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)

NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead

(2026/03/09)

Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander



Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

(2026/03/09)

This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk



Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

(2026/03/09)

UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible'



Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is

(2026/03/09)

Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late



UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone

(2026/03/09)

Opinion Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers



Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

(2026/03/09)

Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks



Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

(2026/03/09)

Who, Me? Ignorance really was the way to achieve bliss



Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds

(2026/03/09)

World War Fee Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack



NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour

(2026/03/09)

You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers



Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought

(2026/03/09)

Kettle Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead



Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP

(2026/03/09)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India’s PC market fails to launch, again; And more



FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools

(2026/03/09)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more



AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work

(2026/03/08)

interview Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg



Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom

(2026/03/08)

What hath science wrought?



Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics

(2026/03/07)

feature Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits



Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services

(2026/03/07)

'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall'



60 years since humanity first touched the surface of another planet

(2026/03/07)

Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus



Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids

(2026/03/07)

Meta supposedly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia



Anthropic bods rework AI damage yardstick, find scant labor impact

(2026/03/07)

It's the end of the world as we know it, and AI feels fine



Don’t blame AI yet for poor jobs numbers, analysts say

(2026/03/07)

US unemployment ticked up to 4.4%



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The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
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