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Science
How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way
And said lifeforms include us humans on Earth
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Personal Tech
Pokemon No! Good news: You can now ban the virtual pests, er, pets to stop nerds wandering around your property
Lawyers clean up after games biz settles with homeowners sick of zombie players
15 Feb 22:15 |
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Emergent Tech
Bloke thrown in the cooler for eight years after 3D-printing gun to dodge weapon ban
'I didn’t buy a gun, I built the gun'... Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P lands Texas man in the slammer
15 Feb 21:36 |
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Amazon triples profit to $11.2bn, pays ZERO DOLLARS in corp tax – instead we pay it $129m
Yet it's still whining that New York City didn't offer enough for HQ2
15 Feb 20:25 |
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620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites now for sale on dark web, seller boasts
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Cloud
Oracle throws toys out pram again, tells US claims court: Competing for Pentagon cloud contract isn't fair!
Address gate criteria, conflicts of interest – then we can play
15 Feb 19:15 |
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Software
Missed Valentine's Day? Take your beloved to a Visual Studio 2019 launch event instead
Romantic Redmondians pick 14 February to announce April go date for the code wrangler
15 Feb 18:04 |
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Science
NASA's Dawn Mission receives nod in memory of Apollo 13 'naut for asteroid belt derring-do
Dead probe swinging around Ceres wins Swigert Award
15 Feb 16:55 |
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Security
Well Holby damned! We've caught a virus: Brit medical soap operas team up for 'cyber' episode
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Software
Billionaire Buffet's Berkshire liquidates $2.1bn stake in Oracle – months after buying the shares
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Personal Tech
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Bootnotes
Sussex rap fan wants statue of Easy-E from NWA in his hometown because he's a 'legend'
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Dratted hipster UX designers stole my corporate app
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Policy
The algorithms! They're manipulating all of us! reckon human rights bods Council of Europe
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15 Feb 13:04 |
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Crypto crash leads to inventory pile-up at Nvidia, sales slaughtered
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Surface Studio 2: The Vulture rakes a talon over Microsoft's latest box of desktop delight
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Software
Want to know what 2020 holds? Microsoft has a little something for you
Windows 10 Insiders sent screaming into a future where, er, nothing much has changed right now
15 Feb 10:05 |
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'This collaboration is absolutely critical going forward'... One positive thing about Meltdown CPU hole? At least it put aside tech rivalries...
Execs, experts hope this cooperation continues to hold for the next big bug
15 Feb 07:12 |
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Why does that website take forever to load? Clues: Three syllables, starts with a J, rhymes with crock of sh...
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Help us sniff out 50 neutron star collisions so we can calculate universe expansion, cosmoboffins plead
There's only been one so far, so 49 more to go
15 Feb 05:08 |
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How's this for sci-fi: Orbiting probes face fiery death dive from planet's radiation belts. And that planet is Earth
They're dropping like flies: First Opportunity, now NASA's Van Allen craft
15 Feb 04:04 |
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Personal Tech
Roses are red, Facebook will pay, to make Uncle Sam go away: Zuck, FTC in $bn settlement rumor
Antisocial network may shell out billions to end watchdog's privacy probe, it is reported
15 Feb 00:38 |
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Personal Tech
White House and FCC announce big, broken solutions to America's pitiful broadband
Why fight an oligopoly when you can subsidize it?
14 Feb 23:50 |
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Security
Use an 8-char Windows NTLM password? Don't. Every single one can be cracked in under 2.5hrs
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Cloud
Amazon throws toys out of pram, ditches plans for New York HQ2 after big trouble in Big Apple
Online retailer just wants to be loved. And by loved, it means given lots of subsidies no questions asked
14 Feb 22:14 |
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Storage
Funnily enough, says NetApp, when the global economy slows down, people don't buy quite as many storage arrays
Enterprise punters shut wallets amid 'deteriorating outlooks' and trade tariff blitz
14 Feb 21:53 |
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Policy
Facebook political data probe: £2.5m. Powers for the ICO: Priceless
UK watchdog denies project distracted from day-to-day enforcement
14 Feb 20:33 |
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Security
Bad news for WannaCry slayer Marcus Hutchins: Judge rules being young, hungover, and in a strange land doesn't obviate evidence
When in America, STFU and get a lawyer. Even if you're innocent
14 Feb 20:22 |
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Emergent Tech
Boss of venerable sect with millions of devoted followers meets boss of venerable sect with... yeah, you get the idea
Microsoft prez Brad Smith talks AI and ethics with the Pope
14 Feb 19:13 |
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Artificial Intelligence
Roses are red, this is sublime: We fed OpenAI's latest chat bot a classic Reg headline
Analysis'Not safe on database server!' it screamed back as its makers fear it could be abused for dodgy purposes
14 Feb 17:27 |
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Policy
OK, Google? Probably not! EU settles on wording for copyright reform legislation
Commission fumes at 'fake' campaign
14 Feb 16:54 |
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Networks
Roses are red, so is ketchup, 'naked' Huawei tells its critics to belt up
Comms giant bared all to Brit security services, says chief
14 Feb 16:19 |
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Bootnotes
Airbus will shutter its A380 production line from 2021
No new superjumbos after that date, confirms CEO
14 Feb 15:44 |
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Personal Tech
How do you like them Apples? Tim Cook's iPhones sitting in the tree, feeling unloved by the Chinese
Sales of Jesus mobe slump by double digits in Middle Kingdom
14 Feb 15:15 |
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Science
Opportunity's mission is over, but InSight almost ready for a driller thriller below Martian surface
Self-hammering spike to see what weather's like 5m down
14 Feb 14:38 |
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Internet of Things
The Lance Arm-strong of performance-enhanced CPUs: Armv8.1-M arch jams vector math into super-microcontrollers
Neon-style tech pumps Helium balloon in future gadgets
14 Feb 14:00 |
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Security
US man and Brit teen convict indicted over school bomb threat spree
Roses are reddish, don't cry into your beer... but Hoonigan.com is better than Top Gear
14 Feb 13:50 |
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Cloud
Santander hands over $700m to IBM in hopes of becoming incredible banking machine
Bank CIO Chaos explains
14 Feb 13:15 |
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Personal Tech
Is Oppo short for Opportunistic? BBK opens UK doors
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14 Feb 12:38 |
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Software
Oracle's claims of secret deal is a bid to 'distract' from pay bias case, says US Department of Labor
Big Red is red, underpaid staffers are blue. No angry counter-claims can stop that being true
14 Feb 11:57 |
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Personal Tech
Roses are red, we've received about fifty. Google's next trick? Pixels for the thrifty
Cheap Google mobes this year, at least according to Nikkei
14 Feb 11:28 |
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Policy
UK Home Office dumps huge sack of complex data sets on biometrics ethics board's desk, goes for beer (probably)
Roses are red, gave Violet pick 'n' mix. She didn't like the milk bottles. Now back to ethics
14 Feb 10:57 |
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CLL 19 early bird tickets disappear in two weeks
14 Feb 10:30 |
Bootnotes
Pandas so useless they just look at delicious kid who fell into enclosure
Urgh, you're infuriating!
14 Feb 10:02 |
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Cover your NASes: QNAP acknowledges mystery malware but there's no patch yet
Anti-antivirus root-rooting weirdness just gets deeper
14 Feb 09:30 |
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Personal Tech
Lenovo ThinkPad P1: Sumptuous pro PC that gets a tad warm
Long Term TestBattery could be improved, we charge
14 Feb 09:05 |
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Security
Oh Snapd! Gimme-root-now security bug lets miscreants sock it to your Ubuntu boxes
Get an update, or risk giving a dodgy user or malware an upgrade
14 Feb 07:33 |
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