ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

And now for something completely different: A lightweight, fast browser that won't slurp your data

(2020/12/29)

El Reg goes with the Flow

No amount of Glasgow handshaking will revive this borked kiosk

(2020/12/29)

To pay for parking you must first sign in to Windows 10

The ghosts of Microsoft SQL Server past, present, and yet to come: The Reg chats to Azure Data man Rohan Kumar

(2020/12/28)

WinFS, stability, and waking engineers

Yes, Microsoft Access was a recalcitrant beast, but the first step is to turn the computer on

(2020/12/28)

I've got the power! Psyche. I definitely don't

Everybody's time is precious, pal: Sometimes it isn't only the terminals that are dumb

(2020/12/27)

Modem life is rubbish

Why make games for Linux if they don't sell? Because the nerds are just grateful to get something that works

(2020/12/26)

And when nerds are your audience, everything is easier

Roma, we've had un problema: When every flight's final destination is a date with Windows Boot Manager

(2020/12/26)

'People got angry. Employees disappeared. Children started to cry'

Cyberpunk 2077: There's a great game within screaming to get out, but sadly it was released 57 years too early

(2020/12/25)

Over-promised, under-delivered, and plays like an alpha – try again later

BOFH: Time for the MMOCC. You know, the Massively Moronic Online Christmas Call

(2020/12/25)

This year, starring an utterly, er, empowering personal presence guru

My website has raised its anchor and set sail into the internet oceans without me

(2020/12/25)

A ghost-ship story for Christmas

A pub denied: One man's tale of festive frolics postponed by the curse of the On Call phone

(2020/12/25)

Just a little jiggle

Elon Musk says he tried to sell Tesla to Apple, which didn’t bite and wouldn't even meet

(2020/12/23)

SpaceX man rubbishes rumoured tech in future Apple car

US Department of Homeland Security warns American business not to use Chinese tech or let data behind the Great Firewall

(2020/12/23)

Even fitness trackers ruled a big risk due to potential for record-matching identifying your family

Hong Kong's Hutchison Group, which runs mobile carrier ‘3’, protests as USA puts it on new China ban list

(2020/12/23)

Trump administration is behind the times: used old name for Chinese company Hutchison sold ages ago

After 11 years, Australia declares its national broadband network is ‘built and fully operational’

(2020/12/23)

Those 35,000 connections that aren’t built? Celebrate the 11.86 million that were, says Minister

What's that lurking behind the borked face of finance? Windows, of course

(2020/12/22)

Rule number one of sausage club: never ask what goes into the sausage

North of England NHS buyers name IT consultants who got in on £200m framework deal

(2020/12/22)

Hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of consultancy work farmed out

Buggy chkdsk in Windows update that caused boot failures and damaged file systems has been fixed

(2020/12/22)

Improving Windows' quality by making it not boot?

Earth observation chief Dr Josef Aschbacher takes reins at European Space Agency

(2020/12/22)

Also: Rocket Lab rounds out a busy year, OneWeb returns to constellation work, NASA ploughs ahead with Orion

UK firm NOW: Pensions tells some customers a 'service partner' leaked their data all over 'public software forum'

(2020/12/22)

Compromised info include names, email addresses, DoBs, and National Insurance numbers

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then
asks you not to kill him.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, 1952