SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev
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SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev
An astronomy software dev claims a Falcon 9 upper stage will hit the Moon in August, traveling at several times the speed of sound.…
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming
Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant.…
UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender
Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters
The Department for Work and Pensions has gone shopping for covert cameras, live-streaming kit, and vehicle-based recording gear as it lines up a £2 million upgrade to watch fraud suspects in real time.…
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?
Things that go bork in the night
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?
Things that go bork in the night
Bork!Bork!Bork! What frightens you? What, as an IT professional, would make you shriek like a small child? What tech horrors are lurking under your bed?…
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed
Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed
Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year
The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration of its new passport production contract, increasing it to a total of £576 million as it starts a third round of engagement with suppliers.…
DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it
Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right'
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new tech to support driving license applications that require medical checks, after processing times exceeded 14 weeks in February.…
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave
For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave
For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem
On Call Fridays can be a drag, but The Register has a formula to inject a little fun by delivering a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column in which we share your tech support stories.…
Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’
Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler
Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’
Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler
Qualcomm has quietly entered the market for custom hyperscale silicon, and datacenter CPUs…
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has confirmed the demise of its mainframe business in the year 2035 and hinted it’s working on significant defense projects.…
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012
$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012
$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday kicked off a new application process for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), its first since 2012.…
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools
Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools
Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware
The wave of supply chain attacks aimed at security and developer tools has washed up more victims, namely SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the lightning PyPI package.…
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