Rebecca Hill
The Register
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Past articles by Rebecca:
Easter is approaching – and British pr0n watchers still don't know how long before age-gates come into force
Multiple delays have dogged a government policy with a lot to prove → Read More
App-y now? UK health secretary spammed with pics of flowers that look like ladies' private parts
Social media hits back at suggestion women are too shy to get a smear test → Read More
IT meltdown outfit TSB to refund all customers that fall victim to fraud in 'UK banking first'
After all, it has had a lot of practice in scam payouts → Read More
A quick cup of coffee leaves production manager in fits and cleaner in tears
Lockable doors on the server room? That's for losers → Read More
Amazon boss snubs 'expensive', 'sub-optimal' relational databases. Here's looking at you, Larry
Also in letter to shareholders, Cargo Jeff admits Echo is a bit creepy: 'A black, always-on cylinder in your kitchen...' → Read More
Hole lotta crud: Chinese stock photo pusher tries to claim copyright on Event Horizon pic
Issues grovelling apology, promises to fix 'weak links' in management → Read More
New UK counter-terror laws come into force today – watch those clicks, people. You see, terrorist propag... NOOO! Alexa ignore us!
Officer, um, we were just explaining how viewing terrorist content online's an offence → Read More
Kent bloke incurs the anchor of local council after fly-tipping boat
Authority barged in after disposal caught on camera, ordered chap to pay costs of almost £3k → Read More
User secures floppies to a filing cabinet with a magnet, but at least they backed up daily... right?
Techie learns the hard way there's more than one way to interpret 'make a copy' → Read More
IBM, Oracle JEDI bids weighed, measured and found wanting: Amazon, Microsoft last standing in Pentagon cloud race
Possible 'ethical violations' found but no conflict of interest → Read More
Uncle Sam charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion
As Brit judge finds him guilty of breaching his bail conditions → Read More
London's Metropolitan Police arrest Julian Assange
Ecuador strips WikiLeaks founder of political asylum → Read More
Do you want salt with that? Salesforce phallus 'shopped out' of Oracle Park calendar cover
Salesforce's towering glass phallus in San Francisco has been omitted from the Oracle Park calendar on sale at the first SF Giants baseball game under the stadium's new Big Red moniker. Oracle signed a $200m, 20-year deal for the rights to the AT&T Park stadium last year and rather unimaginatively renamed it Oracle Park. But when attendees at the first game of the season got their hands on… → Read More
Telly production biz films maternity clinic, doesn't tell patients, gets fined £120,000
Opt-out? We can just tie a carrier bag over the cam – it doesn't have a stop button → Read More
Facebook acknowledges asking you to invite your dead pals to parties is 'painful', plans to fix it
Also promises to tell users that they are the product... like many of you didn't already know → Read More
Who had 'one week in' for a Making Tax Digital c0ckup? Well done, you win... absolutely nothing
Software vendors report UK VAT API returning spurious data, confusing users → Read More
Turn me up some: Smart speaker outfit Sonos blasted in complaint to UK privacy watchdog
Tech lawyer argues that 'give us all your data or your kit gets it' doesn't count as valid consent → Read More
Sick of being the bad guy, UK taxman needs YOU(?) to help it be more 'customer-centric'
HMRC seeks AI, voice, digital engagement bods as part of tech group's overhaul → Read More
Analysts get hot under collar as ex-Oracle cloud guru ditches corporate wardrobe for Google
But Chocolate Factory hopes Kurian's business chops will help win over the enterprise → Read More
UK watchdog reveals naughty list of which companies haven't paid data protection fees
NetApp, Jive Software, Gigya and more in the doghouse → Read More