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Google signs agreement to offer discounts on cloud services through UK govt's Digital Marketplace

'5G for Five Eyes!' US senator tells Parliamentarians the world would be better without Huawei

Watch live online this week: Learn how to better manage your Office 365 licences

Devuan Beowulf 3.0 release continues to resist the Debian fork's Grendel – systemd

Indian app that deleted Chinese apps from Androids deleted from Play Store

Snapping at Canonical's Snap: Linux Mint team says no to Ubuntu store 'backdoor'

Android 11 Beta 1 leaks on to handful of handsets days after official release postponed

$5bn+ sueball bounces into Google's court over claims it continues to track netizens in 'private browsing mode'

Defending critical national infrastructure... hmm. Does Zoom count as critical now?

Tor soups up onion sites with bountiful browser bump: No more tears trying to find the secure sites you want

Office supplies biz owned by UK council shrugs off ransomware demand for 102 Bitcoin

Talk about a control plane... US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will use Kubernetes

Canonical pushes out MicroK8s installer for Mac and Windows, with Multipass VM tech lurking behind the scenes

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Spending watchdog doubts UK is capable of managing Brexit and coronavirus info campaigns at the same time

Tech set responds in wake of American protests, police violence and civil unrest

UK.gov dangles £100m for service slingers for back office 'transformation' that'll kill off bespoke systems

India reveals plans to make electronics manufacturing its top industry

California emits fine-print of its GDPR-ish digital privacy law, complete with Google and Facebook-sized holes

Not just its VCS console that's MIA, Atari is a no-show in court, too: Reborn biz ignores hardware architect's lawsuit over unpaid wages

Smartphones, PCs, and now wearables... Coronavirus wrecks another corner of tech

Xiaomi has such Huawei with words: Our two new phones have 'easy access' to Google apps... unlike that other guy

Geek's Guide

Amateur astroboffins spot young brown dwarf playing with planet-forming hula hoop just 102 parsecs from Earth

We spent billions building atom smashers – and now boffins think nature's doing the same thing for free?

The little CubeSat that could: Launched from space station, ASTERIA is smallest satellite to detect an exoplanet

You're 3 billion years too late to see Mars' impressive ring system. The next one will be along in 40 million years or so

It's nice y'all like our chips but half our data-center sales are from cloud giants, FYI, says Nvidia's chief beancounter

Hoverbikes, Hyperloops and sub-orbital hijinks: Yes, the '3rd, 4th and 5th Dimensions of Travel' are coming soon

BBC voice assistant promises to summon streams even if you're just a little bit Brahms and Liszt

No, it's just a Mirage: Lenovo's nerd-goggles-for-suits boasts 4K display but no need to be attached to powerful PC

Verity Stob

The UK's favourite lockdown cheese is Big and Red but doesn't require a stinking great audit after consumption

The Edinburgh Fringe festival isn't happening this year, but that won't stop a digital sign doing its own comedy routine

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

Science

Bye, Russia: NASA wheels out astronauts, describes plan for first all-American manned launch into orbit since 2011

Demo-2 mission to send SpaceX capsule, rocket from Florida to the International Space Station this month

01 May 2020 | 26

Bezos to the Moon: Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Dynetics in a three-horse lunar lander race

NASA selects three contenders for flag-in-Moon prize

01 May 2020 | 34

The ultimate 4-wheel-drive: How ESA's keeping XMM-Newton alive after 20 years and beyond

Space ExtendersYou thought that yoghurt in the back of fridge was time-expired? Behold X-ray boffinry YEARS past its design-life

01 May 2020 | 35

ATLAS flubbed: Comet heading our way takes one look at Earth, self-destructs into house-sized chunks

PicsAnd who could blame it?

29 Apr 2020 | 43

SpaceX's Elon Musk high on success after counting '420' Starlinks in orbit and Frosty the Starship survives cryo test

RoundupAlso: Russia sends another freighter filled with astro goodies to ISS

28 Apr 2020 | 38

Where were you in drought season? Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov dumped 230 million litres of water as it whizzed through Solar System

VidCome shine, come rain

28 Apr 2020 | 13

Watch now the three UFO videos uncovered by Blink-182 star – and today officially released by the Pentagon

VideosRock and roll at 30,000 ft at hypersonic speeds

27 Apr 2020 | 60

Famously flawed, it is 30 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched

The Register takes a look at the most famous of the Great Observatories

24 Apr 2020 | 20

Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours

Plus astroboffins confirm 'masked' asteroid heading Earthwards

24 Apr 2020 | 18

Want to put a satellite into orbit for US comms? Whoa, says Uncle Sam: Where's your space crash risk assessment?

FCC emits rules to tackle danger of orbital debris

24 Apr 2020 | 15

Geoboffins reckon extreme rainfall might help some volcanoes pop off

Pressure after surrounding porous rock sopped up water was at a 50-year high before 2018 Kīlauea eruption

23 Apr 2020 | 32

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Light-powered nanocardboard robots dancing in the Martian sky searching for alien life

'We’re proposing an entirely different approach' lead prof tells The Reg

23 Apr 2020 | 25

If you want to take social distancing to the next level, and go to the Moon, take this: A complete lunar geology map

VideoFirst-of-its-kind blueprint of materials and structures shared online

23 Apr 2020 | 11

How's your night sky looking? The Reg chats to astroboffin Mark McCaughrean about Starlink and leaving a mark

InterviewESA chap on astronomy and demagoguery as SpaceX readies the next batch of satellites

22 Apr 2020 | 29

Somewhere, way out there, two black holes, one large and one small, merged. And here on Earth, we detected the gravitational wave blast

When science fact is better than science fiction

21 Apr 2020 | 21

Self-isolation champions fresh home from a jaunt in orbit wonder if they've returned to the wrong version of Earth

RoundupAlso: Asteroid landing dress rehearsal, 'new' Russian module for the ISS, another Starlink volley ready to go

21 Apr 2020 | 4

Boffins examine interstellar comet Borisov to find out what its home was like. Pretty unpleasant, it seems

No wonder it came all the way over to our Solar System

21 Apr 2020 | 18

Fomalhaut b exoplanet may have been cloud in a trench coat: Massive 'world' formed after 'mid-space super-prang'

Another one bites the dust

21 Apr 2020 | 12

20 years deep into a '2-year' mission: How ESA keeps Cluster flying

Space ExtendersGrowing extra instruments, reducing fuel spend and those clever, clever hacks

20 Apr 2020 | 37

NASA makes May 27 its US independence day from Russian rockets: America's back in the astronaut business after nearly nine years

Thanks to a South African immigrant

17 Apr 2020 | 49

Star's rosette orbit around our supermassive black hole proves Einstein's Theory of General Relativity correct

27 years of watching the Milky Way's core – that's how proper science is done

17 Apr 2020 | 77

ESA's exoplanet hunter Cheops gets the green light to start checking out future spots mankind could settle on

Not boldly seeking out new worlds, mostly checking out the ones we know

16 Apr 2020 | 5

Kepler telescope is dead but the data lives on: Earth-sized habitable zone planet found after boffins check for errors

300 light years away but hey, why not?

16 Apr 2020 | 13

Choose your own thrill ride: A Florida slidewire or catching a rocket by helicopter

RoundupStarlink slips, Soyuz arrives and StriX-α sat heads to New Zealand

15 Apr 2020 | 5

It's official! Space travel increases the brain size of astronauts, even when they're back on Mother Earth

That might sound like good news, but it's not. Size isn't everything

15 Apr 2020 | 21

NASA dons red and blue cardboard 3D glasses to drive Curiosity rover because its GPUs are stuck in the office

Can: Send rover to Mars and operate it from home. Can't: Remote in to mission PCs or replicate them in the cloud

15 Apr 2020 | 34

Astroboffins suspect twin-star smash may be the culprit for most biggest and brightest supernova yet spotted

A rogue pulsational pair-instability nova from a heavy star measuring over 100 times the mass of the Sun

14 Apr 2020 | 9

Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day

Part twoIt's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13

14 Apr 2020 | 22

BepiColombo probe swings by Earth on way to Mercury – the Solar System's must-visit coronavirus-free resort

Check out this plucky Euro-Japanese spacecraft and its seven-year trip to innermost planet

13 Apr 2020 | 16

Apollo 13 set off into space 50 years ago today. An ignored change order ensured it did not make it to the Moon...

Part oneA liquid-oxygen tank, 65 volts across a 28-volt thermostat, and a two-inch tumble all led to this 'successful failure'

11 Apr 2020 | 56

COVID-19 is pretty nasty but maybe this is taking social distancing too far? Universe may not be expanding equally in all directions

Alternative headline: Here's a bug report for cosmology

09 Apr 2020 | 89

Academic showdown as boffins biff-baff over when Version 1.0 of Earth's magnetic core was released

'They have not reported an objective analysis' – now that's a zinger

08 Apr 2020 | 31

If at first you don't succeed, fly, fly again: Boeing to repeat CST-100 test, Russia preps another ISS taxi

RoundupA reflight beckons for Starliner as rival SpaceX admits: 'Rockets are hard'

07 Apr 2020 | 12

Antarctic science put on ice by coronavirus – next summer's expeditions restricted to essentials and robots

Australia just wants to get supplies in and keep people moving safely

07 Apr 2020 | 11

NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet

The Perseverance rover gets its grousers ahead of planned July/August launch

06 Apr 2020 | 39

Things that go crump in the night: Watch Musk's mighty missile go foom

VideoTesting times for SpaceX as another Starship prototype implodes

03 Apr 2020 | 41

How HCI modernises database estate management

Google signs agreement to offer discounts on cloud services through UK govt's Digital Marketplace

'5G for Five Eyes!' US senator tells Parliamentarians the world would be better without Huawei

Watch live online this week: Learn how to better manage your Office 365 licences

Devuan Beowulf 3.0 release continues to resist the Debian fork's Grendel – systemd

Indian app that deleted Chinese apps from Androids deleted from Play Store

Snapping at Canonical's Snap: Linux Mint team says no to Ubuntu store 'backdoor'

Android 11 Beta 1 leaks on to handful of handsets days after official release postponed

$5bn+ sueball bounces into Google's court over claims it continues to track netizens in 'private browsing mode'

Defending critical national infrastructure... hmm. Does Zoom count as critical now?

Tor soups up onion sites with bountiful browser bump: No more tears trying to find the secure sites you want

Office supplies biz owned by UK council shrugs off ransomware demand for 102 Bitcoin

Talk about a control plane... US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will use Kubernetes

Canonical pushes out MicroK8s installer for Mac and Windows, with Multipass VM tech lurking behind the scenes

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Spending watchdog doubts UK is capable of managing Brexit and coronavirus info campaigns at the same time

Tech set responds in wake of American protests, police violence and civil unrest

UK.gov dangles £100m for service slingers for back office 'transformation' that'll kill off bespoke systems

India reveals plans to make electronics manufacturing its top industry

California emits fine-print of its GDPR-ish digital privacy law, complete with Google and Facebook-sized holes

Not just its VCS console that's MIA, Atari is a no-show in court, too: Reborn biz ignores hardware architect's lawsuit over unpaid wages

Smartphones, PCs, and now wearables... Coronavirus wrecks another corner of tech

Xiaomi has such Huawei with words: Our two new phones have 'easy access' to Google apps... unlike that other guy

Amateur astroboffins spot young brown dwarf playing with planet-forming hula hoop just 102 parsecs from Earth

We spent billions building atom smashers – and now boffins think nature's doing the same thing for free?

The little CubeSat that could: Launched from space station, ASTERIA is smallest satellite to detect an exoplanet

You're 3 billion years too late to see Mars' impressive ring system. The next one will be along in 40 million years or so

It's nice y'all like our chips but half our data-center sales are from cloud giants, FYI, says Nvidia's chief beancounter

Hoverbikes, Hyperloops and sub-orbital hijinks: Yes, the '3rd, 4th and 5th Dimensions of Travel' are coming soon

BBC voice assistant promises to summon streams even if you're just a little bit Brahms and Liszt

No, it's just a Mirage: Lenovo's nerd-goggles-for-suits boasts 4K display but no need to be attached to powerful PC

The UK's favourite lockdown cheese is Big and Red but doesn't require a stinking great audit after consumption

The Edinburgh Fringe festival isn't happening this year, but that won't stop a digital sign doing its own comedy routine

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

Science

Bye, Russia: NASA wheels out astronauts, describes plan for first all-American manned launch into orbit since 2011

Bezos to the Moon: Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Dynetics in a three-horse lunar lander race

The ultimate 4-wheel-drive: How ESA's keeping XMM-Newton alive after 20 years and beyond

ATLAS flubbed: Comet heading our way takes one look at Earth, self-destructs into house-sized chunks

SpaceX's Elon Musk high on success after counting '420' Starlinks in orbit and Frosty the Starship survives cryo test

Where were you in drought season? Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov dumped 230 million litres of water as it whizzed through Solar System

Watch now the three UFO videos uncovered by Blink-182 star – and today officially released by the Pentagon

Famously flawed, it is 30 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched

Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours

Want to put a satellite into orbit for US comms? Whoa, says Uncle Sam: Where's your space crash risk assessment?

Geoboffins reckon extreme rainfall might help some volcanoes pop off

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Light-powered nanocardboard robots dancing in the Martian sky searching for alien life

If you want to take social distancing to the next level, and go to the Moon, take this: A complete lunar geology map

How's your night sky looking? The Reg chats to astroboffin Mark McCaughrean about Starlink and leaving a mark

Somewhere, way out there, two black holes, one large and one small, merged. And here on Earth, we detected the gravitational wave blast

Self-isolation champions fresh home from a jaunt in orbit wonder if they've returned to the wrong version of Earth

Boffins examine interstellar comet Borisov to find out what its home was like. Pretty unpleasant, it seems

Fomalhaut b exoplanet may have been cloud in a trench coat: Massive 'world' formed after 'mid-space super-prang'

20 years deep into a '2-year' mission: How ESA keeps Cluster flying

NASA makes May 27 its US independence day from Russian rockets: America's back in the astronaut business after nearly nine years

Star's rosette orbit around our supermassive black hole proves Einstein's Theory of General Relativity correct

ESA's exoplanet hunter Cheops gets the green light to start checking out future spots mankind could settle on

Kepler telescope is dead but the data lives on: Earth-sized habitable zone planet found after boffins check for errors

Choose your own thrill ride: A Florida slidewire or catching a rocket by helicopter

It's official! Space travel increases the brain size of astronauts, even when they're back on Mother Earth

NASA dons red and blue cardboard 3D glasses to drive Curiosity rover because its GPUs are stuck in the office

Astroboffins suspect twin-star smash may be the culprit for most biggest and brightest supernova yet spotted

Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day

BepiColombo probe swings by Earth on way to Mercury – the Solar System's must-visit coronavirus-free resort

Apollo 13 set off into space 50 years ago today. An ignored change order ensured it did not make it to the Moon...

COVID-19 is pretty nasty but maybe this is taking social distancing too far? Universe may not be expanding equally in all directions

Academic showdown as boffins biff-baff over when Version 1.0 of Earth's magnetic core was released

If at first you don't succeed, fly, fly again: Boeing to repeat CST-100 test, Russia preps another ISS taxi

Antarctic science put on ice by coronavirus – next summer's expeditions restricted to essentials and robots

NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet

Things that go crump in the night: Watch Musk's mighty missile go foom

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Contact-tracer spoofing is already happening – and it's dangerously simple to do

'Beyond stupid': Linus Torvalds trashes 5.8 Linux kernel patch over opt-in Intel CPU bug mitigation

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Snapping at Canonical's Snap: Linux Mint team says no to Ubuntu store 'backdoor'

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