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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 | 31

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 | 10

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

Angry birds ground some Google Wing drones in Australia

Between COVID and corvids, Canberrans can't catch a break

23 Sep 06:01 | 23

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

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 | 151

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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

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

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

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

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Running on empty, out of battery, power draining... three things the UK government definitely isn't. Oh no

Video connected – check. Plugged into the mains? Er...

14 Sep 09:00 | 15

NYC subway SNAFU probably caused by someone turning it off accidentally, say reports

OK, so you're halfway there. Now have you tried switching the network back on again?

13 Sep 19:30 | 31

Fortnite banana can appear in court naked says judge in Epic vs Apple legal footnote

Legal questions still remain over whether this judgment applies to all bananas or just that one

13 Sep 13:47 | 29

This is not the tech unicorn you are looking for... and other stories

Another weekly digest of strangeness from around the world that you may have missed

12 Sep 09:46 | 19

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Music festivals are back in the UK. So is the background bork

Stage fright? Or the knowledge that Windows is lurking behind you

10 Sep 12:15 | 25

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

You walk in with a plan. You leave with GPS-tracking Nordic hiking poles. The same old story, eh?

Please hold me back from the discount aisle in case I buy a USB desk fan

10 Sep 09:15 | 115

SAP 'investigating' after viral video allegedly shows anti-mask employee coughing on shoppers

COVIDiot caught on film harassing others for following pandemic precautions

08 Sep 21:39 | 64

Popular

Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close

An unexpected round of Just A Minute for a unsuspecting Weather Presenter

This won’t hurt a bit, says Veeam, as it flags end of socket-based licensing

Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced

'Quad' group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry

USA, India, Australia, and Japan pledge to build own 5G tech, share space data, secure rare earth supply chains, and more

Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams

1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs

Metrobank techies placed at risk of redundancy, severance terms criticised

Now sing with us: Agile, agile, agile...

If your head's not in the cloud, you're not in the right place

'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay

Baby, I swear it's déjà vu: iFixit prises open the iPhone 13 Pro

Battery still swappable – rest fiddly

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

Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past

Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot

Fake 'BT' caller fleeces elderly victim of £30k in APP app scam

That's authorised push payment – where they get the mark to make the transfer

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Council culture: Software test leads to absurd local planning SNAFU

Swale Borough Council faced with hefty bill for junior IT hero's whimsical afternoon's work

08 Sep 16:01 | 75

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With a Lidl bit of luck, this Windows installation will make it through the night

Microsoft's finest just needs a nudge

08 Sep 10:02 | 13

Italian stuntman flies aeroplane through two motorway tunnels

Sponsor Red Bull supposedly gives you wings, but that doesn't mean you have to use them everywhere

06 Sep 13:03 | 73

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Spraying a boot error up the bathroom wall

Taking the Pis in Paris

06 Sep 10:47 | 16

Virginia school board learns a hard lesson... and other stories

A confluence of recent confusion from around the world that you may have missed

05 Sep 08:15 | 44

The unit of measure for fatbergs is not hippopotami, even if the operator of an Australian sewer says so

Thou shalt not infringe upon the Register Standards Soviet

02 Sep 12:27 | 103

Volkswagen to stop making its best-selling product for Wolfsburg workers: VW-branded sausages

Environmentally damaging old bangers to be replaced with greener veggie versions.. in 1 of its canteens, at least

01 Sep 13:46 | 83

British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves

Announcing the return of El Reg's Boatnotes series with the RN

27 Aug 13:28 | 46

The Register recreates Apollo 15 through the medium of plastic bricks, 50 years on

Building the missing spacecraft in Lego's NASA collection

27 Aug 09:28 | 27

'No peeing towards Russia' sign appears on country's Arctic border with Norway

Don't poke the bear! Or urinate on it

26 Aug 16:31 | 58

Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain

Will this nightmare ever cease?

24 Aug 15:47 | 313

Cop drone crashes into flight instructor's airplane

The plod needs a lesson in keeping air traffic controllers in the loop, it seems

23 Aug 23:44 | 28

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Live, die, copy-paste, repeat: Everything is recycled now, including ideas

We can't rewind, we've gone too far

20 Aug 10:59 | 58

Magna Carta mayhem: Protesters lay siege to Edinburgh Castle, citing obscure Latin text that has never applied in Scotland

Harry Potter and the Unstoppable Simpletons

18 Aug 10:32 | 230

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A Whopper of a bork for seekers of pre-flight nosh

BSODs should be scary, not soothing

17 Aug 08:29 | 28

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Please do not touch the exhibits – or this tabletop Windows Boot Manager

Microsoft's OS once again where it shouldn't be

16 Aug 11:20 | 8

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