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Three 'nauts, one commander to ride Musk's missile for an eight-day stay Axiom Space has signed a contract with SpaceX to fly three private astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) "as soon as the second half of 2021".…

It's like Christmas all over again, source tells us Exclusive Morrisons has slowed its conveyor belt of tech changes to avoid any IT crashes as British shoppers continue a coronavirus-inspired panic-buying spree.…

Historic tech real estate has a guide price of $300k Deep-pocketed fans of historical computing gear, take note: a fully functional Apple-1 computer is going under the hammer, with a guide price of $300,000.…

David Goeckeler finally gets keys to his own kingdom, says he's stoked to ride 'massive wave of new opportunity' Storage giant Western Digital has hired David Goeckeler, boss of Cisco's $34bn networking and security biz, as its new chief exec.…

Fiddle with some numbers and voila A vulnerability in NordVPN's payments platform allowed anyone to view users' payment information and email addresses, a startling HackerOne entry has revealed.…

Engine and afterburner 'for static display only'. But they said that about that Vulcan too... News has reached Vulture Central of an opportunity to purchase an actual, honest-to-goodness Concorde engine, replete with afterburner.…

That won't cause any confusion Having fixed the mystery blocking bug of last week, Microsoft dropped a fresh Fast Ring build of Windows 10 and announced plans to clear the waters of the privacy pond by fiddling with the names given to diagnostic data slurpage.…

Consumer mag Which? calls for manufacturers to be open about how long they will support devices File this one under "well, duh." Consumer mag Which? today published research estimating that over a billion Android devices are vulnerable to hackers and malware as they are not receiving security updates.…

You might have free coffee pods but I've got pen and paper Something for the Weekend, Sir? Paper jam. Yum, my favourite flavour.…

It's the triple! Internet Explorer, McAfee and... is that Windows 8.1 flashing its privates? Bork!Bork!Bork! It's been a few days and there have been a few borks. Today's entry in the hall of infamy takes us far from London's Vulture Central all the way to Amman, Jordan.…

Droopy, Sticky and Non-booty. The three forgotten dwarves. On Call Welcome to an art-infused instalment of On Call, where Spanish surrealism runs headlong into the grim reality of a 1990s UK travel agency, and it is up to a Register reader to save the day.…

Same old story from PwC but more optimistic than other research Women are still struggling to get a foothold in the IT industry, according to research from PwC.…

Plucky droid will look for signs of microbial life, study climate to help prepare future visitors NASA’s latest Martian rover, due to launch in July and being assembled right now, finally has a name: Perseverance.…

It's not quite DeepMind's 'Come with me if you want to live' moment, but it's close, maybe DeepMind has shared its AI software's homework detailing the structure of six proteins linked to the Wuhan coronavirus, aka SARS-CoV-2, aka the thing that causes COVID-19.…

Audio gear maker drops 'recycle mode' aka 'e-waste mountain candidate' Sonos will no longer force customers to permanently brick their smart speakers when trading them in for newer models.…

'We don’t want people to be deceived'... unless it's by paying politicians Facebook, still reluctant to ban deceptive political ads, has filed a lawsuit against domain registrar Namecheap and its identity-protecting proxy service WhoisGuard, for allowing people to register seemingly dodgy web addresses.…

Contact info and more, perfect for phishing Virgin Media, one of the UK's biggest ISPs, on Thursday admitted it accidentally spilled 900,000 of its subscribers' personal information onto the internet via a poorly secured database.…

MediaTek chipset flaw already exploited in the wild Google has emitted its latest monthly batch of Android security fixes, addressing a total of 70 CVE-listed vulnerabilities.…

Online security initiative halts hurried purge to accommodate reality Let's Encrypt has halted its plans to cancel all three million flawed web security certificates – after fearing the super-revocation may effectively break a chunk of the internet for netizens.…

Discovery in this case could get very interesting indeed Huawei has pleaded not guilty on Wednesday a New York court to Uncle Sam's charges it robbed, racketeered, and wire frauded itself to technology success.…

And there it is – exactly what telco was fretting over in FY'19 results T-Mobile US was hacked by miscreants who may have stolen some customer information.…

2019 was year two of the magic turnaround and restructuring deepens In year two of its supposed three-year turnaround plan, Capita shares took a dive today after it posted a larger than expected losses for calendar '19.…

No auto-driving cars or or indeed any cars in this TITSUP* pile-up Updated Ride sharing service, Uber, and its culinary tentacle Uber Eats, have fallen down and there does not appear to be a helpful driver to pick them up.…

The buy price, the debts... won't someone think of the HP shareholders? It's all getting a bit boring but HP Inc's board has again unanimously rejected Xerox's $36.5bn buyout bid, saying it low-balls their valuation of the company and "disproportionately benefits" Xerox shareholders.…

Tribunal rules that Robert Lee was 'part and parcel' of bank's ops for 7 years UK tax collector HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has won a case against a contractor who contested almost £75,000 in taxes and national insurance contributions under off-payroll rules.…

The return of the cashpoint bork as support dries up Bork!Bork!Bork! ATM customers have been treated to that most special of sights, a refusal to dispense cash unless Windows 7 gets the update goodness it craves.…

Hole-punch-packing slimline Android that you can buy with pocket change Motorola has confirmed its latest budget blower, the Moto G8, following last year's well-received G7 and it brings faster silicon, a larger screen, and ditches the dreaded notch for a more discrete hole-punch camera.…

Someone must have bumped the go button in rush to work from home As a "work from home if you can and for God's sake stop touching each other" policy arrived in Redmond, it appears one worker managed to trigger a premature emission of good news on the way out.…

Although exploitation is like shooting a lone fish in a tiny barrel 1,000 miles away A slit in Intel's security – a tiny window of opportunity – has been discovered, and it's claimed the momentary weakness could be one day exploited to wreak "utter chaos."…

Was it something I said? NASA is celebrating the return to full science operations of its ageing Voyager 2 spacecraft by not speaking to the thing for 11 months.…

Samsung sticks firm to policy of glueing the hell out its phones iFixit has published the long-awaited results of its Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G teardown. And what did the amateur gadget surgeons find?…

Fresh start for 'FIFA of UN agencies'? The current head of Singapore's intellectual property authority, Daren Tang, has won the race to become Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).…

It's the comeback nobody wanted or asked for Google has told customers using its Kubernetes engine (GKE) that a new management fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour (around $73.00 per month) will apply from 6 June 2020.…

'Really high number' could be fixed by using multi-factor authentication Microsoft reckons 0.5 per cent of Azure Active Directory accounts as used by Office 365 are compromised every month.…

Look, Ma! No hands! Conference calls are an inevitable part of corporate life. But how do you reconcile that with life on the road, away from your pricey Polycom system? Devices like Anker's PowerConf portable speakerphone may help.…

Well, isn't this a lovely paranoid bed we've made for ourselves Column "Hey there," the message begins. Out of the blue over Skype, someone I hadn't communicated with in nearly a year reaches out.…

But what about bulletproof vests, brain implants and quicker phone charging? Be patient Maybe it's not what former UK chancellor George Osborne expected when, in 2011, he confirmed £50m in government funding to take the discovery of graphene from the "British laboratory to the British factory floor", but the much-hyped super-material is making its way to market as a cosmetic face mask.…

Database giant needs 'adapt its spending to its revenue situation' Oracle is reportedly preparing to cut as many as 1,300 jobs across Europe.…

Facial-recognition software led to one person on Met's watch list being positively identified out of 8,600 people The latest figures from the Met Police's deployment of facial-recognition cameras in the heart of London show the technology is pretty fscking inaccurate.…

DNS overload, as usual, blamed for two-day outage An app, dubbed RobinHood, designed for armchair Gordon Gekkos to trade shares and crypto-currencies with ease, fell offline for two days this week – after netizens flooded it hoping to exploit stock-market wobbles over the coronavirus epidemic.…

Tales of terrible security, poor compartmentalization, and more, emerge from the Schulte hearings Analysis The fate of the man accused of leaking top-secret CIA hacking tools – software that gave the American spy agency access to targets' phones and computer across the world – is now in the hands of a jury. And, friend, do they have their work cut out for them.…

He faces up to, er, 825 years in the clink, $8.25m fine, if convicted A US bloke was charged with fraud and tax evasion on Tuesday after allegedly duping tech companies into replacing kit he never owned.…

Fears grow that letting Chinese giant into Blighty has left it 'utterly friendless' A bipartisan coalition of US senators has urged Britain to reconsider its decision to permit "high-risk" vendors, namely China's Huawei, to supply non-core elements of the national 5G network.…

Anyone use that? Give this a upgrade a wide berth Microsoft has admitted that Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2019 has a problem, and those using SQL Server Agent should either skip it or roll it back.…

Lax DNS leaves door wide open for miscreants to impersonate Windows giant on its own websites If you saw a link to mybrowser.microsoft.com, would you have trusted it? Downloaded and installed an Edge update from it? How about identityhelp.microsoft.com to change your password?…

Department of Energy turns to HPE, AMD to flesh out monster The US Department of Energy has revealed a few more details about the supercomputer it has commissioned to simulate and study America's stockpile of nuclear weapons. This is the machine that is set to be the world's fastest publicly known super, and is expected to be 10 times more powerful than today's biggest beasts.…

1970, the Beatles disband and the UK celebrates the first successful Black Arrow launch Join us tonight in raising a toast to the 50th anniversary of the first successful launch of the Black Arrow, the UK's brief foray into orbital rocketry.…

Who are you and what have you done with Microsoft? It may be shuttering its events, but the release door at Microsoft has continued flapping with the emission of admin darling PowerShell 7.…

600,000 Clubcards at risk earlier this week, said supermarket Data stolen from Tesco clubcards could be resold for just £2.70 a pop, reckons a price-comparison website that appears to have strayed into the dark web.…

NT News prints 8-page 'special liftout' amid coronavirus panic "Wouldn't wipe my arse with it" is an expression you'll commonly hear in the UK to describe a newspaper the speaker doesn't like. However, tomorrow Aussie tabloid the Northern Territory News will invite its readers to do exactly that.…