Science
Racist malware blocks The Pirate Bay by tampering with victims' Windows hosts file
Hello, 2002 called with one of the oldest low-tech tricks in the book
18 Jun 15:47 | 29
Science
Science
UK gets glowing salute from Bezos-backed General Fusion: Nuclear energy company to build plant in Oxfordshire
Biz will develop Magnetized Target Fusion technology at the site
18 Jun 15:01 | 17
Science
Your spacesuit ran into a problem and needs to restart
ISS solar array installation overran after a good old 'off and on again'
17 Jun 18:01 | 19
Science
Toyota reveals its work on an honest-to-goodness cloak of invisibility
Though it's mostly just looking to make its cars safer, rather than hide them
17 Jun 12:15 | 65
Science
Japan assembles superteam of aircraft component manufacturers to build supersonic passenger plane
Japan Supersonic Research wants to be in the air by 2030
17 Jun 06:32 | 77
Science
Hubble Space Telescope to switch to backup memory module after instrument computer halts
Imagine the service ticket
16 Jun 21:58 | 44
Science
Spacewalk veterans take a trip outside the ISS to pump up the power with new solar arrays
Lego ISS fans, look away now
16 Jun 13:07 | 13
Science
China launching first crew to its own space station on Thursday
Plans four crewed missions to assemble “heavenly palace”
16 Jun 06:58 | 12
Science
Michigan Micro Mote works well escargot: Tiny computer makes it into the field strapped to backs of predatory snails
Then solves a longstanding extinction puzzle
15 Jun 21:17 | 11
Science
Fancy the ultimate no-Air-outside-bnb? NASA willing to rent out ISS for two weeks
Private companies to sort out the transportation, US agency's fees are non-trivial
15 Jun 03:35 | 17
Analysis
It's safe to leave your bunker: Blame that Chinese nuclear plant alarm on fuel rod faults
Meltdown over a non-meltdown
15 Jun 01:43 | 24
Science
Artemis I core stage finally pointing in the right direction at Kennedy Space Center
Had trouble getting vertical at the weekend? NASA used a pair of cranes to hoist the SLS core stage
15 Jun 00:03 | 6
Science
Honda links arms with JAXA to prepare humans for life in outer space with 'circulative renewable energy system'
Car maker to draw upon its investments in hydrogen fuel tech
14 Jun 17:30 | 8
Science
$28m scores mystery bidder right to breathe same air as Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin flight
Burning dollars faster than liquid oxygen and hydrogen
14 Jun 11:26 | 33
Interview
Orbex is creeping towards orbit from a UK launchpad, but first there are courts, birds, and billionaires to overcome
Sutherland Spaceport: A Prime location?
14 Jun 10:08 | 11
Science
Perseverance Mars rover sets off on its first mission, to boldly drill and return samples as no rover has drilled before
All systems check out, it's time to science the s**t out of Mars
11 Jun 05:01 | 13
Science
'Ring of fire' headed to northern UK – a partial solar eclipse, not the sensation you get after a potent vindaloo
Russia, Greenland, northern Canada will get the Full Monty
10 Jun 07:26 | 19
Science
Baby Space Shuttle biz chases dreams at Spaceport Cornwall
Sierra Nevada Corporation eyes a landing site in the UK
09 Jun 22:03 | 30
Science
There are a lot of people out there who'd like to fire Jeff Bezos into space – but he's doing the honours himself
With his brother in tow, poor sod
07 Jun 19:16 | 50
Science
NASA doubles down on Venus missions, asking what made the planet uninhabitable
VERITAS and DAVINCI+ chosen and funded as part of agency's concept selection
03 Jun 13:40 | 17
Popular
Feature
Inventor of the graphite anode – key Li-ion battery tech – says he can now charge an electric car in 10 minutes
Dr Rachid Yazami shares his predictions for EV batteries with The Register
Bootnotes
Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request
Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world'
OSes
Mark it in your diaries: 14 October 2025 is the end of Windows 10
Wasn't it to be the 'last version of Windows'? Maybe not...
Security
Biden to Putin: Get your ransomware gangs under control and don’t you dare cyber-attack our infrastructure
Putin to Biden: чушь! You already attack us way more than we attack you!
Devops
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Community to think outside the pants
In brief
Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down
Plus: Canon has cameras that only let employees into meeting rooms if they smile, and more
Security
Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers
Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed
OSes
Debian's Cinnamon desktop maintainer quits because he thinks KDE is better now
Panic over for users as others step up to take his place
Comment
The AN0M fake secure chat app may have been too clever for its own good
Crims now know what not to trust, and how to stymie future infiltrations
Hands on
Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different
A lot of effort has gone into this release and it shows – everything 'just works'
STORIES
Science
Wyoming powers ahead with Bill Gates-backed sodium-cooled nuclear generation plant
We wanted to post a dad joke about sodium, but we thought: Na, people will groan...
03 Jun 12:13 | 137
Science
South Korea's first fully indigenous rocket now on launch pad, ready for tests
Plans test launch this year, satellite-lifting in 2022 and moonshot not long after
02 Jun 11:31 | 12
Space extenders
Surviving eclipse season and resurrecting 25-year-old software with Windows for Workgroups 3.11: One year with Mars Express
ESA's veteran probe left for its mission 18 years ago today
02 Jun 08:30 | 44
Science
Space junk damages International Space Station's robot arm
Space boffin tells Reg it's stupidly hard to clean up orbiting trash after Canadarm2 survives encounter with item too small to be tracked
01 Jun 06:44 | 75
Science
NASA to return to the Moon by 2024. One problem with that, says watchdog: All of it
Three years to go and space agency is way behind schedule
28 May 02:04 | 64
Science
Dominic Cummings: Health secretary's 'stupid' targets delayed building UK test and trace system to combat COVID
Former UK.gov spin doctor talks of mess in response to crisis
27 May 08:30 | 111
Science
Japan to send ‘transforming robot’ to the Moon in 2022
It’s a pathfinder for Toyota’s planned self-driving lunar buggy, and tiny compared to Optimus Prime
27 May 04:28 | 27
Science
Who gave dusty Soviet-era spacecraft that unwanted lick of paint? It was an idiot, with a spraycan, in Baikonur
'This is why we can't have nice things'
26 May 19:32 | 70
Science
Google employee helped UK government switch from disastrous COVID-19 strategy, according to Dominic Cummings
Explosive Whitehall testimony also reveals former Faculty data scientist Ben Warner’s influence on decision making during national emergency
26 May 14:21 | 81
Science
Seeking an escape from the UK? Regulations aimed at rocket and satellite launches from 2022 have arrived
Unclear if 'space' is on the green, amber or red list
26 May 10:02 | 15
Science
Astroboffins think strangely porous boulders found on asteroid Ryugu may be the stuff of proto-planets
Pumice-like stuff spotted by Japanese Hayabusa2 probe would float on water
26 May 08:00 | 10
Science
When and where to see the Super Blood Moon in a total lunar eclipse this week
Prime viewing in the Pacific Rim
25 May 01:31 | 18
Science
Roam if you want to: China’s Zhurong rover begins trundling on Mars
ESA's Rosalind Franklin waiting in the wings as engineers fix the parachutes
24 May 15:31 | 12
Science
Virgin Galactic goes where it's gone twice before, for the first time in two years
First launch from New Mexico facility goes off without a hitch, ticks regulatory boxes and even does some science
24 May 08:15 | 34
Science
Boffins improve on tech that extracts DC power from ambient Wi-Fi
Series of 8 spin-torque oscillators improves efficiency, but parallel design better for wireless transmission
21 May 23:28 | 53
Science
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander set to ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 to the Moon
Another NASA-awarded mission. Lucky those first stages are reusable, eh?
21 May 19:28 | 14
