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Are you a Dapr Dan? Microsoft teases runtime for Kubernetes to make microservices sparkle

Three UK goes TITSUP*: Down and out for 10 hours and counting

Tune into El Reg and Avnet live online today: How equipment makers will bring clouds home

IBM: Why yes, Red Hat is doing great. Thanks for asking. The rest of Big Blue? Sure, wait – someone's at the door...

This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats

OAMigod! Microsoft has a cloud app spec for you – and hopes Rudr can't fail

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Microsoft says .NET Framework porting project is finished: If your API's not on the list, it's not getting in

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

A cautionary, Thames Watery tale on how not to look phishy: 'Click here to re-register!'

Remember the Democratic National Committee email leak? Same hackers now targeting EU countries, say malware boffins

Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home

GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

The Hurt Docker: Mystery Hub repository, website outage leaves fuming devs unable to deploy containers

UK culture sec hints at replacing TV licence fee, defends encryption ban proposals and her boss in Hacker House inquiry

A funny thing happened on Huawei to the bank. We made even more money. Hahaha. Here till Friday

Scariest thing about Halloween? HMRC and Defra systems still a risk to post-Brexit borders

Well, well, well. Fancy that. UK.gov shelves planned pr0n block

Any finger will do? Samsung Galaxy S10 with a screen protector reportedly easy to fool

Fancy yourself as a bit of a Ramblin' Man or Woman? Maybe brush up on your cartography

Lenovo unfolds time frame for bendy ThinkPad: Pricey Windows PC out in summer '20

Privacy pop-up exhibit shows people in The Glass Room shouldn't throw phones – though they may well want to

Geek's Guide

Hubble grabs first snap of interstellar comet... or at least that's what we hope this smudge is

Some assembly required as Dream Chaser mini-shuttle's empty husk arrives in Colorado

So, what's fashion going to look like on the Moon in 2024? NASA's ready to show you the goods

Imagine finding this bad boy in your shower: Brit startup pulls the sheets off Moon spider mech

Not a good look, Google: Pixel 4 mobes can be face-unlocked even if you're asleep... or dead?

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

Does voice-controlled tech have a place in business? Talk it over with El Reg and fellow IT pros at breakfast

What the &% did you just $#&!# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

Verity Stob

We're going deeper Underground: Vulture clicks claws over London's hidden tracks

Telstra chairman: If those darn kids can earn $5m playing Fortnite, why can't execs?

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Science

Hubble grabs first snap of interstellar comet... or at least that's what we hope this smudge is

PicEveryone knows the Ramans do everything in threes

17 Oct 05:07 | 64

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Some assembly required as Dream Chaser mini-shuttle's empty husk arrives in Colorado

Sierra Nevada Corporation eagerly awaits other bits to come in the post

16 Oct 13:09 | 23

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So, what's fashion going to look like on the Moon in 2024? NASA's ready to show you the goods

Hope you look good in orange

16 Oct 06:51 | 64

Science

Imagine finding this bad boy in your shower: Brit startup pulls the sheets off Moon spider mech

RoundupFour-legged robot will scuttle a grand total of 10m

15 Oct 11:34 | 45

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Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

AnalysisBoffins claim code was fine... when they wrote it

15 Oct 04:56 | 156

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RIP: First space-walk badass Alexei Leonov, who made it to 85 despite best efforts of Soviet machine

ObitLooking back on Voskhod, Salyut, Soyuz, Apollo and having the right stuff

14 Oct 11:49 | 19

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ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

ESTECTop brass on keeping ISS lights on and life after Brexit

10 Oct 12:45 | 8

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That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Goodenough for Goodenough as boffin is still working at 97

09 Oct 20:23 | 69

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Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

Whew, you're a bit of a rust bucket, aren't you?! Come with us

09 Oct 17:00 | 39

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'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

ESTECWalt Cunningham and Rusty Schweickart take a moment to chat with 'the enemy'

09 Oct 10:46 | 131

Science

A trio of boffins scoop the Nobel Prize in physics for the first exoplanet discovery and big bang model

James Peebles gets half, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz each bag a quarter

08 Oct 21:25 | 6

Science

Tough luck, Jupiter, you've lost your crown for now: Boffins show Saturn has more moons

All hail the new moon king

08 Oct 05:03 | 44

Science

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

RoundupPlus: Space suits, walks and a new Crew Dragon

07 Oct 13:30 | 68

Science

Diggerland comes to Mars as boffins battle to save InSight's mole

Robot arm to give stricken burrower a helping scoop

07 Oct 10:30 | 17

Science

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

Only four billion years to wait to watch the pair duking it out

04 Oct 09:20 | 66

Science

RAF pilot seconded to Virgin Orbit for three years of launching rockets from a 747

Alright job for some, innit

03 Oct 12:24 | 47

Science

Cassini may be dead – but its data shows basic building blocks of life spewing from Enceladus

It's another encouraging sign that Saturn's most interesting moon could be habitable

03 Oct 09:01 | 32

Science

When one of NASA's sun-studying satellites went down, AI was there to fill in the gaps

Machine learning in spaaaaaace!

03 Oct 07:01 | 27

Science

Thanks to all those tax dollars, humans can now hear the faint sounds of earthquakes on Mars

NASA's InSight lander data hears 'dinks and donks' from the Red Planet

02 Oct 05:09 | 23

Science

Rocket Lab crows about launch, SpaceX zipwires, and a monster mock-up arrives at Kennedy

RoundupAlso: Artemis looks to pull on Apollo's boots as sustainability starts slipping

01 Oct 12:05 | 9

Science

NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings

Mars, Moon and shiny steel is all well and good. But how about sending a crew to the ISS without anything exploding, hmm?

30 Sep 09:45 | 95

Are you a Dapr Dan? Microsoft teases runtime for Kubernetes to make microservices sparkle

Three UK goes TITSUP*: Down and out for 10 hours and counting

Tune into El Reg and Avnet live online today: How equipment makers will bring clouds home

IBM: Why yes, Red Hat is doing great. Thanks for asking. The rest of Big Blue? Sure, wait – someone's at the door...

This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats

OAMigod! Microsoft has a cloud app spec for you – and hopes Rudr can't fail

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Microsoft says .NET Framework porting project is finished: If your API's not on the list, it's not getting in

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

A cautionary, Thames Watery tale on how not to look phishy: 'Click here to re-register!'

Remember the Democratic National Committee email leak? Same hackers now targeting EU countries, say malware boffins

Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home

GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

The Hurt Docker: Mystery Hub repository, website outage leaves fuming devs unable to deploy containers

UK culture sec hints at replacing TV licence fee, defends encryption ban proposals and her boss in Hacker House inquiry

A funny thing happened on Huawei to the bank. We made even more money. Hahaha. Here till Friday

Scariest thing about Halloween? HMRC and Defra systems still a risk to post-Brexit borders

Well, well, well. Fancy that. UK.gov shelves planned pr0n block

Any finger will do? Samsung Galaxy S10 with a screen protector reportedly easy to fool

Fancy yourself as a bit of a Ramblin' Man or Woman? Maybe brush up on your cartography

Lenovo unfolds time frame for bendy ThinkPad: Pricey Windows PC out in summer '20

Privacy pop-up exhibit shows people in The Glass Room shouldn't throw phones – though they may well want to

Hubble grabs first snap of interstellar comet... or at least that's what we hope this smudge is

Some assembly required as Dream Chaser mini-shuttle's empty husk arrives in Colorado

So, what's fashion going to look like on the Moon in 2024? NASA's ready to show you the goods

Imagine finding this bad boy in your shower: Brit startup pulls the sheets off Moon spider mech

Not a good look, Google: Pixel 4 mobes can be face-unlocked even if you're asleep... or dead?

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

Does voice-controlled tech have a place in business? Talk it over with El Reg and fellow IT pros at breakfast

What the &*%* did you just $#*&!*# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

We're going deeper Underground: Vulture clicks claws over London's hidden tracks

Telstra chairman: If those darn kids can earn $5m playing Fortnite, why can't execs?

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Science

Hubble grabs first snap of interstellar comet... or at least that's what we hope this smudge is

Some assembly required as Dream Chaser mini-shuttle's empty husk arrives in Colorado

So, what's fashion going to look like on the Moon in 2024? NASA's ready to show you the goods

Imagine finding this bad boy in your shower: Brit startup pulls the sheets off Moon spider mech

Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

RIP: First space-walk badass Alexei Leonov, who made it to 85 despite best efforts of Soviet machine

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

A trio of boffins scoop the Nobel Prize in physics for the first exoplanet discovery and big bang model

Tough luck, Jupiter, you've lost your crown for now: Boffins show Saturn has more moons

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

Diggerland comes to Mars as boffins battle to save InSight's mole

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

RAF pilot seconded to Virgin Orbit for three years of launching rockets from a 747

Cassini may be dead – but its data shows basic building blocks of life spewing from Enceladus

When one of NASA's sun-studying satellites went down, AI was there to fill in the gaps

Thanks to all those tax dollars, humans can now hear the faint sounds of earthquakes on Mars

Rocket Lab crows about launch, SpaceX zipwires, and a monster mock-up arrives at Kennedy

NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings

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