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Beijing steps on Alibaba's Ant Group by forcing it to submit to same regulation as banks

Requires Alipay to open to competition but stops short of ordering company break up

13 Apr 05:57 | 9

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

How to ensure your tech predictions catch on in a flash? Do the mash

All inventions should be demonstrated by a puppet doing a Tommy Cooper impression

09 Apr 09:07 | 70

A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

Halt and catch fire

05 Apr 09:22 | 177

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Easily distracted by too many apps, too many meetings, and too much asparagus

Nothing like a steaming bowl of freshly picked spaghetti

02 Apr 10:07 | 75

Yep, you're totally unique: That one very special user and their very special problem

Register reader finds that some Apple fans are... not very bright?

02 Apr 08:04 | 196

A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it

There’s always someone to blame for bad infosec, but never a willingness to make meaningful change

10 Mar 08:02 | 81

Stob's vital message to Britain's IT nation: And no, it's not about that

It's actually another Huawei down the 5G antennas

01 Apr 09:00 | 28

Verity Stob is 'Disgusted of HG Wells': Time, gentlemen, please

Drinking the Kool-Aid outside the box

28 Jan 10:45 | 58

In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze

My, what beautiful curly braces you have

27 Nov 09:04 | 114

The Pi who loved me: Licensed to SSL

Wherein Verity is troubled by a curious spam

16 Jul 08:05 | 29

Programmers' Question Time: Tiptoe through the tuples

Addressing the pro-horticulture/anti-nerdiculture bias

23 May 09:15 | 38

Everyday doings of a metropolitan techie: Stob's software diary

Chronicles of Delphi scribe podcasts, er, scribbles her musings

23 Jan 09:14 | 52

That Old Time 2018 IT songbook: Verity, Verity - give us your lyrics, do! We're half crazy, all for the love of you

It's sing-along-a-Stob time

14 Nov 10:18 | 20

30-up: You know what? Those really weren't the days

Happy anniversary, readers, from the original Git it girl

20 Sep 09:24 | 143

The harbingers of Doomwatch: Quist is quite the quasi-Quatermass

Bug behaviour in the wild

21 May 08:51 | 36

There are 10 types of people in the world, but there is only one Melvyn

Verity puts a Bragg in your shell-like

28 Mar 08:05 | 42

2001: A Stob Odyssey

Open the chuffing pod bay doors yourself, Dave

28 Nov 10:57 | 22

Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers

19 Sep 09:14 | 56

Miss Misery on hacking Mr Robot and the Missing Sense of Fun

He's both the sharpest tool AND two spanners short

28 Mar 09:00 | 88

Seven pet h8s: Verity is sorely vexed

Where's pocket Bjarne Stroustrup when you need him?

20 Jan 10:03 | 57

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Docking £500k commission from top SAS salesman was perfectly legal, rules judge

Chap brought in $27m deal – so bosses withheld two-thirds of his pay

Ever wondered what it's like working for Microsoft? Leaked survey shines a light on how those at the code coalface feel

Lowest scoring sections were 'performance' and 'deal', but it looks like it could be a lot worse

It was Russia wot did it: SolarWinds hack was done by Kremlin's APT29 crew, say UK and US

And Positive Technologies has been slapped with American sanctions

To have one floppy failure is unlucky. To have 20 implies evil magic or a very silly user

Not quite what we meant by 'disk capacity'

Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code

COBOL-inspired caps lock English just don't add up when dealing with large SQL codebases

Is it still possible to run malware in a browser using JavaScript and Rowhammer? Yes, yes it is (slowly)

Firefox 'fully compromised' in 15 minutes via SMASH attack

Nigerian email scammer sent down for 40 months in the US, ordered to pay back $2.7m to victims

Among the victims: the United Nations

Report: Aussie biz Azimuth cracked San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, ending Apple-FBI privacy standoff

Mozilla-authored code in iOS exploited, since patched, it is claimed

Vote to turf out remainder of Nominet board looks inevitable after .uk registry ignores reform demands

PublicBenefit.uk campaign reports 97 per cent of its supporters behind effort

OMG! New free speech social network won’t allow members to take the Lord’s name in vain

‘Frank’ reckons it won’t follow Parler’s path to plug-pulling because it has its own servers and ‘the best security’ . But it also uses Cloudflare …

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Brexit at the next junction: Verity's guide to key post-vote skills

Breaking up is hard to do

26 Sep 08:59 | 75

Washed out summer? Fear ye not: DVDs for DevOps droogs

Virtual box sets for REAL IT pros

26 Jul 08:27 | 23

The Sons of Kahn and the Witch of Wookey

Verily, they did make support for the Internet of Things

20 May 08:40 | 48

Alice, Bob and Verity, too. Yeah, everybody's got a story, pal

Bus bore claims saucy crypto bragging rights

07 Mar 13:04 | 45

Learn you Func Prog on five minute quick!

I remember the Monoids; they came before the Cybermen

13 Jan 12:34 | 138

A Bombe Called Christopher, or A Very Poor Imitation

Verity publishes the real script of Turing biopic The Imitation Game

26 Jan 13:08 | 59

V. R. R. Stob's magnificent saga A Game Of Dog-and-Bones

GUARANTEED no elves and hardly any violence. Or incest

18 Dec 09:00 | 26

Today's bugs have BRANDS? Be still my bleeding heart [logo]

Code-slinger Verity reviews the rash of groovy-named open-source security vulns

01 May 07:02 | 108

Eight EXCELLENT languages for the fondleslab-friendly Intranet of Thingies

Shifting software paradigms and so forth

20 Jan 10:01 | 54

Three Men in a Tardis

Verity has discovered a pre-Doctor Doctor Who episode

12 Nov 13:23 | 35

Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII

We were sold a lie. It's time to go back to 8-bit

04 Oct 09:03 | 198

Verity's summer songs for programmers: Sing your pals to sleep()

When Irish IDEs are smiling, and so on

22 Jul 09:43 | 8

Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++

Plus: Now officially OK to admit you never used STL algorithms

17 Jun 12:05 | 102

In space, no one can hear your laptop Blue Screen

Way above the Cloud, there's a bring-your-own-disaster brewing on the ISS

07 May 06:03 | 14

Six things a text editor must do - or it's a one-way trip to the trash

Does your source code editor pass the Verity test?

11 Mar 09:02 | 229

Who ate all the Pis?

Verity Xmas wish comes true

29 Jan 11:44 | 84

8086 and All That. Revisited

Back when England was Top Nation in computing: reassembled from ancient parchments

22 Dec 11:01 | 27

The Sons of Kahn and the assembly language of the internet

C# hath become a lonely path. And the Beast hath shut its gates against us

11 Dec 10:00 | 49

Google defames Reg columnist Verity Stob

Auto-trawled headshot too AWFUL to contemplate

06 Dec 15:31 | 35

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