Video NASA records, shares sound of Ingenuity drone on Mars, like we're in some kind of sci-fi flick

'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality' states poorly redacted report

Antisocial giant insists 'Help keep FB free of charge' messaging is merely educational

But beware lock-in-as-a-service, analyst warns

Plus: NCSC warns of how hostile powers may exploit smart city infrastructure

Biz expected 4,000 signups, got 60,000, system couldn't cope

Totally Sucks, Buddy: Debit payments held up since April, online and app still wobbly, say readers

Software giant vows data processing of EU cloud services to stay in EU, which means that currently...

I thought we were friends

Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group

Just four years to go before planned switch-off

Bork!Bork!Bork! A reminder of golden Start Menu days

Bug of the week Now that's a Buffett overflow error

We're nicer in person, we swear

Something for the Weekend, Sir? No lessons learned from (literally) decades of media format wars

'Discriminatory or harassing conduct will not be tolerated'

Black Hat Asia Algos guiding self-driving cars don’t expect to see a STOP sign next to food. So if someone put a pic showing apples at a busy intersection ...

On Call I'll talk you through the steps... oh sh-

Satellite shootdown test still causing operational and diplomatic hassles after 14 years

You know the drill: shake your head in disbelief, then figure out if patching will wipe out a weekend or be merely inconvenient

Black Hat Asia Asia is already short millions of trainees; expert warns talent pipeline will dry up in response to government snooping

Why are you giving yourself a kick in the innovation economy?

Developers want to do this, says Google. Ummm ... guys, you do remember the thousands of malware nightmares you’ve hosted and sold?

'There is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for restrictions'

World Password Day returns to remind us how much passwords suck

Coming to a computer near you ... this decade ... maybe

While some teen generated 7.7m bogus pro-NN notes to US broadband regulator

Wanna find out if your employee has had a shot? Just lob her postcode and DoB into this website

Official CPython is slow, but there are many ways to get better performance

Good thing researchers spotted it, no evidence of exploit in the wild

Free breakfast, lunch and dinner? Listening to Ryan Reynolds talk shit? Massages for gratis? Why the hell wouldn't they return

Microsoft Xbox exec called up to explain differences with gaming console

They were not the cloud we were looking for, says DoD in brief to Supreme Court

Among the findings, WPF remains most-used desktop framework despite years of promotion for UWP

(Almost) Why? Kickstarter and nostalgia of those who have forgotten the pain

Default passwords, no updates, and your data's flowing through these

Please insert tape number 363 of 4087*

Event There are so many reasons to join us next week at our tip-top DevOps conference, get your ticket now

Graphic images On the other hand he was fine

Updated Whoever came up with the SWEEP acronym can have a job at El Reg

What a time to be alive

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Video There was just a little fire. But not enough to worry anybody

Black Hat Asia Trio claim database queries can lead to remote code execution

For everyone else, get back to work and ordering those Amazon Prime deals

UPDATE Whatever the source, remote code execution possible on vRealize Business for Cloud – which knows a lot about your private and public platforms

Code for the Baidu Apollo brains of the service is yours for the taking on GitHub, too

Counterfit automatically creates adversarial inputs to find weaknesses

Antisocial giant dismisses chat app rival's 'stunt' in escalating war of words

30% of employees reportedly walked out following sudden rule change

Seriously, it's time to move on

New Spark 3.0 connector will appeal to users too, analyst says

Nearly 4 million to be exact, say researchers

Add yet another Chromium browser to your collection

Looks like you can safely ignore that friend request... forever

'Was a Mailchimp sub too hard?!' asks Reg reader

Crossing the chasm into mainstream computing

Used the GitHub Codecov Action? Credentials may have been pilfered

The bug: IF Tier = Free THEN PRINT "Can we offer you an upgrade?"

Neural networks can be aimed to misbehave when squeezed

Geek's Guide to Britain Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits

Which is a lot of money for this crap

Redshift, Cloudera among preferred platforms, but after 7 years Big Red's system refuses to die

Majority aren't GDPR compliant and Google Play categorises them badly, leading to lax practices

Covid Logfile II Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic

India wanted five global players. And it got only five applications from qualifying companies

We speak to IT outsourcing giants as human malware grips nation

Government department wants carriers to facilitate testing of homegrown tech for India-specific use cases

Military coup creates such a nasty environment it’s hung up on $780 million of assets

Plus: Register.com, Network Solutions DNS down and Cloudflare has a wobble

Copper State turns silicon?

Get used to it, kid

Five vulnerabilities lay undetected for almost a dozen years in Windows driver code

Kubecon Europe More goodies for OpenShift, plus Konveyor to Kubernetes in association with IBM

Updates designed to ease 'expensive and challenging' software, analyst says

Goodnight, sweet prince: Awesome life expectancy for an Android, but now it's time to move on

Friends don't drop rocket remnants on friends, m'kay?

The race to keep up with AWSs and Microsoft of this world.

'Hello? I would please like Fortnite Mobile back...'

For testing only - but new distro compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux getting close to release

How was this allowed to happen? Ah right, food delivery app publicity stunt

Which is good because that's why the audio editing software is so popular

76.23kWh per-transaction footprint... WTF, people?

Column Non-quoted string vest? Don't mind if we do

Hardware supporting ageing system is mired in performance issues

Promo Find out at the Anywhere Workspace Event

Samsung in turn asks for access to clean 'leccy at high-level love-in

Promises personalised services, software-driven networks, all the fun of an SAP migration to Google cloud

Tellie-maker Skyworth says it was duped by analytics service

2FA hasn’t kept pace with registration and real-world biometric capture

Blue Origin, Dynetics cry foul

In Brief Plus: Micro-op CPU caches abused to leak data, and more

Safari savaged for falling behind in web APIs

We know the pandemic has been tough on relationships but...

They! may! take! the! exclamation! point! but! they! will! never! take! our! headlines!

Pay-to-play bungs required to do business with video-streaming giant

Webcast Join us and Nutanix online this week and find out why

Vehicle to enter 'operations demonstration phase'. Meanwhile SpaceX’s first crew return mission also sticks the landing

Who, Me? When contractors go bored: Stuffing the timesheet with shenanigans

It’s a cloudy world and Dell has now offloaded almost all its software assets

Berkshire Hathaway’s annual Q&A also smashed Robinhood, tweaked Elon Musk, fawned over Apple

Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu among those in strife