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SpaceX is set to have another go at launching its monster Starship rocket today after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the venture the green light.…

Microsoft has completed its EU data boundary, however, analysts and some regional cloud players are voicing concerns over dependencies on a US entity, even with the guarantees in place.…

The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is currently dealing with a "cybersecurity incident," it confirmed via its X account on Sunday.…

The UK's data protection watchdog has launched three investigations into certain social media platforms following concerns about the protection of privacy among teenage users.…

Network operators laying fiber infrastructure could cut their costs by taking advantage of "thousands of miles" of abandoned infrastructure, including gas and water pipes, according to a firm that tracks such things.…

The collapse of a relatively small "local" cloud hosting service caused "real business continuity issues" in the UK's central government, according to one commercial lead.…

Opinion With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for UK users, and Signal threatening to pull out of Sweden if that government demands E2EE backdoors, it's looking bleak.…

Who, Me? Well, would you look at the calendar? It’s Monday already, and by lunchtime any fond memories of the weekend will have been erased by work worries of the sort The Register celebrates each week in “Who, Me?” – the reader-contributed column that tells your stories of making messes and somehow escaping.…

First Look Huawei’s triple-fold Mate XT smartphone is a classy creation that’s easy to handle even when fully extended, but disappoints because it’s ridiculously expensive and the included Android variant struggles to keep pace with the machine’s contortions.…

Sunday March 2nd has become a notable day in humanity’s exploration of outer space, after Firefly Aerospace became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the Moon.…

Infosec In Brief US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered US Cyber Command to pause offensive operations against Russia, as the USA’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has denied any change in its posture.…

Asia In Brief India’s top telco Reliance Jio , which boasts over 460 million subscribers, will soon introduce a cloud PC.…

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings.…

Mozilla this week asked Firefox users to abide by new Terms of Use, and updated its Privacy Notice as well as an FAQ – only to quickly issue a clarification that it isn’t actually claiming ownership of user data.…

APRICOT 2025 Global and local change is coming to the world's five Regional Internet Registries. The orgs that delegate and manage IP addresses are working on a policy that will allow them to stop one of their number going rogue, and the process is proving controversial.…

Hisense USA has been sued for advertising televisions with quantum dot technology that allegedly lack quantum dot technology.…

As the expiration date for Windows 10 presses ever closer, spare a thought for its classic forerunner. No, not Windows 8 – nobody ever loved that – but Windows 7, with its classic Start menu, tasteful transparency, lack of built-in advertising, and so on.…

Membership of InternetNZ, the administrator of New Zealand's .NZ country code top-level domain, has more than tripled in a week after the org's review of its constitution was criticized by a free speech advocacy organization.…

Intel's floundering foundry business hit another speed bump on Friday after executives delayed the completion of its $28 billion Ohio factory build-out until at least 2030.…

The authorities in Singapore have charged three men with fraud, reportedly in connection with the shipment of Nvidia GPUs into China in violation of US export controls.…