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