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No, really, please ban Chinese DJI drones from America's skies, senators asked
US senators have been asked again to consider banning the use of drones made by Chinese manufacturer DJI in American airspace after a previous attempt to outlaw the machines was dropped.…
Kamala Harris' $7M support from LinkedIn founder comes with a request: Fire Lina Khan
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman was quick to express support for Kamala Harris' bid for the US presidency this year after incumbent Joe Biden stepped aside, and now the reason has become clear: He's hoping she'll fire FTC boss and Big Tech arch-critic Lina Khan.…
Video game actors strike because they fear an attack of the AI clones
Actors are back on strike for an entirely unsurprising reason: Studios aren't willing to give video game actors enough protection from artificial intelligence. …
iPhone kicked out of China’s top 5 smartphone brands as domestic market bounces back
For the first time in a while, the top five smartphone vendors in China are all native, with Apple's position falling to sixth place.…
CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will
Opinion CrowdStrike's recent Windows debacle will surely earn a prominent place in the annals of epic tech failures. On July 19, the cybersecurity giant accomplished what legions of hackers could only dream of – bringing millions of Windows systems worldwide to their knees with a single botched update.…
SpaceX Falcon 9 set for comeback after upper-stage failure
SpaceX aims to resume launching the Falcon 9 rocket tomorrow after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) agreed to let the company return to flight operations.…
Intel nabs Micron exec to oversee foundry business ambitions
Intel is set to hire an executive from memory chipmaker Micron to head its foundry biz as the company pursues its strategy of turning its former internal manufacturing operations into a money-spinning concern.…
Happy Sysadmin Day, the Bitlocker keys are in a bowl on top of the fridge
Seven days after CrowdStrike's bad update took down Windows-based computers around the world, System Administrator Appreciation Day has arrived. And what lovely gifts did your employer spoil you with today? Shares in the company? A brand new Cybertruck? A USB stick?…
Boeing Starliner crew get their ISS sleepover extended
The crew of the Boeing Starliner will spend the summer aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as NASA and Boeing refused to set a return date for the craft.…
Progress discloses second critical flaw in Telerik Report Server in as many months
Progress Software's latest security advisory warns customers about the second critical vulnerability targeting its Telerik Report Server in as many months.…
'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos
Have you ever bitten your phone, or thrown it in anger? How about broken it in a collision with a moose? These are just some of the ways in which people have damaged their digital devices, according to a survey.…
Google DeepMind's latest models kinda sorta take silver at Math Olympiad
Researchers at Google DeepMind claim they've developed a pair of AI models capable of taking home a silver medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) – although not within the allotted time limit.…
UK.gov to chuck up to £5B to gang of back office software vendors
The UK government has gone to market shopping for back office software in a tender which could be worth up to £5 billion ($6.4 billion).…
Shuttle Columbia's near-miss: Why we should always expect the unexpected in space
Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray observatory and nearly ended in catastrophe. As the then-ascent flight director John Shannon observed: "Yikes. We don't need another one of those."…
Customer bricked a phone – and threatened to brick techie's face with it
On Call Friday is the day the working week goes to die for most people – unless, like many a Reg reader, they're on call to provide tech support at all hours. Which is why we use this day to celebrate those hardy souls with a fresh instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that celebrates survival in the face of stupidity, mendacity, and substandard manners.…
Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worse
Bosses expect artificial intelligence software to improve productivity, but workers say the tool does the opposite, according to a survey by find-a-workplace research org the Upwork Research Institute, a limb of talent-finding platform Upwork.…
UK and India sign broad tech collaboration pact
The UK and India agreed on Wednesday to a broad "Technology Security Initiative" that will see the two nations collaborate in ways it's hoped will unlock investment.…
Omnissa, VMware's old end-user biz, emerges with promise of 'AI-infused autonomous workspace'
Omnissa, the newly independent business created by Broadcom's spinoff of VMWare's end-user compute arm, has proclaimed it will become a source of "AI-infused autonomous workspaces".…
North Korean chap charged for attacks on US hospitals, NASA – and even China
The US Department of Justice on Thursday charged a North Korean national over a series of ransomware attacks on stateside hospitals and healthcare providers, US defense companies, NASA, and even a Chinese target.…
Malware crew Stargazers Goblin used 3,000 GitHub accounts to make bank
Infosec researchers have discovered a network of over three thousand malicious GitHub accounts used to spread malware, targeting groups including gamers, malware researchers, and even other threat actors who themselves seek to spread malware.…