? Science21 Jul 2020 | 122
UK government marks 'at least' £115m for new Brexit systems against backdrop of chequered IT project history in customs and border control Updated CHIEF concerns for customs tech haven't gone away.... On-Prem13 Jul 2020 | 114
One does not simply repurpose an entire internet constellation for sat-nav, but UK might have a go anyway Blighty pondering OneWeb as the new Brexit Satellite Science30 Jun 2020 | 259
It's National Cream Tea Day and this time we end the age-old debate once and for all: How do you eat yours? The question that not even quantum computing can solve Bootnotes26 Jun 2020 | 159
The clouds part, cash rains on Microsoft's UK money-making machine Not even Brexit is going to slap our as-a-Service biz Software22 Jun 2020 | 7
Barmy ban on businesses, Brits based in Blighty bearing or buying .eu domains is back: Cut-off date is Jan 1, 2021 If you're not registered somewhere in the union, you can't use the TLD Legal04 Jun 2020 | 211
Spending watchdog doubts UK is capable of managing Brexit and coronavirus info campaigns at the same time Yeah, you and the entire country Legal03 Jun 2020 | 89
IBM Watson GPU cloud cluster Brexits from London to Frankfurt – because GDPR Users have migration work to do in the next month. Good thing nobody's busy right now, eh? SaaS23 Apr 2020 | 50
Build goes digital, Brexit goes virtual (really): El Reg gets some unexpected lessons from WSLConf Pop quiz: you're hosting your first tech conference and a pandemic is declared. What do you do? Software16 Mar 2020 | 11
Is technology undermining democracy? It's complicated, says heavyweight thinktank You only think it's an echo chamber because that's what your echo chamber says Legal04 Mar 2020 | 33
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now: Brexit tea towel says it'll just be the gigabit broadband High-speed hedgehog pr0n ahoy Bootnotes26 Feb 2020 | 119
Hey, Brits. Your Google data is leaving the EU before you are: Hoard to be shipped from Ireland to US next month Relax, you won't feel a thing On-Prem20 Feb 2020 | 129
EU tells UK: Cut the BS, sign here, and you can have access to Galileo sat's secure service ESA shuffles Brits about as Brexit bites Science05 Feb 2020 | 156
Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks I didn't see that on the side of a bus Networks30 Jan 2020 | 242
El Reg tries – and fails – to get its talons on a Brexit tea towel Ours is on its way – a fortnight after B-Day Bootnotes29 Jan 2020 | 101
Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program Don’t worry: The PM's only going to let the best boffins in... honest Science28 Jan 2020 | 390
Squirrel away a little IT budget for likely Brexit uncertainty, CIOs warned Plus: 'Member when we modelled sales for Remain? Good times – analyst Legal15 Jan 2020 | 161
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
Brexit bad boy Arron Banks' Twitter account hacked: Private messages put online And the fake news merry-go-round is already in full swing Security19 Nov 2019 | 59
Who loves Brexit? Irish distributors ... after their sales jump by a third Analyst says firms insuring against hard exit by the UK On-Prem19 Nov 2019 | 77
Infosec boffins pour cold water on claims Home Office Brexit app can be easily hacked 'Unnecessary scaremongering' but still some work to be done Security14 Nov 2019 | 18