Matthew Brown Companies confirms it's in funding talks with Virgin Orbit
Back to work on Monday? Branson and co still fighting to get funding
Offbeat24 Mar 2023 | 6
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Forget general AI, apparently zebrafish larvae can count
Numerical abilities could be a hardwired, ancient feature of the developing vertebrate brain, study suggests
Science24 Mar 2023 | 16
BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days
Episode 6 Be nice if someone would keep a closer eye on them ...
BOFH24 Mar 2023 | 46
Where in the world is Terraform Labs villain Do Kwon? Montenegro, actually
Probably in a jail cell, waiting to be extradited stateside
Legal24 Mar 2023 | 11
Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid
It's probably going to happen, but final approval depends on 'circumstances'
Legal24 Mar 2023 | 4
Terran 1, world's first (mostly) 3D printed rocket, lifts off ... and fails to reach orbit
Mission named 'Good Luck Have Fun' needed more of both
Science23 Mar 2023 | 8
First-known interstellar Solar System visitor 'Oumuamua a comet in disguise – research
Strange appearance and behavior perplexed astronomers, led some folks to believe it was alien spaceship
Science23 Mar 2023 | 38
Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit
Now all it has to do is land
Science23 Mar 2023 | 13
Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life
JWST? Whatever, I found ET in my dustpan
Science22 Mar 2023 | 13
Indian state turns off internet for 27 million, for four days, to stymie one man
Digital rights org criticizes use of fill-in-the-blank template used to quell separatist protests
Legal22 Mar 2023 | 14
US details CHIPS Act rules that give China and South Korea some comfort
Allows a little expansion of output from existing Middle Kingdom facilities
Legal22 Mar 2023 |
Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong
Do you Xi what I Xi?
Offbeat22 Mar 2023 | 33
Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability?
My goodness that's moist
Science21 Mar 2023 | 14
NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess
13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm
Science21 Mar 2023 | 8
Acer pedals into e-cycle market with AI and big data in its basket
Still tumbleweed for PC industry right now, but maybe folks will buy computers-on-bikes?
Offbeat21 Mar 2023 | 17
Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware
65 AA batteries and $10 Arduino processor power space debris solution
Science21 Mar 2023 | 42
Earth is running out of places for stargazers to do dark deeds in the name of science
A 'new deal for the night' needed
Science20 Mar 2023 | 24
Potatoes in space: Boffins cook up cosmic concrete for off-world habitats
Extraterrestrial regolith biocomposite, you say? I’ll have two
Science20 Mar 2023 | 38
Hong Kong's state-sponsored SEO on national anthem strikes the right note
Can't get Google to finish the job, though
Legal20 Mar 2023 | 11
Now collapsed SVB's parent files for bankruptcy as Biden calls for stiffer penalties
Thought you guys were into fail fast, fail often?
Legal17 Mar 2023 | 35
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GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update
Getting connection failures? Don't panic. Get new keys
Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson on the hook for Philippine telco's $880M overspend
Next time you blow a project budget, console yourself that you weren’t this bad
Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem
On Call Five developers named Bob were not good at their jobs
Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365
Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize
Barred from US tech, Huawei claims to have built its own 14nm chip design suite
Beijing's Made in China drive fueled by Washington's export crackdowns
ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI
Opinion Without publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot
BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days
Episode 6 Be nice if someone would keep a closer eye on them ...
Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block
2.5% of workforce to go as sales and margin growth forecasts dip
French parliament says oui to AI surveillance for 2024 Paris Olympics
Liberté, égalité, reconnaissance faciale for all
Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug
All your previously Snipping Tool cropped images aren't, basically
STORIES
UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now?
Elder statesman of system software makes a shocking revelation
Offbeat17 Mar 2023 | 91
Capital crunch: Virgin Orbit confirms all ops on pause until Tuesday
Staff reportedly furloughed as firm scrambles to find funding after failed launch
Science16 Mar 2023 | 24
NASA spots first evidence of an active volcano on Venus – in a big pile of CD-ROMs
Disc-trawling expedition of 30-year-old data turns up trumps
Science16 Mar 2023 | 11
Reg fashion: Here's what the well-dressed astronaut will wear on the Moon in 2025
Charcoal gray with orange highlights – so chic, and so deliberately fake
Science16 Mar 2023 | 61
Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla
Bring back keys! Bring back keys!
Offbeat15 Mar 2023 | 146
Firefly gets nod from NASA to deliver Lunar Pathfinder to the Moon
LuSEE in the sky with ... data
Science15 Mar 2023 | 14
DXC Technology fined $8m by SEC for misleading investors
Penalty paid for misclassifying tens of millions of dollars of costs, and for 'inadequate' controls missing the error
Legal15 Mar 2023 | 1
Tough luck, Brits: Binance suspends UK deposits and withdrawals
Perfect timing – we could use another bank run
Legal15 Mar 2023 | 51
Anyone want an International Space Station? Slightly used
NASA expects to spend about $1 billion to bring it down safely
Science15 Mar 2023 | 132
China debuts bonkers hybrid electric trolley-truck
Mutant offspring of a semi and a trolleybus suggested as emission-cutting future of commercial transport
Science15 Mar 2023 | 82
MIT researchers propose modular, multi-mission Moon robots
Fancy playing with some space Lego?
Science14 Mar 2023 | 1
Sandia opens up ultra-fast X-ray cameras to speedy shutterbugs
Seriously, this tech makes your phone camera look like it's from the stone age
Science14 Mar 2023 | 7
Uber and Lyft gig worker win overturned: You're a contractor, Harry
'Today's ruling certainly isn't going to stop us' says campaigner
Offbeat14 Mar 2023 | 6
Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you
'ChatGPT is going to be in everything' says automaker
Offbeat14 Mar 2023 | 146
NASA wants a telescope on the far side of the Moon
Aims to look at the universe's dark ages without interference from Earth
Science14 Mar 2023 | 51
Pentagon whistleblower Ellsberg given months to live
Comment The man leaking vital data before it was fashionable
Bootnotes13 Mar 2023 | 16
Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm bought by HSBC for 1 British pound in rescue deal
$2.9 trillion-asset globo corp's local subsidiary buys Silicon Roundabout fave
Legal13 Mar 2023 | 49
Yes, Samsung 'fakes' its smartphone Moon photos – who cares?
Comment Moon is real. Pictures of Moon are real. Phone uses lots of pictures of Moon to make your picture less crap
Offbeat13 Mar 2023 | 86
Silicon supply chain players plot exodus from China in wake of ASML's exit
Vietnam, Malyasia, and Singapore roll out the welcome mat
Legal13 Mar 2023 | 23
China launches yet another crackdown on social media
'I am the Chinese Communist Party. I will be with you forever' - Beijing's new propaganda vid says the quiet part out loud
Legal13 Mar 2023 | 18
US government says Silicon Valley Bank depositors can get their cash on Monday
Feds say this won’t cost taxpayers a dime
Legal13 Mar 2023 | 36
Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth
Luckily this rock is only about the size of the Arc de Triomphe, let alone the 600-to-1 chance
Science12 Mar 2023 | 30
Welcome to Muskville: Where the workers never leave
Comment Your boss owns you AND your home – is this Texas utopia?
Offbeat10 Mar 2023 | 94
Silicon Valley Bank seized by officials after imploding: How this happened and why
2023, just like 2008
Legal10 Mar 2023 | 133
BOFH: I care a lot ... about onion bhajis
Episode 5 Users and colleagues? You couldn't pay me enough
BOFH10 Mar 2023 | 99
Boffins find 'missing link' between interstellar ice and what comes out of the tap
Now drink your space juice
Science10 Mar 2023 | 26
Two tech-centric banks strike trouble, spooking markets
Silicon Valley Bank sold billions in bonds as startups struggle, crypto-centric Silvergate Bank just gave up
Legal10 Mar 2023 | 12
US officials probe Tesla's incredible detaching steering wheel
It could be worse, at least Autopilot is ... oh
Offbeat09 Mar 2023 | 43
Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West
This is what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket case
Bootnotes09 Mar 2023 | 91
The Moon or bust, says NASA, after successful SLS/Orion test flight
Heat shield sustained more damage than expected, but this shouldn't discourage astronauts
Science09 Mar 2023 | 68
South Korea warns US: The CHIPS Act leaves a sour taste
Minister wants to protect Samsung, SK hynix, from having to give up the crown jewels to score subsidies
Legal09 Mar 2023 | 18
Inaugural flight of first (mostly) 3D-printed rocket aborted
Relativity Space relatively grounded
Science09 Mar 2023 | 10
Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects
Very world-beating funding
Science08 Mar 2023 | 64
AmigaOS 3.2.2 released for those feeling nostalgic
Original mid-1980s OS is still alive and kicking
Offbeat08 Mar 2023 | 73
Tech demo takes brain scan, creates a picture of what you're looking at
Break out the tinfoil hats: Boffins' experimental tech improves computer mind reading
Science07 Mar 2023 | 42
NASA fixes solar observation spacecraft by turning it off and turning it on again
'Firemode reset' sees Interstellar Boundary Explorer back on the job
Science07 Mar 2023 | 41
South Korea moves to resolve WWII dispute with Japan that troubles tech supply chains
Nations edge closer to an acceptable settlement on reparations for forced labor
Legal07 Mar 2023 | 24
Japan's next-gen H3 satellite launch vehicle fails on debut
Destroyed after second stage failed to ignite, making the mission impossible
Science07 Mar 2023 | 6
The cause of last December's failed satellite launch? Nozzle material, says ESA
Arianespace Vega-C rocket failure sent two Airbus satellites into the Atlantic Ocean
Science06 Mar 2023 | 8
China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency
Asia In Brief PLUS: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more
Science06 Mar 2023 | 21
Why our solar-storm sats corrode – and probably not what you expected
My dear, I do believe I have the vapors ... in spaaace
Science04 Mar 2023 | 17
Hubble images photobombed by space hardware on the up
Big brains worry investment explosion could hit astronomy
Science03 Mar 2023 | 25
Can we interest you in a $10 pocket calculator powered by Android 9?
Beware, it only has 3GB free and may go up to – yikes! – $23
Offbeat03 Mar 2023 | 88
To explore caves on Mars and the Moon, take a hint from Hansel & Gretel, say boffins
Robot adventurers drop mesh network 'breadcrumbs' to stay connected
Science03 Mar 2023 | 31
China leads the world in tech research, could win the future, says think tank
US comes in second, rest of the world is a distant third in fields from biotech to batteries
Science03 Mar 2023 | 27
Ericsson fined for dodgy Djibouti dealings and warned over Iraqi indiscretions
$206 million for breaching 2019 settlement – and DoJ warns it won't be afraid to do this again
Legal03 Mar 2023 | 5
Space. The eventual frontier. This is the delayed journey of Crew-6 astronauts en route to the ISS
SpaceX overcomes ground systems issue that halted previous launch attempt
Science03 Mar 2023 |
Funnily enough, FDA forbids Elon Musk's Neuralink human experiments
It's still coming soon ... just like it was in 2019, and 2020, and 2021, and 2022
Science02 Mar 2023 | 25
UK space faces cash freeze unless watchdogs step up
'Toxic' environment requires reboot to restore confidence following failed satellite launch
Science02 Mar 2023 | 17
Defense boffins take notes from sci-fi writers on the future of warfare
Neat! Everything's gonna be just like Call of Duty!
Offbeat02 Mar 2023 | 29
NASA finds crashing spacecraft into asteroids is a viable defence strategy
Recoil from DART impact changed Dimorphos's orbit more than expected
Science02 Mar 2023 | 37
Find pushes back birth of Europe's steel hardware to about 3,000 years ago
Iberians were using heavy metal on hard rock way before it was cool
Science02 Mar 2023 | 47
Havana Syndrome definitely (maybe) not caused by brain-scrambling energy weapons
Pre-existing mental health issues and the stress of working in Cuba are more likely culprits
Bootnotes02 Mar 2023 | 36
FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab
Latest claim comes days after Dept of Energy waved finger in China's direction
Offbeat01 Mar 2023 | 237
Double trouble for NASA with two spacecraft on the fritz
Interstellar Boundary Explorer isn't listening and Surface Water Ocean Topography mission off to unlucky start
Science01 Mar 2023 | 3
Not just you in the night: Tiny bugs use superpropulsion to eject huge volumes of pee
This could have practical applications for human technology, say boffins
Science01 Mar 2023 | 50
If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone
For one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems
Science01 Mar 2023 | 136
China blocked 54.3 million items online in 2022, after snitches sent 170 million tips
Regulator warns it's far from finished and the deletions will continue until morale improves
Legal01 Mar 2023 | 5
Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed
Timely application as delinquencies rise with interest rates
Offbeat28 Feb 2023 | 198
Ground equipment failure scrubs latest ISS SpaceX launch
Crew-6 will have to wait to go to space, and everyone in orbit will have to wait that much longer to come home
Science27 Feb 2023 |
To the Moon? Emojis can be financial advice, says judge
QED, NFTs are securities
Offbeat27 Feb 2023 | 36
Germany to court Indian IT talent – starting with easier visa application processes
Perhaps just in time to give H-1B holders affected by US tech layoffs somewhere to go other than home
Legal27 Feb 2023 | 25
Global finance wonks worry financial services too invested in outsourcers, Big Tech
Not keen on crypto, either – and looking forward to consistent language on cyber incidents
Legal27 Feb 2023 | 2
Chinese defence boffins ponder microwaving Starlink satellites to stop surveillance
Beijing has filed the paperwork for its LEO constellation, but SpaceX is already there
Science27 Feb 2023 | 93
CEO Elon Musk wants out of Tesla tweet jail. Lol, no, says SEC
Uncle Sam still wants lawyer to vet EV tycoon's meme emissions
Offbeat24 Feb 2023 | 27
It's getting crowded on the ISS: SpaceX Crew-6 to launch Monday
NASA is used to dealing with extra guests: just sleep on the ceiling
Science24 Feb 2023 | 4
Companies can't shut you up using severance pay, at least in the US
Watchdog reverses Trump era decision upholding ability to stop ex-staffers talking smack about you
Legal24 Feb 2023 | 28
BOFH: The PFY has won an award … for outstanding service?
Episode 4 Something's not right here
BOFH24 Feb 2023 | 53
Japanese balloon startup wants to 'democratize space' – with $180,000 ticket price
Aim is to bring entry fee down to tens of thousands of dollars, if you have that lying around
Offbeat23 Feb 2023 | 21
China's Zhurong rover may be dead: NASA images show no sign of life
Pic Or maybe it's just resting and pining for the fjords
Science23 Feb 2023 | 11
Light from a long time ago reaches James Webb Space Telescope
Galaxies got big much sooner than expected, new observations
Science22 Feb 2023 | 27
Titanic mass grave site to be pillaged for NFTs
Comment Company claims that's the best way to put 'historical' legacy in the hands of the global public
Offbeat22 Feb 2023 | 55
NASA: Yup, thousand-pound meteorite exploded over Texas
As good time as any for Europe to announce a 2030 asteroid-spotting mission
Science22 Feb 2023 | 52
Africa's internet registry has sometimes needed financial assistance to keep operating, could fail, warns ARIN head
AFRINIC situation has links to the APNIC snafu – and The Reg has more evidence of astroturfing
Legal22 Feb 2023 | 8
Can YouTube be held liable for pushing terror vids? Asking for a Supreme Court...
Will Section 230 immunity just be revoked? We can answer that
Legal22 Feb 2023 | 59
ISS rescue Soyuz launches this week, won't return crew until September
Leaving another Russian craft in orbit for months ... what could go wrong?
Science21 Feb 2023 | 5
Research raises questions: Are instruments taken to Mars sensitive enough to find life?
Study in Chile desert finds NASA Mars mission instruments unlikely to detect signs of life in Earth's most arid regions
Science21 Feb 2023 | 18
Marketing company chases Twitter for $7,000 over 'swag gift box for Elon'
This is just a sliver of the $400,000 allegedly owed for branded merch
Offbeat21 Feb 2023 | 73
Behold Big Tech's mightiest new innovations: Minecraft Crocs, recycled cubicles
Thank you, Microsoft and Meta, for firing thousands and then sharing your very finest inventions
Offbeat21 Feb 2023 | 17
APNIC calls in lawyers to handle election code of conduct breach allegations
Threats to voters also reported as vote for regional internet registry heats up
Legal21 Feb 2023 | 7
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