The Doom-in-a-PDF dev is back – this time with Linux What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV? Bootnotes16 Feb 2025 | 29
International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15 The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe Science14 Feb 2025 | 14
2 charged over alleged New IRA terrorism activity linked to cops' spilled data Officer says mistakenly published police details were shared 'a considerable amount of times' Security14 Feb 2025 | 20
HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive Analyst argues stopping the deal benefits Switchzilla by preventing rise of strong challenger for AI networks Networks14 Feb 2025 | 9
Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit Talk about court red-handed AI + ML14 Feb 2025 | 87
WD told to pay half a billion in patent damages before biz splits With drivemaker poised to become 2 publicly traded companies, judge says he has 'concerns' over restructuring Storage13 Feb 2025 | 11
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be Global tech corps wrestle with policy disparity on either side of the Atlantic CxO13 Feb 2025 | 249
Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel Student shows 'uniform hashing is optimal' was just wishful thinking Science13 Feb 2025 | 26
Insurance giant finds claims rep that gives a damn (it's AI) Tech shows customers more humanity than its human staff Offbeat13 Feb 2025 | 24
DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech Previous NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real Science12 Feb 2025 | 4
James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world 40 m or 90 m? The difference matters in the case of impact Science12 Feb 2025 | 31
SpaceX Crew Dragons swapped so ISS crew can go home early 'Stranded' Starliner astronauts set for a March homecoming Science12 Feb 2025 | 8
Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation Einstein’s spooky action at a distance just got an upgrade Science12 Feb 2025 | 57
A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap You gotta fight ... for your Reuters ... to party AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 34
Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up More than a decade on, waste experts say the odds of finding those coins are next to nil Bootnotes11 Feb 2025 | 105
Man who SIM-swapped the SEC's X account pleads guilty Said to have asked search engine 'What are some signs that the FBI is after you?' Cyber-crime11 Feb 2025 | 9
Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US Updated So now everyone's happy Personal Tech11 Feb 2025 | 190
Euro cloud crew says we-won't-sue deal with Microsoft is 'off-track' Overseas pals urge US tech giant to 'rapidly' work on Azure Local project to make things right – sans licenses PaaS + IaaS11 Feb 2025 | 1
RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101 Obit Engineer was behind the HEC series and more Science11 Feb 2025 | 51
NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts 'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon Off-Prem11 Feb 2025 | 37
Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze State Of Open Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it?
Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed Interview 'In 50 years, I think we'll view these business practices like we view sweatshops today'
This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice Hands on El Reg shows you how to run Zyphra's speech-replicating AI on your own box
Twin Google flaws allowed researcher to get from YouTube ID to Gmail address in a few easy steps Infosec In Brief PLUS: DOGE web design disappoints; FBI stops crypto scams; Zacks attacked again; and more!
Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU DevOps team did the dirty on a database
Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it Who, Me? When asked to offer honest feedback, maybe pause to ponder how well you play office politics
Fujitsu worries US tariffs will see its clients slow digital spend Asia In Brief PLUS: Pacific islands targeted by Chinese APT; China’s new rocket soars; DeepSeek puts Korea in a pickle; and more
Broadcom reportedly investigates acquiring Intel’s chip design biz Shhh. Don’t tell Hock Tan about those Xeons that unlock functions when you pay a fee
Bank of England Oracle Cloud bill balloons – but when you print money, who's counting? Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to pay millions for 'amended implementation methodology'
Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way Overdue, over budget and now... perhaps just over? Science10 Feb 2025 | 39
Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation Simian saboteur or a grid screaming for modernization? Offbeat10 Feb 2025 | 46
New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned Vladimir Putin opens airlock after just three years Science08 Feb 2025 | 21
Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM Updated And US government adverts at that, say senators Personal Tech08 Feb 2025 | 42
Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out Funding freeze while Feds review priorities Science07 Feb 2025 | 64
NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water Science07 Feb 2025 | 22
Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data But 'original sin' has already been committed, shrugs industry AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 50
UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks Freshly minted organization aims to take the guesswork out of incident severity for insurers and policy holders Cyber-crime07 Feb 2025 | 7
BOFH: Engage Hollywood Protocol – because nonsense always looks legit Episode 3 And if that fails, there's cold, hard cash BOFH07 Feb 2025 | 45
Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear Science06 Feb 2025 | 9
Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil For those for whom a runny white or a hard yolk is just not good un œuf Offbeat06 Feb 2025 | 121
Robot dogs learn bomb disposal tricks in trials 'Fetch' just got a lot more interesting Offbeat06 Feb 2025 | 17
Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers Updated Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors' off-topic posts, legal eagle argues Legal06 Feb 2025 | 109
Poland’s 2nd astronaut brings pierogi to the ISS party Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter Science05 Feb 2025 | 14
Blue Origin spins up lunar gravity for New Shepard flight Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers Science05 Feb 2025 | 24
You know something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times It looks like you want to irritate Windows users. Do you want some help with that? Offbeat05 Feb 2025 | 27
Early mornings, late evenings, weekends. Useless users always demand support OnCall... even when I'm not Techie complains as biz ignores contractual working hours On-Prem05 Feb 2025 | 108
Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024 More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters Public Sector05 Feb 2025 | 31
DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 10
China sticks antitrust probe into Google amid retaliation for Trump import tariffs Updated Plus, Middle Kingdom announces levies and export controls of its own Software04 Feb 2025 | 14
FBI's secret UFO hunters fear Trump's January 6 purge will send them into orbit Maybe Musk just wants the alien space tech that definitely doesn't exist? Public Sector04 Feb 2025 | 53
OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit Updated Lawyers argue billionaire's 105-page complaint 'lurches from theory to theory' AI + ML04 Feb 2025 | 16
US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme Suspect, still at large, said to back concept that 'code is law' Legal04 Feb 2025 | 24
Ireland's AI minister has never used ChatGPT but swears she'll learn fast Hey, it's not like any governments know what they are doing Offbeat04 Feb 2025 | 23
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – again Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 124
Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash Updated Canadian province 'won't do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy' Networks03 Feb 2025 | 103
Call of Duty studio co-founder pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting aircraft Peter Tripp Akemann avoids jail, will pay 'Super Scooper' repair costs and is ordered to help with LA's wildfire recovery Personal Tech03 Feb 2025 | 66
Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push Science03 Feb 2025 | 16
Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price Special report Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that? Science02 Feb 2025 | 226
Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots Comment Raymond Chen reflects on the never-ending cycle of updates and restarts Personal Tech02 Feb 2025 | 122
'Abandoned' astro takes recordbreaking ninth spacewalk Sunita Williams lays claim to lead for female EVAs Science31 Jan 2025 | 27
Welsh woman fined for flatulence-fueled cyber harassment Court said her approach to child access dispute with partner's ex really stinks Bootnotes31 Jan 2025 | 95
European Space Agency picks Thales Alenia Space to build lunar lander ESA and the Argonauts Science31 Jan 2025 | 10
Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032 Video Is this NEO the one? Yup, as in, a 1% chance of hitting us ... sadly Science31 Jan 2025 | 75
Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again Boy who's cried wolf on autonomous driving for years swears 'there's a damn wolf this time' Offbeat30 Jan 2025 | 173
A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing Science30 Jan 2025 | 30
WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staff Security30 Jan 2025 | 80
And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples It's a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report Science30 Jan 2025 | 22
White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em 'Research and various other reasons' behind hullabaloo ... but why didn't someone say that a month ago? Offbeat29 Jan 2025 | 64
Boom's XB-1 jet nails supersonic flight for first time US civil sector boldly goes where Concorde has gone before Offbeat29 Jan 2025 | 94
Trump tells Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts SpaceX was already planning to return 'virtually abandoned' astros. Did Elon forget? Science29 Jan 2025 | 93
AI revoir, Lucie: France's answer to ChatGPT paused after faux pas overdrive Slew of embarrassing answers sends open source chatterbox back for more schooling AI + ML29 Jan 2025 | 69
Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands Updated Official is official Offbeat28 Jan 2025 | 162
Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers Popular community site became unmentionable – the irony is thick enough to compile Personal Tech28 Jan 2025 | 54
40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later Science28 Jan 2025 | 37
Astronomers red-faced after mistaking Musk's Tesla Roadster for asteroid Without central repository for artificial objects, it'll only get worse Offbeat27 Jan 2025 | 54
Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two? Could a post-Brexit romance be on the cards? Personal Tech24 Jan 2025 | 185
Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course Calamity Capsule continues to be calamitous for the bottom line Science24 Jan 2025 | 17
BOFH: How to innosplain your way through an audit Episode 2 [ɪnəʊspleɪn] Verb. 1. The ability to prattle on in a condescending manner about technology that doesn't exist yet BOFH24 Jan 2025 | 43
Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out? Opinion As Microsoft, Apple, and Google switch the tech on by default, what happened to asking for permission first? AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 167
Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors The (good old) boys are back in town Offbeat22 Jan 2025 | 317
NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans Science22 Jan 2025 | 14
Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin Ross Ulbricht's family are now appealing for donations to support his reintegration into society Legal22 Jan 2025 | 136
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that Science22 Jan 2025 | 74
Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Science22 Jan 2025 | 30
App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground Analysis El Reg asked a lawyer to explain WTH is going on Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 42
Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation Science21 Jan 2025 | 9
Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars Comment So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have? Science21 Jan 2025 | 166
AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads Now if only the councils could afford to fill them Offbeat21 Jan 2025 | 141
China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale Updated President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 10
SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment' Science20 Jan 2025 | 22
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account? Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble Columnists20 Jan 2025 | 90
Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper Gaia makes its final science observation Science18 Jan 2025 | 11
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris Science17 Jan 2025 | 117
In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows Bootnotes16 Jan 2025 | 86
Feds sue Southwest for chronic delays, unrealistic schedules Department of Transportation wants in on last-minute Biden administration action too Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 8
Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory The hyperscale plant is designed to produce tens of thousands of AVs a year Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 26
Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery Jeff Bezos' space company achieves milestone with payload delivered Science16 Jan 2025 | 60
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter Science16 Jan 2025 | 14
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home Threat to quit still preferred to commuting on packed public transport On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 202
SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon Blue Ghost's first time, and second time lucky for Japanese company ispace? Science15 Jan 2025 | 22
British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees Collective Proceedings Order seeks £1.5B from iGiant Applications15 Jan 2025 | 10
Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing No such problems at Airbus, which cruised at a high level and shipped almost two planes a day last year Offbeat15 Jan 2025 | 91
SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover Plus: SpaceX rocket re-entries spark airline delays Bootnotes15 Jan 2025 | 54
Brit watchdog probes Google's search, ads empire Third front opened amid continued scrutiny from US, Euro regulators Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 4
It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board Analysis That niche forum running for 20 years – get ready, there's work to do Security14 Jan 2025 | 150
Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky Updated Free Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media Bootnotes14 Jan 2025 | 60
WordPress drama latest: Leader Matt Mullenweg exiles five contributors WordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off Applications14 Jan 2025 | 29