We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares
Isaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again'
Science04 Dec 2025 | 15
Offbeat
Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL
Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself
Offbeat04 Dec 2025 | 4
Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator
Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The Reg
Legal03 Dec 2025 | 73
China's reusable rocket makes it to orbit but fails to stick the landing
An ‘anomaly’ meant a fireball arrived at the recovery zone instead of a spent first stage
Science03 Dec 2025 | 10
Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption
Talk about enshittification
Offbeat03 Dec 2025 | 28
Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse
LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits
Science03 Dec 2025 | 14
ISS hits rare full house as all eight docking ports ocupado
Updated Russian vehicles will depart soon, but Baikonur launchpad damage clouds future arrivals
Science03 Dec 2025 | 2
Waymo chalks up another four-legged casualty on San Francisco streets
Passenger recounts chaotic scene after robotaxi runs over small dog
Offbeat02 Dec 2025 | 53
Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever
Free Wear 2025 Xmas knitware nightmare could be yours if you make us smile: When was peak Microsoft?
Offbeat02 Dec 2025 | 118
UK sinks to fifth in ESA funding league behind Spain
Brit astro Tim Peake's much-vaunted mission to the ISS a distant memory
Science02 Dec 2025 | 18
Landlord quirks leave thousands of flats stuck in the broadband slow lane
Openreach pushes for legal overhaul as apartments fall through fiber rollout gaps
Networks01 Dec 2025 | 93
Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam
Outfit called 'Zava' selling 'intelligent athletic apparel' is now in the spotlight as Redmond's fake brand for the AI age
Offbeat01 Dec 2025 | 59
Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs
Asia in Brief PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more!
Public Sector01 Dec 2025 | 13
Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight
Roscosmos confirms 'damage' as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027
Science28 Nov 2025 | 45
SK hynix wants you to bond with HBM, so it coated corn in banana chocolate
Pushes semiconductor familiarity via chip-shaped edible squares
Systems28 Nov 2025 | 16
OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder
Ex-NCSC chief Ciaran Martin asked to examine how forecast ended up online ahead of schedule
Offbeat28 Nov 2025 | 37
BOFH: Forward-facing AI brand experience meets forward-facing combustion risk management
Episode 22 All this nonsense and we haven't even had Third Breakfast yet
BOFH28 Nov 2025 | 56
UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants
Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain
Off-Prem28 Nov 2025 | 18
VMware isn’t budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses
Fresh court filings try to keep the case about copyright, and in US courts
Virtualization28 Nov 2025 | 35
Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks
‘Our soup’s not toxic but this chap’s behavior was’ is the gist of the defense
Legal28 Nov 2025 | 106
Popular
Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one
Opinion We're getting it baked into Windows whether we like it or not
Two Android 0-day bugs disclosed and fixed, plus 105 more to patch
Christmas comes early for attackers this year
Waymo chalks up another four-legged casualty on San Francisco streets
Passenger recounts chaotic scene after robotaxi runs over small dog
Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever
Free Wear 2025 Xmas knitware nightmare could be yours if you make us smile: When was peak Microsoft?
Kensington and Chelsea confirms IT outage was a data breach after all
Borough says attackers copied 'historical' info as three-council cyber woes drag on
Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports
Extra infosec investments are taxiing towards the runway
University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid
Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-day
Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11
Corrected document clears up rollout timeline and confirms switch well ahead of deadline
FTC schools edtech outfit after intruder walked off with 10M student records
Regulator says Illuminate ignored years of warnings, stored kids' data in plain text, and kept districts in the dark
Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward
Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you covered
STORIES
Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA reaffirms commitment
ExoMars project may actually get to the red planet one day
Science27 Nov 2025 | 11
Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty
OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access
PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2025 | 89
TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel
Chipzilla can certainly use foundry smarts, but denies the allegation
Legal27 Nov 2025 | 14
US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats
Service limits 20-ship line to two hulls after redesigns and delays torpedo schedule
Offbeat26 Nov 2025 | 74
Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80
Time to test just how far fandom and taste will stretch
Offbeat26 Nov 2025 | 21
Campbell's CISO canned after lawsuit alleges hour-long rant against staff and customers
Security chief placed on leave pending investigation
Offbeat25 Nov 2025 | 66
NASA pares back Boeing's Starliner deal after 2024 calamity
Capsule might only manage three crewed missions to the ISS
Science25 Nov 2025 | 11
Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous
Uncrewed Shenzhou also delivered supplies and window fixing kit
Science25 Nov 2025 | 17
Russian spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault
Timing of Yantar's visit sparked gossip, but engineers point to a misbehaving protection system
Offbeat25 Nov 2025 | 20
Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream
Start-up claims to have booked orders for 144 miniaturized reactors totaling 11GW across US and UK
Science24 Nov 2025 | 10
Old-school rotary phone dials into online meetings, hangs up when you slam it down
Stavros Korokithakis really wanted to slam the receiver on meetings, so he built his own device to do just that
Offbeat24 Nov 2025 | 27
Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum
Japanese team finds 80% of the tiny plant cells remained viable after 283 days in orbit
Science24 Nov 2025 | 15
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people
Who, Me? Customer signed off and a remaining staffer triggered the mess
Columnists24 Nov 2025 | 34
70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture
Asia In Brief PLUS: Manga publishers win Cloudflare copyright case; India, EU to link payment systems; Storm over Australia’s weather website; And more!
Security24 Nov 2025 | 86
SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap
Redesigned booster ruptures during early checks, delaying latest Starship iteration
Science21 Nov 2025 | 69
Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant
Storing credentials safely and securely is the real trick
Offbeat21 Nov 2025 | 69
Lawsuit seeks to probe Uncle Sam's role in ICE-tracking app takedowns
EFF wants to know if citizens had their First Amendment rights violated
Applications21 Nov 2025 | 42
AI nudification site fined £55K for skipping age checks
Decision marks second penalty issued under the UK's Online Safety Act
Legal21 Nov 2025 | 79
Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'
Opinion The tech is impressive. Shoehorning it into absolutely everything is not
Columnists21 Nov 2025 | 174
Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move
On Call Somewhat daft scheme worked until it didn’t
Columnists21 Nov 2025 | 139
TP-Link accuses rival Netgear of 'smear campaign' over alleged China ties
Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US
Security20 Nov 2025 | 11
Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos
The latest attack on Section 230 is likely to face the same fate as many previous efforts
Legal19 Nov 2025 | 14
Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA’s Swift observatory from fiery demise
Air-launched antique picked for tricky low-inclination orbit job
Science19 Nov 2025 | 14
DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move
Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit
Science19 Nov 2025 | 31
Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M
Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn’t betting everything on NASA
Science19 Nov 2025 | 16
China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew
Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company
Science18 Nov 2025 | 4
Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown
European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act
AWS Re:invent18 Nov 2025 | 4
Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service
Techie wired cryptominers into Nordex's network while company reeled from cyberattack
Offbeat18 Nov 2025 | 9
Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually
Chang'e 6's soil sample turns up iron oxides where none were supposed to exist
Science18 Nov 2025 | 22
Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel
€544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower
Supercomputing Month18 Nov 2025 | 1
Starlink’s method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer
Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime
Networks18 Nov 2025 | 17
AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory
Opinion Top of the slops signposts the undiscovered country for an industry
Columnists17 Nov 2025 | 69
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
Who, Me? Yes, he knows the 40x increase could have been avoided with some pretty simple automation
Columnists17 Nov 2025 | 72
Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike
Original spacecraft deemed unsafe after cracks spotted in window
Science14 Nov 2025 | 13
Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout
Opinion Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares
Personal Tech14 Nov 2025 | 107
BOFH: You know something's up when the suits want to spend money
Episode 21 Generosity has nothing to do with it – there's a bonus (of sorts) on the line
BOFH14 Nov 2025 | 53
Chinese web giant Tencent can't buy all the GPUs it wants
Getting by with a meager $2 billion quarterly capex – vastly less than rivals, but still cashing in on AI
PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2025 | 4
Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects
Consumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster
Offbeat13 Nov 2025 | 34
Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches
Bezos booster blasted by solar emissions
Science13 Nov 2025 | 18
To solve compatibility issues, Microsoft would quietly patch other people's code
Long before automatic updates, the Windows 95 team tweaked third-party software to keep it running
OSes13 Nov 2025 | 20
Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales
Government picks Wylfa on Anglesey for initial trio of units, but power unlikely before mid-2030s
On-Prem13 Nov 2025 | 122
Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud
Majority of customers plan to favor domestic providers as sovereignty fears rise
AWS Re:invent13 Nov 2025 | 13
Rhadamanthys malware admin rattled as cops seize a thousand-plus servers
Operation Endgame also takes down Elysium and VenomRAT infrastructure
Cyber-crime13 Nov 2025 | 2
First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun
Red dwarf hurls plasma at speeds rarely seen from Sun, potentially stripping atmospheres from orbiting planets
Science12 Nov 2025 | 14
Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas
Fashion house behind Jobs' turtleneck helps with pricey new accessory line
Offbeat12 Nov 2025 | 71
Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme
Draft Horizon Europe plan cites lack of IP protections and Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy
Science12 Nov 2025 | 9
Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase
Metropolitan Police lands lengthy sentence following 'complex' investigation
Legal12 Nov 2025 | 36
UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill makes Parliamentary debut
Various touch-ups added as MPs seek greater resilience to attacks on critical sectors
Security12 Nov 2025 | 15
Rocket Lab's Neutron slips to 2026: 'Our aim is to make it to orbit on the first try'
Hungry Hippo won't move to the launchpad until next year
Science11 Nov 2025 | 33
EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Tech’s hands'
Lobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations
Legal11 Nov 2025 | 38
UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing
Years of development still needed but AI, 3D printing, and other alternative options on the horizon
Science11 Nov 2025 | 29
UK's Ajax fighting vehicle arrives – years late and still sending crew to hospital
Continuous track of long awaited AFV hits the ground ... and the terrain is pretty bumpy
Offbeat11 Nov 2025 | 78
SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew
Technical and political obstacles block collaboration following suspected space debris strike on craft
Science10 Nov 2025 | 64
Here's one way to cut support ticket volume… send them to another company entirely
Misdirection is the new resolution at major video game house
Offbeat09 Nov 2025 | 28
25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS
All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30
Science07 Nov 2025 | 60
FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute
Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules
Legal06 Nov 2025 | 25
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us
Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers
PaaS + IaaS06 Nov 2025 | 29
UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn
Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services
Science06 Nov 2025 | 31
China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship
Science06 Nov 2025 | 37
Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA
Ruled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections
Public Sector05 Nov 2025 | 47
Tanzania back online after politically motivated five-day outage
Net access cut on election eve, resumed after widely-loathed president was sworn in after disputed poll
Public Sector05 Nov 2025 | 4
Amazon complains that Perplexity's agentic shopping bot is a terrible customer
Perplexity likens Amazon's legal threat to an attempt to ban access to ... wrenches?
AI + ML05 Nov 2025 | 44
Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters
Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit
Off-Prem04 Nov 2025 | 28
UK judge delivers a 'damp squib' in Getty AI training case, no clear precedent set
Experts disagree about what the ruling means for AI training on copyrighted material
Legal04 Nov 2025 | 32
Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope
Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids
Offbeat04 Nov 2025 | 118
Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting
Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach
Offbeat04 Nov 2025 | 141
ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews
Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch
Science03 Nov 2025 | 25
Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests
But question marks remain over the tech’s biases
Security03 Nov 2025 | 35
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Our house, our rules
Site News31 Oct 2025 |
Russia finally bites the cybercrooks it raised, arresting suspected Meduza infostealer devs
Rare case of the state turning on its own, but researchers say it may be doing so more often
Cyber-crime31 Oct 2025 | 8
SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship
NASA is short of options when it comes to alternatives
Science31 Oct 2025 | 81
Actor couldn’t understand why computer didn’t work when the curtain came down
On Call When tech support collides with Halloween, the results are scary
Columnists31 Oct 2025 | 100
Japan’s new space truck is also a temporary space lab, just worked first time
HTV-X capsule is designed to hang around in space after delivering cargo to ISS
Science31 Oct 2025 | 19
Colorado launches lawyers at Trump admin over space base relocation
State cries foul over "crooked elections" claim in Alabama move
Offbeat30 Oct 2025 | 10
There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing
Ohio State boffins coax shiitake and button varieties into behaving like memristors
Offbeat30 Oct 2025 | 26
Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit
Think a custom Yoke is cool? Check this out...
Offbeat29 Oct 2025 | 37
Dame Emma Thompson gives the 'AI revolution' both barrels
Oscar-winning author and performer would prefer Copilot did not offer her writing assistance
Offbeat29 Oct 2025 | 80
Sole trader dispatched almost 1M spam texts to hard-up Brits, says watchdog
ICO fined Bharat Singh Chand £200,000 after receiving 19,138 complaints
Security29 Oct 2025 | 17
Zen Internet loses unfair dismissal appeal case with former CEO
Judges agree broadband biz didn't follow its own procedures when booting boss
Networks29 Oct 2025 | 25
This is Doom, running headless, on Ubuntu Arm… on a satellite
Ubuntu Summit Ólafur Waage has an unusual take on "will it run Doom?"
Offbeat28 Oct 2025 | 17
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