Mars helicopter phones home after 63 days of silence If Japanese space boffins have their way, it could be joined by a robotic hummingbird Science03 Jul 2023 | 3
Europe's Euclid telescope launches to figure out dark energy, the universe, and everything Interview We speak to project scientist on effort to build 3D map of space going back ten billion years Science01 Jul 2023 | 12
Report reveals US Space Force unprepared to counter orbital threats 20 years of searching for spider holes has given Russia, China lots of time to secure the skies for themselves Science30 Jun 2023 | 24
Microsoft puts profanity filter on %@!#ing Teams transcripts Just in case you blurt out that L***x is better than Windows? (That was a joke, PR friends) Offbeat30 Jun 2023 | 35
Ripoff Vuitton handbag smaller than a grain of salt fetches $63,750 at auction The art world is up to shenanigans again Offbeat30 Jun 2023 | 30
Forget these apps and AI, where's my flying car? Ah, here's one with an FAA license Also: No comment on that choice of name for a wee leccy chopper Bootnotes29 Jun 2023 | 62
Virgin Galactic finally gets its first paying customers to edge of space Video It only took nearly 20 years and one death to get there Science29 Jun 2023 | 67
Mummy and Daddy Musk think Elon's cage fight against Zuck is a terrible idea Bizarrely, there's been no suggestion that the bout won't happen Offbeat29 Jun 2023 | 47
UK's dream of fusion power by 2040s will need GPUs Boffins plan 'digital twin' to help hit deadline, recruit heavy-hitting partners Science29 Jun 2023 | 19
California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull Fraudulent cash cow milked investors for almost $9M Offbeat28 Jun 2023 | 36
Fire-resistant drones promise to help rescuers in a hot spot NASA space suits provide inspiration to Swiss and Brit boffins Science28 Jun 2023 | 2
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig Legal28 Jun 2023 | 84
NIST boffins shrink atomic beam clock to the size of a postage stamp It's not the most accurate atomic clock in the world, but the NIST team behind it believes they can fix that Science27 Jun 2023 | 14
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this Science27 Jun 2023 | 30
NASA and miners face off over lithium deposits at satellite calibration site There's smartphone batteries to be mined, but at what cost? Science26 Jun 2023 | 15
Wind tunnels for fluid dynamics boffins among UKRI's £72M funding Funds will focus on energy, transportation, astronomy, and healthcare Science26 Jun 2023 | 25
If you want a big brain, make a habit out of daytime naps You are getting sleepy… very sleepy Bootnotes26 Jun 2023 | 41
Europe seeks to punish Putin's infowar pals with bans on Russian tech firms Also slaps Chinese backdoor entities shipping forbidden tech to Moscow Legal26 Jun 2023 | 10
BOFH: Cough up half a grand and we'll protect you from AI Episode 12 You get job security, we get lager and deep-fried food BOFH23 Jun 2023 | 74
Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson On Call It's one thing to have a twin – quite another to have an EVIL twin Offbeat23 Jun 2023 | 359
JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup Fined $4m for Who-Me-esque mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office Survey says most would prefer a gentle request
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing, they're still number one Cough, cough, use Rust. Plus: Eight more exploited bugs added to CISA's must-patch list
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt
MIT discovery suggests a new class of superconductors You who think superconductivity can't happen without spin polarization? Hold my FeSe Science23 Jun 2023 | 21
Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors Debris points to 'catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,' says Coast Guard Science22 Jun 2023 | 314
Intelsat and SES merger to create $10B satellite giant is off Hear that, Amazon Kuiper and Starlink? The coast is clear... Unlike the skies. Ahem Science22 Jun 2023 | 1
Pangolin-inspired robot can roll around your guts administering treatments Flexing device works where surgeons find hard to reach Science22 Jun 2023 | 4
Mark Zuckerberg would kick Elon Musk's ass, experts say Comment The two claim to be headed for a smackdown over copycat services Bootnotes22 Jun 2023 | 69
Existential dread time: One day Earth's oceans will boil. This exoplanet might reveal when LP 890-9c gives us a glimpse into our world's far future, astronomer tells El Reg Science22 Jun 2023 | 26
Inclusive Naming Initiative limps towards release of dangerous digital dictionary Proposes a mere ten terms it feels should disappear from tech vocabularies Offbeat22 Jun 2023 | 245
'We hate what you’ve done with the place – especially the hate' Australia tells Twitter Issues official 'please explain why your moderation is rubbish' notice backed by big fines Legal22 Jun 2023 | 101
Restaurant hired 'priest' to extract workplace confessions from staff With now $150K to pay out, that's what we call fine dining Bootnotes21 Jun 2023 | 38
BepiColombo probe turns to the dark side … of Mercury Sends home snaps on third fly-by of six as it heads for orbit in 2025 Science21 Jun 2023 | 13
Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine It has enough air to last until Thursday, but if it isn't already on the surface rescue operations could be impossible Science20 Jun 2023 | 201
Montenegro jails Do Kwon, accused of causing $40 billion LUNA crash Crypto villain's passports were as fake as his stablecoin Legal20 Jun 2023 | 11
Elon Musk's Twitter moves were 'reaffirming' says Reddit boss amid API changes Comment From 'we are not Elon' to 'Elon was right' in a matter of days Bootnotes19 Jun 2023 | 161
Japan unleashes regulation Kaiju on Apple's and Google's app store monopolies Digital Competition Conf wants rift in markets to allow new app-slingers to spawn Legal19 Jun 2023 | 14
Micron warns China's ban could cost it $4 billion annual revenue Asia In Brief PLUS: Crypto just isn't cricket in India; China's budget smartphone surge; Jack Ma is back, again; and more Legal19 Jun 2023 | 1
Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse Legal16 Jun 2023 | 14
Music bosses go after Twitter's unlicensed soundtrack to the tune of $250M Just what the Muskified platform needs right now – another lawsuit Legal15 Jun 2023 | 23
UK smart meter rollout years late and less than two thirds complete Sub-£5 monthly saving per household on £13.5B energy reduction project Offbeat15 Jun 2023 | 269
NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability They'll be replaced with longer, thinner wings supported by a truss Science14 Jun 2023 | 97
Software picks out more satellite photobombs in Hubble image Multi-exposure masking helps mitigate modern era interferance Science13 Jun 2023 | 18
Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time You want to 'take it offline'? Like, the whole company system? Well, OK then Offbeat13 Jun 2023 | 291
Clippy designer was too embarrassed to include him in his portfolio Love him or loathe him, the default Office Assistant remains an icon of personal computing history Offbeat12 Jun 2023 | 56
BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business Episode 11 Contracts. Do you read them? BOFH09 Jun 2023 | 104
FAA proposes air taxi pilot licensing plans, sans actual air taxis We're still a couple years out from eVTOLs picking you up for that red eye flight, and even that may be pushing it Offbeat08 Jun 2023 | 7
Caltech claims to have beamed energy to Earth from satellite Tech has potential to power war-torn spots and remote regions The Reg in Space07 Jun 2023 | 42
Boeing discovers Dreamliner defect, delivery delay decided Better than not delaying it, we suppose Offbeat07 Jun 2023 | 34
Whistleblower claims Uncle Sam is sitting on hoard of alien vehicles and tech Ex-UAP analyst reckons he was harassed for telling Congress Science07 Jun 2023 | 77
UK government proposes legislation to regulate umbrella companies 'Mixed bag' of solutions await tech workers forced into IR35 alternatives Legal07 Jun 2023 | 28
Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation Outdated ISS system will need an upgrade if we're to go further into space The Reg in Space07 Jun 2023 | 82
NASA's heavy metal Psyche asteroid trip is a go for October Team problems found last year seem to have been resolved Science07 Jun 2023 | 4
Hong Kong tries to outlaw uploads of unofficial and anti-Beijing anthem State-sponsored SEO effort to send people to properly patriotic tune has its limits Legal07 Jun 2023 | 23
James Webb smells someone having barbecue in galaxy 12 billion light years away Most distant smoke and smog discovery could help explain star formation in the early universe The Reg in Space06 Jun 2023 | 14
Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy Next time you mess up a spreadsheet, take heart that you didn't destroy someone's political hopes and dreams Offbeat06 Jun 2023 | 30
China EV market share hits 27 percent as tax breaks extended Asia In Brief PLUS: Indonesia's digital success under the radar; Singapore picks Google AI; India claims streaming record Offbeat05 Jun 2023 | 8
This ain't Boeing very well: Starliner's first crewed flight canceled yet again Flammable tape and unreliable parachutes ground craft this time around Science02 Jun 2023 | 82
Bookings open for first all-electric flights around Scandinavia … in 2028 You'll need to be fast to score one of 30 tickets for planes that don't go very far Offbeat02 Jun 2023 | 50
Boffins snap X-ray closeup of single atom – and by closeup we mean nanometres Achievement took 12 years of blood, sweat and science Science01 Jun 2023 | 8
India official fined after draining reservoir to recover phone Dam it all to hell Offbeat01 Jun 2023 | 23
NASA experts looked through 800 UFO sightings and found essentially nothing Video We need better data! If only everyone could carry a high-quality camera and apps to share pics... Science01 Jun 2023 | 78
North Korean spy satellite launch ends in sea smash Rather than herald exciting success of best-ever lift-off, state media confirms fiasco. Consider us surprised Bootnotes31 May 2023 | 10
Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again How cool? About -250°C Science31 May 2023 | 23
Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight An aircraft mass properties engineer and an eating disorder therapist weigh in on Air New Zealand's plan Science31 May 2023 | 122
Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers Everything down under wants to either kill you, or underpay you Legal31 May 2023 | 29
CERN spots Higgs boson decay breaking the rules So much for the Standard Model of particle physics? Science30 May 2023 | 46
Mars helicopter went silent for six sols, imperilled Perseverance rover Ingenuity's still setting records, but waking it up and chatting are getting harder The Reg in Space30 May 2023 | 42
Seriously, boss? You want that stupid password? OK, you get that stupid password Who, Me? Fed-up techie wields the magic of malicious compliance on his way out the door Offbeat29 May 2023 | 99
Neuralink says US OK's human experiments with Elon's brain chips Hopefully this tech works better than his self-driving cars Science26 May 2023 | 36
LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves The instrument that proved Einstein right is back The Reg in Space26 May 2023 | 23
IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects Quango tax blunder follows similar payments from Defra and MoJ Science26 May 2023 | 26
BOFH: Get me a new data file or your manager finds out exactly what you think of him Episode 10 A developer in sales? You poor, poor creature BOFH26 May 2023 | 123
Experimental brain-spine computer interface helped a paralyzed man walk Comment Pioneering research effectively reconnects patient's motor cortex with his spinal cord Science26 May 2023 | 42
Fahrenheit to take over Celsius 0°C×9/5+32 = how much money to thaw frozen crypto accounts? Legal26 May 2023 | 43
India set to regulate AI, Big Tech, with sweeping Digital Act Big semiconductor R&D strategy in the works, too Legal26 May 2023 |
After network glitch, South Korea's commercial sat-slinger succeeds Nuri rocket has done the business – now to get into the business Science26 May 2023 | 3
Virgin Galactic flies final test before opening for business $450k buys you about 90 minutes of space adventure and a sub-orbital glimpse of Earth Science26 May 2023 | 38
Ministry of Justice rapped by ICO for old fashioned data leak Forget AWS buckets, bags of medical and personal info on inmates and their guards left in 'unsecured' area of prison Offbeat25 May 2023 | 2
Ford in reverse gear over AM radio removal after Congress threatens action Surprise: Electronics was always there. Cars lacking button for the band just need a software update, says CEO Offbeat24 May 2023 | 58
Encoded 'alien message' will reach Earth today, but relax: It's just a drill SETI encouraging everyone to break out their decoder rings, get in on the simulated first-contact fun Science24 May 2023 | 23
Virgin Orbit-uary: Beardy Branson's satellite launch biz shutters Rocket Lab, Stratolaunch, and Vast pick at the corpse Science24 May 2023 | 25
Lightning just as frightening on Jupiter as it is on Earth Juno probe strikes at the similarities despite differences in planets' size and structure Science24 May 2023 | 6
Ex-McKinsey IT director claims he was fired for whistleblowing Lawsuit alleges he was 'set up' after finding flaws in product meant for sale to Uncle Sam Legal24 May 2023 | 22
Pakistan turns its back on crypto to keep anti-terrorism watchdogs happy Meanwhile, will train a million IT graduates in Artificial Intelligence Legal24 May 2023 | 6
Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind Boffins call for end to UFO stigma Science23 May 2023 | 78
China becomes the 37th country to approve Microsoft's Activision buyout Boss fights with US and UK authorities lie ahead, and Redmond may not have enough power-ups to prevail Legal23 May 2023 | 10
Russian businesses want to party like it's 1959 with 6-day workweek In Putin's Russia, the work does you Offbeat22 May 2023 | 70
Parent discovers the cost of ignoring Roblox: £2,500 and heart palpitations 10-year-old hacks family iPad and goes on in-game bling shopping spree Offbeat22 May 2023 | 71
China seeks space cargo launches well below prices NASA pays SpaceX Asia In Brief Plus: ChatGPT hallucinates Japan's PM; Infosys scores huge BP deal; Grab on the way to becoming a bank; and more Science22 May 2023 | 8
China bans Micron products after security review finds unspecified flaws Alleges major risks to national security, but is happy for chips to remain in place Legal21 May 2023 | 24
Astronomers spot Earth-sized exoplanet probably 'carpeted' by volcanoes The floor is lava. Literally. But at least there might be water Science18 May 2023 | 16
Asia's top rideshare outfit, Grab, is late paying fines for running late Took out Uber and promised to play nice, but regulator alleges years of evasion Legal18 May 2023 | 3
Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500m bill 'Liz' learns you don't screw over rich people Science17 May 2023 | 72
We regret to inform you Earth will not be destroyed by an asteroid within 1,000 years Never mind, there's always nuclear war and climate catastrophe Offbeat17 May 2023 | 38
Stratolaunch takes hypersonic flight dreams to new heights with mid-air release success Paul Allen must be smiling up there ahead of test flight in summer Science17 May 2023 | 9
US Disruptive Technology Strike Force has struck Former Apple engineer busted for stealing self-driving code, others accused of arranging illicit military tech transfers Legal17 May 2023 | 3
North Korea shows off surveillance satellite it claims it can launch To counter the 'US imperialists and the South Korean puppet villains' Science17 May 2023 | 13
Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted Now the minister responsible has threatened regulation Legal17 May 2023 | 59
OpenAI's Sam Altman rattles tin for crypto startup that will support bot-replaced workers Idea is to scan irises to disburse universal basic income just for being human Offbeat16 May 2023 | 20
Supernova peekaboo could provide clues to our universe's age Gravitational lensing technique offers hope in cracking cosmological conundrum Science16 May 2023 | 7
NASA freezes ice-hunting cubesat Moon mission for good after thruster fail Lunar Flashlight's innovative hardware worked ... other than its engines. Let's call it a draw Science15 May 2023 | 6