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
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
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
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
'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