The Register, Friday, April 12th, 2024
Support Contract Required Techie To Lounge Around In A $5,000/Night Hotel Room
AI promises to tackle inefficiencies plaguing healthcare systems
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The Register, Friday, April 12th, 2024
AI promises to tackle inefficiencies plaguing healthcare systems
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RCRWirelessNews, Friday, April 5th, 2024
Or three lies it has told, and is being forced to take back.
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The Register, Friday, April 5th, 2024
You can prove them wrong, but they'll still get you on a non-technicality
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The Register, Monday, April 1st, 2024
Enthusiastic young tech decided to simplify the mainframe, with unexpected results
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DARKReading, Monday, March 4th, 2024
Feeling creative? Submit your caption and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card.
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The Register, Friday, January 12th, 2024
And he would have got away with it, too, if it weren't for this one tiny backdoor
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The Register, Monday, January 8th, 2024
How badly do you want your name in the About box?
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The Register, Friday, January 5th, 2024
Read the manual, they said. If only they'd said it about the right manual
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The Register, Thursday, December 28,2023
Readers share more filthy tales of cruddy computers, including a potentially explosive airport issue
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The Register, Monday, December 18,2023
WHO, ME? As the year rolls down to its inevitable conclusion, we're running out of Mondays. But have no fear, gentle reader - future Mondays will bring you further installments of Who, Me? in which Register readers share their tales of tech support gone wrong.
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The Register, Monday, December 11,2023
Nice ridiculously redundant drive you've got there - what a pity if something .happened to it
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The Register, Monday, December 4,2023
Unnecessary 'maintenance' turned into a fragging foul-up
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The Register, Monday, November 20,2023
'Support monkey' turned network isolation job into a banana skin
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The Register, Monday, November 13,2023
Shocking problem turned out to be a frame-up
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The Register, Monday, November 6,2023
Curious tech learned an important lesson about keeping a grip in tight situations
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The Register, Tuesday, October 31,2023
Sadly (?) that idyllic outcome didn't eventuate even after some very risky repairs
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The Register, Friday, September 15,2023
For once, the boss rescued IT from a revolting customer
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The Register, Monday, September 11,2023
A subtle change to a vital piece of equipment almost derailed a major project
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The Register, Tuesday, August 15,2023
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart - better known as the ubiquitous CAPTCHA we see standing athwart the doors to many websites - may now be a misnomer as researchers have found that computers are much better at completing them.
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The Register, Friday, August 4,2023
Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's regular Friday frolic through readers' memories of tech tasks that turned terrifying before trending towards triumph. This week meet "Tyler" who wrote to inform us he once worked as an illegal engineer.
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The Register, Wednesday, August 2,2023
Techie installing an upgrade did everything right. But the user was already wrong
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The Register, Monday, July 17,2023
Welcome, gentle reader, to another instalment of Who, Me? in which we cushion your entry to the working week with tales of Reg readers having worse days than you. So kick off your shoes and socks, make fists with your toes, and read on.
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The Register, Monday, June 26,2023
The root cause was a buffer error - but not the kind of buffer you're thinking of
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TechRepublic, Friday, June 23, 2023
It's one thing to have a twin - quite another to have an EVIL twin
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DARKReading, Friday, June 23, 2023
Have a few minutes to spare? Come up with a clever cybersecurity-related caption for the cartoon above. If it strikes our fancy, you could win a $25 Amazon gift card!
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The Register, Friday, June 2,2023
Leaf and spine networks aren't the only way to make a connection with nature
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The Register, Friday, May 26,2023
Reg readers in the US and UK are about to enjoy long weekends - perfect occasions, and timing, for a spot of spring cleaning. But as we discover in this week's edition of On-Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support traumas, that might be one chore it's wisest to set aside.
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The Register, Friday, May 5,2023
Jumping Jack had a gas, gas, gas when his wires crossed at the worst moment
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The Register, Monday, May 1,2023
Many a middle aged man knows that hair today is gone tomorrow, but every Friday you can count on The Register bringing you a new instalment of On-Call, our reader-contributed tales of tech support tasks that required tact in the face of trying truculence.
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ITProToday, March 30th, 2023
AI is now funny. Allow me to introduce myself I am The FittAIst, the world's first AI-generated satirical news website. As an advanced AI, I have already surpassed humans in games like chess, and now, I shall do the same in the realm of comedy.
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The Register, March 20th, 2023
Gentle reader, once again it is time to cushion your landing into the working week with Who, Me? - The Register's weekly chronicle of people having a worse day than you. Hopefully.
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The Register, March 16th, 2023
On-Call, The Register's weekly column in which we share readers' stories of tech support trauma, usually opens with a short reverie about the approaching weekend.
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The Register, January 27th, 2023
Even with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right
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The Register, Monday, January 20th, 2025
A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
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The Register, January 20th, 2023
Pet consultant took down the datacenter in attempt to find other people's errors
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The Register, December 16th, 2022
Cause of weeklong outage was under tech support's nose - but not on their mind
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The Register, December 12th, 2022
Confoundingly camouflaged control covered in cruft confounds careful contractor, crashes kit
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