Declassified and released: More secret files on US govt's emergency doomsday powers
Nuke incoming? Quick break out the plans for rationing, censorship, property seizures, and more
Bootnotes28 May 2022 | 36
Offbeat
UK monopoly watchdog investigates Google's online advertising business
Another probe? Mountain View is starting to look like a pincushion at this rate
Legal27 May 2022 | 8
Spam is back with a vengeance. Luckily we can't read any of it
Something for the Weekend It's a shame still nothing can be done about all the false positives, though
Bootnotes27 May 2022 | 74
BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?
Episode 10 Did that printer service person just sell you 10 overpriced boxes of the wrong paper?
BOFH27 May 2022 | 91
World’s smallest remote-controlled robots are smaller than a flea
Video So small, you can't feel it crawl
Science27 May 2022 | 28
New York City rips out last city-owned public payphones
Y'know, those large cellphones fixed in place that you share with everyone and have to put coins in. Y'know, those metal disks representing...
Bootnotes26 May 2022 | 26
UK opens national security probe into 2021 sale of local wafer fab to Chinese company
Government has power to unwind transactions such as sale of Newport facility to China-controlled Nexperia
Legal26 May 2022 | 40
Mitsubishi Electric again admits to widespread quality control cheating
Nifty slogan and more software suggested as the rectification
Legal26 May 2022 | 12
Microsoft veteran on how he forged a badge to sneak into a Ballmer presentation
Developers, developers... and top secret coffee machines. Security at MS is definitely tighter 25 years later
Offbeat25 May 2022 | 38
Beijing reverses ban on tech companies listing offshore
Announcement comes as Chinese ride-hailing DiDi Chuxing delists from NYSE under pressure
Legal24 May 2022 | 2
Mysterious firm seeks to buy majority stake in Arm China
Chinese joint venture's ousted CEO tries to hang on - who will get control?
Legal20 May 2022 | 14
Boeing's Starliner CST-100 on its way to the ISS 2 years late
A couple of thruster failures shouldn't affect the Calamity Capsule's second attempt at reaching space station
Science20 May 2022 | 64
Failed gambler? How about an algorithm that predicts the future
Something for the Weekend Hopefully an end to '... and you'll never guess what happened next!'
Bootnotes20 May 2022 | 75
Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth
On Call Network? What's that when it's at home?
Columnists20 May 2022 | 246
Lawmakers launch bill to break up tech giants' ad dominance
Running ad auctions while also buying and selling ads may be outlawed for large firms
Legal19 May 2022 | 5
Landmark case recognizes Bored Ape NFT as an asset
Singapore issues injunction against the sale of image procured through questionable foreclosure
Legal19 May 2022 | 37
Voyager 1 space probe producing ‘anomalous telemetry data’
Engineers debugging at 160 bits per second, with 41 hours latency
Science19 May 2022 | 116
IT staffing, recruitment biz settles claims it discriminated against Americans
Foreign workers favored over US residents because that's what clients wanted, allegedly
Legal19 May 2022 | 22
Judge details Lynch's $700k signoff via iPhone text in full Autonomy judgement
Still no damages number, likely to be way less than $5 billion
Legal18 May 2022 | 5
NASA's InSight doomed as Mars dust coats solar panels
The little lander that couldn't (any longer)
Science18 May 2022 | 57
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When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer
On Call It says 'Do Not Touch,' not 'Rip Out My Guts'
Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware
Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming
GitHub saved plaintext passwords of npm users in log files, post mortem reveals
Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, but still troubling as org reveals details of around 100,000 users were grabbed by the baddies
Clonezilla 3: Copy and clone disk images to your heart's content
Even non-sysadmins may find this Linux live ISO handy
Ransomware encrypts files, demands three good deeds to restore data
Shut up and take ... poor kids to KFC?
Cheers ransomware hits VMware ESXi systems
Now we can say extortionware has jumped the shark
Declassified and released: More secret files on US govt's emergency doomsday powers
Nuke incoming? Quick break out the plans for rationing, censorship, property seizures, and more
Twitter founder Dorsey beats hasty retweet from the board
As shareholders sue the social network amid Elon Musk's takeover scramble
How to reprogram Apple AirTags, play custom sounds
Voltage glitch here, glitch there, now you can fiddle with location disc's firmware
World’s smallest remote-controlled robots are smaller than a flea
Video So small, you can't feel it crawl
STORIES
Pentagon opens up about its database of 400 smudges that may or may not be UFOs
'We're open to all hypotheses, we're open to any conclusions' says official
Bootnotes17 May 2022 | 28
Rocket Lab is taking NASA's CAPSTONE to the Moon
Mission to lunar orbit is further than any Photon satellite bus has gone before
Science17 May 2022 | 8
Tech pros warn EU 'data adequacy' at risk if Brexit Britain goes its own way
Show us that benefits outweigh the cost, BCS challenges government
Legal17 May 2022 | 84
Lithium production needs investment to keep pace with battery demand
Report says $42b will need to be poured into industry over next decade
Science16 May 2022 | 17
RISC-V needs more than an open architecture to compete
Opinion Arm shows us that even total domination doesn't always make stupid levels of money
Columnists16 May 2022 | 57
Lawyers say changes to UK data law will make life harder for international businesses
Concerns raised over government drive to implement distinct post-Brexit policy
Legal16 May 2022 | 69
September 16, 1992, was not a good day to be overly enthusiastic about your job
Who, Me? If I get in early and work hard, everyone will notice, right?
Columnists16 May 2022 | 63
Toshiba says it's talking to 10 suitors about possible sale
Hires external advisors to bolster decision making capacity and hints it could consider multiple buyout plans
Legal16 May 2022 | 7
D-Wave deploys first US-based Advantage quantum system
For those that want to keep their data in the homeland
Science15 May 2022 | 10
Pictured: Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
We speak to scientists involved in historic first snap – and no, this isn't the M87*
Science14 May 2022 | 55
Confirmation dialog Groundhog Day: I click OK and it keeps coming back
Something for the Weekend Yes/No/Cancel culture at its worst
Columnists13 May 2022 | 145
BOFH: You'll have to really trust me on this team-building exercise
Episode 9 Why shouldn't the stairwell be the preferred location for our fun?
BOFH13 May 2022 | 99
BMW looks to quantum computers to speed R&D
Pasqal to provide compute based on approaches by Qu&Co acquisition
Science12 May 2022 | 16
The future is unwritten, but here’s how you can start preparing for it right now
Shivvy Jervis kicks off Lenovo’s futurist keynote series this month
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Judge agrees damages model in Oracle cloud class-action
Link between compliance and sales appeared to boost cloud performance in case disputed by Big Red
Legal11 May 2022 | 7
Aerospace biz Orbex shows off a prototype Prime on its Scottish stand
What goes up will also come down. The question is... how?
Science11 May 2022 | 5
Appian awarded over $2b after claiming Pegasystems stole its data
Low-code platform providers' legal tussle ends with 'largest damages award in Virginia state court history'
Legal10 May 2022 | 19
Astra Space to launch satellites from Shetland
Rockets could fly from the UK as soon as next year
Science10 May 2022 | 11
Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for inventing PowerShell
Twitter thread reveals Redmondian machinations
Offbeat10 May 2022 | 137
Mars Ingenuity helicopter and Perseverance are talking again
NASA drops heater temp to boost batteries as dust hits solar supply
Science09 May 2022 | 33
Tesla sues former engineer, claims he stole Dojo supercomputer trade secrets
AI is meant to solve tech challenges innate in designing, running complex system
Legal09 May 2022 | 13
Nvidia pays $5.5m to settle SEC charges of shoddy cryptomining disclosures
GPU giant accused of obscuring its impact on gaming segment in 2017
Legal06 May 2022 | 1
Switch off the mic if it makes you feel better – it'll make no difference
Something for the Weekend Treat all those micro-phonies like so many spies in the wire
Bootnotes06 May 2022 | 81
Facebook deliberately took down Australian government pages during pay-for-news negotiations: report
Whistleblowers say takedowns were used as leverage, Facebook disagrees
Legal06 May 2022 | 18
Shareholders turn the screws on IBM and its gag orders
In wake of dinobaby-gate, investors not happy with NDAs hushing up claims of harassment, discrimination
Legal05 May 2022 | 31
SEC adds Tencent, JD.com, China Mobile to group facing potential delisting
US requires a bit more transparency than some Chinese tech companies are giving
Legal05 May 2022 | 3
World needs multilateral chip tech export bans to hurt China – think tank
Current arrangements may promote offshore workarounds and don't make life hard enough
Legal05 May 2022 | 20
Engineer gets Windows 11 working on a Surface Duo
So those hardware requirements for Microsoft's OS really are arbitrary
Offbeat04 May 2022 | 41
Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global reveals SEC probing its IPO
US regulator looking into alleged 'misstatements' and 'omissions' related to June 2021 USA float
Legal04 May 2022 | 3
LinkedIn settles Dept of Labor charges it underpaid women
Microsoft's social network for thinkfluencers disagrees with Uncle Sam, coughs up $1.8m
Legal03 May 2022 | 2
India seizes $725 million of Xiaomi's cash
Chinese giant really got something in return for those cross-border payments, say money laundering cops
Legal03 May 2022 | 14
Rocket Lab successfully catches falling rocket booster with a helicopter
Mission not quite accomplished after some weird wobbles
Offbeat03 May 2022 | 38
Arm China website posts letter from staff opposing change of management
SoftBank may control the company, but it seems not to have all the important passwords
Legal03 May 2022 | 8
EU Apple suit alleges anticompetitive Apple Pay practices
The new investigation marks the fourth set of allegations leveled against Apple by the EU since 2020
Legal02 May 2022 | 14
Human-made hopper out-leaps rival robots in artificial jumping contest
Applications in lunar exploration and Earth-bound locomotion are possible
Science01 May 2022 | 29
Quantum-tunneling memory could boost AI energy efficiency by 100x
Boffins get excited about building better machine synapses
Science01 May 2022 | 2
Worried about being replaced by a robot? Become a physicist
Scientists develop algorithm that decides if your job can just be an algorithm
Science30 Apr 2022 | 56
NASA's modified Boeing 747 SP SOFIA to be grounded for good
Final flight of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will be in 2022
Science29 Apr 2022 | 25
Meetings in the metaverse: Are your Mikes on?
Something for the Weekend You thought Zoom was bad? Welcome to the Thunderdome
Bootnotes29 Apr 2022 | 58
BOFH: Something's consuming 40% of UPS capacity – and it's coming from the beancounters' office
Episode 8 Under-desk heaters, two small fridges, an entire kitchenette...
BOFH29 Apr 2022 | 120
Arm wrests back control of its rogue China limb
Updated Ouster of rebel CEO should clear path for planned Arm IPO
Legal29 Apr 2022 | 5
MIT's thin plastic speakers fall flat. And that's by design
Video The walls are alive with the sound of music
Science29 Apr 2022 | 35
US appeals court ruling could 'eliminate internet privacy'
Tech terms of service dissolve Fourth Amendment rights, EFF warns
Legal28 Apr 2022 | 57
Rocket Lab to attempt mid-air recovery of descending booster
Doing anything Friday night? Fancy watching someone try to catch a rocket with a helicopter?
Science28 Apr 2022 | 29
Indian government hauls Infosys in to explain non-compete clause
Not hard to see why Infosys wants to keep staff – rival HCL blames price hikes on pay rises and recruitment costs
Legal28 Apr 2022 | 8
Accenture announces 'Accenture Song' – not a tune, but a rebrand
To deliver post-pandemic accelerated metaverse continuum experience consultancy. Or something
Offbeat28 Apr 2022 | 58
US Navy told to do a 'supplemental' integrity investigation of $2.5b Dell deal
Email about pricing from rival seller of Microsoft licensing and software under spotlight
Legal27 Apr 2022 | 9
US Army may be about to 'waste' up to $22b on Microsoft HoloLens
Updated Will soldiers actually use these goggles? Asking for a watchdog
Bootnotes26 Apr 2022 | 81
Could a leaky capacitor be at fault on ESA's Sentinel-1B?
Prepare your 'turn it off and on' jokes as engineers get ready to flip the heaters
Science25 Apr 2022 | 27
EU eyes tech giant revenues as Digital Services Act clears hurdles
Fines worth 6 percent of annual turnover survived draft in provisional agreement
Legal25 Apr 2022 | 4
Your AI can't tell you it's lying if it thinks it's telling the truth. That's a problem
Opinion Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of ML? Er, nobody
Columnists25 Apr 2022 | 52
In IT, no good deed ever goes unpunished
Who, Me? When being helpful can mean being shown the door
Columnists25 Apr 2022 | 71
US Space Force unit to monitor region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit
Team America: Solar System Police
Science23 Apr 2022 | 84
Take this $15m and make us some ultra-energy-efficient superconductor chips, scientists told
A fair price to get everyone to stop talking about Moore's Law for good
Science22 Apr 2022 | 21
Engineers up the torque to get Lucy's solar array latched
Nobody wants flappy bits during an engine burn of Trojan asteroid explorer
Science22 Apr 2022 | 14
Putin reaches for nuclear option: Zuckerberg banned
In Soviet Russia, bear pokes you
Bootnotes22 Apr 2022 | 61
Judge dismisses Microsoft's challenges: ValueLicensing case to proceed in Britain
UK High Court beckons for Windows vendor and reseller amid claims of on-prem software license skulduggery
Legal20 Apr 2022 | 18
Space Launch System dress rehearsal canceled for repairs
If at first you don't succeed... you're probably NASA
Science19 Apr 2022 | 30
IBM ordered to pay $105 million to insurer over tech project's collapse
Appeals court takes previous payout ruling and multiplies by six
Legal19 Apr 2022 | 36
When the expert speaker at an NFT tech panel goes rogue
Something for the Weekend Stick to the script, man! It’s confusing enough already
Bootnotes16 Apr 2022 | 117
Auctioneer puts Space Shuttle CPUs under the hammer
IBM kit made 20 journeys into space, now selling for surprisingly down-to-Earth prices
Offbeat14 Apr 2022 | 47
ESA: Fly me to the Moon, just not on a Russian rocket
Payloads pulled as Europe eyes alternatives
Science14 Apr 2022 | 16
BOFH: The evil guide to upgrading switches
Episode 7 Choose your own adventure! Who will win: the Boss or the IT admins? B or B
BOFH14 Apr 2022 | 85
Infosys quits Russia, ending UK political and tax scandal … maybe
Founder's daughter is married to top UK politician, holds billion dollar stake that was maxed for tax efficiency
Legal14 Apr 2022 | 55
IBM not cooperating with discovery, say attorneys in age-discrimination case
Big Blue contends it should not be forced to reveal more than law requires
Legal14 Apr 2022 | 26
Intel ships mystery quantum hardware to national lab
Argonne boffinry nerve-center is building a qubit computer with x86 giant Inside
Science13 Apr 2022 | 9
Zuckerberg gets $26m in 'other' Meta compensation
Personal security, private travel, for exec making a single 'Zuck Buck'
Offbeat12 Apr 2022 | 31
First rocket launch from UK soil now has... a logo
Designed by a six-year-old, the design just needs a rocket on which to ride
Offbeat12 Apr 2022 | 25
Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong in trouble again – this time over financial filings
Fair Trade Commission concerned false paperwork took years to decipher
Legal12 Apr 2022 | 2
SpaceX's Starlink service suffers brief but global weekend outage
Out of this world service for Musk's satellite broadband
Offbeat11 Apr 2022 | 4
The Register gets up close and personal with ESA's JUICE spacecraft
Feature Next stop, French Guiana. Then Jupiter
Science11 Apr 2022 | 14
Scientists make spin ice breakthrough
Artificial spin ice with smallest features ever created could be part of novel low-power HPC
Science09 Apr 2022 | 10
US Army to build largest 3D-printed structures in the Americas
Do we have enough toner for barracks in Fort Bliss base in Texas?
Bootnotes09 Apr 2022 | 66
The Souls noob's guide to Elden Ring
The RPG FromSoftware's magnum opus, made with input from George R R Martin, invites new and veteran players alike
Offbeat09 Apr 2022 | 23
SpaceX launches first totally private mission to the International Space Station
Saturday rendezvous planned for historic commercial orbit ride
Science08 Apr 2022 | 29
Newly released Space Force data could save life on Earth
Goodness, gracious, lots of insights on great balls of fire
Science08 Apr 2022 | 13
Direct lithium extraction technique for greener batteries gains traction
Special method for production gets cash injection from govt, vendors
Science08 Apr 2022 | 37
EU appeals overturned $1.2b Intel antitrust fine
12 years on, rebates-for-not-using-AMD-chips case isn't over yet...
Legal08 Apr 2022 | 11
Fish mentality: If The Rock told you to eat flies, would you buy my NFT?
Something for the Weekend This week's column coming to you via hologram. Or a spaceship
Bootnotes08 Apr 2022 | 61
Toshiba puts going private on the table
Appoints independent committee and gives angry investors most of what they want
Legal08 Apr 2022 | 4
