Bork!Bork!Bork!
A Whopper of a bork for seekers of pre-flight nosh
BSODs should be scary, not soothing
17 Aug 2021 08:29 | 28
Bootnotes
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 2021 11:20 | 8
NSFW
Tired: What3Words. Wired: A clone location-tracking service based on FOUR words – and they are all extremely rude
A tour of UK tech HQs courtesy of some saucy Anglo-Saxonisms
14 Aug 2021 07:43 | 108
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked)
Who needs pesky buttons when the Internet of Bork is here?
12 Aug 2021 09:27 | 62
Bootnotes
Salesforce gets into the vid-streaming with original content caper, promises digital inspriation
Netflix and friends are probably safe as only shows revealed so far are fronted by staff or streamed from its own conference
12 Aug 2021 07:57 | 3
Bootnotes
Naughty karaoke is China's next tech crackdown target
Work drinking culture also criticised in wake of Alibaba sex assault scandal
12 Aug 2021 01:27 | 33
Poll
Chocolate beer barred from sale after child mistakes it for chocolate milk
Stout with a dash of chocolate powder – and very similar packaging – sent back to the drawing board
11 Aug 2021 06:29 | 113
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Never Knowingly Underborked: Double trouble at Southampton's John Lewis
Unless that's an ad for American Megatrends?
10 Aug 2021 08:29 | 11
Bootnotes
You can now live life like Paul Allen on Microsoft cofounder's luxury yacht for '£1m a week'
Anyone want to start a Kickstarter page for a Reg reader getaway?
09 Aug 2021 17:03 | 41
Bootnotes
Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after cheeseburger ad did exactly what it's designed to
Orthodox Christian said mouth-watering banner made her break Lent fast
09 Aug 2021 11:22 | 142
Bootnotes
SpaceX Starship struts its stack to show it has the right stuff
Combined with its Super Heavy booster, Starship stood briefly as the tallest rocket yet
07 Aug 2021 10:26 | 89
Book review
Your Computer Is On Fire, but it will take much more than this book to put it out
Detailed diagnosis of tech industry delusion falls short of prescribing a cure
06 Aug 2021 12:32 | 17
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Q: Post-lockdown, where would I like to go? A: As far away from my own head as possible
About 238,855 miles would do the trick
06 Aug 2021 09:27 | 71
Bootnotes
84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement
Spared prison but must give Panther and AA gun to collector or museum
04 Aug 2021 11:27 | 306
Bootnotes
On this most auspicious of days, we ask: How many sysadmins does it take to change a lightbulb?
Protip: Don't treat the IT department like this if you value your life
30 Jul 2021 12:15 | 63
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
You MUST present your official ID (but only the one that's really easy to fake)
I can show you my Three Widths swimming certificate if it helps
30 Jul 2021 09:15 | 104
Bootnotes
Bill for HMS Vanity Gin Palace swells by £50m in two months
That's 0.25 DUPs!
29 Jul 2021 18:04 | 32
Bootnotes
D'oh! Misplaced chair shuts down nuclear plant in Taiwan
Surprisingly a real-life scenario and not a plotline from The Simpsons
28 Jul 2021 13:01 | 64
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Steam-powered computers: Retro cool or old and busted?
The silicon is weak, but the iron is strong
27 Jul 2021 10:01 | 29
BORK!BORK!BORK!
The cockroach of Windows, XP, lives on in London's Victoria Coach Station
The three horsemen of the borkpocalypse: CMOS error, XP and... death
26 Jul 2021 10:46 | 18
Bootnotes
Punchy Italian kartist gets 15-year ban for trackside rampage... and other stories
An unexpectedly vehicular collection of chaos and confusion for your consideration
23 Jul 2021 19:01 | 23
Bootnotes
Anyone fancy a Snowmobile full of Bags O'Crap? It'll be on the list somewhere
Reg reader reveals colossal 821-item collection of Amazon trademarks tucked away on its site
23 Jul 2021 16:02 | 27
Updated
Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more
From vid.me to f&*% me?!
22 Jul 2021 23:30 | 23
Bootnotes
Facebook gardening group triumphs over slapdash Zuck censorbots
Giant news org megaphone persuades dim algos they're talking about the other sort of hoes
22 Jul 2021 21:04 | 38
Rise of The Machines
Hijacked, rampaging infrastructure will kill humans by 2025 – Gartner
Ransomware efforts will inevitably lead to threats to life as attacks on OT go OTT
21 Jul 2021 19:02 | 27
Roundup
Lawn care SWAT team subdues trigger-happy Texan... and other stories
A crunchy compendium of strangeness from around the globe
20 Jul 2021 16:16 | 84
Bootnotes
Gung-ho tank gamer spills classified docs in effort to win online argument
MoD, game developer take extremely dim view of excessive rivet-counter point-scoring
19 Jul 2021 16:15 | 47
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Paid antivirus? On ads? Think of all the beer you could buy without that subscription
These are a few of our favourite things
19 Jul 2021 10:01 | 13
Bootnotes
Trouts on a plane: Utah drops fish into lakes from aircraft and circa 95% survive
Meanwhile, Minnesota city authorities evict dozens of monster goldfish from murky local lake
14 Jul 2021 17:45 | 63
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Who needs 'Bliss' in Teams when you can have the real thing on a Bristol bus?
If it ever escapes the boot loop, that is
13 Jul 2021 08:30 | 15
Bootnotes
South Korean uni installs lavatory that pays out when you spend a penny
Eco-friendly convenience repays deposits using world's first craptocurrency
12 Jul 2021 16:03 | 22
Bootnotes
That time a startup tried to hire me just to push clients' products in job interviews
Veteran technologist Terence Eden recalls upstart's solicitation for shills
10 Jul 2021 07:03 | 56
Bootnotes
Revealed: Perfect timings for creation of exemplary full English breakfast
Warning: Article may contain controversial cooking techniques and songs by The Fall
09 Jul 2021 15:58 | 177
Bork!Bork!Bork!
2021: A Bork Odyssey. Is it remake of Disney's The Black Hole or explorer.exe being shown the door?
Welcome to Cineworld in the leafy UK town of Harlow Essex
09 Jul 2021 12:14 | 17
Bootnotes
Massive 3D catzilla gets crowds purring in busy Shinjuku district of Tokyo
We'd hate to see the litter tray
08 Jul 2021 18:59 | 26
Bootnotes
Not a baaa-d idea: Embracing the eunuch lifestyle slows ageing – for sheep anyway
Too big a price to pay for decelerating your epigenetic clock?
08 Jul 2021 05:04 | 34
Bootnotes
Hoe yes he did: IT pro record-botherer balances garden tool on his head for 2.5 hours
Adds to soap-stacking, egg-catching, chess-setting, and many more titles
07 Jul 2021 12:50 | 28
Bork!Bork!Bork!
The black screen of BIOS borkage haunts Space Shuttle Discovery's new home
They can put a man on the Moon, but can't change the battery in this Dell?
07 Jul 2021 10:02 | 23
Bootnotes
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs break out of nuclear hellscape home and into people's hearts
Irradiated boars rampage across the internet, leaving jokes, memes, fan art in their wake
06 Jul 2021 10:01 | 40
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Black screens in Windows 11? Bork has seen it all before
Welcome to Madeira, autonomous region of Borkugal
05 Jul 2021 10:46 | 40
Bootnotes
A real go-GETTR: Former Trump aide tries to batter Twitter by ripping off its UI
Critic points out that restrictive T&Cs just make it 'Twitter without the porn'
02 Jul 2021 19:45 | 50
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Devilish plans for your next app update ensure they never happen – unless you start praying
These things really get my goat
02 Jul 2021 09:13 | 81
Bootnotes
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone
Human resettlement after 2011's nuclear disaster facing opposition from indestructible, betusked interlopers
01 Jul 2021 20:01 | 202
Bootnotes
Record-breaking Kuwaiti heatwave triggers inadvisable TikTok expletive outburst
Desert storm of entirely the wrong kind lands unfortunate Egyptian national in very hot water
30 Jun 2021 21:14 | 24
Bootnotes
Study finds crayfish treated with antidepressants become more outgoing, adventurous
Clawed critters less depressed as human drugs pollute their freshwater homes
29 Jun 2021 09:16 | 14
Bork!Bork!Bork!
London Greenwich station: A reminder of former glories. Like Windows XP
Borkage haunts one of the oldest station buildings in the world
28 Jun 2021 10:45 | 43
The RPG
Wish you could play tabletop Dungeons & Dragons but have no friends? Solasta: Crown of the Magister offers a solution
Plus: A tale of tech woe and E3 best bits
26 Jun 2021 07:03 | 30
Bootnotes
US Supreme Court rules teens cussing out schools on social media is protected speech
F-bomb tirade cheerleader triumphs over school board in landmark First Amendment case
25 Jun 2021 19:14 | 33
Bootnotes
Bug at payments processor WorldPay swipes £2k+ per ride ticket from Brighton Pier revellers
yy/mm/dd. Yep that's £2,104.18 a ride for April beachgoers
25 Jun 2021 15:00 | 39
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 2021 10:01 | 139
Bootnotes
Advert for coronavirus 'destroying' air 'purifier' exterminated by UK watchdog
If only it were that easy
24 Jun 2021 06:26 | 19
Bootnotes
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 2021 07:32 | 87
Bootnotes
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 2021 18:02 | 73
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 2021 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 2021 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 2021 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 2021 08:30 | 120
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 2021 19:35 | 162
Bootnotes
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 2021 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 2021 08:30 | 53
