Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla
Bring back keys! Bring back keys!
Offbeat15 Mar 2023 | 146
Vulture Central's sub-editor studied Ancient History at university, but somehow ended up handling The Register's UK production. An old-school journalist, he started out in regional news when it was still printed on paper. He likes beer, heavy metal and video games a bit too much, and you can sometimes find him streaming on Twitch here. Typos may be his fault.
Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you
'ChatGPT is going to be in everything' says automaker
Offbeat14 Mar 2023 | 146
Yes, Samsung 'fakes' its smartphone Moon photos – who cares?
Comment Moon is real. Pictures of Moon are real. Phone uses lots of pictures of Moon to make your picture less crap
Offbeat13 Mar 2023 | 86
Welcome to Muskville: Where the workers never leave
Comment Your boss owns you AND your home – is this Texas utopia?
Offbeat10 Mar 2023 | 94
Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West
This is what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket case
Bootnotes09 Mar 2023 | 91
Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects
Very world-beating funding
Science08 Mar 2023 | 64
Defense boffins take notes from sci-fi writers on the future of warfare
Neat! Everything's gonna be just like Call of Duty!
Offbeat02 Mar 2023 | 29
FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab
Latest claim comes days after Dept of Energy waved finger in China's direction
Offbeat01 Mar 2023 | 237
Japanese balloon startup wants to 'democratize space' – with $180,000 ticket price
Aim is to bring entry fee down to tens of thousands of dollars, if you have that lying around
Offbeat23 Feb 2023 | 21
Titanic mass grave site to be pillaged for NFTs
Comment Company claims that's the best way to put 'historical' legacy in the hands of the global public
Offbeat22 Feb 2023 | 55
Marketing company chases Twitter for $7,000 over 'swag gift box for Elon'
This is just a sliver of the $400,000 allegedly owed for branded merch
Offbeat21 Feb 2023 | 73
Yukon UFO could have cost unfortunate balloon fan $12
How much are sidewinder missiles going for these days?
Offbeat20 Feb 2023 | 128
UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics
Cue the dawning realization for thousands of content creators
Offbeat20 Feb 2023 | 189
Gen Z lingo and search engines: A Millennial Odyssey
Comment Alternative headline: The best use for nu-Bing Microsoft CTO could conjure was translating his daughter's slang
Offbeat16 Feb 2023 | 60
Take the blue pill: Keanu Reeves has had enough of AI baloney
Opinion Neo continues to rage against the machines decades after The Matrix
Bootnotes15 Feb 2023 | 66
The Pentagon is shockingly bad at managing its employee smartphones
Officials are using government-issued devices much like a teenager would – and that has security implications
Offbeat13 Feb 2023 | 19
Meta sees off another logo complaint from blockchain player Dfinity
What would possess a nonprofit to go after Mark Zuckerberg's empire?
Legal08 Feb 2023 | 7
Take the morning off because Outlook has already
We're down to Microsoft 364 again by first week of February
Applications07 Feb 2023 | 66
Cat saves 'good bots' from Twitter API purge
Account posting pics of pet returning home convinces Musk to chill about access rules
Devops06 Feb 2023 | 39
Generative AI is out of control: Nothing, Forever is a Seinfeld spoof about nothing... forever
Updated It's... actually kind of funny, though*
AI + ML03 Feb 2023 | 34
McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs
Welsh city of Wrexham has a reputation to uphold
Offbeat31 Jan 2023 | 140
Meanwhile, in Japan, pet fish run up credit card bill on Nintendo Switch
Gaming critters wreak havoc after Pokémon attempt crashes
Offbeat30 Jan 2023 | 22
Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000
And that, kids, is why we don't play the Emergency Alert System tone on TV
Bootnotes27 Jan 2023 | 180
Amazon warehouse workers 'make history' with first official UK strike
GMB union demands 45% pay rise as members struggle with cost of living
Personal Tech25 Jan 2023 | 56
British monarchy goes after Twitter, alleges rent not paid for UK base
One appears to not have been remunerated, Crown Estate tells High Court
Legal24 Jan 2023 | 99
Rentokil uses AI rat recognition to plot extermination in real time
You know where they eat, where they sleep, where they live... then figure out how to whack them
AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 24
Tone deaf? Microsoft must have booked Sting for Davos because he's a good singer
Comment But the next day it laid off 10,000 staff
Offbeat20 Jan 2023 | 31
Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss
Surely there are quicker and more effective ways to end your co-workers
Offbeat20 Jan 2023 | 208
Twitter 2.0 signal boosts Taliban 2.0 through Blue subscriptions
Comment Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of your actions
Networks17 Jan 2023 | 131
Of course U2 is one of Bill Gates' favorite bands
Mr Microsoft bares all in his 11th Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit
Offbeat16 Jan 2023 | 32
Software engineer accused of stealing $300k from employer was 'inspired by Office Space'
We know it's an influential film but that doesn't mean it's an instruction manual
Offbeat13 Jan 2023 | 46
Move over, Kraftwerk: These musical instruments really are the robots
One Hacker Band is a guitar, bass and drums that play themselves
Offbeat12 Jan 2023 | 25
Robot seal tested for stress relief on pretend Mars mission
Anything to avoid interacting with Elon Musk
Offbeat11 Jan 2023 | 29
Belarus legalizes piracy – but citizens will have to pay for it
Meanwhile, the regime is angling to pocket the money owed to rightsholders
Software10 Jan 2023 | 19
John Deere signs right to repair agreement with US ag lobbyists
Holy cow! Memorandum of Understanding to give farmers access to 'diagnostic tools' and documentation
Personal Tech09 Jan 2023 | 26
Uncle Sam OKs vaccine that protects honeybees against hive-destroying bacterium
Maybe humans could learn a thing or two about how modern medicine can prevent the spread of disease
Science06 Jan 2023 | 35
The CES tat bazaar: Bike desks, AI-powered bird feeders, and the smelloverse
CES It's little wonder Samsung expects the consumer tech slump to continue
Offbeat05 Jan 2023 | 33
Doom QA testers form Microsoft's first labor union in the US
And the largest such group in the gaming industry, says Communications Workers of America
Offbeat04 Jan 2023 | 7
Elon Musk's cost-cutting campaign at Twitter extended to not paying rent, claims landlord
Owner of our SF digs sues for $140,000
Offbeat03 Jan 2023 | 122
TikTok confirms it tracked journalists' locations as part of leak investigation
As if you needed another reason to delete the app right now
Networks23 Dec 2022 | 32
FTX CTO and Alameda Research CEO admit fraud, pair 'cooperating' with Feds
Samuel Bankman-Fried in FBI custody to face court 'as soon as possible'
Networks22 Dec 2022 | 57
Devil's lettuce: Toxic weed harvested with baby spinach causing delirium in Australia
Salads recalled after consumers report hallucinations, dilated pupils, and worse
Offbeat19 Dec 2022 | 22
London cops break into gallery to rescue lifelike art installation
'Kristina' is a sculpture of a woman with her face in a bowl of soup
Offbeat14 Dec 2022 | 65
Twitter dismantles its Trust and Safety Council moments before meeting
Comment Plus: Elon Musk is now a number 2
Personal Tech13 Dec 2022 | 109
OK, we know iPhones are expensive but... $11 a month for Twitter Blue on iOS?
Comment Elon Musk's meeting with Tim Cook at Apple HQ went well, we see
Offbeat12 Dec 2022 | 81
Norway has a month left until sun sets on its copper phone lines
Residents in westernmost municipality of Solund praise new mobile coverage, but others have been left behind
Networks01 Dec 2022 | 66
Twitter gives up fight against COVID-19 misinformation
Ex-moderation lead says he does not feel the platform is 'safe' under Musk
Personal Tech30 Nov 2022 | 211
Iterable co-founder claims he was ousted because of racial discrimination, not LSD use
While Justin Zhu admits to micro-dosing, he alleges that his ethnicity was an issue for investors
Bootnotes29 Nov 2022 | 14
Man wins court case against employer that fired him for not liking boozy, forced 'fun' culture
You gotta fight... for your right... to not be an idiot
Offbeat28 Nov 2022 | 155
Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit
Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space
Science25 Nov 2022 | 76
CT scanning tech could put an end to 100ml liquid limit on flights by 2024
Scrapping 'temporary' measure will slash queue times at airports... but don't ditch your baggie yet, say officials
Systems24 Nov 2022 | 68
New York cracks down on carbon fuel-based crypto-mining operations
Two-year ban comes as state attempts to reduce emissions by 85%
Networks23 Nov 2022 | 33
Software company wins $154k for US Navy's licensing breach
Court lands on less than the millions asked for after sailors made copies of 3D modeling suite 'hundreds of thousands' of times
Legal22 Nov 2022 | 43
Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot
This is despite a wealth of evidence showing the value of having two in the cockpit
Personal Tech21 Nov 2022 | 164
Boffins are studying Martian clouds to avoid another Opportunity episode
They look and behave a lot like those on Earth – except they're made of dust
Science18 Nov 2022 | 9
Only iPhone 15 Pro models will have higher data transfer speeds on USB-C – analyst
Ming-Chi Kuo is prognosticating again
Personal Tech17 Nov 2022 | 35
Twitter refugees seek asylum in an unusual place: The Matt Hancock app
Move over, Mastodon – bungling UK politician's platform finds thousands of new users amid Elon Musk chaos
Bootnotes17 Nov 2022 | 32
Starlink purchases 'Twitter takeover' ad package, Musk dismisses it as 'tiny'
Well, which one is it, then?
Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 33
Robotics startup wants to disrupt walking with AI roller skates
For when millions of years of evolution and timekeeping are not good enough
Offbeat14 Nov 2022 | 24
NFT vending machine appears in London
Don't everyone rush at once
Offbeat04 Nov 2022 | 49
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