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But Brits can seemingly keep using the website The UK's financial watchdog has fired a warning shot across the bow of Binance, and ordered it to place a notice on binance.com scaring off Brit crypto fans.…

If you'd like to restart and try ag- Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft Windows is notable for its ability to fall over pretty much anywhere, but this is, we think, the first time it has disgraced itself over the side of a hotel.…

Clawed critters less depressed as human drugs pollute their freshwater homes A study by freshwater crustacean boffins in Florida has revealed that feeding antidepressants to crayfish can make them more outgoing and adventurous — which is more or less a definition of how antidepressants are supposed to work. On humans, at least.…

You'll need two hubs and about £300 The M1 MacBook Pro is like that brilliant colleague who insists on microwaving fish in the office kitchenette. Good at its job, certainly, but also deeply annoying.…

Even non-x86 sales grew and SPARC is still selling — but storage sales slipped Indian businesses went on a server-shopping spree in the first quarter of 2021, says analyst firm IDC.…

Three teams stand to win US$37,000 and fifteen teams get mentorship and Sandbox toys Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have become a hot topic for governments around the world, and Singapore has come up with a novel way of planning its own effort: a crowdsourced competition.…

One team says DF2 is 72m LY away, another disagrees – we speak to both sides Never mind memory errors from radiation. Another deteriorating part of the decades-old Hubble Space Telescope has found itself in a jam. This time its camera unit is once again in the middle of a clash between scientists over whether or not the galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 contains any dark matter.…

UK, Australia, Russia ranked in second tier. North Korea and Iran are a step down but feisty The United States is comfortably the world’s most powerful nation when measured on “cyber capabilities that make the greatest difference to national power,” according to British think tank The International Institute for Strategic Studies.…

US thus doesn’t need a central bank digital currency, says bigwig The United States doesn't need a central bank digital currency (CBDC) because such a thing will not notably improve the nation's financial system. And also, the US dollar isn't threatened by digital currencies nor other nations' CBDCs, so what's the point?…

Watchdog has 30 days to try again or let it go A US federal court on Monday threw out an antitrust complaint that threatened to break up Facebook.…

Says its PC Health Check app didn't provide 'the level of detail or accuracy you expected from us' Microsoft on Monday released its first Windows 11 Insider Preview build (22000.51) to its Dev channel. It also took the opportunity to tackle head on the criticism it faced over the operating system's tough hardware requirements.…

Chinese space agency emits footage of Red Planet bot Videos The China National Space Administration has released videos and pictures of its first Mars rover scooting around on the surface of the Red Planet.…

Redmond's legendary QA strikes again Microsoft on Friday admitted it had signed malicious third-party driver code submitted for certification through its Windows Hardware Compatibility Program.…

Possible west coast/east coast beef brewing over deliberate misinterpretation of 'Big Apple' Apple may be considering increasing the size of the iPad Pro’s display, with potential stretches including 14-inch and 16-inch versions, according to reports.…

Gas giant's atmosphere has the right concentration of water and temperature Astroboffins from Queen's University Belfast reckon the clouds that swirl around Jupiter might contain enough water to support life.…

Why can't Ingenuity use its blades to clear panels? It's 2,145 miles away Amid reports of declining power levels, NASA's InSight lander looks set to keep its science instruments running for most of summer.…

Apparently Eastenders' Phil Mitchell is in charge these days - it sounds fighty The head of the UK's competition regulator said the body planned to "come down like a ton of bricks" on anyone attempting to stifle the country's economic recovery.…

It just works, until it unexpectedly and disastrously doesn't If you have a pacemaker, it’s probably not a good idea to hug your Apple kit. The company has warned about potential interference with implanted medical devices from virtually every product it sells.…

Windows App SDK, Android, Arm64, micro-interactions, and two new fonts Microsoft has been hyping the versatility of Windows 11 for developers, from Android to Linux to Progressive Web Applications and the new Win UI 3, though much of what it showed last week also applies to Windows 10.…

It's like an animal farm / That's the rural charm in the country BT is looking to the heavens to help connect homes and businesses in the UK's rural areas to the internet – inking a deal with none other than partly state-owned OneWeb, the telco has confirmed.…

Look who's having a good pandemic Serco has been awarded a £322m contract to continue its work on the COVID-19 Test and Trace system in England and Northern Ireland.…

UK International Trade Secretary and Singaporean Minister of Trade Relations will also meet digitally Singapore and the United Kingdom begin negotiations today for a trade agreement in the hope of removing barriers related to exporting digital content and services.…

Different hardware, same problem NASA has fired up the Hubble Space Telescope's backup payload computer to find that the spacecraft still has problems.…

Uni of Edinburgh buys in with new supercomputer based on HGX platform Mobile World Congress Nvidia has decided to bet on both Arm and x86 platforms for the 5G edge, with a new data processing unit – aka SmartNIC – that packs 16 Arm cores.…

Borkage haunts one of the oldest station buildings in the world Bork!Bork!Bork! Take a break from Microsoft's relentless plugging of the new with a glimpse of one of its operating systems of yesteryear doing what it does best: falling over into a heap.…

Introducing 'Core Web Vitals' Feature Google stopped prioritising Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) format in its Top News carousel last month. This means website owners no longer need to publish an extra set of pages written in the AMP format. Instead sites need to meet what Google calls "Core Web Vitals."…

She worked for mini umbrella biz, not Serco itself, tribunal judge rules A British coronavirus contact tracer who has said she was sacked from Serco for blowing the whistle on a data breach had part of her legal case thrown out because she was working for a mini umbrella company and not Serco itself, a judge has ruled.…

That which is born of the hack is hard to kill Column As these words are written, the Hubble SpaceTelescope is out of commission, victim of a computer fault yet to be diagnosed. It still orbits 550km up, still automatically aiming itself at targets in this galaxy and others. But it is a zombie dance. Its instruments are blind and deaf, waiting for instructions from an onboard controller that lies silent.…

Garden hose + handy tap = bad times Who, Me? Feeling the burn? Stress getting to you? Today's edition of Who, Me? concerns pressure of a different sort as a Reg reader experiences a most unexpected deluge.…

Exabyte-tending cloud storage outfit’s new data centre was built on Dell storage servers, but its own kit will live on Cloud storage outfit Backblaze, which for years has rolled its own hardware, has turned to Dell for its storage needs in a new Amsterdam bit barn.…

Here’s how to build a digital culture Webcast Digital transformation isn’t just about technology and products, it’s about people. So, how do you think your people feel about being transformed, even disrupted?…

Staff Q&A sees workers ask about supply chain troubles. The answer was ‘figure it out’ — and do the same for shabby cloud storage CPU utilisation rates Huawei CEO and founder Ren Zhengfei has urged the company’s employees to learn from the USA and not narrow their thinking, despite decrying the US bans that have hurt his company.…

Manufacturers’ marketing reflects good intentions and the realities of challenged supply chains and tightening laws The world has a shortage of plastics, and the ensuing challenges — rather than a desire to protect the planet — may well be the reason you’ve recently heard about recycled plastic working its way into laptops and other gadgetry.…

Brief account shutdown due to DMCA request interpreted as sign of avian network’s lawless intentions The Indian Government’s dispute with Twitter took a new turn over the weekend with IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad accusing the micro-blogging service of breaking Indian law by following US law.…

M1 support, interesting Azure integrations and RISC-V love among notable features Linus Torvalds has released version 5.13 of the Linux kernel after a very smooth development process that required just seven release candidates.…

Plus: AlphaFold on drugs, and a Google Cloud AI tool to spot dodgy kit In Brief If you're wondering what it takes to develop a self-driving car, know that Tesla is using a 1.8-exaFLOP AI supercomputer packed with 5,760 GPUs that train neural networks it hopes one day will power autonomous vehicles.…

'Public money should be going to small companies and those who need to recover from the pandemic' A leading Green MSP has called for the Scottish government to sever all ties with Amazon – including the £4.7m a year it spends on AWS – following a report alleging the e-tailer dumps thousands of unsold items each week.…

Plus: A tale of tech woe and E3 best bits The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. Before we get into it, quick story: I wasn't sure if I'd make this deadline because I came back from holiday to find my PC had acquired a fondness for crashing then rebooting anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour into playing something.…

Plus: Amazon gobbles Wickr, automakers cough to privacy blunders, and more In brief The SolarWinds backdoor gang last month infiltrated Microsoft's support desk via a phishing attack to obtain information to use in cyber-attacks on some of the Windows giant's own customers, it was reported.…

Time-wasting commits called out as effort to burnish submission metrics Updated Last week, Linux kernel contributor Qu Wenruo scolded another code donor, Zhen Lei, for wasting kernel maintainers' time with unnecessary patches.…

Also ordered to pay back $2.5m on his way to American cooler An expert penetration tester working for the notorious cyber-crime gang FIN7 was sent down for seven years on Friday and told to cough up $2.5m for breaking into corporate computer systems.…

Did we mention you'll soon be paying to play in 30 days, too? AWS has set up a competition for its customers' developers to find and fix one million bugs.…

Surfboard, not corporate board. But we're sure Zuck is working on that, too Uncanny Valley-dwelling Facebook founderbot Mark Zuckerberg has revealed pictures of a new surfboard he has had custom-made, resplendent with a cartoon picture of him surfing while wearing too much sunscreen.…

If your chip's not on the list, you're not coming in. Even you, Surface Studio 2 Windows 11 won't land until nearer the end of the year and when it does users will only get a supported sample of the OS if they have relatively new hardware.…

F-bomb tirade cheerleader triumphs over school board in landmark First Amendment case The US Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers cussing out public high schools on social media is protected speech under the First Amendment to the US Constitution, so long as it doesn't include threats, bullying or anything that disrupts the operation of the school.…

Come for a dip in our cloud, the SMB over QUIC is lovely Amid all the emissions about Windows 11 this week came the stealthy arrival of the public preview of Windows Server 2022: Azure Edition.…

And it affects 129 models of PC and laptop... or about 30 million computers A chain of four vulnerabilities in Dell's SupportAssist remote firmware update utility could let malicious people run arbitrary code in no fewer than 129 different PCs and laptops models – while impersonating Dell to remotely upload a tampered BIOS.…

SAP banking platform still on the scene Deutsche Bank is to migrate all its Oracle systems onto a single instance of Big Red's on-prem cloud.…

IR35 status of 1 in 5 cases still undetermined by 'fundamentally flawed' app The UK tax collector’s controversial Check Employment Status Tool used by contractors to determine their IR35 status returned inconclusive responses for one in five of the million plus times it was called upon in 16 months.…

Trove too tempting for computer criminals while public unaware of their rights, says David Davis A judicial review will inevitability challenge the UK government's plans to extract millions of sensitive medical records held on GP systems in England, according to a high-profile backbench Conservative MP.…