Science
Origami... in spaaaaace: Inflatable folded objects discovery brings new meaning to blowing up buildings
Space-saving structures could work well in 'space missions'
22 Apr 14:30 | 16
Offbeat
Science
Sucks to be you, any aliens living anywhere near Proxima Centauri's record-smashing solar flare
Our stellar neighbor's biggest-ever belch would frazzle us Earthlings
22 Apr 10:32 | 51
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Sure, your app is crap, but Windows won't tell. Promise
One billboard outside Blairsville, Georgia
22 Apr 09:15 | 8
Logowatch
Huawei wins big intellectual property case in Europe – against fashion house Chanel
Court finds linked 'U' used on Smart Home app can't be confused with linked 'C' used on overpriced tat
22 Apr 02:29 | 33
Science
Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world
Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed
22 Apr 01:01 | 60
Bootnotes
From book shop to tat bazaar to cloud behemoth to grocer, what's Amazon up to now? Augmented-reality hairstyles
Curl up and dye, anyone?
21 Apr 12:01 | 9
Offbeat
Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity
The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set
21 Apr 08:31 | 37
Science
China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft
Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress
21 Apr 05:58 | 94
Bootnotes
God bless this mess: Study says UK's Christian beliefs had 'important' role in Brexit
Church of England first left the European bloc in the 16th century
20 Apr 09:15 | 258
Column
Harassers and bullies succeed in tech because silence is encouraged
Countless people signed away the right to have their trauma acknowledged, and that can’t stand
20 Apr 08:31 | 127
Video
Watch this: Ingenuity – Earth's first aircraft to fly on another planet – take off on Mars
History in the making for the tiny open-source-powered whizzing chopper
20 Apr 07:39 | 50
Bootnotes
Brit Salesforce exec Gavin Patterson becomes transfer target for controversial European Super League
Ex-BT boss is familiar with the football lifestyle – being paid millions for doing very little
19 Apr 19:30 | 19
Science
On a dusty red planet almost 290 million km away... NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies
NASA’s JPL lab speaks to The Reg
19 Apr 11:59 | 54
Science
Elon Musk's SpaceX bags $3bn NASA contract to, fingers crossed, land first woman on the Moon
And the 13th guy
16 Apr 22:28 | 54
Science
Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)
Unless by aliens you mean Russians
16 Apr 21:41 | 94
Legal
Age discrimination class-action against HP and HPE gets green light to proceed
Old people were let go while the CEO was talking about hiring a bunch of young people, says complaint
16 Apr 18:15 | 26
Science
Fridges... in... Spaaaaaaace: Engineers book ride on the Vomit Comet to test astro-refrigerator
It's floaty floaty vom time as boffins plan prototype cooler spin on modded 727
16 Apr 16:33 | 24
Bootnotes
Home office setup with built-in boiling water tap for tea and coffee without getting up is a monument to deskcess
If only it had a built-in loo and pillow, then we could work 24/7
16 Apr 13:01 | 111
Legal
Customs raid rumbles black market for primary school e-learning materials in fiercely competitive Hong Kong
Kids have missed almost an entire year of education due to coronavirus so parents have sought help online
16 Apr 12:15 | 6
Legal
Best of FRANDs: Judge allows Apple retrial following $506m patent infringement ruling
PanOptis was obliged to provide 4G LTE licences – but no one mentioned it
16 Apr 10:00 | 22
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
How not to apply for a new job: Apply for it on a job site
Watch as I channel my digital Yosser Hughes, violence included
16 Apr 09:15 | 98
Legal
Patent battle over Facebook Live and 'walkie talkie' tech rattles through High Court in London
Sueball sees social network squaring off against app upstart in UK branch of worldwide fight
16 Apr 08:30 | 14
Science
We're on our way already: Astroboffins find 5 potentially habitable Tatooine-like systems from Kepler 'scope
Perhaps gigantic puffy exoplanets aren't as hostile to life as previously thought
16 Apr 06:04 | 24
Popular
Updated
University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired
'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman
Science
China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft
Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress
Update
Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure
Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference
Science
Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world
Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed
Devops
Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'
CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack
Security
UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch
IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream
Updated
Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file
More a declaration of war than turning the tables
Offbeat
Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity
The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set
Review
But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Bender, Handbrake, and ... Hypercard?
He was there the day Steve Jobs moved off PowerPC to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better
Software
Someone has to pay to keep the lights so data-viz outfit Grafana switches licence regime to AGPLv3
AWS dodges the finger of blame as another open-sourcer tightens things up
STORIES
Bootnotes
Pigeon fanciers in a flap over Brexit quarantine flock-up, seek exemption from EU laws
It won't fly. 'We are collateral damage'
15 Apr 16:33 | 179
Bootnotes
Listen, son... Monster trucks just aren't cool anymore. Real winners drive Tesla Roadsters
Matchbox goes green with sustainably produced toys based on electric cars
15 Apr 12:01 | 38
Legal
Docking £500k commission from top SAS salesman was perfectly legal, rules judge
Chap brought in $27m deal – so bosses withheld two-thirds of his pay
15 Apr 11:14 | 83
Legal
Jackie 'You have no authority here' Weaver calls on the UK to extend Coronavirus Act provisions for online meetings
Because local democracy is hilarious – oh, and transparency's good too
15 Apr 08:11 | 39
Video
Blue Origin sends Mannequin Skywalker aloft again, testing out comfier capsule for future space tourists
One day you too can experience a few minutes of free fall with great visuals... if you can afford it
15 Apr 02:31 | 15
Science
Ice, ice maybe? Astrobotic will ride SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to the Moon in 2023 and drop off NASA's water-hunting rover
Firm's Griffin lander to do the honours
14 Apr 20:34 | 3
Legal
China requires 'self-correction' of monopolistic behaviour by 34 local web giants
Alibaba was just the beginning, says regulator, as it forbids western web titans' favourite bullying behaviours
14 Apr 06:02 | 20
Job alert
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13 Apr 23:15 |
Legal
Who'd have thought the US senator who fist pumped Jan 6 insurrectionists would propose totally unworkable anti-Big Tech law?
This one seems as well thought-out as his Capitol rally salute
13 Apr 21:44 | 99
Columnists
Beijing steps on Alibaba's Ant Group by forcing it to submit to same regulation as banks
Requires Alipay to open to competition but stops short of ordering company break up
13 Apr 05:57 | 9
Science
NASA writes software update for Ingenuity helicopter to enable first Mars flight
Won’t say when flight tests will resume, because uploads and testing are hard when your machine is 15 light minutes away
13 Apr 04:59 | 49
Science
It is 60 years since the first cosmonaut reached orbit and 40 years since the Shuttle first left the launchpad
Double anniversary means doubles all round, are we right?
12 Apr 20:03 | 14
Bootnotes
UK's National Rail backs down from greyscale website tribute to Prince Phil after visually impaired users complain
Protip: Ad/tracker blockers. Use them (though not on The Reg)
12 Apr 11:15 | 63
Legal
We have never given census data to anyone – not even the spy agencies, says the UK's Office for National Statistics
Privacy and security fears bubble up again in wake of national headcount
12 Apr 08:36 | 49
Legal
China whacks Alibaba with US$2.8bn fine for breaking antitrust rules
Alibaba takes it on the chin, apologises, promises to do better (and maybe feels it got off lightly with fine of 4% of revenue)
12 Apr 05:11 | 15
Legal
India's open-source community challenges crypto-busting content-removal and ID-recording Code
Object to ‘undue burden of compliance on volunteer communities’
12 Apr 03:48 | 4
