Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing
AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spat
Legal15 May 2025 | 2
Offbeat
Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress
Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you
AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 8
Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%
Surely Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has nothing to do with it
On-Prem15 May 2025 | 7
Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization
Aiming for the stars, but sometimes hitting the Caribbean
Science15 May 2025 | 34
Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses
MEWSIC to Brit crews' ears will see off anti-ship missiles, among other things
Offbeat15 May 2025 | 34
Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant
Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time lucky
Science14 May 2025 | 18
Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb
'Legitimate interest' won't wash, says privacy outfit, as Zuck's org claims activists want to 'delay AI innovation'
AI + ML14 May 2025 | 63
Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket
Trump greenlights slot for Riyadh as NASA's pricey booster teeters on the brink
Science14 May 2025 | 11
NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now
Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last
Science14 May 2025 | 8
Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare
Air Force Dumb
Bootnotes13 May 2025 | 94
Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies
Research flags rise in one-dimensional health research fueled by large language models
AI + ML13 May 2025 | 75
After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over
The Soviet Union aimed for Venus, but hit the Indian Ocean instead
Science13 May 2025 | 24
Mars may have vast underground oceans and enough H2O to make it a water world
Chinese and Australian boffins ask what else could be slowing down seismic waves as they pass through the Red Planet?
Science13 May 2025 | 28
Fusion eggheads claim modeling fix for particle escape - at least in stellarators
One problem down, x - 1 problems go
Science12 May 2025 | 14
CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost
So alchemists had the right idea – they just lacked a 27 km particle accelerator
Science12 May 2025 | 37
Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping
Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright
AI + ML12 May 2025 | 42
US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired
Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI
AI + ML12 May 2025 | 109
TikTok's Chinese app - Douyin - in trouble after spat over the price of jade
Asia In Brief PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more
Legal12 May 2025 | 4
UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans
France's share of MOD cash is growing while the US's shrinks
Offbeat10 May 2025 | 76
Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways
MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong
Offbeat10 May 2025 | 62
Popular
VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals
Admits due diligence fell short - furious users cry ‘gaslighting’
Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations
Defenses are weaker, and victims are more likely to pay, SANS warns
Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb
'Legitimate interest' won't wash, says privacy outfit, as Zuck's org claims activists want to 'delay AI innovation'
Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again
ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit
Europe plots escape hatch from the enshittification of search
Plus: How to make Google less unhelpful
Apple patched one first, but Microsoft’s blasted five exploited flaws this Pa-Tu
Patch Tuesday Plus: All the fun and frolic of fixes from Adobe, SAP, Ivanti
Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it – what could go wrong?
CYBERUK Crickets as senior security folk asked about risks at NCSC conference
Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security
No rush, according to Gartner chap who says: 'Nobody has ever out-patched threat actors at scale'
US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree
Prince Mohammed bin Bone Saw will take a few hundred thousand GPUs with his missiles and fighter jets
Uncle Sam pulls $2.4B Leidos deal to support CISA after rival alleges foul play
Nightwing claims insider intel helped secure lucrative CISA work but US says decision is unrelated
STORIES
Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests
AI phone home
On-Prem09 May 2025 | 72
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties
DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom
Science09 May 2025 | 81
VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters
NASA cancels solicitation to get a partner to launch, land, and operate the bot for free
Science09 May 2025 | 12
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI
This BS ends at some point, right?
AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 47
As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them
One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements
Science09 May 2025 | 136
BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts
Episode 9 Look, it's using big words like 'gamification'!
BOFH09 May 2025 | 71
NASA JPL boss bails for 'personal reasons' as budget cuts bite
Updated Laurie Leshin to leave in June
Science08 May 2025 | 16
Amazon touts Vulcan – its first robot with a sense of 'touch'
Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper
Offbeat08 May 2025 | 13
ESA feeling weightless and unwanted amid proposed NASA cuts
Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse'
Science08 May 2025 | 15
'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?'
Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box
Bootnotes08 May 2025 | 11
Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos
Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed
Security07 May 2025 | 2
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs
It's not rocket science, it's budgeting
Databases07 May 2025 | 6
Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists
Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines'
Bootnotes07 May 2025 | 127
Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington
We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House
On-Prem07 May 2025 | 62
Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp court battle
Don't f&#k with Zuck
CSO06 May 2025 | 17
Microsoft burnishes green cred by paying Swedes to burn biomass and bury CO2
Updated Schemes like this are just a license to pollute for tech giants, or so critics say
Science06 May 2025 | 12
EU tells US scientists to dump Trump for a lab in Europe
Brussels rolls out €500M plan to lure boffins with grants and actual respect for research
Science06 May 2025 | 97
Culture comes first in cybersecurity. That puts cybersecurity on the front line in the culture wars
Opinion 'Trust us, we're from Trumpland' may not help Microsoft as much as it hopes
Columnists06 May 2025 | 46
Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine
Who, Me? Fake it till you make it doesn't cut it for mission-critical workloads
Columnists05 May 2025 | 95
Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America
El Reg checks out shop in SF
Bootnotes04 May 2025 | 52
Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025
Not, it's not the plot of a sci-fi disaster movie
Science03 May 2025 | 108
Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way
Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030
Science02 May 2025 | 121
The Telegraph jumps the gun on World War III
Trigger-happy Taiwan headline sparks instant apocalypse vibes
Bootnotes02 May 2025 | 32
Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands
Blu-3 accused of paying off former Mace Group associates
Legal02 May 2025 | 6
NASA probes propulsion problem in Psyche's thrusters
Mission to a metal asteroid lacks xenon pressure
Science01 May 2025 | 5
Linux in Excel? Sure, why not ruin both
The spreadsheet from Hell
Bootnotes01 May 2025 | 24
'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore'
Former Space Shuttle boss's blog booted from Trump-era agency website
Science30 Apr 2025 | 39
Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence
Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them
PaaS + IaaS30 Apr 2025 | 105
Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends
Minister, platform providers disagree on whether law would have helped avoid last summer's riots
Public Sector30 Apr 2025 | 75
TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech
Good intentions, terrible wording – and Trump can't wait to use it because 'nobody gets treated worse than I do'
Personal Tech29 Apr 2025 | 49
Infosec pros tell Trump to quit bullying Chris Krebs – it's undermining security
Top voices warn that political retaliation puts democracy and national defense at risk
Security29 Apr 2025 | 70
Swiss boffins admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science
They’re sorry/not sorry for testing if bots can change minds by pretending to be a trauma counselor or a victim of sexual abuse
AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 22
Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit on an Atlas V
One launch down, 80-plus to go, for a pittance compared to planned AWS spending
Networks29 Apr 2025 | 12
Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky
As astronomers gripe about sats screwing observations
Science28 Apr 2025 | 8
Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline
Updated Cyberattack? Bad software update? International oopsie? The cause is unclear, but Iberia is dark
Offbeat28 Apr 2025 | 197
Windows profanity filter finally gets a ******* off switch
No more asterisks. Voice typing now reflects the true spirit of your rage
OSes28 Apr 2025 | 37
DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI
Now that's a sum of all fears
AI + ML27 Apr 2025 | 43
Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims
WORLD WAR FEE One eight-person publisher says it'll be forced to pay $1.5M
Bootnotes26 Apr 2025 | 129
AI-driven 20-ft robots coming for construction workers' jobs
Rise of the machines Er, are we sure we want to outsource the welding?
Offbeat26 Apr 2025 | 88
Hubble Space Telescope is still producing science at 35
Remember when NASA was laser focused on that?
Science25 Apr 2025 | 33
Europe fires up beefier booster for Ariane 6 and Vega-C
Successful qualification run for P160C solid-fuel motor in South American spaceport
Science25 Apr 2025 | 5
BOFH: The Prints of Darkness pays a visit
Episode 8 On the third day of BOFH-mas the sales guy took from me: 3 MFPs, 2 unasked-for shoves, and a cartridge in a cup of tea...
BOFH25 Apr 2025 | 94
AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume
Updated UK org backing it promises 'legal certainty' for devs, money for creators... but is it too late?
AI + ML24 Apr 2025 | 45
Assassin's Creed maker faces GDPR complaint for forcing single-player gamers online
Collecting data from solo players is a Far Cry from being necessary, says noyb
Security24 Apr 2025 | 38
Qualcomm says license fight was because Arm wants to make its own server chips
Alleges semi designer tried to obstruct Qualy's build of Arm-compatible custom cores
Systems24 Apr 2025 | 5
Sustainability still not a high priority for datacenter industry
Extreme weather is such a problem when building bit barns... hmmm, wonder what could be causing that?
On-Prem24 Apr 2025 | 24
AI bigwigs urge AGs to block OpenAI's profit pivot
Elon’s not the only one sounding the alarm over the AI giant’s cash grab
AI + ML23 Apr 2025 | 4
Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet
Officials seek assurances that bot won't be used for military applications
Offbeat23 Apr 2025 | 76
Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA
Bad timing, claim industry watchers, who say rulings could seriously upset an already delicate US-EU relationship
Legal23 Apr 2025 | 54
NTT creates a drone that triggers and catches lightning – then keeps flying
Because nobody wants a bazillion volts zorching critical infrastructure
Science23 Apr 2025 | 32
India gets Google to unbundle Android and the Play Store on Smart TVs
Meanwhile, OpenAI expresses an interest in unbundling Chrome from Google
Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 10
Dentists sue ex-contractor for holding web domains hostage in biz fight
IT guy says their claims are toothless – and they owe him $400K
Bootnotes22 Apr 2025 | 9
SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule docks to the International Space Station
Plenty of tortillas onboard but not quite so much science this time
Science22 Apr 2025 | 19
Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back
Opinion I was into Adversarial Noise before they were famous
AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 71
It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions
Which is one reason US regulators just sued the rideshare and delivery giant
Personal Tech22 Apr 2025 | 40
ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it
Sam says it's Son's money well spent
Bootnotes21 Apr 2025 | 37
America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired
No one should be excluded – unless you have certain views on the Mid-East crisis
Science21 Apr 2025 | 88
Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234
Video AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done
Bootnotes19 Apr 2025 | 88
No rest for the rocketry as NASA's Easter weekend heats up
Returning crew and a vital supply launch distract managers from chocolate eggs
Science17 Apr 2025 | 18
Small ocean swirls may have an outsized effect on climate, NASA satellite shows
SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time
Science17 Apr 2025 | 16
Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins
Future chargers could re-arrange battery chemistry to make them live longer
Science17 Apr 2025 | 20
Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims
Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly
Bootnotes17 Apr 2025 | 118
20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit
Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide
Science16 Apr 2025 | 10
Law firm 'didn't think' data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it's nursing a £60K fine
DPP Law is appealing against data watchdog's conclusions
Security16 Apr 2025 | 23
AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed
Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair
Software16 Apr 2025 | 37
In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield
Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns
Legal16 Apr 2025 | 50
Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals
Won't let the Big G require its apps and search to be installed on smartphones
Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 27
Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again
Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm?
AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 22
US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts
Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door
Science15 Apr 2025 | 63
Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp
Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR
AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 34
White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades
Houston, we have a funding problem
Science14 Apr 2025 | 27
It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter
Opinion Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images
AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 82
The LittleGP-30: A tiny recreation of a very big deal from the 1950s
Royal McBee's desk-sized deskside early computer was the stuff of legend
Offbeat14 Apr 2025 | 19
AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary
Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots
AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18
Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again
A thing of beauty for map fans and those with kids
Offbeat12 Apr 2025 | 21
BOFH: There's a fatal error in the blinkenlights
Episode 7 Who needs actual server hardware when you can fire up a Linux laptop with the Matrix screensaver?
BOFH11 Apr 2025 | 64
Users hated a new app – maybe so much they filed a fake support call
On Call Sysadmin sent on road trip that required a lot of time doing nothing
Columnists11 Apr 2025 | 96
Tech CEO: Four-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity
Interview 'There are challenges' but staff recruitment and retention isn't one of them
Offbeat10 Apr 2025 | 58
Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager
Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights
CxO10 Apr 2025 | 3
UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants
Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year
Science09 Apr 2025 | 29
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