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
Offbeat
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
Hong Kong to crypto exchanges: get a securities broker's licence, or go home
Crashes like FTX and Terra have made regulation necessary, say authorities, even as Territory seeks to become a virtual asset hub
Legal21 Feb 2023 | 7
Yukon UFO could have cost unfortunate balloon fan $12
How much are sidewinder missiles going for these days?
Offbeat20 Feb 2023 | 128
UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics
Cue the dawning realization for thousands of content creators
Offbeat20 Feb 2023 | 189
Toshiba COO dumped over entertainment expenses scandal
Asia In Brief PLUS: Chinese province to buy four million servers; Google Cloud's nine-day APAC network glitch; and more
Legal19 Feb 2023 | 1
The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns
Droughts, flash floods the future for the Midwest ... probably
Science18 Feb 2023 | 90
SpaceX threatened with $175,000 fine for Starlink crash risk paperwork blunder
Video Looks like Musketeers jumped the gun, launched mission too early
Science18 Feb 2023 | 24
APNIC warns members to watch out for fake election phone calls
The Register finds evidence of astroturfing in governance stoush
Legal17 Feb 2023 | 3
Outage-ous: Twitter OKs cannabis ads, then goes up in smoke
What happened to not getting high on your own supply?
Offbeat16 Feb 2023 | 43
Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else
'Year of efficiency' includes accounting for more threats toward CEO caused by 'year of efficiency'
Offbeat16 Feb 2023 | 33
Gen Z lingo and search engines: A Millennial Odyssey
Comment Alternative headline: The best use for nu-Bing Microsoft CTO could conjure was translating his daughter's slang
Offbeat16 Feb 2023 | 60
Ex-CEO of logistics startup Slync collared on multimillion fraud, embezzlement charges
Christopher Kirchner alleged to have hyped up biz to investors then siphoned off a slice of cash
Legal15 Feb 2023 | 2
Take the blue pill: Keanu Reeves has had enough of AI baloney
Opinion Neo continues to rage against the machines decades after The Matrix
Bootnotes15 Feb 2023 | 66
IBM demands $500,000 from boss after she jumps ship
Big bill from Big Blue for Accenture move
Legal15 Feb 2023 | 19
Musk's view count antics are perfect cover for Twitter's paid API failure
Opinion Quickly, Elon: Distract everyone from fact the platform can't support a single new thing you force on it
Offbeat14 Feb 2023 | 35
Smile! South Korea's moon orbiter sends back first snaps of Earth
Danuri probe is ready to spend its planned year testing space internet, spotting radiation and/or water
Science14 Feb 2023 | 5
Second Soyuz springs a leak, astronauts stuck on ISS for an extra month
Trust us tovarishch, we're just going to do a few more checks
Science14 Feb 2023 | 11
The Pentagon is shockingly bad at managing its employee smartphones
Officials are using government-issued devices much like a teenager would – and that has security implications
Offbeat13 Feb 2023 | 19
US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects
You wait years for unidentified aerial phenomena then three turn up at once
Offbeat13 Feb 2023 | 61
UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan
Still no deal as new Science and Tech dept head claims Britain has 'global-facing alternative' in the wings
Science13 Feb 2023 | 174
That's not a TP-Link access point, it's a… vacuum?
You might say this thing sucks
Bootnotes11 Feb 2023 | 28
Water-hunting NASA cubesat won't reach Moon after total thruster fail
ASCENT propulsion system just didn't work
Science10 Feb 2023 | 21
Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos
We wanted robot butlers and flying Deloreans ... and got internet-from-orbit instead
Science10 Feb 2023 | 36
Elon Musk's Neuralink probed over pathogen transport
Surely this is how at least one Michael Crichton novel starts
Science10 Feb 2023 | 30
American jailed for smuggling controlled tech to Iran
30 months in prison for providing, um... enterprise mobile banking software dev tool
Legal10 Feb 2023 | 12
UK health department contracts 'critical friend' for £480m data platform
As IT spending drops below promised billions, there's always room for those offering the right kind of feedback
Offbeat10 Feb 2023 | 8
BOFH: Generating a report the Director can show the Board – THIS is what AI was made for
Episode 3 Spelling mistakes? Poor understanding of grammar? Yes, it looks like your work
BOFH10 Feb 2023 | 86
Curiosity finds clearest evidence yet for water on Mars
A rippled rocky ridge suggests the presence of lakes and waves, all at a higher elevation than expected
Science09 Feb 2023 | 10
Ring system discovered around dwarf planet Quaoar leaves astronomers puzzled
Structure appears to be so far out, the Roche limit may need revising
Science09 Feb 2023 | 55
Meta sees off another logo complaint from blockchain player Dfinity
What would possess a nonprofit to go after Mark Zuckerberg's empire?
Legal08 Feb 2023 | 7
UK PM splits govt department in 4, creates dedicated 'Science and Tech' bit
GDPR rejig and Online Safety Bill concerns, semiconductor strategy basically sorted then. Right? Right?
Science08 Feb 2023 | 98
MIT Press to trial open access journals, so long as someone else pays for it
Great: Fewer paywalls. Not great: Long-term funding is still a question
Science07 Feb 2023 | 17
India bans 232 Chinese lending and betting apps
And a few non-Chinese lending apps that appear to have been scooped by accident
Legal07 Feb 2023 |
Pakistan’s PM overturns Wikipedia ban, seeks end to whack-a-mole content blocks
Cabinet committee gets to find a solution after years of bans didn’t achieve a lot
Legal07 Feb 2023 | 21
South Korea to treat crypto tokens and virtual assets as if they were securities
‘Food does not change no matter what bowl it is served in’ says regulator
Legal07 Feb 2023 | 5
Could 2023 be the year SpaceX's Starship finally reaches orbit?
Meanwhile, no one is thinking of the horrible emissions coming out of all these rockets, say scientists
Science06 Feb 2023 | 64
Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor
STEP won't be complete until 2040, but here's a 'delivery body' in the meantime
Science06 Feb 2023 | 35
Field trip! European Space Agency sends astronauts abroad to learn about rocks
Astronauts need better autonomy as ground control gets further away
Science06 Feb 2023 | 12
Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme
Asia In Brief PLUS: India is the new China for Apple; Sushi licking vid scandalizes Japan; Chinese spy balloon shot down; India's new Amazon tax
Legal05 Feb 2023 | 40
Fossil brain undoes 350 million years of scientific understanding
'Stunning' scans reveal how ray-finned fish diverged from other vertebrates
Science02 Feb 2023 | 23
Wind, solar power outstrip fossil fuel generation for EU
Coal cooked, gas dissipating as renewables power up
Science02 Feb 2023 | 141
DARPA's quantum computing is powered by ... FOMO
Microsoft and friends happy to assuage Uncle Sam's anxiety — for a price
Science02 Feb 2023 | 6
Boeing bids the 747 a final, ultimate, conclusive farewell
Cargo airline Atlas Air takes delivery of 1,547th and last Queen of the Skies
Offbeat01 Feb 2023 | 29
McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs
Welsh city of Wrexham has a reputation to uphold
Offbeat31 Jan 2023 | 140
Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude'
X2 eVTOL doesn't have wheels but paves the way for sedan-like X3
Offbeat31 Jan 2023 | 38
NASA Geotail spacecraft's 30-year mission ends after last data recorder fails
Also, JunoCam malfunctioned again, time to get new kit up there
Science31 Jan 2023 | 23
Renewables are cheaper than coal in all but one US location
Thanks in large part to the Inflation Reduction Act, the dirty fuel has even fewer things going for it now
Science30 Jan 2023 | 121
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