AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers We thought everyone was thrilled about being spied on and having their jobs taken by bots AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 21
New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution Science28 Feb 2024 | 55
China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes The coasters are making a comeback ... but tech won't be commercially available for some time Storage23 Feb 2024 | 72
Korean eggheads crack Rhysida ransomware and release free decryptor tool Great news for victims of gang behind the big British Library hit in October Cyber-crime13 Feb 2024 | 6
Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole Launch windows do not respect political squabbling Science07 Feb 2024 | 26
Affordable, self-healing power grids are closer than you think Feature They're just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg Public Sector01 Feb 2024 | 111
Top-tier IT talent doesn't stick around in 'mid-market' organizations Though that might be the least of their worries, according to this report On-Prem25 Jan 2024 | 36
IBM overhauls rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points Exclusive Big Blue staffers aren't pleased to lose out on potential bonuses On-Prem17 Jan 2024 | 60
US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws But Congress is on top of that, right? On-Prem12 Jan 2024 | 5
Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next Heads up, this isn't about Elon Science12 Jan 2024 | 94
Cutting-edge microscopy reveals bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared Gulp! Science10 Jan 2024 | 46
Brain boffins think they've found the data format we use to store images as memories No, you aren't special - we're probably all visual learners Science02 Jan 2024 | 59
US fusion energy dreams edge closer to reality, Congress permitting Yields could double next year – provided the budget is passed Science02 Jan 2024 | 27
British railway system is getting another excuse for delays – solar storms Let's choo-choo-choose safety, folks Science12 Dec 2023 | 78
Boffins devise 'universal backdoor' for image models to cause AI hallucinations Data poisoning appears open to all AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 24
'Return to Office' declared dead Remote work is here to stay despite in-person mandates, this economist says On-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 248
How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop Not that we're encouraging anyone to defeat this fingerprint authentication Research22 Nov 2023 | 90
Three quarters of software engineers face retaliation for whistleblowing Staff afraid to raise alarm when they see negligence, discrimination and more Software21 Nov 2023 | 16
Passive SSH server private key compromise is real ... for some vulnerable gear OpenSSL, LibreSSL, OpenSSH users, don't worry – you can sit this one out Research14 Nov 2023 | 12
Tipsy tongues tell all: How your sloshed speech could snitch to Siri Alexa, am I wasted? Science10 Nov 2023 | 12
Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds 6.9 injuries per 100 employees? Try 69 percent taking time off for injuries, exhaustion, survey concludes Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 47
Hot fuzz: Cascade finds dozens of RISC-V chip bugs using random data storm Video ETH Zurich boffins say they've devised a better CPU fuzzer to find flaws Security24 Oct 2023 | 5
Want a clean energy transition? Better start putting cash into electrical grid Spending needs to double to $600B by 2030 if we want to stay within 2°C warming Science18 Oct 2023 | 91
Buyer's remorse haunts 3 in 5 business software purchases They never do tell you about the unexpected costs and overly complex implementations Applications18 Oct 2023 | 41
GoldDigger Android trojan targets Vietnamese banking apps, code contains hints of wider targets More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info Security06 Oct 2023 |
Boffins propose RISC-V microcontroller to power cubesats Test chip promises crunching on par with 20-year-old chips while sipping power Systems05 Oct 2023 |
NASA awards $1.5m for 'three steps to Mars' astronaut health program One (very) small leap for humanity's future in space Science02 Oct 2023 | 3
DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs And less than half the cost of a single F-35 – bargain! Science19 Sep 2023 | 8
Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles Soldiers, first responders may eventually be able to phone home from their clothes Science09 Sep 2023 | 31
Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons Why 'dont deploy on Frday' is a thnng Bootnotes04 Aug 2023 | 63
Uncle Sam to put Aurora supercomputer to work on catalyst conundrums Meanwhile, ORNL's Summit simulates bacteria battling cicada wings HPC17 Jul 2023 | 5
Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount 34% of those surveyed are on stimulants including amphetamines Sysadmin Month11 Jul 2023 | 32
NIST boffins shrink atomic beam clock to the size of a postage stamp It's not the most accurate atomic clock in the world, but the NIST team behind it believes they can fix that Science27 Jun 2023 | 14
Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage' Analysis Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why AI + ML16 May 2023 | 27
Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons HPC10 May 2023 | 10
Beijing raids consultancy, State-sponsored media warns more to come Retaliation or national security? Security09 May 2023 | 7
Deplatforming hate forums doesn't work, British boffins warn Updated Industry intervention alone can't deal with harassment Personal Tech18 Apr 2023 | 122
Trade ministers flag researchers as possible vector of tech sanction-busting G7 meeting agrees that sales bans are here to stay Legal05 Apr 2023 | 6
Hey Siri, use this ultrasound attack to disarm a smart-home system We speak to the boffins behind latest trick to fool Google Assistant, Cortana, Alexa Security04 Apr 2023 | 61
Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records Except maybe in America, where life expectancy keeps dropping Science31 Mar 2023 | 117
Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here Science29 Mar 2023 | 28
Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy Shocking! Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 112
China leads the world in tech research, could win the future, says think tank US comes in second, rest of the world is a distant third in fields from biotech to batteries Science03 Mar 2023 | 27
MIT Press to trial open access journals, so long as someone else pays for it Great: Fewer paywalls. Not great: Long-term funding is still a question Science07 Feb 2023 | 17
Rate of disruptive tech and science discoveries has slowed over the decades, claims study Makes the repetitive strain injury you got from hours of pipetting all worth it, hey lab scientists? Science05 Jan 2023 | 42
IT security teams, business execs still not on same page In brief Also: Guri the air-gap guru strikes again, while pro-Ukraine hackers set up a proxy network in Russia Security12 Dec 2022 | 6
Locked out of Horizon Europe, UK commits half a billion to post-Brexit research EU still fixated with Britain keeping its word on trading arrangement Science22 Nov 2022 | 184
This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all Ah, so now we know who to blame for all of this Science09 Nov 2022 | 58
Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security OK, boomer – how do I turn off cookies? CSO19 Oct 2022 | 76
Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments Science17 Oct 2022 | 40
Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential 1.41GW, in fact – enough to power around one million homes Science13 Oct 2022 | 100
Boffins rejoice: US Energy Department's research network gets a 400G upgrade Because 100G was so 2011 Networks12 Oct 2022 | 2
No, no, hear us out, say boffins: Foot fungus to measure your walk Posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom Science10 Oct 2022 | 27
Apropos of nothing, US intel wants to improve low-dose radiation detection IARPA unleashes TEI-REX to better track nuclear sources Science30 Sep 2022 | 7
China spins up giant battery built with US-patented tech World's largest VRFB was built with inadvertent help from the Department of Energy Science30 Sep 2022 | 64
Scientists, why not simply invent a working fusion plant using $50m from Uncle Sam You even have until the end of the 2030s to get it done Science29 Sep 2022 | 96
Wind, solar fulfill 10% of global electricity demand for first time Curb your enthusiasm – coal-fired power went up too Science29 Sep 2022 | 54
Uncle Sam to unmask anonymous writers using AI Along with revealing authors, IARPA also wants bot to disguise scribes AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 50
White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects Government wants access to the 60% of offshore wind potential stuck in deep waters Science16 Sep 2022 | 46
Testing of Starlink internet under way in Antarctica Bandwidth-starved researchers rejoice Networks15 Sep 2022 | 12
Government buyers take 22 months on average to procure tech Teams too big, operate in silos, lack subject matter experts and C-suite exec buy-in On-Prem06 Sep 2022 | 32
Network congestion algorithms have design flaw, says MIT In the battle between bandwidth, latency, and starvation, we'll always be choosing two Networks22 Aug 2022 | 22