ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

20 years on, physicists are still figuring out anomaly in proton experiment

(2022/10/23)

Anyone got the technical reference manual for this simulation we're living in?



As Russia wages disinfo war, Ukraine's cyber chief calls for global anti-fake news fight

(2022/10/23)

'Completely new approaches should be developed to prevent the influence of this propaganda'



How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

(2022/10/22)

Hands On Long live the King's English or something like that



Biden wants SpaceX to beam internet to Iran amid uprising

(2022/10/21)

Er, did Joe forget who runs Starlink?



TikTok accused of covert plot to track specific US citizens' every move

(2022/10/21)

China-owned boredom-killing biz issues precision-engineered denial



Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI

(2022/10/21)

Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019



Boffins shatter data transmission speed record

(2022/10/21)

One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet



OpenBSD 7.2: The other other FOSS xNix released, runs on Apple M2 Macs

(2022/10/21)

Plus better support for some newer Intel wireless and graphics chipsets



Why are PC webcams crap? Lenovo says it knows the reason

(2022/10/21)

Canalys Channels Forum Can expensive tech save this reporter's ugly mug? Not likely



Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare

(2022/10/21)

Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database



Elon Musk reportedly wants to gut Twitter workforce by 75%

(2022/10/21)

Twitter tells staff it knows of no plans, though. Plus: billionaire's ventures could take heat from Committee on Foreign Investment



New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard

(2022/10/21)

Reg Standards Bureau We didn't have a time unit. That... is... a... disgrace



IBM withholds healthcare subsidies from some retirees

(2022/10/21)

Former staff describe threat as a 'heist' and 'outright attack' on pension scheme



Good news, URSNIF no longer a banking trojan. Bad news, it's now a backdoor

(2022/10/21)

And one designed to slip ransomware and data-stealing code onto infected machines



Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health

(2022/10/21)

Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit



Bias toward office staff will cost you: Your WFH crew could walk, say execs

(2022/10/21)

Canalys Channels Forum Productivity KPIs need a 21st century makeover, say tech bosses



To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess

(2022/10/21)

On Call We'd say this was a clear case of RTFM but this rig was so simple it didn't have a manual



Infosys reverses opposition to staff taking side gigs

(2022/10/21)

Moonlighting is now now OK – if you do it the Infosys way, says CEO Salil Parekh



We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water

(2022/10/21)

Weird puffy gas giant circles red dwarf



Team Interpol: Metaverse Police

(2022/10/21)

Attempted revival of virtual reality is only just beginning and already the cops just want to take a look around



More

The executioner is, I hear, very expert, and my neck is very slender.
-- Anne Boleyn