Science Space station dumps 2.9-ton battery pack to burn up in Earth's atmosphere after hardware upgrade In two to four years, and there's no danger, NASA tells The Reg 16 Mar 02:12 | 61
Software Google may slash Play developer fees in South Korea Reportedly dangles same deal as Apple’s for smaller devs, in one of the few markets it doesn’t utterly dominate 16 Mar 03:29 | 1
Legal Rupert and Zuck, sitting in a tree, P-A-Y-I-N-G Facebook signs deal to send cash to News Corporation’s Australian mastheads and Fox News wannabe 16 Mar 05:01 | 7
Science Good news: An end is in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic. Bad news: Nitrogen dioxide pollution is on the up as life returns to normal Say goodbye to the lovely cleaner air we've been breathing for a year 16 Mar 06:07 | 19
Legal Beijing pressures Alibaba to offload media assets, including Hong Kong's top newspaper South China Morning Post's ownership up in the air as HK democracy erodes further 16 Mar 06:30 | 9
Software OK, Google: Unshackled from Windows, Edge team is free to follow where Chromium leads Microsoft's new browser dials up the release cadence 16 Mar 07:31 | 20
Off-Prem Citrix preps ‘Project Bifrost’ to make cloud-to-cloud moves a rainbow ride Offline access for Virtual Apps and Desktops also in the works 16 Mar 08:01 | 1
Networks Desperate Nominet chairman claims member vote to fire him would spark British government intervention Last-ditch effort to win votes comes one week from .uk operator's EGM 16 Mar 08:44 | 115
Bork!Bork!Bork! Burgers, birds, and Blue Screens of Death: Remember the joys of commuting? Bork terminates at London Victoria 16 Mar 09:30 | 14
Science Millimetre-sized masses: Physics boffins measure smallest known gravitational field (so far) Tiny golden balls may help unravel mysteries of nature's weakest force at a quantum level 16 Mar 10:15 | 57
Security Ex-asylum seeker with infosec degree loses discrimination claim against UK cyber range provider after storming out 'It had nothing whatsoever to do with the claimant's country of birth', rules Employment Tribunal 16 Mar 11:01 | 40
Science Russia, China say anyone will be able to use their south pole Moon base for 'peaceful' science and exploration Researchers to bask in 100+ days of continuous sunlight 16 Mar 11:47 | 22
Software Microsoft fixes the thing it broke via another dose of out-of-band patching to deal with BSOD printing problems It's already a great week at Redmond 16 Mar 12:37 | 43
Security Apple's app transparency rules: Google's privacy labels for Chrome and Search on iOS highlighted by DuckDuckGo Google reveals how much personal data' collected in Chrome, Google app. 'No wonder they wanted to hide it' 16 Mar 13:15 | 39
PaaS + IaaS Of course Linode would say Linode is a cloud-hosting hotshot, but it also says its AMD hardware beats Intel's [Insert benchmark disclaimer here] but the tl;dr is 'shop around' 16 Mar 14:03 |
Software Not an off-by-one error: Java 16 brings 17 enhancements to Oracle's JDK. We chat to Big Red about what's new 'Other languages may claim that they're vying for the top dog position, but at the end of the day Java is just so prevalent' 16 Mar 15:00 | 17
Servers Qualcomm closes acquisition of chip designer Nuvia: First custom cores to launch next year 2022 Snapdragon chipset aimed at high-performance ultraportables 16 Mar 15:50 | 2
Personal Tech Got a need for speed? New report claims iPhone 12's 5G performance lags behind that of rival Android models Baked-in mmWave support may improve figures with more deployments 16 Mar 16:30 | 12
Off-Prem Fancy doing a little... experiment? Chaos comes to AWS as Fault Injection Simulator goes live Complete with nervous warnings: how much chaos is too much? 16 Mar 17:15 | 4
Bootnotes Security pro's time-travelling Twitter bot suspended after posting download link for Adobe Acrobat for MS-DOS 'This is of historical interest. Adobe isn’t really worried about this, it is automation' 16 Mar 18:45 | 33
Off-Prem JumpCloud attempts to cash in on work-from-home era with Zero Touch Mac enrolment Zero Touch? Probably the only way to use a Mac keyboard 16 Mar 19:29 |
Software Google halves Android app fee to 15% for lower-earning devs... who aren't responsible for majority of revenue anyway Epic Games CEO slaps PR move ahead of court case 16 Mar 20:16 | 26
Networks Obtaining US 5G supremacy is easy as Pai, says FCC commish Brendan Carr. It's all in the spectrum America ranks behind China, South Korea and even.... Great Britain in spectrum availability 16 Mar 21:01 | 3
Legal Ex-Microsoft exec admits he tried to swindle $5.5m out of taxpayers with COVID-19 relief loans for bogus biz Mukund Mohan invented employees, financial figures in application forms 16 Mar 21:43 | 14
AI + ML ICYMI: A mom is accused of harassing daughter's cheerleader rivals with humiliating deepfake vids Awesome, oh wow, like totally freak me out ... with this unexpected use of AI 16 Mar 23:06 | 18