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Endeavour raised into position for California Science Center's 'Go For Stack'

For the first time in more than ten years, a Space Shuttle has been raised into launch position. Although the completed stack won't be seeing a launchpad any time soon.…

When Redmond says unsupported, it really means it. Windows 11 fans beware

Old Windows 10 hardware is struggling to open some recently updated Microsoft applications, giving anyone running Windows 11 on unsupported hardware a glimpse of their potential future.…

No restrictions, but it could be harder to deal with American businesses

The chip wars between Washington and Beijing keep grinding on with more than a dozen Chinese tech companies now being added to a list of entities claimed by the Department of Defense (DoD) to be working for the military.…

It even had the gall to set the ransom demand at $800K … for a nonprofit

Ransomware gang LockBit is claiming responsibility for an attack on a Chicago children's hospital in an apparent deviation from its previous policy of not targeting nonprofits.…

They're just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg

Feature  When the first commercial coal-fired electric power plants came online, starting with the Holborn Viaduct power station that supplied electricity to the City of London in January 1882, the world was changed forever. Fast forward 142 years, and the world has changed a lot.…

'Deepest apologies to the sub-postmasters and their families'

Fujitsu's CFO is the latest in the the Japanese vendor's exec ranks to apologize for the megacorp's role in the Post Office Horizon scandal, widely viewed as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history.…

Holding up the EV supply chain is not a great start to 2024

Huawei is experiencing production issues with a computing unit that powers advanced driver assistance systems in electric vehicles, known as the MDC 810, according to a recent report from Reuters.…

When 'what's the value to the economy?' wasn't front of mind

Interview  It will soon be half a century since NASA's Voyager probes were launched on a tour of the solar system. The reason for their unprecedented longevity is unprecedented, but modern realities mean that we might not see their like again.…

Staff at Northern Ireland facility voted in ballot that forces drivemaker's hand, union says

Seagate workers building external hard drives in Northern Ireland have voted for trade union recognition, meaning they now have collective bargaining rights and potentially a layer of employment protection.…

Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid

Smart clothing is a go-to item on the hype-cycle bandwagon, which never seems to arrive. Yet for anyone wanting to play Doom on their knitwear, a glimmer of hope was reported by scientists this week.…

At least it's no longer an afterthought

Systems Approach  In 1996, Larry Peterson and I published the first edition of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach in the hope that it would become a widely adopted textbook in networking classes. Our draft manuscripts had been reviewed by a number of professors so we had a decent amount of feedback regarding the content and overall structure of the book.…

Good start, but we want further reassurance, says Competition and Markets Authority

Google so far has lived up to its commitments to make room in its Privacy Sandbox for rivals, though the UK's Competition and Markets Authority says a number of concerns still have to be addressed before the web giant's ambitious advertising technology gets its blessing.…

Homebrew Elite X SoC due midyear to move from PCs to IoT and cars

Qualcomm's attempt to grab a slab of the PC CPU market will commence in earnest in the middle of 2024, the mobile chip shop's president and CEO Cristiano Amon told investors on Wednesday.…

Renames its bit barn business as ‘Nxera’ as it plans three new facilities, some built just for AI

Telcoms giant Singtel announced Thursday a collaboration with Nvidia to deliver purpose-built AI infrastructure across Southeast Asia.…

Reject recent rule-making with plan to adopt transparency and reporting rules used in financial markets to stop binary brainboxes burying humanity

India's Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EACPM) has penned a document warning that current global AI regulations are likely to be ineffective, and recommended regulating the technology with alternative tactics – like those used in financial markets.…

American public is way ahead of them

Chinese attackers are preparing to "wreak havoc" on American infrastructure and "cause societal chaos" in the US, infosec, and law enforcement bosses told a US House committee on Wednesday.…

It's an interesting way to get the attention of VMware users feeling bruised by Broadcom

Disgruntled VMware users contemplating the open source cut of XenCenter as an alternative need to think again. In December the Cloud Software Group quietly canned the offering with an update to the project's README file.…

You could say this was tailored for Swift

US Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that would allow victims portrayed in non-consensual AI-generated pornographic deepfakes to sue the creators for damages. …

Meta boss told in social media safety probe: 'Your product is killing people'

Executives from the top social media companies faced contentious, sometimes contemptuous, questioning from the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in a hearing titled: Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.…

Published report 'should be retracted as the main claim of discovery is wrong', UCL chemistry professor tells us

Updated  Research by the University of California, Berkeley and Google DeepMind, involving an AI-driven robot producing more than two dozen supposedly novel materials, has been called into question by chemists.…