Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors (2022/01/24) Hunt follows £210m government funding in small modular reactor model
Hive View security camera customers left in the dark as some gear gives up the ghost (2022/01/24) Devices of the affected seem intent on going into the light
IBM forges entanglement to double quantum simulations by 'cutting up a larger circuit into smaller circuits' (2022/01/24) Littler circuits executing on smaller hardware and tolerating 'a lot more noise'
Robot vacuum cleaner employed by Brit budget hotel chain Travelodge flees (2022/01/24) Unit dragged back to work after being found under hedge a day later
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... a massive black hole spewed out gases that probably helped make stars (2022/01/24) As it destroys so it creates
Elvis may have left the building, but Windows remains very much on show (2022/01/24) Just like the '68 Comeback Special, Bork has returned
Team behind delayed ERP project was aware of problems but didn't inform Surrey County Council for months (2022/01/24) Move from SAP to Unit4 held up by comms 'issues' between supplier and authority
IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success (2022/01/24) Why won't you love me, sobs perennially spurned protocol
Pop quiz: The network team didn't make your change. The server is in a locked room. What do you do? (2022/01/24) Not all heroes wear capes. Some are Unix admins.
Apple again extends waiver for in-app purchasing requirement for online experiences (2022/01/24) We'll know the pandemic is over when Apple starts insisting on its cut of fees for events again
Myanmar's military junta seeks ban on VPNs and digital currency (2022/01/24) People would no longer be able to rely on VPNs for their preferred communication tool, Facebook
Cloudflare signals big Asian push, starting in Singapore (2022/01/24) Seeks salespeople focused on expansion – and casinos – and adds a trio of senior managers
Australian Prime Minister's WeChat Shanghaied by Chinese patriots (2022/01/24) Politicians rush to blame Beijing, Tencent says the account was transferred from its original registrar and it's probing that shift
IBM finally finds a private equiteer willing to purchase Watson Health (2022/01/24) As poker players ponder whether tech is ruining their favourite game
Desktop-deprived Linus Torvalds releases first release candidate of ‘not huge’ kernel 5.17 (2022/01/24) Life on the road increases reliance on cloudy tools instead of Emperor Penguin's preferred local tests
Another US president, time for another big Intel factory promise by another CEO (2022/01/22) Let's not get too excited about this right away
European silicon output shrinking, metal smelters closing as electricity prices quadruple, trade body warns (2022/01/22) Probably something to tackle before those chip fabs are built, eh?
Tougher rules on targeted ads, deepfakes, crafty web design, and more? Euro lawmakers give a thumbs up (2022/01/22) 'This is strongly limiting the scope of maneuver by Big Tech', expert tells El Reg
Meta trains data2vec neural network to understand speech, images, text so it can 'understand the world' (2022/01/22) Whatever it takes, Mark
Apple preps fix for Safari's web-history-leaking IndexedDB privacy bug (2022/01/21) Disclosure of WebKit flaw appears to have prodded iBiz to undertake repairs