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Punchy Italian kartist gets 15-year ban for trackside rampage... and other stories

An unexpectedly vehicular collection of chaos and confusion for your consideration

23 Jul 19:01 | 11

eBay cyberstalking victims sue internet tat bazaar over former staff members' campaign of harassment

We endured enormous cruelty and abuse and feared for our lives, say couple

23 Jul 16:45 | 7

Anyone fancy a Snowmobile full of Bags O'Crap? It'll be on the list somewhere

Reg reader reveals colossal 821-item collection of Amazon trademarks tucked away on its site

23 Jul 16:02 | 15

We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. An exoplanet building its own moons

400 light-years away, satellites are forming

23 Jul 13:03 | 18

BOFH: You say goodbye and I say halon

I say 'Yes', Boss says 'No'... Boss says 'Stop'..and I say 'Go, go, go!'

23 Jul 10:46 | 57

Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more

From vid.me to f&*% me?!

22 Jul 23:30 | 21

Facebook gardening group triumphs over slapdash Zuck censorbots

Giant news org megaphone persuades dim algos they're talking about the other sort of hoes

22 Jul 21:04 | 37

Survey of astronomers and geophysicists shines a light on 'bleak' systemic bullying

'We need to hold each other to account when we're talking through these issues'

22 Jul 20:04 | 54

Russia's ISS Multipurpose Laboratory Module launches after years sitting on a shelf, immediately runs into issues

Nauka? More like 'Borka!' Geddit?

22 Jul 16:14 | 40

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses first stage in fight against extradition to US

UK Home Sec must now sign it off and then it's a High Court matter

22 Jul 14:30 | 39

Brain-computer interface researchers warn of a 'bleak' cyberpunk future – unless we tread carefully

Commercial exploitation of a person's inner thoughts 'particularly worrisome'

22 Jul 07:31 | 43

NASA warns Mars: We're about to laser your rocks and start stealing them

Perseverance prepares to snaffle first sample for eventual retrieval

22 Jul 06:00 | 21

Gloom-dwelling subterranean robots battle for million-dollar DARPA prize

SubT Challenge pits high-tech rescue drones against one another in upsettingly non-violent combat

21 Jul 21:15 | 21

Rise of The Machines

Hijacked, rampaging infrastructure will kill humans by 2025 – Gartner

Ransomware efforts will inevitably lead to threats to life as attacks on OT go OTT

21 Jul 19:02 | 23

Dog eats UK government's Hydrogen Strategy homework just as summer recess arrives

Ah shucks, industry and investors will have to wait a little bit longer

21 Jul 14:30 | 39

Pipe down, Jeff. You've only gone where Gus Grissom went before, 60 years ago today

Remembering the second American in space

21 Jul 13:00 | 27

Hundreds of irate UK Parliamentary staffers sue IPSA over 2017 salary spreadsheet publication snafu

Yet they lose anonymity bid before High Court

21 Jul 10:01 | 24

Mountains on neutron stars are not even a millimetre tall due to extreme gravity

According to simulations, anyway

21 Jul 07:27 | 43

Won't someone think of the kids? China's Cyberspace Admin steps up, orders massive cleanup to make the net safe for minors

No rudeness. No cute kids spruiking tat. No violence. No fan frenzies. And no smutty emoticons

21 Jul 06:44 | 12

Pakistan bans TikTok, for the fourth time

Previous bans were imposed for nasty content, then lifted after promises of proper moderation. And here we are again

21 Jul 05:27 | 3

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We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. An exoplanet building its own moons

400 light-years away, satellites are forming

Microsoft has a workaround for 'HiveNightmare' flaw: Nuke your shadow copies from orbit

It's the only way to be sure

Exsparko-destructus! What happens when wand waving meets extremely poor wiring

You killed my data centre, prepare to die

Even Facebook struggles: Zuck's titanic database upgrade hits numerous legacy software bergs

The Social Network™ has spent years trying to hop from MySQL 5.6 to 8.0 and still isn’t done

Activision Blizzard accused by California watchdog of fostering 'frat boy' culture, fatally toxic atmosphere

Games giant pushes back on claims of poor pay, harassment, and more in discrimination lawsuit

Never mind the trolls, Discord hosts 'significant volumes of malware' in its CDN

Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s

Hole blasted in Guntrader: UK firearms sales website's CRM database breached, 111,000 users' info spilled online

One of the worst things that could happen to privacy-focused community

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Is it broken yet? Is it? Is it? Ooh that means I can buy a sparkly, new but otherwise hard-to-justify replacement!

I may consider offering you cash to break it for me

BOFH: You say goodbye and I say halon

I say 'Yes', Boss says 'No'... Boss says 'Stop'..and I say 'Go, go, go!'

Survey of astronomers and geophysicists shines a light on 'bleak' systemic bullying

'We need to hold each other to account when we're talking through these issues'

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South Korea tables law to remove app stores' in-app purchase monopolies

Perhaps coincidentally, Google extended deadline of enforced Play-to-Pay on the very same day

21 Jul 03:53 | 11

Lawn care SWAT team subdues trigger-happy Texan... and other stories

A crunchy compendium of strangeness from around the globe

20 Jul 16:16 | 83

Good news: Jeff Bezos went to space. Bad news: He's back

Baldly going where beardy has gone before, except a bit higher

20 Jul 15:03 | 148

UK's Digital Markets Unit – the Big Tech watchdog – remains toothless for now but statutory powers due this year

Better get a wiggle on because the work is stacking up, those potentially massive fines won't write themselves

20 Jul 13:03 | 2

Our Friends Electric: A pair of alternative options for getting around town

The Register rakes a talon over next year's battery-powered jalopies

20 Jul 10:01 | 86

Not only is Hubble back online after outage, it's already taking photos of the cosmos

After hundreds of hours of work, engineers called out of retirement for help

20 Jul 06:24 | 52

India IT minister denies illegal use of NSO Pegasus spyware

Dances around the issue of whether it used NSO spyware at all as local politicians and media named as targets

20 Jul 04:42 | 14

Engineers' Laurel and Hardy moment caused British Airways 787 to take an accidental knee

A tale of two holes and two mechanics of two different heights

19 Jul 18:01 | 102

Gung-ho tank gamer spills classified docs in effort to win online argument

MoD, game developer take extremely dim view of excessive rivet-counter point-scoring

19 Jul 16:15 | 44

Happy 'Freedom Day': Stats suggest many in England don't want it or think it's a terrible idea

Coronavirus restrictions lifting, but to what cost?

19 Jul 14:07 | 241

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Paid antivirus? On ads? Think of all the beer you could buy without that subscription

These are a few of our favourite things

19 Jul 10:01 | 13

How to keep your enterprise up to date by deploying the very latest malware

Salesmen suffer after suspicious surfing

19 Jul 07:30 | 69

US Surgeon General doubles down on Facebook-bashing amid vaccination information blame game

The Social Network fires back after President Biden accuses it of 'killing people'

19 Jul 06:15 | 75

USA warns Hong Kong government may demand business and customer data, run surveillance without warrants

Hong Kong authorities 'alarmed by unsubstantiated remarks'

19 Jul 05:29 | 18

Malaysian Police crush crypto-mining kit to punish electricity thieves

Because in Miri District, that's how they roll

19 Jul 00:01 | 77

NASA fixes Hubble Space Telescope using backup power supply unit, payload computer

Hardware gremlins plagued orbiting observatory for over a month

16 Jul 21:02 | 111

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