3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 57
SpaceX will try satellite deployment on next Starship test Ten suborbital Starlink simulators to be flung from Musk's spacecraft Science06 Jan 2025 | 71
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Science05 Jan 2025 | 12
Shackleton's Endurance sets sail for polar peril in Lego Because we're all still kids – just richer Offbeat04 Jan 2025 | 31
Amazon worker – struck and shot in New Orleans terror attack – initially denied time off Web giant now pledges full support Offbeat04 Jan 2025 | 46
First Foxconn, now Microsoft: Wisconsin town dissed by big tech Redmond's pause to redesign planned datacenters won't scuttle this project, say Mount Pleasant officials On-Prem03 Jan 2025 | 13
CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode As if the bot defense measure wasn't obnoxious enough Offbeat03 Jan 2025 | 42
LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs SoCal plod resort to paper logs after system that top brass was warned would 'inevitably fail' did exactly that Bootnotes03 Jan 2025 | 57
25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then Comment With today’s connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash Software02 Jan 2025 | 121
Honored guest Bork visits Warsaw, Poland BORK!BORK!BORK! Microsoft will stop at nothing to advertise its services Offbeat02 Jan 2025 | 19
Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per second You may not need that high-bandwidth brain-computer interface Science01 Jan 2025 | 92
Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did Opinion 2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor Bootnotes01 Jan 2025 | 116
Second Jeju Air 737-800 experiences mechanical issues following deadly crash Boeing ends abysmal year on an even lower note Offbeat31 Dec 2024 | 113
Report claims FAA ignores most whistleblower complaints analysis Officials beg to differ, claiming the author misinterpreted Congressional reports Legal31 Dec 2024 | 24
UK watchdog launches inquiry into IBM's HashiCorp acquisition To the surprise of no one, a multi-billion dollar deal comes under CMA scrutiny Legal31 Dec 2024 | 3
Jimmy Carter set the solar, space, and environmental pace obituary The former president, passed at 100 this week, was also an early email adopter Offbeat30 Dec 2024 | 40
Blue Origin inches closer to the first New Glenn flight Final big tests done and engines fired up for a few seconds. Next stop ... space? Science30 Dec 2024 | 34
Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers Feature Saturation point, and Nintendo and Sega, were just around the corner Personal Tech28 Dec 2024 | 169
Parker Solar Probe sends a "Still Alive" tone back to Earth This was a triumph Science27 Dec 2024 | 58
Naïve Reg hack thinks he can beat Christmas food comas once and for all Comment One man's plan to ruin his holiday for the better Offbeat26 Dec 2024 | 88
Former NSA cyberspy's not-so-secret hobby: Hacking Christmas lights Video Rob Joyce explains how it's done Security25 Dec 2024 | 42
The winner of last year's Windows Ugly Sweater is ... Register readers have spoken Bootnotes25 Dec 2024 | 14
Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial Analysis The victory may be short lived as the chip designer gears up for second round Legal23 Dec 2024 | 15
Parker Solar Probe set for blisteringly hot date with the Sun on Christmas Eve Ho-ho-holy heatshield! Science23 Dec 2024 | 37
Biden’s antitrust crackdown on tech M&As may linger into Trump’s reign Analysis Lina Khan’s tenure may end, but the regulatory hurdles she helped build aren’t going anywhere Legal21 Dec 2024 | 18
BOFH: Printer's festive bips herald a merry mystery for the Boss's budget Episode 24 Merry as in see you down the pub BOFH20 Dec 2024 | 58
Rocks from Chinese Moon mission suggest Luna's history needs revision Meanwhile, NASA signs off on Artemis software upgrade Science20 Dec 2024 | 18
Axiom Space shuffles space station assembly sequence – to get it standalone sooner Aiming to be freeflying by 2028. Handy if anything should happen to the ISS Science19 Dec 2024 | 21
Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays Week-long mission set to stretch into ninth month Science19 Dec 2024 | 97
Watchdog deep-sixes job ad that was actually pay-to-play training course Misleading listing on a recruitment site? Whatever next? Offbeat19 Dec 2024 | 16
Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control Feature Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong? AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 93
Supreme Court to hear TikTok's appeal against law that would force it to shut, or sell Will consider free speech arguments just nine days before the clock runs out Legal19 Dec 2024 | 40
Intel sued again over struggling foundry business Derivatives claim seeks damages from execs and board members Legal18 Dec 2024 | 8
SpaceX rocketeers get fresh FAA license for next Starship launch Authorization comes less than a month after flight 6: 'The FAA continues to increase efficiencies' Science18 Dec 2024 | 58
When old Microsoft codenames crop up in curious places Chicago is my kind of driver model Offbeat18 Dec 2024 | 69
When your technological ghosts come back to haunt you, expect humbug Column Spirits of the NeXTcube, the web ad, and the cursed smartphone deliver a seasonal Technicarol Personal Tech18 Dec 2024 | 12
Silent NASA lander gives boffins insight into Martian dust NASA to bid a final farewell to InSight Science17 Dec 2024 | 8
US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery Analysis Feds insist they still don't know what's happening – but note sightings cluster around airport flight paths Offbeat17 Dec 2024 | 97
Jury trial kicks off Arm's wrestling match with Qualcomm The Nuvia buyer's alleged violations of license terms expected to last through Friday Legal16 Dec 2024 | 11
Red Rabbit Robotics takes human form to sell work as a service Take this job and automate it Offbeat15 Dec 2024 | 21
Ingenuity helicopter's flying days cut short by featureless Martian terrain Landing hard at an angle not great for the old rotor blades Science13 Dec 2024 | 30
BOFH: Don't sell The Boss a firewall. Sell him The Dream Episode 23 Have I got an opportunity for you! BOFH13 Dec 2024 | 57
Astroscale orbital janitor gets within 15 meters of space junk Couldn't reach out and touch it, but still happy as this attempt was out of mission scope Science13 Dec 2024 | 21
North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88M over six years DoJ thinks it's found the folks that ran it, and some of the 'IT warriors' sent out to fleece employers Cyber-crime13 Dec 2024 | 2
Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies No word from the FBI about where they are hiding aliens or UFOs Offbeat12 Dec 2024 | 75
Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish Legal12 Dec 2024 | 71
China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse Long March-8A improves payload by forty percent and comes just a month after Long March 12 debut Science12 Dec 2024 | 6
Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law Sen. Wyden blasts FCC's 'failure' amid Salt Typhoon hacks Security11 Dec 2024 | 17
A decade on from maiden flight, NASA's Orion is still waiting for its Moon moment Hopefully it won't be another 10 years before the capsule is troubled by a crew Science11 Dec 2024 | 6
Blue Origin's New Glenn will launch any day now – but it better hurry up 2025 looming large as Blue Ring pathfinder prepped for liftoff Science11 Dec 2024 | 28
Doctor Who theme added to national sound archive to honor innovation, longevity Australia’s archive, that is – it was an Aussie who wrote it Offbeat11 Dec 2024 | 50
Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands Networks11 Dec 2024 | 34
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic Updated Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations Software11 Dec 2024 | 34
Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 132
TikTok appeals to have Trump – or Supreme Court – decide its fate later Wants to defer shutdown order that takes effect a day before the presidential inauguration Legal10 Dec 2024 | 22
Alibaba exec trashes his own staff and customers, quickly apologizes 'I am carefree, I like to joke,' says guy who fines workers if they glance at phones during meetings Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 18
Neuraspace adds a second telescope to track objects in orbit Starlink satellites might annoy astronomers, but at least they're easy to spot Science09 Dec 2024 | 2
Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province? Science09 Dec 2024 | 48
India launches two ESA sun-spotters that will fly in incredibly precise formation Proba-3's Occulter will blot out the sun to create eclipse-like effect Coronagraph can observe Science09 Dec 2024 | 14
You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you Maybe start getting better at sorting your trash before these ML garbage bots gain sentience? Bootnotes08 Dec 2024 | 43