Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4B years, rocks reveal

Even our nearest satellite can't stand our gravity | Continue reading


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Cops swoop after crooks use wireless keyfob hack to steal cars

Hotwiring is so 2021 | Continue reading


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EU companies claim Google still abusing its Shopping power

Search giant's 'Shopping Units need to go,' say coalition of 43 online comparison tools | Continue reading


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Datacenter fire takes out South Korea's top two web giants

Sub-par disaster recovery plans leave Naver and Kakao with savage service interruptions | Continue reading


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Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' (2020)

US air safety bods call it 'potentially catastrophic' if reboot directive not implemented | Continue reading


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Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking

Security expert challenges claim that bypassing encryption is essential to protecting kids | Continue reading


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Senior engineer reported to management for failing to fix a stapler

The demarcation line between IT and stationery is not electricity, but the line between dumb and nasty clearly starts at staplers | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art

Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode | Continue reading


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Would you pay $10 to create an AI chatbot to talk again to a dead loved one?

How software can help some grieve, perturb others | Continue reading


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China doesn’t need to take Taiwan’s fabs to escape US trade bans

Threatening to destroy them could give them just as much leverage, while averting all out war | Continue reading


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Qualcomm: Arm lawsuit motivated by greed, 'payback' for opposing Nvidia takeover

A contract is a contract, says Brit CPU designer | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Nvidia admits mistake, 'unlaunches' 12GB RTX 4080

The cheapest 40-series card now starts at [checks notes] $1,199 | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10B Oracle Cerner health record system

Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink

Never mind, still plenty of time to that 2023 orbital test | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Google challenges US ISPs with 100Gbps fiber broadband

An internet advertiser as your service provider – what could go wrong? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Aerobot designed for hell-world Venus first braves something worse: Nevada

And by worse, we mean: The endless casinos | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears | Continue reading


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Canonical displays controversial 'ad' in shell update prog

Ubuntu once again courts controversy, but alternative commands are available | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision

'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Fujitsu and Japanese Uni want internet 'endorsement layer'

Hope to combat misinformation with graph of observations that prove what you’re reading is reliable | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Prison inmate accused of orchestrating $11M fraud using cell cellphone

Judge rejects defense effort to toss warrantless device search on privacy grounds | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Zinc: An Ubuntu remix that dares to be different

Impressive distro is somewhere between a tech demo and a power user's tool | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Intel chips in on optical modem for DARPA's 'internet of satellites'

Mmmmm... smells like Space-BACN | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Crypto exchange Bittrex coughs up $53M to end claims of US sanctions busting

Feds also said the biz sucked at policing transactions for suspicious activity – as if! | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles

Which is great news for the single company that makes them | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Intel fires up internal foundry model to make its own chips

It's IDM 2.0 ... 2.0. Or perhaps this was the plan all along... | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Microsoft attempts to eat Oracle's database lunch with Azure migration service

Redmond hopes move will lure more to its PostgreSQL managed service | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Westinghouse sale signals arrival of a new nuclear age

Energy granddad wants in on the next generation of atomic tech | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms

Culture wars may have come to gentle tales of tweens enjoying friends, fun, programming | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

UK hospitals fall back on pen and paper after Oracle Cerner outage

Staff couldn't access patient records and paper stocks were running low | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Chinese city of Shenzhen offers free money to boost chip industry

Throwing cash at industry to keep chip well from running dry as US sanctions continue to bite | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm

Check your rooftops: Flying gear caught carrying network-intrusion kit | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

PC shipments fall at fastest rate ever

More analysts emerge to talk up hefty double digit shrink in unit volumes | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Red Hat backs CNCF project, spills TEE support over Kubernetes

Keeping the contents of your clusters secure from whoever's hosting them | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Singapore suggests blockchain to speed cross-border payments

Monetary Authority director calls current system 'not fit for 21st century' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

NASA regains control of CAPSTONE lunar orbiter after a tumble

Pinging something missing on a network is frustrating enough, imagine if it's out in space | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Oz Apple Store staff vote to strike for better pay and conditions

Some plan to take a whole hour off | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Toyota dev left key to customer info on public GitHub page for five years

'Oh what a feeling' when your contractor leaks site source code | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Singtel confirms digital burglary at Dialog subsidiary

Second of Singapore telco's Australian businesses to be prised open by criminals in weeks | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Pro-Putin goons claim responsibility for blowing US airport websites offline

How's that boot taste? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? It's broken

RPKI is supposed to verify network routes. Instead, here's how it could be subverted | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

It’s 2022 and consumers are only now getting serious about cybersecurity

US consumers start to get the message about protecting themselves online | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Last week's US export controls could mark start of trade war

China thinks America targets its tech to kill off competition, and some believe economic standoff on way | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

More than 4 in 10 PCs still can't upgrade to Windows 11

Research by Lansweeper shows Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements still at play | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Linus Torvalds’s faulty RAM slows kernel development

Emperor penguin swipes Intel's attitude to ECC memory and maybe wimpy Mac performance too | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Lab explores dystopian future of AI helping cops catch criminals

Plus: US AI Bill of Rights, and a new framework to run models on AMD and Nvidia GPUs more flexibly | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Make your neighbor think their house is haunted by blinking their smart bulbs

Radio comms vulnerabilities detailed | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

If you need a TCP replacement, you won't find a QUIC one

But we can say what this upcoming protocol is good for | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago