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Bootnotes

Chip design chap arrested for using photocopier

If you're going to steal secret silicon designs, it's a bit of a giveaway to hang around the office making copies
23 Comments
04 May 02:30

Can you spout digital bollocks? London is hiring a Chief Digital Officer

Interest-free bicycle bundled with £100k+ salary
30 Comments
03 May 16:02

Speaking in Tech: Gather round children for some Fyre festival horror tales

PodcastPlus: You call yourself an engineer?
03 May 09:26

Male escort forgot pregnancy protection, scores data protection instead

You’re not taking das Michael, German judges tell gigolo’s impregnated client
76 Comments
02 May 14:03

Heroic stepmum takes one for team, sticks pot pipe up wazoo

Puff, puff... pass
22 Comments
02 May 12:31

'I feel violated': Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for 'unlicensed engineering'

InterviewWelcome to the crazy world of Oregon state law
232 Comments
29 Apr 07:05

Apple fanbois are officially sheeple. Yes, you heard. Deal with it

Offended? Go hassle Merriam-Webster, not us
83 Comments
28 Apr 12:02

China launches aircraft carrier the length of 2.1 brontosaurs

And it weighs the same as 5.7 million adult badgers
90 Comments
27 Apr 14:35

iPhone lawyers literally compare Apples with Pears in trademark war

'You shall not use the silhouette of any fruit' commands Cupertino idiot tax operation
158 Comments
27 Apr 05:03

Reg reader offered £999,998 train ticket from Cambridge to Horley

More like National Fail amirite?
52 Comments
26 Apr 09:32

Man nicked trying to 'save' beer from burning building

She's in there. Who's in there, sir? My PIIIIIIINT!
41 Comments
25 Apr 12:17

IT error at Great Western Railway charging £10k for 63-mile journey ticket

If you didn't want to travel from Taunton-to-Trowbridge before, you probably won't now either
101 Comments
25 Apr 09:33

Alaska dentist 'pulled out patient's tooth while riding a hoverboard'

When this thing gets up to 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious sh*t
32 Comments
21 Apr 21:25
The Jetsons Food Machine

(You can't) buy one now! The flying car makes its perennial return

Something for the Weekend, Sir?There's a steering wheel in my pants. It's driving me nuts
77 Comments
21 Apr 08:01
Orange juice squeezing

Hard-pressed Juicero boss defends $400 IoT juicer after squeezing $120m from investors

Crushed CEO says critics are comparing apples with oranges
87 Comments
21 Apr 05:02

Computer games to become medal sport at Asian Games

Olympic Council of Asia will award gold medals for fragging in 2022, helped by Alibaba
14 Comments
20 Apr 02:57

Ex-West Ham winger charged twice over cybershenanigans

22-year-old to appear before magistrates at month's end
19 Apr 09:32

Silicon Valley tech CEO admits beating software engineer wife, offered just 13 days in the clink

Despite evidence and previous offense, Abhishek Gattani unlikely to face serious charges
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19 Apr 07:02

Drupal sci-fi sex scandal deepens: Now devs spank Dries over Gor bloke's banishment

UpdatedProject lead slapped in open letter after BDSM exile
47 Comments
13 Apr 19:49

Nerd Klaxon: Barbican to host Science Fiction exhibition this summer

InterviewCurator Patrick Gyger tells El Reg what you can expect
23 Comments
12 Apr 08:30

QANTAS cuts AU$4,000 from price of Mac Pro

Of course it was a mistake, but the apology to 'buyers' included a 20% discount code
11 Apr 22:59

T-Mobile US CEO offers kid a year's supply of chicken nuggets for switching from AT&T

And now we are all part of this sickening cycle too
26 Comments
10 Apr 11:14

Boaty McBoatface sinks in South Atlantic on her maiden deployment

Yet the yellow submarine's operators are calm about it...
32 Comments
07 Apr 14:30

Customer satisfaction is our highest priority… OK, maybe second-highest… or third...

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Read the signs and weep because NO ONE CARES
164 Comments
07 Apr 07:58

Crafty Fokker: Norfolk surgeon builds Red Baron triplane replica

But can he do it on a cold rainy night in Amiens?
65 Comments
06 Apr 13:36

Reg lecture exposes the radicals intent on remaking your society

Transhumanists, hallucinogens, the far right... and blockchain
06 Apr 11:31

Jailed biz coach accused of $17.5m HPE fraud writes to fans saying 'join me'

Prison letters from Peter Sage reach world+dog
27 Comments
05 Apr 13:01
Life of Brian

Manchester pulls £750 public crucifixion offer

Pay-to-be-slayed plan pulled over blasphemy, health & safety worries
113 Comments
05 Apr 11:39
Oscilloscope Pong

Pong, anyone? How about Pong on a vintage oscilloscope?

Doable, if you have a soldering iron and a couple of hundred transistors
36 Comments
05 Apr 06:33

New plastic banknote plans now upsetting environmental campaigners

PollThis time it's palm oil instead of a single dead cow
184 Comments
30 Mar 15:24

Pirate of the Caribbean to play Hacker of the Caribbean

POLLJohnny Depp to play John McAfee in biopic depicting A-V man as Colonel Kurtz
29 Comments
29 Mar 02:04

Nuns left in limbo after phone line transfer hell

Judge Brennan fines Eircom after litany of screwups
34 Comments
28 Mar 11:56

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

StobHe's both the sharpest tool AND two spanners short
88 Comments
28 Mar 09:00
Han Solo

Disney plotting 15 more years of Star Wars

First we'll get non-digital Leia and Han Solo: Young Adult with Chewie and Falcon back-story
Desk beer - pint at a keyboard. Photo by shutterstock

Good news, everyone! Two pints a day keep heart problems at bay

And yes, total abstinence isn't good for you
138 Comments
23 Mar 11:36
The inflatable approaches a swell-lashed Rockall in 2003

Decapitating Rockall: How a 1970s Navy expedition blasted the top off the Atlantic islet

PicsOperation Top Hat report surfaces from the archives
46 Comments
22 Mar 13:07

In the land of Google, Holocaust denial, death threats – all fine. LGBT? Oh, no, that's sensitive

Search king tweaks rules to human raters
27 Comments
20 Mar 22:22
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