Buckeye State legislature looks on as key, hairpin fall off of entirely unmagnetic nurse A registered nurse helped the US on its seemingly inevitable descent into terminal conspiracy-induced intellectual collapse last week when she stood in…

Plus: Alleged Trickbot developer cuffed by US agents In brief  The outgoing head of Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad has suggested that Stuxnet wasn't the only spanner in the works his agency put into Iran's nuclear programme.…

Chocolate Factory presses home its advantage in web-based collaboration Google is extending Workspace, its rebranded productivity and collaboration tools, to "anyone with a Google account", and will introduce Workspace Individual…

Car maker to draw upon its investments in hydrogen fuel tech Honda and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have agreed to embark on a joint feasibility study to supply oxygen, hydrogen, and electricity to humans and rovers in…

Analyst: Big 5 manufacturers should be able to shoulder ongoing semiconductor shortage 2020 was a dismal year for the smartphone industry, with sales tanking in the face of the pandemic. But things are now looking up, with Canalys expecting…

Admits nothing but promises amendments to auto-renewal, refund policies The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has inked a deal with Norton where it will refund customers whose antivirus software subscription was automatically…

Plus: Biden sets up AI task force, and Waymo expands autonomous trucking operation with new partnership In brief  Nvidia has snapped up computer vision startup DeepMap to help build the company's self-driving platform.…

Korean firm's inclusion 'validation' of company's 5G portfolio Vodafone has revealed the first vendors included in its OpenRAN rollout as it replaces much of its estate across Wales and the South East of England.…

Firm provides fresh water and wastewater to millions of Brits IBM, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro are among 13 winners on a £50m deal to help build and manage applications for UK utility Southern Water.…

Wasn't it to be the 'last version of Windows'? Maybe not... Microsoft has updated its product lifecycle documentation to state that Windows 10 Home and Pro will be retired on 14 October 2025.…

My God! It's full of Bork! Bork!Bork!Bork!  A black oblong of purest bork glares balefully over shoppers in Plymouth, southwest England. An echo from an alternative future or just big-screen borkage?…

Burning dollars faster than liquid oxygen and hydrogen $28m has secured someone a seat on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard, with the mystery bidder scoring the right to breathe the same air as fellow passenger Amazon…

Sutherland Spaceport: A Prime location? Interview  We spoke to Chris Larmour, the CEO of UK rocketeers Orbex, about the challenges of launching a rocket from the UK and scaling things up.…

If we trust it, crooks will too – meaning Plod can get their kiloscrote nab Column  Back in October, a call by spy agencies to weaken end-to-end encryption "because of the children" provoked a bit of analysis on how many times UK Home…

UPS = Uninterruptable Pager Spying Who, Me?  We go Down Under for today's Who, Me? with a slightly NSFW tale of an incomplete checklist, a surprise outage, and an even more surprised gerbil.…

Pandemic has opened a can of worms for our work goals with what comes next Feature  It may not be your fault that your broadband is crap, but it is your problem when you're interviewing over Zoom or even Teams.…

How to bust the bottlenecks without breaking the bank Webcast  We all know HPC and AI datasets are going to be massive. But they’re also very different, the former being focused around large, sequential files, while the former are much more…

Crims now know what not to trust, and how to stymie future infiltrations Comment  In April 1943, Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was killed when the US Air Force shot down the plane carrying him to Balalae Airfield in the Solomon…

Dr Rachid Yazami shares his predictions for EV batteries with The Register Morocco-born Dr Rachid Yazami has lived all over the world, thanks to an invention he made in his first year as a PhD student – the graphite anode – which is one of…

As in it's stopped selling the ladders needed to clamber up and do maintenance. Thankfully the internet can help IBM has pulled up the ladder behind customers of its Blue Gene/Q supercomputers.…

'Unforeseen server conditions' blamed Attendees at this week's Women In Technology Online Festival were trying to watch keynote speaker Michelle Obama when the stream crashed within seconds of starting, leaving many unable to see the former…

And its CAPTCHA alternative challenged by security researcher Following in the rickety footsteps of Fastly, bedeviled by a bug earlier this week, network services biz Cloudflare briefly stumbled on Friday as an elevated error rate…

Couple now definitely past their Prime The husband of an Amazon financial executive was sentenced on Thursday to 26 months behind bars for insider trading of the web giant's stock.…

Delivery drives to get refund The US Federal Trade Commission on Friday announced the approval a consent order against Amazon that requires the company to pay $61.7m to resolve charges that for two and a half years it took tips intended for…

There was no big bang – and it could happen to you Feature  When designing systems that our businesses will rely on, we do so with resilience in mind.…

The company also unveiled two smart televisions with 43-inch and 50-inch screen size for Rs 27,999 and Rs 39,999 apiece. Both the products will go on sale on Realme website, Flipkart and company's mainline retail channels from June 4.The…

Under the new digital rules, social media companies like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter have been asked to identify within 36 hours the originator of a flagged message as well as to conduct additional due diligence, including the…

But since we are living in such times where scammers are looking to make money out of people’s misery, a new scam has erupted where these fraudsters are taking advantage of the unsubscribe option to “confirm” people’s email accounts.But…

The Tesla Model 3 or Model Y will now be featured with an in-car camera that will be monitoring the vehicle while on autopilot.The Tesla Model 3 or Model Y will now be featured with an in-car camera that will be monitoring the vehicle while…

During the hearing, central government standing counsel Ripudaman Singh Bhardwaj told the court that Twitter has not complied with the rules. Acharya, in his plea, said that the new IT Rules took effect from February 25 and the Centre had…