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One engine failed a second into flight, but it still managed to reach 50km altitude Video Ever wondered what happens when one of an orbital class rocket's main engines fails a second into a flight?…

Says regulatory changes requiring local ownership made it impossible to continue, but fancies a comeback Yahoo!'s Indian outpost has stopped publishing news – even news about cricket.…

'We have another 30 years to look forward to,' says Emperor Penguin – and less to worry about as Spectre-proofing code arrives Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has released version 5.14 of the Linux kernel.…

Plus: Mortgage algorithm bias, and an AI-guided play comes to London In brief Clearview AI’s controversial facial-recognition system has been trialed, at least, by police, government agencies, and universities around the world, according to newly leaked files.…

2014 stealth-em-up hasn't aged a day The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. Not that anybody noticed but we skipped the last edition for a number of reasons. 1) Too many betas. Though we were monitoring developments in potential World of Warcraft killer New World and Left 4 Dead's spiritual successor, Back 4 Blood, we didn't see anything that could be discussed fairly. 2) Generally no new full releases of interest. 3) We had to RMA a graphics card and got sad. However, when setting out the vision for this column, there were no hard and fast rules about what got covered. So this time we're headed back to 2014 and a crumbling space station where something extremely violent and dangerous lurks in the shadows……

Squirrely semiconductor swaps make performance difficult to predict Samsung has altered the parts used to make its 970 EVO Plus 1TB SSD card, leading a version manufactured in June 2021 to perform differently than an older formulation from April 2021.…

Some tactics never change much Microsoft has warned that it has been tracking a widespread credential-phishing campaign that relies on open redirector links, while simultaneously suggesting it can defend against such schemes.…

Hopefully this'll be the sample that eventually gets sent back to Earth NASA’s Perseverance rover will make a second attempt at collecting a sample of Mars rock for eventual return to Earth – though it's going to scratch its latest target first to make sure it's worth bothering.…

Hardware requirements loophole left in Microsoft doesn't want to say it publicly but it will not stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older or otherwise incompatible PCs.…

Dell's results were upbeat, HP's flat, but investors still worried over supply chain HP Inc and Dell both raised concerns over ongoing component shortages when they reported their July quarters yesterday, with the Palo Alto firm citing "unprecedented demand that is way ahead of supply right now" and Round Rock saying "demand was ahead of revenue growth as we managed supply constraints."…

A sprinkling of Rust and presto! A new multi-language web site appears The GNOME project has created Apps for GNOME, a website to "feature the best applications in the GNOME ecosystem," according to creator Sophie Herold.…

Hot on heels of 'significant concerns' from the UK Nvidia told The Reg it would work "with the European Commission to address any concerns they may have" after reports it is set open a formal competition law investigation into the AI firm's purchase of Arm from Softbank.…

Two 'historic' incidents nearly a decade ago, says statement British infosec firm NCC Group has been rapped over the knuckles after infosec accreditation body CREST found it was "vicariously responsible" for employees who helped staff cheat certification exams.…

Tune in on Sept 2 to find out more about Benford’s distribution Special series If you enjoy our AI & ML conference MCubed, you might also like our brand new monthly webcast on all things machine learning from a software development perspective. There's just one more week until episode one hits and drags you into the depths of data analytics.…

Next stop, Kourou It's been a big week for the much-delayed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as testing of the observatory was completed and operations to ship the spacecraft to the Kourou launchpad began.…

Announcing the return of El Reg's Boatnotes series with the RN Boatnotes Ahead of the upcoming second edition of The Register's Boatnotes series, the crew of Royal Navy warship HMS Severn has shared a glimpse with the wider world of the food served aboard ship – and it really looks rather good.…

Could help boost deployment times, says analyst Real-time analytical database slinger Rockset has introduced SQL transforms to livestreaming along with a method for rolling up data it claimed will offer users a reduction in the cost of storage and querying.…

Fixing laptops and solving UX conundra – all in a night’s work Something for the Weekend, Sir? Having a screw on the kitchen table is an everyday thing in our household. The problem is not having a dedicated workbench for those small hardware repair jobs.…

Building the missing spacecraft in Lego's NASA collection Feature The Register's Lego Space odyssey continues with the addition of an Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) to the official Lego Lunar Module kit.…

Buys in to 'AtmaNirbhar Bharat' self-sufficiency drive and ups capacity for servers while it's at it The PC market is on the rise in India, prompting Lenovo to expand its local manufacturing capabilities, the company announced this week.…

When you have eliminated the impossible... On Call Welcome to another in The Register's series of confessions from readers who were either possessed by the pager or all too happy to fire off a demand for On Call support.…

Also offers free mice, power bricks, lap pillows and fast WiFi in cars rated to allow 300km/h video chat The Central Japan Railway Company will replace smoking rooms on some of its Shinkansen bullet trains with Zooming cars.…

Still, that'll be 100 quid, please Scientists in Japan have 3D printed an approximation of one of the nation's delicacies, Wagyu beef, in an experiment involving bovine stem cells.…

Malaysian fake news laws didn't work well, so Big Tech should have to do better at spotting and stopping bad actors Society should treat disinformation as the product of an industry worthy of regulation, not a crime committed by individuals, according to Dr Ross Tapsell, a senior lecturer and researcher at the Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific.…

Allows direct contact between devs and users, promises transparency and better search – but only in the USA Apple has announced the settlement of an anti-trust case brought by a group of developers, and while Cupertino has made concessions the result will not be huge changes in the way the App Store operates or the company's practices.…

Stealthy flash, firmware transplant in WD Blue SN550 attracts attention Western Digital says it will alert customers when it reformulates its products by modifying their firmware and electronics, as opposed to burying salient changes on a spec sheet without any public announcement.…

Microsoft warns customers of ChaosDB hole that lay dormant for months Infosec outfit Wiz has revealed that Microsoft’s flagship Azure database Cosmos DB could have been exploited to grant any Azure user full admin access – including the ability to read, write, and delete data – to any Cosmos DB instance on Azure. Without authorization. For months.…

Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud The US Department of Justice and the SEC on Wednesday charged the former CEO and co-founder of mobile development testing biz HeadSpin with defrauding investors.…

If you want all these new fabs, you're gonna pay for 'em, pal TSMC is reportedly increasing its chip manufacturing prices by as much as 20 per cent in the near future.…

Tech Transparency Project accuses iGiant of lip service to child safety Apple, having recently invoked the "think of the children" defense against rivals seeking to open competing iOS App Stores, has been accused of not thinking of the children.…

Korean firms also keen to be your Seoul provider, says expert South Korea is potentially on its way to tweaking its Telecommunications Business Act to stop Apple and Google from taking a cut of in-app purchases after a bill was approved by a committee of its National Assembly.…

That went well California-based ML data pipeline company Splice Machine has begun insolvency proceedings, according to a statement on its website.…

Don't poke the bear! Or urinate on it If you're ever holidaying in the frigid wastes of Finnmark – where the borders of Norway, Finland, and Russia meet – don't do the whole "now I'm in Norway, now I'm in Russia" skit because in Norway they don't tolerate that kind of crap.…

'People wanted a cleaner and simpler Start' said Microsoft, but not everyone's happy Windows 11 users are unsure of the merits of the new Start menu, according to feedback so far.…

Decade-old policy starting to look silly amid myriad of online late-night vices available to them South Korea is lightening up on a 2011 law that blocked video game access from midnight until 6 am for players under the age of 16 in an effort to curb adolescent gaming addiction.…

This is your one-year warning It is less than a year until support for Java 7 finally comes to an end, and Microsoft has reminded users running apps in the language on its cloud that it is time to move on.…

New Information Commissioner to be given licence to promote 'innovation and growth' The UK has named a new Information Commissioner and announced a bullish approach to reforming data laws post-Brexit. That is, if it's all OK with the European Union.…

Using that CSP 2.0 feature? You may have received a worrying missive The director of a tiny UK company has apologised after sending letters to businesses suggesting they had infringed his patents that he claimed covered an age-old web standard.…

Two-day hackathon to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe, and where to put them The UK's venerable Ordnance Survey is to fling open its electronic doors in an effort to tackle infrastructure challenges faced by the UK's rollout of electric vehicles (EVs).…

Excession chief exec testifies in High Court of England and Wales A company is suing the Police Digital Service (PDS) over a framework worth up to £18m after losing a bid to provide a mass surveillance platform, claiming police managers broke laws on the awarding of public contracts.…

The usual suspects The commercial wing of the UK government has named the winners on a £3.5bn framework to provide public-sector contact centres, including enterprise and infrastructure software to support them.…

After White House summit, AWS promises MFA tokens, Google and Microsoft spray money, IBM 'announces' snapshots against ransomware US President Joe Biden staged a cyber security summit at the White House, and it's produced quick results in the form of big tech making vague promises about stuff they think will improve the nation's security…

And it's a sequel to the Tinder stalking flaw Up until this year, dating app Bumble inadvertently provided a way to find the exact location of its internet lonely-hearts, much in the same way one could geo-locate Tinder users back in 2014.…

9.8-rated bug allows arbitrary code execution – possibly without authentication Atlassian has warned users of its Confluence Server that they need to patch the product to remedy a Critical-rated flaw.…

Hands Zuck its second-largest fine ever, also makes Netflix pay up and warns Google to be more obvious about privacy Facebook, Netflix and Google have all received reprimands or fines, and an order to make corrective action, from South Korea's government data protection watchdog, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC).…

Bright denies all in this odd tale of a leaky VPN, creepy proxy networks, 8Chan, clouds hosting wonky workloads, and Swedish digital rights org Qurium Updated Swedish digital rights organisation Qurium has alleged that an Israeli company called Bright Data has helped the government of the Philippines to DDOS local human rights organisation Karapatan.…

Can't keep up with software licence payments but says it's been on top of VMware payments for at least a whole year now Pakistan's Federal Board of Revenue has stated that a recent outage of its public-facing applications was not caused by pirated software, but admitted it's not always on top of licences and some of its code may be unsupported.…

44-PFLOPS Polaris 'testbed' ordered ahead of Chipzilla-powered Aurora Uncle Sam's Argonne National Laboratory has ordered Polaris – a supercomputer to be built from AMD Epyc processors and Nvidia GPUs – to test its applications in anticipation of eventually getting the Intel-delayed Aurora super.…

It may hurt community policing, too Police responding to ShotSpotter's AI-generated alerts of gunfire find evidence of actual gun-related crime only about one time in ten, a Chicago public watchdog has found.…

Multi-use toolkit deployed on victims' networks across Asia, North America ESET and TrendMicro have identified a novel and sophisticated backdoor tool that miscreants have slipped onto compromised Windows computers in companies mostly in Asia but also in North America.…