Bootnotes
Hungover Brits declare full English breakfast the solution to all their ills
For the 3% who craved sweet and sour pork balls, it might be time to stop drinking
24 Jun 10:01 | 96
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Bootnotes
Advert for coronavirus 'destroying' air 'purifier' exterminated by UK watchdog
If only it were that easy
24 Jun 06:26 | 17
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Facebook granted patent for 'artificial reality' baseball cap. Repeat, an 'artificial reality' baseball cap
Yeah, y'know, Google Glass wasn't nearly obnoxious enough
23 Jun 07:32 | 83
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US Navy starts an earthquake to see how its newest carrier withstands combat conditions
Who are they expecting to fight? Thor? Godzilla? Sea snails?
22 Jun 18:02 | 66
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Emergency mode? Bah! It takes a Microsoft product to really break a digital sign
Memory is not the only thing leaking from Windows
21 Jun 10:00 | 13
Bootnotes
How hot is it right now? 'Water park catching fire and burning down' hot
It's a Jersey thing, you wouldn't understand
20 Jun 13:04 | 31
Bootnotes
Petition instructs Jeff Bezos to buy, eat world's most famous painting
Booze-fuelled Change.org campaign implores Amazon founder to 'GOBBLE DA LISA!'
18 Jun 17:20 | 41
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
What job title would YOU want carved on your gravestone? 'Beloved father, Slayer of Dragons, Register of Domains'
How did I love thee? Let me count the email redirections
18 Jun 08:30 | 119
Bootnotes
Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request
Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world'
17 Jun 19:35 | 160
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Space Force turtle expert uncovers $1.2m Cape Canaveral cocaine haul
30kg stash lost overboard by smugglers enough to get anyone out of their shell
17 Jun 17:15 | 23
Stob
Stob treks back across the decades to review the greatest TV sci-fi in the light of recent experience
To boldly zoom
17 Jun 08:30 | 53
Bootnotes
Intrepid Change.org user launches petition to make Jeff Bezos' space trip one-way
Jeff's younger brother and mystery hyper-rich paying passenger may end up as unfortunate collateral damage
16 Jun 18:01 | 71
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Deluded medics fail to show Ohio lawmakers that COVID vaccines magnetise patients
Buckeye State legislature looks on as key, hairpin fall off of entirely unmagnetic nurse
15 Jun 16:47 | 116
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Boffins show sleight-of-hand tricks to Corvids, find they are smarter than people
Eurasian Jays mostly unmoved by illusionist jiggery-pokery, more interested in worms
15 Jun 10:01 | 23
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'Welcome to Perth' mirth being milked for all it's worth
Chap painted greeting on rooftop... in Sydney
14 Jun 22:58 | 36
Bootnotes
Dealing with the pandemic by drinking and swearing? Boffins say you're not alone
While social media gets a portion of the blame for COVID-19's initial spread
11 Jun 16:02 | 50
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Whatever you've been doing during lockdown, you better stop it right now
You never did learn to play guitar, did you? Too late now...
11 Jun 09:15 | 70
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Apple, it's OK. Seriously. You don't need to blind your iOS 15 engineers to prevent leaks
No one expects the Worldwide Loyalty Team!
10 Jun 20:16 | 17
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Prez Biden narrowly escapes cicada assassination attempt, hunkers down in Cornwall
Brood X vents frustration at missed opportunity on free press, random Ohio drivers
10 Jun 17:45 | 17
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Door-opening insect mega-swarm emerges in Eastern US, descends on Washington DC
We're gonna need a bigger rolled-up newspaper
08 Jun 18:34 | 19
Popular
Security
John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer
British-American infosec renegade faced trial in America for tax evasion
Applications
Apple scrambles to quash iOS app sideloading demands with 'think of the children' defense
And if that doesn't work, terrorism or satanic panic next?
Science
Hubble Space Telescope may now depend on a computer that hasn't booted since 2009
Perhaps instrument-halting failure is due to compute and interconnect hardware, not memory, after all
Security
Three things that have vanished: $3.6bn in Bitcoin, a crypto investment biz, and the two brothers who ran it
We got hacked and we'll be right back, duo said ... two months ago
Edge + IoT
Pub landlords on notice as 'Internet of Beer' firm not only pulls pints, but can also clean the lines
El Reg hacks selflessly volunteer to taste-test before and after
Bootnotes
Hungover Brits declare full English breakfast the solution to all their ills
For the 3% who craved sweet and sour pork balls, it might be time to stop drinking
Networks
Nominet is back to 'the same old sh*t' says Public Benefit campaign chief as EGM actions grind to halt
Second public meeting threatened unless dot-UK registry plays ball
OSes
What you need to know about Microsoft Windows 11: It will run Android apps
The operating system they said shouldn't exist
Personal Tech
Price of Microsoft's Surface Duo plummets to better represent middling hardware ... but only if you're in the US
The Special Relationship in the form of Android foldables
Networks
Stop. Look... Install Linux? The Reg solves Microsoft's latest Windows teaser
Going backwards to the future
STORIES
Bootnotes
Sold: €15k invisible sculpture that's a must-see for art lovers
Can be viewed in any light. Bargain
07 Jun 10:45 | 58
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Flying dildo poses a slap in the face for serious political debate
'Is that a dong on a drone?'
04 Jun 20:16 | 50
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Conservative Party fined one-third of a luxury food hamper by ICO for nuisance email campaign
For once, Boris Johnson ignored calls of PECR
03 Jun 15:09 | 23
Boatnotes
Royal Yacht Britannia's successor to cost about 1 North of England NHS IT consultancy framework
Yep, UK.gov to build literal flagship - for about £200m
01 Jun 13:01 | 170
Bork!Bork!Bork!
If a kiosk borks when nobody is using it, can it be said to have borked at all?
Fond memories of the before times and Windows Aero at a shuttered McDonald's order point
01 Jun 11:30 | 7
The RPG
Days Gone PC: Melting pot of open-world influences makes for one of the more immersive zombie slayers out there
Decent port of a PlayStation 4 'exclusive', but it's far from original
29 May 06:58 | 19
Bootnotes
Be careful, 007. It’s just had a new coat of paint: Today is D-day for would-be Qs to apply to MI6
What do I do for a living? I'm a marketing exec. Yeah, didn't think you'd have any questions
26 May 10:47 | 21
Column
Just what is the poop capacity of an unladen sparrow? We ask because one got into the office and left quite a mess
The unspoken perils of remote working
24 May 11:22 | 91
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Déjà bork: BSOD fairy pays key-cutting kiosk another visit
Lessons have been learned – now there's a bucket for Windows to be poorly into
18 May 09:15 | 23
Bootnotes
Activist millionaires protest outside Jeff Bezos' homes to support tax rises for the rich
'He is the leading beneficiary of the unequal treatment our nation's tax code gives the rich and powerful'
18 May 02:02 | 149
Bork!Bork!Bork!
For the marketeer that has everything – except a CPU fan
You know it's time for an upgrade when your PC gets spanked by a sign
14 May 09:15 | 37
Bootnotes
Rude awakening for O2 customers after network runs surprise test of emergency mobile alert system
Sorry, there's no nuclear missile inbound. You have to go to work
11 May 17:01 | 41
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Another platform on which Java will not run – platform 1 of Newcastle's Central Station
What is Geordie for bork?
11 May 10:47 | 23
Bootnotes
Meme crypto-coin literally going to the Moon, if Elon Musk is to believed, on DOGE-1 mission courtesy of SpaceX Falcon 9
Rocket marks 10th successful launch and landing, though Dogecoin's descent was a little rougher
10 May 13:02 | 7
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 | 29
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 | 102
