Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors MoD eyes Middle East exports after desert trials of Cambridge Aerospace system
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom
When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food
To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer Famous blue screens remind conference of security pros that this OS sometimes has bad days
If Microsoft made a car... what would it be? What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit?
Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels' The wheels on Copilot's hockey stick must be giving off smoke by now
How and why Linux has thrived after three decades in Kernelland 'Just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU...'
AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments From fast food fiascos to botched databases, there are fresh honors for machine learning misadventures
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life And maybe even dictator Brain-in-a-box-as-a-Service
UK unveils plans to 'transform' the consumer smart meter experience Does 40 quid from the supplier sound all right for waiting over 6 weeks for a fix?
Composer for worst Tomb Raider games jailed over COVID-19 loan fraud Peter Connelly inflated turnover and claimed second payment when only entitled to one
Windows 95 testing almost stalled due to cash register overflow Microsoft veteran on breaking down numbers at the computer store
Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame Services locked down in America's second-largest city
'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?' Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box
Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines'
Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America El Reg checks out shop in SF
The Telegraph jumps the gun on World War III Trigger-happy Taiwan headline sparks instant apocalypse vibes
Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims One eight-person publisher says it'll be forced to pay $1.5M
Dentists sue ex-contractor for holding web domains hostage in biz fight IT guy says their claims are toothless – and they owe him $400K
ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it Sam says it's Son's money well spent
Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234 AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done
Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly
God didn't have a plan for Gelsinger at Intel. Maybe there is one for his new gig, Gloo Chip guru preaches virtues of 'values-aligned' pray-I, sorry, AI. He's also taken a VC gig
Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom There's nothing bog-standard about this bombshell loo-suit
As Elon Musk makes thousands of federal workers jobless, tycoon pushes for $56B Tesla pay deal Not so much thrown under a bus as under an unwanted electric car
Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch activated when he was let go IsDavisLuEnabledInActiveDirectory? Not any more. IsDavisLuGuilty? Yes. IsDavisLuFacingJail? Also yes
Cybercrims now licking stamps and sending extortion demands in snail mail First crooks gave up encrypting data, and just stole it – now they don't even bother pilfering info. Sheesh!
100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk National intel boss slams naughty nattering on work systems as 'egregious violation of trust'
Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses And really, nothing out of the ordinary for Silicon Valley
As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick License To Kill -9 ... For Your iPhone Only ... AI Another Day ... The name's Bezos, Jeff Bezos
Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up More than a decade on, waste experts say the odds of finding those coins are next to nil
Welsh woman fined for flatulence-fueled cyber harassment Court said her approach to child access dispute with partner's ex really stinks
In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows
SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover Plus: SpaceX rocket re-entries spark airline delays
Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky Free Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media
LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs SoCal plod resort to paper logs after system that top brass was warned would 'inevitably fail' did exactly that
You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you Maybe start getting better at sorting your trash before these ML garbage bots gain sentience?
Judge again cans Musk's record-setting $56B Tesla package 'Even if a stockholder vote could have a ratifying effect, it could not do so here,' says Delaware Chancellor
Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next What's that coming over the hill, is it an AI?
Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled Ten rules for maximizing your grindset! #1: Let a bot do your work for you
AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church Pope, Depeche Mode, silent on digital second coming
BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week
Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware QR codes arrive via an age-old delivery system
Tesla Cybertruck, a paragon of reliability, recalled again And there's no OTA patching your way out of faulty drive inverter MOSFETs
Gang of monkeys escape South Carolina biomedical research facility Lock your doors and windows, say police, but these should be disease-free
Intel: Our finances are in the toilet, we're laying off 15K, but the free coffee is back! Now that's a brew-haha
Biz Daemon is too cool to respond to fans of his big screen work If only all Android apps were so effortlessly stylish
The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release Cassette-bursting medium revived for latest Alien chest-burster flick
'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive To Wales now, where crypto bro sues to be allowed to excavate landfill site
BBS legend Ward Christensen logs off for last time at 78 Co-creator of the Computerized Bulletin Board System heads for big forum in the sky
Tesla Cybertruck recalled again. This time, a software fix for backup camera glitch 10 seconds to Elon blaming this on Kamala or something
Scammers in the slammer for years after ripping off Apple with fake iPhone returns Duo must also cough up $1.5M for pulling off multi-million-dollar exchange swindle
US Army orders next-gen robot mule to haul a literal ton of gear Soldiers' new best friend does all the heavy lifting
Bring the joy of train delays home with your very own departure board Working from home, but missing the voice of Elinor Hamilton telling you all services are canceled?
Amazon, Tesla, Meta considered harmful to democracy Exploiting workers, undermining public services, exacerbating climate crisis, ITUC says
Cards Against Humanity deals SpaceX a $15M lawsuit over Texas turf tangle Land purchased to save it from Trump's border wall 'completely f*cked' by 'gravel, tractors, and space garbage'
NIST: New smoke alarms are better at detecting fires, but still go off for bacon Just like almost everyone else, they still love the smell of fried artery-cloggers
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