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)

The cause of last December's failed satellite launch? Nozzle material, says ESA

(2023/03/06)

Arianespace Vega-C rocket failure sent two Airbus satellites into the Atlantic Ocean



Financial red tape blamed for London losing Arm IPO

(2023/03/06)

Chip outfit reportedly afraid it would have to report any transaction with a SoftBank company to UK regulator



How to get the latest Linux kernel on your Ubuntu box

(2023/03/06)

And a choice of ways to get the latest KDE too, if that's your thing



Atomic energy body proposes fusion framework to manage British energy grids

(2023/03/06)

When you need something reliable that won't drop out of support, open is the way to go



Fujitsu's A64FX successor will be an Arm-based datacenter chip

(2023/03/06)

Plus: Drops 'carbon-neutral' hints on successor processor with the moniker MONAKA



The Great Graph Debate: Revolutionary concept in databases or niche curiosity?

(2023/03/06)

Register Debate Two experts go head-to-head – then you decide



Building bits of brain in the lab will change our minds

(2023/03/06)

Opinion Wake up and smell the cortex



Don't worry, that system's not actually active – oh, wait …

(2023/03/06)

who, me? Fat-fingered admin escaped because the last false alarm was caused by a frozen pizza and a toaster oven



Intel buries news of GPU cuts and delays in low-key Friday post

(2023/03/06)

Falcon Shore will be late. Rialto Bridge and Lancaster Sound cancelled. Will Chipzilla ever nail its XPU plan?



Wait, what? Workstation sales set new record in 2022?

(2023/03/06)

Then they plunged properly like all other client devices



Elon Musk yearns for AI devs to build 'anti-woke' rival ChatGPT bot

(2023/03/06)

In brief Plus: OpenAI says it won't train on customer data, and Microsoft rolls out new Bing AI modes



Where are the women in cyber security? On the dark side, study suggests

(2023/03/06)

In Brief Also, Royal ransomware metastasizes to other critical sectors, and this week's critical vulnerabilities



US adds Inspur – friend to Intel, IBM, Cisco and hyperscalers – to export ban list

(2023/03/06)

Loongson, China’s most advanced chipmaker and a desktop contender, also added to entity list



China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency

(2023/03/06)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more



SBOMs should be a security staple in the software supply chain

(2023/03/05)

SCSW Know the ingredients before mixing the code. Oh and pay open source maintainers for goodness' sake...



Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites

(2023/03/04)

Whatever happened to small government that stays out of our lives



Huge lithium discovery could end world shortages ... Oh, wait, it's in Iran

(2023/03/04)

Good thing we've got a great rapport with Tehran, no?



Why our solar-storm sats corrode – and probably not what you expected

(2023/03/04)

My dear, I do believe I have the vapors ... in spaaace



Secret Service, ICE break the law over and over with fake cell tower spying

(2023/03/04)

Investigations 'at risk' from sloppy surveillance uncovered by audit probe



Snap CISO: I rate software supply chain risk 9.9 out of 10

(2023/03/04)

SCSW 'Understanding your inventory is absolutely No. 1' he tells The Reg



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