Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone

Known Issue Rollback for affected Windows 11 users | Continue reading


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Intel bags deal to make chip for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer

This will be the x86 giant's first major foundry customer | Continue reading


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DARPA seeks portable muon-making machine to see through almost anything

We currently make muons at CERN, so this is quite the miniaturization job | Continue reading


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NASA pulls together pieces for its most powerful supercomputer yet

Space agency plays the long game by adding performance over time... now with mix of Intel, AMD | Continue reading


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Court OKs billion-dollar Play Store gouging suit against Google

Just as web giant accepts third-party payment platforms, reduces fees in the EU | Continue reading


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Belgium says Chinese cyber gangs attacked its government and military

China, as usual, says it just wants a peaceful and prosperous internet | Continue reading


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UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform

Patients must have the right to decide what information is taken from health records, say privacy campaigners | Continue reading


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Apple to pay $50m settlement for rotten butterfly keyboards

Diehards who replaced their keyboards can get up to $395 repeatedly | Continue reading


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Google, Oracle cloud servers go down in UK heatwave, take down websites

Clouds burst as nation hits 40C | Continue reading


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Walmart-controlled flight booking service suffers substantial data leak

India's Cleartrip is being very opaque about what happened | Continue reading


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Baby talk has common features across languages and societies

ML study combines with citizen science to show talking and singing to infants may have evolutionary roots | Continue reading


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Russia fines Google $374M for letting the truth about Ukraine be told

Putin declares he'll make his own Googles now, thanks | Continue reading


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SoftBank reportedly stall's Arm London listing in IPO

Tory turmoil turns off tycoon's Tokyo tech titan theoretically temporarily | Continue reading


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Bogus cryptocurrency apps steal millions in mere months

As if the crypto world needs any help in making money vanish | Continue reading


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Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies | Continue reading


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Crypto miners aren't honest about power use – time for a crackdown

Democrats: regulations needed to asses how much energy used and emissions created, says letter to DoE, EPA | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Bae scores $699M contract to support US Army supercomputers

Systems will help with the DoD's most demanding computational challenges including AI, ML, and analytics | Continue reading


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Microsoft's latest security patch troubles Windows 11 users

The curse of Patch Tuesday strikes again as error codes wreak minor havoc | Continue reading


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American Airlines reserves 50 flying taxis

Making down payment to Vertical Aerospace for VX4 electric VTOL fleet | Continue reading


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Disentangling the Debian Derivatives

More flavors than than an ice cream shop means something for just about everyone | Continue reading


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Improve Linux performance for stand-alones with a simple tweak

Unless anyone else ever accesses your PC in any way | Continue reading


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Torvalds: Linux kernel team has sorted Retbleed chip flaw

But tidying things up has contributed to a one week delay on the version 5.19 release | Continue reading


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Is the $10B James Webb Space Telescope worth the price tag?

Performs better than expected, which is just as well – as it's going to be pelted with space rocks | Continue reading


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CISA pulls the fire alarm on Juniper Networks bugs

Hate to ruin your Friday | Continue reading


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Windows Network File System flaw results in arbitrary code execution as SYSTEM

Follina was all very exciting, but did you patch CVE-2022-30136? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Copper shortage keep green energy, tech ventures grounded

Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Linux Mint 21 hits beta

'Vanessa' is shaping up nicely – Ubuntu could learn a thing or two | Continue reading


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Being declared dead is automated, so why is resurrection such a nightmare?

Death becomes you swiftly but it’s messy making your way back | Continue reading


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Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

'The Evil Empire' hasn't been evil for about eight years now | Continue reading


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60m in the Matrix as users seek decentralized messaging

Slacked off and fed up with Teams? Want to escape the clutches of big tech? Element thinks so | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Mantis – the tiny shrimp that launched 3k DDoS attacks

Watch out for deadly pinchers after that record-breaking attack | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Supercomputer pinpoints where 'Black Beauty' oddity came from Mars

X marks the spot where we could learn more about Earth's early years, too | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

That emoji may not mean what you think it means

Sometimes an eggplant really is just an eggplant | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Smart thermostat swarms are straining the US energy grid

Thousands of devices all clicking on at the same time is taking a toll on energy management systems | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Microsoft intros clothing line that is absolutely not leftover conference swag

The 'Hardwear' selections include $150 tech trousers you can unzip to turn into shorts | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Slimbook updates Linux laptop ranges

Fresh lick of paint for KDE Slimbook, Slimbook ProX, and Slimbook Executive models | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Oracle planning sovereign cloud regions for the EU

Specialized infrastructure for the political bloc will help users deal with GDPR data laws | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Japanese chip plant lightning strike wrecks week's worth of chips

Renesas factory experienced worst voltage drop in decade – shutting down production lines | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Booster 7 in flames after unexpected ignition

Space oddity definitely not a metaphor for a corporate takeover going down the tubes | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

“Luna Glass” and “Mars Glass” centrifugal towers could be key to life off-planet

Spinning skyscrapers might produce about 1G at widest point | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Systemd Supremo Lennart Poettering Leaves Red Hat for Microsoft

What's the opposite of defenestration? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Hive to pull the plug on smart home gadgets by 2025

Count down begins on cameras, sensors no longer working | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Intel, Accenture put bow on open-source AI kits to push adoption

Think ML is hard to implement? That excuse is getting harder to make as you avoid the rush | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Meta asks line managers to identify poorly performing staff for firing

Zuckerberg makes good on headcount threats he issued last month | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

SF cops want real-time access to private security cameras for surveillance

ACLU hits back at 'unprecedented power grab' | Continue reading


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Older AMD, Intel chips vulnerable to data-leaking 'Retbleed' Spectre variant

Speculative execution side-channels continue to haunt silicon world | Continue reading


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Cloudy Chinese word processor vendor denies deleting defiant docs

But Kingsoft has admitted to blocking access to some material and Chinese creative types are worried | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Non-Windows OSS on Lenovo Secured-core PCs is trickier than it should be

What the powers that be have disabled in the BIOS, you must enable once more | Continue reading


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