Bork!Bork!Bork!
Stale and past its best. Are you talking about Windows or the pizza you're waiting for?
A reminder of golden Start Menu days
07 May 12:14 | 20
Bootnotes
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Gone in 60 electrons: Digital art swaggers down the cul-de-sac of obsolescence
No lessons learned from (literally) decades of media format wars
07 May 09:28 | 54
Bootnotes
File this next to Mars bars under 'things that should not be deep-fried': Marks & Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar
How was this allowed to happen? Ah right, food delivery app publicity stunt
04 May 12:42 | 38
Bootnotes
Philanthropist and ex-Microsoft manager Melinda Gates and her husband Bill split after 27 years of marriage
We know the pandemic has been tough on relationships but...
03 May 22:05 | 112
The RPG
Octopath Traveler: Love letter to JRPG golden age has great combat but retro graphics highlight the genre's tedium
You sure have to press 'A' a lot
01 May 07:48 | 7
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Börk returns to its spiritual home of Sweden as duff disks take down Stockholm signage
Think we already made a Stockholm syndrome joke the other day so...
30 Apr 09:50 | 9
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Helsinki Syndrome: Ubuntu utterly fails to boot on metro
Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I want to bork
28 Apr 09:21 | 46
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A trip to the dole queue: CEO of $2bn Bay Area tech biz says he was fired for taking LSD before company meeting
Micro-dosing among Cali techies ... suddenly it's all starting to make sense
28 Apr 06:27 | 76
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Traffic lights, who needs 'em? Lucky Kentucky residents up in arms over first roundabout
Is it yield to the left or just ram my way through any which way?
27 Apr 13:45 | 215
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Half-metre pizza or an upgrade from Windows 7? We know what we'd choose
Cheese, pepperoni, and a generous topping of bork
27 Apr 09:15 | 11
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Dam it: Beaver ate our internet, says tiny Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge
Then made a house out of it
26 Apr 18:02 | 46
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Technoking of comedy? Elon Musk to host Saturday Night Live
Yes that was a Betteridge headline (badoom, tish)
26 Apr 11:31 | 35
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Does the boss want those 2 hours of your free time back? A study says fighting through crowds to office each day hurts productivity
Never want to return to daily 9-5 regime? Use psychology to baffle higher-ups
26 Apr 10:00 | 96
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British IT teacher gets three-year ban after boozing with students at strip club during school trip to Costa Rica
Watchdog deemed Richard Glenn's conduct 'unacceptable'
23 Apr 19:35 | 59
Updated Bork!Bork!Bork!
We've finally hit Peak Bork: Microsoft man reveals home-grown welcome back BSOD at Redmond HQ
A treat for returning workers as meeting cancelled due to roomful of bork
23 Apr 11:31 | 26
On Call
George Clooney of IT: Dribbling disaster and damp disk warnings scare the life out of innocent user
Practical jokes: just don't
23 Apr 07:31 | 127
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Sure, your app is crap, but Windows won't tell. Promise
One billboard outside Blairsville, Georgia
22 Apr 09:15 | 19
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From book shop to tat bazaar to cloud behemoth to grocer, what's Amazon up to now? Augmented-reality hairstyles
Curl up and dye, anyone?
21 Apr 12:01 | 9
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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
20 Apr 09:15 | 273
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Brit Salesforce exec Gavin Patterson becomes transfer target for controversial European Super League
Ex-BT boss is familiar with the football lifestyle – being paid millions for doing very little
19 Apr 19:30 | 19
Popular
Graphic images
Crane horror Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone
On the other hand he was fine
Software
'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group
Software
Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward
(Almost) Why? Kickstarter and nostalgia of those who have forgotten the pain
Science
China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing
Satellite shootdown test still causing operational and diplomatic hassles after 14 years
Software
The quest for faster Python: Pyston returns to open source, Facebook releases Cinder, or should devs just use PyPy?
Official CPython is slow, but there are many ways to get better performance
Security
Google will make you use two-step verification to login
World Password Day returns to remind us how much passwords suck
Bug of the week
How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price
Now that's a Buffett overflow error
On Call
The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)
I'll talk you through the steps... oh sh-
Networks
Which? warns that more than 2 million Brits are on old and insecure routers – wagging a finger at Huawei-made kit
Default passwords, no updates, and your data's flowing through these
Applications
NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status
Wanna find out if your employee has had a shot? Just lob her postcode and DoB into this website
STORIES
Bootnotes
Home office setup with built-in boiling water tap for tea and coffee without getting up is a monument to deskcess
If only it had a built-in loo and pillow, then we could work 24/7
16 Apr 13:01 | 112
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
How not to apply for a new job: Apply for it on a job site
Watch as I channel my digital Yosser Hughes, violence included
16 Apr 09:15 | 98
Bootnotes
Pigeon fanciers in a flap over Brexit quarantine flock-up, seek exemption from EU laws
It won't fly. 'We are collateral damage'
15 Apr 16:33 | 179
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Listen, son... Monster trucks just aren't cool anymore. Real winners drive Tesla Roadsters
Matchbox goes green with sustainably produced toys based on electric cars
15 Apr 12:01 | 38
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UK's National Rail backs down from greyscale website tribute to Prince Phil after visually impaired users complain
Protip: Ad/tracker blockers. Use them (though not on The Reg)
12 Apr 11:15 | 63
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Is that... is that a piece of Unikitty? Remembering Skylab via the medium of Lego
Now to recreate re-entry with a short drop onto a hard floor
06 Apr 10:32 | 13
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I've got the power! Or have I? Uninterruptible Phone-disposal Stuffup
Remembering airports of the past and borked kiosks of today
01 Apr 10:10 | 34
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Mullet over: Aussie boys' school tells kids 'business in the front, party in the back' hairstyle is 'not acceptable'
A fine Australian tradition stomped on
31 Mar 11:34 | 110
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Cryptic US Strategic Command tweet reveals dangers of working from home with kids in the way
Was it a coded message? The password for accessing nukes? Nope
31 Mar 01:37 | 43
The RPG
Rogue elements: Hades and Loop Hero manage to draw on the same legacy while having very little in common
Let's go round again, maybe we'll turn back the hands of time
27 Mar 09:20 | 13
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Diary of a report writer and his big break into bad business
Ow. Thank you sir may I have another
26 Mar 13:02 | 128
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NASA's Perseverance rover in brick form: China set vs unofficial Lego fan design
The Register goes a-building once more – no glue required this time
26 Mar 10:26 | 34
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Ticker tape and a binary message: Bank of England's new Alan Turing £50 must be the nerdiest banknote ever
Tribute to wartime computer boffin hits circulation on 23 June
25 Mar 13:17 | 89
Updated
Global tat supply line clogged as Suez Canal authorities come to aid of wedged 18-brontosaurus container ship
At last, The Reg online standards converter's time has come
24 Mar 16:23 | 71
Bootnotes
Prince Harry, the Count of Montecito, turns Silicon Valley startup exec with first job based in 21st Century
New post accepted as Chief Impact (on Press Coverage) Officer for BetterUp
23 Mar 21:41 | 58
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Sure, Dave might seem like he's avidly listening to this morning's meeting, but he's actually doing a yoga routine
Meanwhile, Emma is playing video games, and Daniel... well, Daniel is drunk already
23 Mar 17:48 | 39
