Naïve Reg hack thinks he can beat Christmas food comas once and for all
Comment One man's plan to ruin his holiday for the better
Offbeat26 Dec 2024 | 45
Offbeat
Former NSA cyberspy's not-so-secret hobby: Hacking Christmas lights
Video Rob Joyce explains how it's done
Security25 Dec 2024 | 18
The winner of last year's Windows Ugly Sweater is ...
Register readers have spoken
Bootnotes25 Dec 2024 | 11
Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial
Analysis The victory may be short lived as the chip designer gears up for second round
Legal23 Dec 2024 | 14
Parker Solar Probe set for blisteringly hot date with the Sun on Christmas Eve
Ho-ho-holy heatshield!
Science23 Dec 2024 | 36
Biden’s antitrust crackdown on tech M&As may linger into Trump’s reign
Analysis Lina Khan’s tenure may end, but the regulatory hurdles she helped build aren’t going anywhere
Legal21 Dec 2024 | 18
BOFH: Printer's festive bips herald a merry mystery for the Boss's budget
Episode 24 Merry as in see you down the pub
BOFH20 Dec 2024 | 51
Rocks from Chinese Moon mission suggest Luna's history needs revision
Meanwhile, NASA signs off on Artemis software upgrade
Science20 Dec 2024 | 17
Axiom Space shuffles space station assembly sequence – to get it standalone sooner
Aiming to be freeflying by 2028. Handy if anything should happen to the ISS
Science19 Dec 2024 | 19
Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays
Week-long mission set to stretch into ninth month
Science19 Dec 2024 | 85
Watchdog deep-sixes job ad that was actually pay-to-play training course
Misleading listing on a recruitment site? Whatever next?
Offbeat19 Dec 2024 | 16
Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control
Feature Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong?
AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 108
Supreme Court to hear TikTok's appeal against law that would force it to shut, or sell
Will consider free speech arguments just nine days before the clock runs out
Legal19 Dec 2024 | 40
Intel sued again over struggling foundry business
Derivatives claim seeks damages from execs and board members
Legal18 Dec 2024 | 8
SpaceX rocketeers get fresh FAA license for next Starship launch
Authorization comes less than a month after flight 6: 'The FAA continues to increase efficiencies'
Science18 Dec 2024 | 42
When old Microsoft codenames crop up in curious places
Chicago is my kind of driver model
Offbeat18 Dec 2024 | 67
When your technological ghosts come back to haunt you, expect humbug
Column Spirits of the NeXTcube, the web ad, and the cursed smartphone deliver a seasonal Technicarol
Personal Tech18 Dec 2024 | 14
Silent NASA lander gives boffins insight into Martian dust
NASA to bid a final farewell to InSight
Science17 Dec 2024 | 11
US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery
Analysis Feds insist they still don't know what's happening – but note sightings cluster around airport flight paths
Offbeat17 Dec 2024 | 96
Jury trial kicks off Arm's wrestling match with Qualcomm
The Nuvia buyer's alleged violations of license terms expected to last through Friday
Legal16 Dec 2024 | 11
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Apple called on to ditch AI headline summaries after BBC debacle
'Facts can't be decided by a roll of the dice'
Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain
Opinion It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want
The Automattic vs WP Engine WordPress wars are getting really annoying
Opinion Forks at dawn.... but it's not great sign for open source
Former NSA cyberspy's not-so-secret hobby: Hacking Christmas lights
Video Rob Joyce explains how it's done
SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system
A #DOScember surprise: fits on a single floppy, but has a network-capable package manager
UK ICO not happy with Google's plans to allow device fingerprinting
in brief Also, Ascension notifies 5.6M victims, Krispy Kreme bandits come forward, LockBit 4.0 released, and more
One third of adults can't delete device data
Easier to let those old phones gather dust in a drawer, survey finds
'That's not a bug, it's a feature' takes on a darker tone when malware's involved
Opinion Mummy, where do zero days come from?
BOFH: Printer's festive bips herald a merry mystery for the Boss's budget
Episode 24 Merry as in see you down the pub
Adélie Linux 1.0 – small, fast, but not quite grown up
Remarkably compact, remarkably cross-platform, remarkably long beta period
STORIES
Red Rabbit Robotics takes human form to sell work as a service
Take this job and automate it
Offbeat15 Dec 2024 | 33
Ingenuity helicopter's flying days cut short by featureless Martian terrain
Landing hard at an angle not great for the old rotor blades
Science13 Dec 2024 | 30
BOFH: Don't sell The Boss a firewall. Sell him The Dream
Episode 23 Have I got an opportunity for you!
BOFH13 Dec 2024 | 56
Astroscale orbital janitor gets within 15 meters of space junk
Couldn't reach out and touch it, but still happy as this attempt was out of mission scope
Science13 Dec 2024 | 21
North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88M over six years
DoJ thinks it's found the folks that ran it, and some of the 'IT warriors' sent out to fleece employers
Cyber-crime13 Dec 2024 | 3
Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies
No word from the FBI about where they are hiding aliens or UFOs
Offbeat12 Dec 2024 | 75
Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch
If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish
Legal12 Dec 2024 | 71
China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse
Long March-8A improves payload by forty percent and comes just a month after Long March 12 debut
Science12 Dec 2024 | 6
Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law
Sen. Wyden blasts FCC's 'failure' amid Salt Typhoon hacks
Security11 Dec 2024 | 17
A decade on from maiden flight, NASA's Orion is still waiting for its Moon moment
Hopefully it won't be another 10 years before the capsule is troubled by a crew
Science11 Dec 2024 | 4
Blue Origin's New Glenn will launch any day now – but it better hurry up
2025 looming large as Blue Ring pathfinder prepped for liftoff
Science11 Dec 2024 | 27
Doctor Who theme added to national sound archive to honor innovation, longevity
Australia’s archive, that is – it was an Aussie who wrote it
Offbeat11 Dec 2024 | 50
Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers
Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands
Networks11 Dec 2024 | 34
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic
Updated Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations
Software11 Dec 2024 | 34
Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident
With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor
Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 130
TikTok appeals to have Trump – or Supreme Court – decide its fate later
Wants to defer shutdown order that takes effect a day before the presidential inauguration
Legal10 Dec 2024 | 22
Alibaba exec trashes his own staff and customers, quickly apologizes
'I am carefree, I like to joke,' says guy who fines workers if they glance at phones during meetings
Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 18
Neuraspace adds a second telescope to track objects in orbit
Starlink satellites might annoy astronomers, but at least they're easy to spot
Science09 Dec 2024 | 2
Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains
Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province?
Science09 Dec 2024 | 48
India launches two ESA sun-spotters that will fly in incredibly precise formation
Proba-3's Occulter will blot out the sun to create eclipse-like effect Coronagraph can observe
Science09 Dec 2024 | 14
You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you
Maybe start getting better at sorting your trash before these ML garbage bots gain sentience?
Bootnotes08 Dec 2024 | 43
British boffins build diamond battery capable of working for a millennium or five
Video Carbon-14 decay could be coming to an implant in you
Science08 Dec 2024 | 49
Digital Isle of Man: For all your connected tax haven needs?
Fantasizing about leaving the mess at home behind? Pretty island packed with medieval ruins promotes itself as a venue for e-business
Offbeat07 Dec 2024 | 33
Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump
Plus, xAI scores another $6B to fuel Tesla tycoon's war on OpenAI
Public Sector07 Dec 2024 | 127
Vega-C finally launches ESA's next Sentinel satellite
Return to flight almost two years since the previous endeavor failed
Science06 Dec 2024 | 7
NASA finds Orion heatshield cracks won't cook Artemis II crew
Lunar flights therefore set for seven-month delay and change re-entry approach, but redesign not needed
Science06 Dec 2024 | 39
Arianespace's Vega C delayed after gantry throws a tantrum
Euro rocket stuck on the ground for another day
Science05 Dec 2024 | 17
Temporary printable tattoos could be the future of EEGs
Boffins' big brainwave of using custom skullcaps to capture, er, more brainwaves
Science05 Dec 2024 | 25
Trump wants SpaceX customer Jared Isaacman as next NASA boss
Billionaire space tourist and mate of Elon pledges Americans will get to Mars
Science04 Dec 2024 | 40
Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries
Lawsuit says e-commerce giant cut two zip codes from its own fleet without telling residents
Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 55
Europe's Vega C rocket cleared for launch tonight, first since 2022
Nozzle woes in the past for continent's new launcher
Science04 Dec 2024 | 18
Microsoft learned of fresh antitrust probe from the news
Never mind our alleged cheating of customers – you guys are a bunch of leakers, Redmond tells watchdog
Legal04 Dec 2024 | 2
£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds
Yes, we've been over this before - several times, in fact
Legal04 Dec 2024 | 9
SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset
Probe may not make it to 30 as funding runs out and replacement is launched
Science03 Dec 2024 | 24
Judge again cans Musk's record-setting $56B Tesla package
'Even if a stockholder vote could have a ratifying effect, it could not do so here,' says Delaware Chancellor
Bootnotes03 Dec 2024 | 38
$373M ASML chipmaker shrinks to $228 – but it's made of Lego
What to buy the techie who has everything?
Offbeat03 Dec 2024 | 29
Employee sues Apple over 'spying' claims tied to mandatory devices
Cupertino's walled garden 'is a prison yard' claims plaintiff
Legal02 Dec 2024 | 8
Oh, good. Supermicro board probe clears server slinger of misconduct claims
But hunts for a fresh CFO 'in light of rapid recent growth'
Systems02 Dec 2024 | 3
Apple's backwards design mistake and the reversed capacitor
It's true – the Mac LC III really did have it installed the wrong way round
Personal Tech02 Dec 2024 | 32
Musk seeks injunction to stop OpenAI morphing into for-profit company
Politics, electric cars, rockets, and social media not enough to keep some individuals busy
AI + ML02 Dec 2024 | 17
Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next
Competition What's that coming over the hill, is it an AI?
Bootnotes02 Dec 2024 | 206
China launches first next-gen Long March 12 rocket, christens private spaceport
Won't scare SpaceX as it's not reusable, but will help Beijing do things like launch broadband sats
Science02 Dec 2024 | 3
NASA's X-59 plane is aiming for a sonic thump, not a boom
Feature Pilot James 'Clue' Less is ready to take to the skies
Science30 Nov 2024 | 66
SpaceX hits 400 launches of Falcon 9 rocket
Yet another batch of Starlink satellites mark the milestone
Science29 Nov 2024 | 56
Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium
Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too
Storage29 Nov 2024 | 55
Google earns fresh competition scrutiny from two nations on a single day
India unhappy about treatment of some games, Canada upset by adware monopoly
Legal29 Nov 2024 | 13
Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate
Also intros surveillance tweaks to protect very successful AN0M fake messaging app sting
Legal28 Nov 2024 | 84
Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled
Ten rules for maximizing your grindset! #1: Let a bot do your work for you
Bootnotes28 Nov 2024 | 54
'Best job at JPL': What it's like to be an engineer on the Voyager project
Feature 'I love this work. I love what I'm doing. It's so cool'
Science28 Nov 2024 | 34
Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online
'See you in court', defendant posts
Legal28 Nov 2024 | 29
China starts building world's largest fully steerable radio telescope
120-meter colossus expected to be online in 2028 – around the same time the Square Kilometer Array
Science28 Nov 2024 | 26
Microsoft informed of yet another antitrust probe by US authorities
Investigation is apparently sweeping, but keen on info about AI, security, and cloud
Legal28 Nov 2024 | 5
Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs
Updated X rival also under fire for failing to designate legal representative
Legal26 Nov 2024 | 82
Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find
Camp Century could spill millions of gallons of sewage, diesel fuel, and nuclear waste as climate warms
Science25 Nov 2024 | 78
Musk agrees with fan that worries over orbital Starlink traffic a 'silly narrative'
Forget the 10x programmer. How about 10x satellites?
Networks25 Nov 2024 | 63
We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people
Oh, AI wanna be like you, AI wanna walk like you, talk like you, too
AI + ML24 Nov 2024 | 49
Why Google's Chrome monopoly won't crack anytime soon
Opinion Haven't we heard this story before?
Columnists23 Nov 2024 | 77
AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church
Pope, Depeche Mode, silent on digital second coming
Bootnotes23 Nov 2024 | 77
SpaceX closing in on approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025
Draft environmental assessment ready for public scrutiny
Science22 Nov 2024 | 23
EU buyers still shunning pure electric vehicles, prefer hybrids
Dual power source beat petrol-only autos for second month running
Personal Tech22 Nov 2024 | 170
BOFH: The devil's in the contract details
Episode 22 But at least we have the PFY – and beautiful views from the office window
BOFH22 Nov 2024 | 66
India's Moon orbiter was shifted suddenly to avoid Korea's and NASA's craft
Apparently there's not enough space in space
Science22 Nov 2024 | 31
Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him
Zomato boss Deepinder Goyal leaves a sour taste in the mouth
Offbeat21 Nov 2024 | 91
SpaceX claims another Starship success, but fumbles the catch
In-space engine reignition paves way for orbital missions
Science20 Nov 2024 | 201
BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96
Obit Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week
Bootnotes20 Nov 2024 | 121
Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season
Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13
Personal Tech20 Nov 2024 | 187
Robot runs marathon in South Korea, apparently the first time this has happened
Finishing in 4:19:52 makes it a SlowBot - although it did finish without a battery top-up
Science19 Nov 2024 | 25
Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional
Big Tech's big war on American labor watchdog stumbles... bigly
Legal18 Nov 2024 | 71
Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize
This was pretty inevitable after its lawyers admitted in court that the giveaway wasn't random
Offbeat18 Nov 2024 | 70
NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers
$45K says you can do it without a lunar rover
Science18 Nov 2024 | 62
UK test-fires Spear mini cruise missile that will equip F-35 fighters
2-way datalink allows in-flight info updates including retargeting and abort
Public Sector18 Nov 2024 | 84
NIST trains AI to hear the 'oh crap' moment before batteries explode
Machine learning used to separate opening a can of soda from something catastrophic
Science18 Nov 2024 | 26
First looks at China's Moon rock samples suggest Luna had volcanoes for longer than previously thought
Stuff from the far side is basalt - but less KREEP-y than expected
Science18 Nov 2024 | 1
Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware
QR codes arrive via an age-old delivery system
Bootnotes16 Nov 2024 | 39
Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine
Emails and tool-tracking software weren't heeded, but nothing scary happened - except to the nylon tool
Offbeat15 Nov 2024 | 163
WP Engine revs Automattic lawsuit with antitrust claim
Revised sueball over WordPress brawl tries Sherman Antitrust Act on for size
Software15 Nov 2024 | 23
Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff
Video Because life's not weird enough in the United States these days
Science14 Nov 2024 | 48
Tesla Cybertruck, a paragon of reliability, recalled again
And there's no OTA patching your way out of faulty drive inverter MOSFETs
Bootnotes14 Nov 2024 | 53
SpaceX Starship moved to launchpad for 6th flight test
Yes, the heat shield has been tweaked. But there's also a banana for scale
Science14 Nov 2024 | 16
Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software
Updated Dam, the consequences
Software14 Nov 2024 | 80
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