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Bofffins claim lunar manipulator is tougher than a Terminator NASA is testing a new robotic arm that could revolutionize exoplanetary science for a reason most of us have probably never even considered: It doesn't need to be kept warm in order to work. …

Biden thinks it's a big deal, but TSMC's Taiwan output will still dwarf US fabs Analysis TSMC has confirmed it will build not one, but two advanced chip manufacturing plants in Arizona, more than tripling the Asian foundry giant's original investment to $40 billion, even though the company has complained about the US project becoming a major headache for multiple reasons.…

If Starshield smells like Space-BACN, that's because it probably is SpaceX is developing a new satellite fleet designed for government use.…

Meanwhile, Samsung appoints its first female president Korean electronics-maker Samsung is teaming up with domestic internet search giant Naver to develop AI chips for hyperscale computing, the duo said today.…

The race to the bottom is on and the IoS is about to get S'ier Comment To see where this dumptruck is heading, let's first follow the trail of debris.…

Security analysts have tools to spot hard-to-find threat, Unit 42 says Enterprise security pros can detect malware samples in environments that incorporate the highly evasive Cobalt Strike attack code by analyzing artifacts in process memory, according to researchers with Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat intelligence unit.…

Latest platform software has not been licensed by two-thirds of legacy users, despite strong growth New data from Gartner suggests that SAP is continuing to struggle to get users from its legacy ERP platform ECC onto the latest version: S/4HANA, launched in 2015.…

Cashdollar: 'It’s not often we get this kind of story in security' Somewhere out there, a botnet operator is kicking themselves and probably hoping no one noticed the typo they transmitted in a command that crashed their whole operation. …

Shiny silicon plus Rusty drivers will eventually equal openly saucy happiness Arm-powered laptops and desktops are appearing on the market, but external appearances are deceptive. These are very different from familiar x86-based PCs, as the accounts of those experimenting with them reveal.…

A particle physicist, an astronomer and a cosmologist meet in a bar. You what, COSMA8? The James Webb Space Telescope has served up impressive views of the cosmos since the first images were revealed back in July, but it is also providing data to other scientific endeavors, including cosmology projects such as those at Durham University in the northeast of England.…

'Acute and justifiable fear' in the way patient data is set to be processed, campaigners warn An NHS pilot to upload patient data in a data analytics system based on tech from Palantir is the subject of a legal threat from campaign groups who claim it appears to circumvent data protection and procurement laws.…

Technically and leadership-wise what site needs is stability Opinion It's a toss-up between Elon Musk's management misadventures and Twitter's technical troubles as to which will cause the most damage. …

Now that's what we call Intel Inside If you think you can fool customs officials into believing you are pregnant and not, in fact, smuggling hundreds of Intel processors and iPhones in a prosthetic strapped to your belly, think again.…

5,000 redirectable beams in each bird Boeing has delivered a pair of O3b mPOWER satellites to telecom network provider SES – and had a dig at rival space broadband technologies along the way.…

Supreme Court won’t revisit case after agreeing conflict of interest trumped tech Cisco has managed to avoid a $2-plus billion payment for patent infringement on a technicality that has nothing to do with the patents.…

Add a busted tech platform to the list of the company's sins FTX's Japanese outpost has teased good news for investors in the collapsed and disgraced trading platform – then dashed their hopes.…

Good luck with that, Zuck – remember how it worked out in Australia? Meta, the social media conglomerate formerly known as Facebook, has threatened to remove news from its platforms if the US adopts a law that would force it to negotiate with publishers to pay them for allowing links to their content.…

'Shake to jump' technique nixed a year after top apps put it to work China's Telecommunication Terminal Industry Forum Association (TAF) has issued a raft of new regulations – including one that sets rules for when motion sensors can trigger smartphones to display ads or open websites.…

Exposed to 'droids? Symptoms may include indifference, unemployment, lower pay, along with a bit of depopulation Exposure to industrial robots in the workplace leads to less participation in the labor force, less employment, and less pay, according to economics researchers.…

System is optional, for the moment America's Transport Security Administration, better known as the TSA, has been testing facial recognition software to automatically screen passengers flying across the country in 16 airports. And now it's looking into rolling it out nationwide next year.…

RDP servers allegedly raided in hunt for personal info to exploit Four men suspected of plotting to commit wire fraud and identity theft have been arrested and now face extradition to America.…

Contributors will have to disclose whether their work was made using AI, and are not allowed rip off artists Adobe will sell AI-generated images on its stock image platform, despite concerns the technology raises potential copyright issues, the company announced on Monday. …

You don't have to be a coder to cut off the juice when blunt tools are around Officials in Moore County, North Carolina, declared a state of emergency on Sunday after gunfire damaged an electrical substation and left 45,000 homes and businesses without power in near freezing temperatures.…

OEMs including Samsung, LG and Mediatek named and shamed Compromised Android platform certificate keys from device makers including Samsung, LG and Mediatek are being used to sign malware and deploy spyware, among other software nasties.…

High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans OpenAI's question-answering bot, ChatGPT, isn't smart enough for the team at Stack Overflow, who today announced a temporary ban on answers generated by the AI bot because of how frequently it's wrong.…

Record income? Tick. CHIPS Act subsidies coming? Tick. Yet chipmaker tries to make Wall Stret happier still US contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries plans to lay off as many as 800 employees, proving that job security is not a foregone conclusion for a company that just reported record profits.…

Socio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers The health benefits of replacing fossil fuel-burning power plants with wind energy are quantifiable, says the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but if the US got more choosy about which plants it switches off in favor of wind, those benefits could quadruple.…

If you like the flavor of Cinnamon, good news: you'll get a new version The first beta version of Mint 21.1 is now available for download, and the flagship Cinnamon desktop edition contains the biggest change, with a new version of the desktop.…

Alexei Kudrin, former head of Russia's Audit Chamber, to advise on corporate development Ten days after Yandex confirmed a review of its operations that include moving IP out of Russia and selling much of the remainder locals, it has hired an ally of President Vladimir Putin to help out with the restructure.…

Discovery shows 'astrobiological potential of subsurface habitable environments' Researchers have discovered a driver for volcanic activity on Mars, a red planet once thought to have no active seismic geology.…

What do you mean, you don't think historic handwriting is worth it? A "clean and unused" prototype Apple-1 that actually works has been put up for auction by purveyor of Cupertino relics RR Auctions.…

Microsoft releases out of box experience update to simplify and speed up migrations Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to nudge laggards toward Windows 11 amid a migration pace that company executives would undoubtedly prefer is rather faster.…

Not the first company in the game to chase cable-free charging dragon A wireless power startup has secured $30 million in funding to help develop its technology, with which it aims to "do for power what Wi-Fi has done for data."…

The intersection of computer science and physics RE:INVENT "It's very early days in quantum computing," Simone Severini, director of Quantum Computing at AWS tells The Reg.…

Britain's wallet-checkers suspect VAT avoidance from some of them – to the tune of 10,000-case tribunal backlog Britain's tax collection agency is clamping down on umbrella companies used by contractors to pay their dues, with 10,000 outstanding tribunal cases waiting to be heard.…

680x0: the CPU architecture that just will not die Feature A patch to add a new display driver for Linux is being reviewed. What's unusual is that it's for a machine released 30 years ago.…

Imagine there's no printer drivers. It's easy if you can... Long-term dot matrix printer maker Epson has just announced it is ending its 35 year long experiment in selling laser-powered printer hardware. From 2026, the company says it'll be inkjet only – although it will probably still sell you a new dot-matrix if you ask nicely.…

World's biggest radio telescope to have first parts up and running by 2024 After thirty years of development, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) announced Monday it has commenced construction of its radio telescopes in both South Africa and Australia.…

No crypto needed, just a project with a tough deadline that nobody minded missing who, me? Ah, dear readers, welcome once again to Who, Me? in which Reg readers confess the times their reach exceeded their grasp, technology-wise-speaking.…

Also, a Capone henchman lands behind bars, while nearly 9/10 DoD contract firms fail security standards In brief Certificate Authority TrustCor responded to its ejection from Mozilla and Microsoft's browsers by offering refunds for some customers, while leaving others to pick up the mess on their own.…

Hosting company has nothing to say on data loss, restore times, or root cause Rackspace has not offered any explanation of the "security incident" that has taken out its hosted Exchange environment and led the company to predict multiple days of downtime before restoration.…

Kernel devs offer emperor penguin early gifts of code for version 6.2 Linus Torvalds has announced an eighth release candidate for version 6.1 of the Linux kernel.…

Wanzhou Meng hasn't re-offended, so last possible charges have been dismissed The USA's case against Huawei CFO and chair Wanzhuo Meng has ended.…

PLUS: Eight million more outsourced jobs for India; Australia warns on IoT shoe risks; Equinix enters Malaysia Asia In Brief Microsoft has quietly announced big price rises for its software and services in India.…

Plus: DeepMind beats humans at Stratego In brief OpenAI has released a new language model named ChatGPT this week, which is designed to mimic human conversations.…

Warns recovery could take several days and pledges better support after customer complaints Updated Some of Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange services have been taken down by what the company has described as a “security incident”.…

Heat shield will be put to the test for the first time, what could go wrong? NASA's Orion capsule, designed to send the next crew of astronauts to the Moon, is heading back to Earth after spending some time in a distant retrograde orbit above the satellite's surface.…

'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence' In Palmdale, California on Friday, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden revealed a US Air Force warplane that had only been shown in artist renderings and is supposed to be seldom seen, the B-21 Raider.…

Economic headwinds, surging energy prices batter EMEA switch sales Improving supply chains coupled with unrelenting demand from cloud service providers kept the datacenter switching market on a positive trajectory in Q3.…

Plus Australia launches an investigation into insurer's data privacy practices Australian health insurer Medibank's prognosis following an October data breach keeps getting worse as criminals dumped another batch of stolen customer data on the dark web. …