Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies No word from the FBI about where they are hiding aliens or UFOs Offbeat12 Dec 2024 | 31
Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish Legal12 Dec 2024 | 28
China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse Long March-8A improves payload by forty percent and comes just a month after Long March 12 debut Science12 Dec 2024 | 2
Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law Sen. Wyden blasts FCC's 'failure' amid Salt Typhoon hacks Security11 Dec 2024 | 10
A decade on from maiden flight, NASA's Orion is still waiting for its Moon moment Hopefully it won't be another 10 years before the capsule is troubled by a crew Science11 Dec 2024 | 3
Blue Origin's New Glenn will launch any day now – but it better hurry up 2025 looming large as Blue Ring pathfinder prepped for liftoff Science11 Dec 2024 | 21
Doctor Who theme added to national sound archive to honor innovation, longevity Australia’s archive, that is – it was an Aussie who wrote it Offbeat11 Dec 2024 | 43
Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands Networks11 Dec 2024 | 30
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic Updated Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations Software11 Dec 2024 | 30
Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 107
TikTok appeals to have Trump – or Supreme Court – decide its fate later Wants to defer shutdown order that takes effect a day before the presidential inauguration Legal10 Dec 2024 | 21
Alibaba exec trashes his own staff and customers, quickly apologizes 'I am carefree, I like to joke,' says guy who fines workers if they glance at phones during meetings Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 17
Neuraspace adds a second telescope to track objects in orbit Starlink satellites might annoy astronomers, but at least they're easy to spot Science09 Dec 2024 | 2
Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province? Science09 Dec 2024 | 48
India launches two ESA sun-spotters that will fly in incredibly precise formation Proba-3's Occulter will blot out the sun to create eclipse-like effect Coronagraph can observe Science09 Dec 2024 | 13
You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you Maybe start getting better at sorting your trash before these ML garbage bots gain sentience? Bootnotes08 Dec 2024 | 43
British boffins build diamond battery capable of working for a millennium or five Video Carbon-14 decay could be coming to an implant in you Science08 Dec 2024 | 46
Digital Isle of Man: For all your connected tax haven needs? Fantasizing about leaving the mess at home behind? Pretty island packed with medieval ruins promotes itself as a venue for e-business Offbeat07 Dec 2024 | 29
Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump Plus, xAI scores another $6B to fuel Tesla tycoon's war on OpenAI Public Sector07 Dec 2024 | 107
Vega-C finally launches ESA's next Sentinel satellite Return to flight almost two years since the previous endeavor failed Science06 Dec 2024 | 7
US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns Boeing-Bell V-22 can't outfly its checkered past, it seems
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic Updated Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations
Microsoft holds last Patch Tuesday of the year with 72 gifts for admins Patch Tuesday Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, patching was done with the click of a mouse
AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory
Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands
Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention AI assistant goes native – sort of – for Windows Insiders
US names Chinese national it alleges was behind 2020 attack on Sophos firewalls Also sanctions his employer – an outfit called Sichuan Silence linked to Ragnarok ransomware
Three more vulns spotted in Ivanti CSA, all critical, one 10/10 Patch up, everyone – that admin portal is mighty attractive to your friendly cyberattacker
Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation admits to hole in security Belly-busting biz says it's been hit by cowardly custards
Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor
NASA finds Orion heatshield cracks won't cook Artemis II crew Lunar flights therefore set for seven-month delay and change re-entry approach, but redesign not needed Science06 Dec 2024 | 39
Arianespace's Vega C delayed after gantry throws a tantrum Euro rocket stuck on the ground for another day Science05 Dec 2024 | 17
Temporary printable tattoos could be the future of EEGs Boffins' big brainwave of using custom skullcaps to capture, er, more brainwaves Science05 Dec 2024 | 25
Trump wants SpaceX customer Jared Isaacman as next NASA boss Billionaire space tourist and mate of Elon pledges Americans will get to Mars Science04 Dec 2024 | 40
Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries Lawsuit says e-commerce giant cut two zip codes from its own fleet without telling residents Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 53
Europe's Vega C rocket cleared for launch tonight, first since 2022 Nozzle woes in the past for continent's new launcher Science04 Dec 2024 | 18
Microsoft learned of fresh antitrust probe from the news Never mind our alleged cheating of customers – you guys are a bunch of leakers, Redmond tells watchdog Legal04 Dec 2024 | 2
£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds Yes, we've been over this before - several times, in fact Legal04 Dec 2024 | 9
SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset Probe may not make it to 30 as funding runs out and replacement is launched Science03 Dec 2024 | 24
Judge again cans Musk's record-setting $56B Tesla package 'Even if a stockholder vote could have a ratifying effect, it could not do so here,' says Delaware Chancellor Bootnotes03 Dec 2024 | 37
$373M ASML chipmaker shrinks to $228 – but it's made of Lego What to buy the techie who has everything? Offbeat03 Dec 2024 | 29
Employee sues Apple over 'spying' claims tied to mandatory devices Cupertino's walled garden 'is a prison yard' claims plaintiff Legal02 Dec 2024 | 8
Oh, good. Supermicro board probe clears server slinger of misconduct claims But hunts for a fresh CFO 'in light of rapid recent growth' Systems02 Dec 2024 | 3
Apple's backwards design mistake and the reversed capacitor It's true – the Mac LC III really did have it installed the wrong way round Personal Tech02 Dec 2024 | 32
Musk seeks injunction to stop OpenAI morphing into for-profit company Politics, electric cars, rockets, and social media not enough to keep some individuals busy AI + ML02 Dec 2024 | 17
Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next Competition What's that coming over the hill, is it an AI? Bootnotes02 Dec 2024 | 206
China launches first next-gen Long March 12 rocket, christens private spaceport Won't scare SpaceX as it's not reusable, but will help Beijing do things like launch broadband sats Science02 Dec 2024 | 3
NASA's X-59 plane is aiming for a sonic thump, not a boom Feature Pilot James 'Clue' Less is ready to take to the skies Science30 Nov 2024 | 65
SpaceX hits 400 launches of Falcon 9 rocket Yet another batch of Starlink satellites mark the milestone Science29 Nov 2024 | 51
Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too Storage29 Nov 2024 | 55
Google earns fresh competition scrutiny from two nations on a single day India unhappy about treatment of some games, Canada upset by adware monopoly Legal29 Nov 2024 | 13
Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate Also intros surveillance tweaks to protect very successful AN0M fake messaging app sting Legal28 Nov 2024 | 84
Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled Ten rules for maximizing your grindset! #1: Let a bot do your work for you Bootnotes28 Nov 2024 | 54
'Best job at JPL': What it's like to be an engineer on the Voyager project Feature 'I love this work. I love what I'm doing. It's so cool' Science28 Nov 2024 | 34
Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online 'See you in court', defendant posts Legal28 Nov 2024 | 29
China starts building world's largest fully steerable radio telescope 120-meter colossus expected to be online in 2028 – around the same time the Square Kilometer Array Science28 Nov 2024 | 25
Microsoft informed of yet another antitrust probe by US authorities Investigation is apparently sweeping, but keen on info about AI, security, and cloud Legal28 Nov 2024 | 5
Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs Updated X rival also under fire for failing to designate legal representative Legal26 Nov 2024 | 82
Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find Camp Century could spill millions of gallons of sewage, diesel fuel, and nuclear waste as climate warms Science25 Nov 2024 | 78
Musk agrees with fan that worries over orbital Starlink traffic a 'silly narrative' Forget the 10x programmer. How about 10x satellites? Networks25 Nov 2024 | 63
We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people Oh, AI wanna be like you, AI wanna walk like you, talk like you, too AI + ML24 Nov 2024 | 49
Why Google's Chrome monopoly won't crack anytime soon Opinion Haven't we heard this story before? Columnists23 Nov 2024 | 77
AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church Pope, Depeche Mode, silent on digital second coming Bootnotes23 Nov 2024 | 77
SpaceX closing in on approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025 Draft environmental assessment ready for public scrutiny Science22 Nov 2024 | 23
EU buyers still shunning pure electric vehicles, prefer hybrids Dual power source beat petrol-only autos for second month running Personal Tech22 Nov 2024 | 170
BOFH: The devil's in the contract details Episode 22 But at least we have the PFY – and beautiful views from the office window BOFH22 Nov 2024 | 66
India's Moon orbiter was shifted suddenly to avoid Korea's and NASA's craft Apparently there's not enough space in space Science22 Nov 2024 | 31
Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him Zomato boss Deepinder Goyal leaves a sour taste in the mouth Offbeat21 Nov 2024 | 91
SpaceX claims another Starship success, but fumbles the catch In-space engine reignition paves way for orbital missions Science20 Nov 2024 | 193
BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 Obit Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Bootnotes20 Nov 2024 | 121
Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 Personal Tech20 Nov 2024 | 187
Robot runs marathon in South Korea, apparently the first time this has happened Finishing in 4:19:52 makes it a SlowBot - although it did finish without a battery top-up Science19 Nov 2024 | 25
Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional Big Tech's big war on American labor watchdog stumbles... bigly Legal18 Nov 2024 | 71
Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize This was pretty inevitable after its lawyers admitted in court that the giveaway wasn't random Offbeat18 Nov 2024 | 70
NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers $45K says you can do it without a lunar rover Science18 Nov 2024 | 62
UK test-fires Spear mini cruise missile that will equip F-35 fighters 2-way datalink allows in-flight info updates including retargeting and abort Public Sector18 Nov 2024 | 84
NIST trains AI to hear the 'oh crap' moment before batteries explode Machine learning used to separate opening a can of soda from something catastrophic Science18 Nov 2024 | 26
First looks at China's Moon rock samples suggest Luna had volcanoes for longer than previously thought Stuff from the far side is basalt - but less KREEP-y than expected Science18 Nov 2024 | 1
Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware QR codes arrive via an age-old delivery system Bootnotes16 Nov 2024 | 39
Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine Emails and tool-tracking software weren't heeded, but nothing scary happened - except to the nylon tool Offbeat15 Nov 2024 | 163
WP Engine revs Automattic lawsuit with antitrust claim Revised sueball over WordPress brawl tries Sherman Antitrust Act on for size Software15 Nov 2024 | 23
Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff Video Because life's not weird enough in the United States these days Science14 Nov 2024 | 48
Tesla Cybertruck, a paragon of reliability, recalled again And there's no OTA patching your way out of faulty drive inverter MOSFETs Bootnotes14 Nov 2024 | 53
SpaceX Starship moved to launchpad for 6th flight test Yes, the heat shield has been tweaked. But there's also a banana for scale Science14 Nov 2024 | 16
Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software Updated Dam, the consequences Software14 Nov 2024 | 80
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to eject hundreds more workers Budget constraints result in 'painful but necessary adjustments' Science13 Nov 2024 | 35
California's last nuclear plant turns to generative AI for filing and finding the fine print Diablo Canyon gets nifty new tech to … speed up document retrieval? Science13 Nov 2024 | 11
Ambitious overclocker cools Raspberry Pi 5 with liquid nitrogen Updated Pi supremo Eben Upton tells El Reg: 'I love this sort of thing' Offbeat13 Nov 2024 | 39
UK's Darpa clone faces tough test next spring as government considers future funding With plant platforms and neural circuits on the program, Aria's leadership hope cross-party concensus continues Public Sector13 Nov 2024 | 11
What might a second term of Trump mean for the US space program? Moon, Mars, and Mayhem? Science12 Nov 2024 | 73
SpaceX Dragon gives ISS a helping hand with altitude Demonstration paves way for more reboosts before station's eventual deorbit Science11 Nov 2024 | 28
Gang of monkeys escape South Carolina biomedical research facility Lock your doors and windows, say police, but these should be disease-free Bootnotes11 Nov 2024 | 58
Unbreakable Voyager space probes close in on a 50 year mission Dwindling power and problematic communications, but the spacecraft just keeps on going Science09 Nov 2024 | 66
Intel: Our finances are in the toilet, we're laying off 15K, but the free coffee is back! Now that's a brew-haha Bootnotes09 Nov 2024 | 98
BOFH: Don't threaten us with a good time – ensure it Episode 21 Enterprise-level insurance? What are we, Trekkies? BOFH08 Nov 2024 | 125
NHS to launch 'real-time surveillance system' to prevent future pandemics Nanopore DNA screening technology may identify novel pathogens, propose treatments in as little as six hours Science08 Nov 2024 | 56
Robots crush career opportunities for low-skilled workers They also boost support for populist politicians, study finds Offbeat08 Nov 2024 | 91
Astroboffins tune into the wild origins of fast radio bursts Enigmatic cosmic signals from outside this galaxy could come from collapsed binary stars Science07 Nov 2024 | 8
Top 10 billionaires make nearly $64B in post-Trump election stock surge 9 out of 10 are techies, but Zuckerberg lost money Offbeat07 Nov 2024 | 120
Nolanverse Batmobile leaps barrier between film and reality – but it'll cost you Got a spare $2.9 million lying around? Asking for a friend ... Offbeat07 Nov 2024 | 29
SpaceX plans next Starship flight just days from now Hands up who wants to see the 'chopsticks' catch the Super Heavy again? Science07 Nov 2024 | 42
Another official four-day week pilot kicks off in the UK Nation's favorite cloud-slinger, AWS, unlikely to be taking part Offbeat07 Nov 2024 | 35
Intel sued over Raptor Lake voltage instability Failure to warn customers about chip flaw leads to fraud claim Systems06 Nov 2024 | 15
Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets Electromagnetic radiation contributed to that zincing feeling: analysts Science06 Nov 2024 | 68
A new city springs from the rainforest to become Indonesia's tech hub Jakarta who? Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara, is packed with tech On-Prem06 Nov 2024 | 17
Judge decides not to block Musk's $1M election giveaway America PAC tells judge winners were preselected, raising a whole new set of legal questions Legal05 Nov 2024 | 69
Japan's wooden cube-shaped satellite rockets to space Wooden datacenters? Japan can build spacecraft out of the stuff Networks05 Nov 2024 | 24
That position you just applied for might be a 'ghost job' that'll never be filled Turns out it's perfectly legal to waste applicants' time, use posts to squeeze more productivity out of employees Legal03 Nov 2024 | 132
Oregon Trail 'action comedy' film in the works from Apple Hopefully watching it'll be less painful than dying of dysentery Offbeat02 Nov 2024 | 46