AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads
Now if only the councils could afford to fill them
Offbeat21 Jan 2025 | 20
Offbeat
China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale
Updated President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy
Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 6
SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes
Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment'
Science20 Jan 2025 | 16
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?
Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
Columnists20 Jan 2025 | 75
Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper
Gaia makes its final science observation
Science18 Jan 2025 | 9
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero
Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris
Science17 Jan 2025 | 107
In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy
Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows
Bootnotes16 Jan 2025 | 86
Feds sue Southwest for chronic delays, unrealistic schedules
Department of Transportation wants in on last-minute Biden administration action too
Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 8
Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory
The hyperscale plant is designed to produce tens of thousands of AVs a year
Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 26
Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery
Jeff Bezos' space company achieves milestone with payload delivered
Science16 Jan 2025 | 60
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit
As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter
Science16 Jan 2025 | 13
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register
Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off
Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home
Threat to quit still preferred to commuting on packed public transport
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 196
SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon
Blue Ghost's first time, and second time lucky for Japanese company ispace?
Science15 Jan 2025 | 22
British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees
Collective Proceedings Order seeks £1.5B from iGiant
Applications15 Jan 2025 | 10
Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing
No such problems at Airbus, which cruised at a high level and shipped almost two planes a day last year
Offbeat15 Jan 2025 | 91
SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover
Plus: SpaceX rocket re-entries spark airline delays
Bootnotes15 Jan 2025 | 53
Brit watchdog probes Google's search, ads empire
Third front opened amid continued scrutiny from US, Euro regulators
Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 4
It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board
Analysis That niche forum running for 20 years – get ready, there's work to do
Security14 Jan 2025 | 148
They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file
Knee-deep in the markup
Offbeat14 Jan 2025 | 65
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How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish
Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries
The S in LLM stands for Security
Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service
Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap
Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior
'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise
Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?
Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic
Infosec in brief PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more
Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors
Students have work to complete at home in the meantime
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?
Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers
STORIES
Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky
Updated Free Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media
Bootnotes14 Jan 2025 | 60
WordPress drama latest: Leader Matt Mullenweg exiles five contributors
WordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off
Applications14 Jan 2025 | 29
Pastor's divine 'dream' crypto scheme indicted by Uncle Sam
Plus: Man who tossed Bitcoin drive worth millions barred from digging in dump
Offbeat13 Jan 2025 | 32
Blue Origin gives up on New Glenn lift-off, 2 hours into launch window
Updated Vehicle subsystem concerns blamed for scrub
Science13 Jan 2025 | 35
Europe coughs up €400 to punter after breaking its own GDPR data protection rules
Infosec in brief PLUS: Data broker leak reveals extent of info trading; Hot new ransomware gang might be all AI, no bark; and more
Security13 Jan 2025 | 15
Celebrating when EVs went to the Moon with a Lego Lunar Roving Vehicle build
Even better use for the Technic range than the Mars Rover – with one big caveat
Offbeat11 Jan 2025 | 20
Blue Origin postpones New Glenn's maiden flight to January 12
Now set for the day before SpaceX's next Starship test
Science10 Jan 2025 | 50
Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL
On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code
Software10 Jan 2025 | 41
BOFH: Forecasting and the fine art of desktop upgrades
Episode 1 New year, new PC
BOFH10 Jan 2025 | 41
Two accused of COVID-19 vaccine fraud under Computer Misuse Act
Investigation says scheme allegedly raked in £145k and sold nearly 2,000 fake records to the unvaccinated
Legal10 Jan 2025 |
Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content
Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader?
Legal10 Jan 2025 | 26
Is that a bird’s nest, a wireless broadband base station, or both?
Everything in Australia is deadly, in this case giant eagles guarding eggs in places wireless broadband techs need to reach
Offbeat10 Jan 2025 | 66
Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025
ces The honors are dubious, but boy, so is the tech
Offbeat09 Jan 2025 | 78
Tesla, Musk double down on $56B payday appeal
What could be the motivation for continuing to fight the case?
CxO09 Jan 2025 | 74
NASA's lunar Roomba set to suck up Moon dirt for study
Collecting regolith samples with a blast of gas
Science09 Jan 2025 | 20
What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This...
Ex-politician in UK claims he's been defamed – and goes to court in US for answers
Legal09 Jan 2025 | 87
UK government pledges law against sexually explicit deepfakes
Not just making them, but sharing them too
Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 29
Los Angeles wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed
Updated Crews battle to keep people, homes, science safe
Science08 Jan 2025 | 62
NASA has just two Mars Sample Return mission lander options left
JPL's sky crane tech or private vendor to get $5-7B contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA
Science08 Jan 2025 | 10
DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research
Updated Devices on six-year-old firmware vulnerable to takeover and destruction
Research08 Jan 2025 | 24
Japan's wooden satellite exits International Space Station
Carefully crafted wooden box, LignoSat, is on its own
Science08 Jan 2025 | 48
UK digital markets watchdog expects to launch investigations within the month using new powers
Regulator will see a 'participative' approach before imposing fines
Public Sector08 Jan 2025 | 13
First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10
Bezos booster finally ready for action
Science07 Jan 2025 | 21
Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics
Opinion Leaders miffed at 'unacceptable interference'
Offbeat07 Jan 2025 | 340
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 | 112
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 | 168
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 | 56
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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
