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Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for

34 min 56 sec ago
Your instinctive revulsion is spot on. Follow your nose

Opinion Science is at its best when it makes manifest radical ideas that change our worldview. This is the flag all sane people salute, under which we march to war. Yet in our hearts, we know that the very tastiest science is that which confirms our prejudices and validates what we've known all along. Cornell University has just served up a plate of the finest yet. Tuck in.…

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When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella

1 hour 22 min ago
National Audit Office warns government has little idea of how to respond in the event of a major solar storm

The UK's National Audit Office (NAO) has warned the country is underprepared for a severe space weather event.…

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Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo

2 hours 7 min ago
First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of face

Who, Me? Monday is upon us, but before you use the new week to explore opportunity and adventure, The Register presents a new installment of Who, Me? It's our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of flops, failures, and foul-ups.…

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Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using ‘new physics’

2 hours 56 min ago
Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn’t add up

Elon Musk has put Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI in harness to build a chip fabrication outfit called “Terafab” capable of producing a terawatt’s worth of computing power each year, then send most of it into space.…

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Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11

7 hours 2 min ago
'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issues

Microsoft has acknowledged that it needs to improve the quality of Windows 11 and outlined its plan to get the job done.…

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Australia to datacenter operators: BYO energy, pay your way, build green, or stay home

8 hours 54 min ago
PLUS: Singtel’s triple outage; 17,000 counterfeit hard drives seized; Tech wages shift across Asia; And more!

Asia In Brief Australia’s government on Monday announced a set of datacenter “expectations” to guide would-be bit barn builders who contemplate breaking ground down under.…

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Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks

Sun, 2026-03-22 22:12
PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

Infosec In Brief Russian intelligence-affiliated parties are posing as customer support services on commercial messaging applications such as Signal to compromise accounts and conduct phishing attacks, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned last Friday.…

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CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge

Sun, 2026-03-22 11:11
The operating system of the universe isn’t going to debug itself

feature CERN is nothing like today's agentic AI jockeys, who mostly rely on pre-set weights and generic TPUs and GPUs to generate their slop. CERN burns custom nanosecond-speed AI into the silicon itself just to eliminate excess data.…

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Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor

Sat, 2026-03-21 12:10
Decades of data suggest people who stick to a couple of brews fare better in terms of gray matter

A decades-long study suggests that your daily caffeine fix might be doing more than jolting you through morning meetings – it could also be quietly helping your brain hold it together.…

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Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat

Sat, 2026-03-21 09:30
Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows

The Free Software Foundation Europe says its electronic-payments provider Nexi Group unexpectedly "cancelled" its account – cutting the charity off from around 450 donors.…

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Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban

Fri, 2026-03-20 21:07
Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too much

Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bugs. For his efforts, he's been dismissed, ignored, and banned from Rust security channels.…

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Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst

Fri, 2026-03-20 20:20
The market is contracting

Right product, wrong time? Amazon is reported to be developing a new smartphone, its first since 2014, and, according to industry tracker IDC, it will face entrenched competition with better products and a market that is expected to contract by double digits.…

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Salesforce snaps up the team who built calendar app Clockwise to work on Agentforce

Fri, 2026-03-20 18:15
Just the team, not the tech

Salesforce's Agentforce team is getting an infusion of new talent by hiring the team behind Clockwise, a calendar scheduling app, but the app itself isn't sticking around.…

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WSL graphics driver update brings better GPU support for Linux apps

Fri, 2026-03-20 16:40
Meanwhile, WINE and OpenGL tweaks speed Windows apps on 64-bit hosts

Whatever OS you run, you have a better chance to run non-native apps. Running Linux virtualized on Windows is set to speed up slightly, and so is running Windows apps on top of 64-bit Linux and macOS.…

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Starship may chauffeur Orion to the Moon, as NASA mulls ditching SLS after Artemis V

Fri, 2026-03-20 16:21
SpaceX's still-not-quite-orbital rocket tapped as lunar taxi. Musk's minicab anyone?

NASA is reportedly considering using SpaceX's Starship to transport the Orion capsule to the Moon, with some sources calling it a done deal.…

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Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update

Fri, 2026-03-20 13:37
OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're lucky

Microsoft has broken account sign-ins in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 with a recent update, causing error messages in apps like OneDrive and Office.…

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UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias

Fri, 2026-03-20 13:35
Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new research

A UK police force has suspended its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study revealed it was statistically more likely to identify Black people on a watchlist database.…

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Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks

Fri, 2026-03-20 13:07
Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyond

The US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded, including traffic bursts topping 30 terabits per second.…

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Jaguar Land Rover's cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns

Fri, 2026-03-20 12:42
Lack of clear criteria risks encouraging firms to lean on state support instead of worrying about insurance

The UK's cyber watchdog has warned that the government's £1.5 billion bailout of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) risks setting a troubling precedent for how Britain handles major cyber crises.…

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Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China

Fri, 2026-03-20 11:57
Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controls

A co-founder of Supermicro is among three people charged with diverting servers fitted with Nvidia GPUs worth $2.5 billion to Chinese customers in violation of US export controls.…

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