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Like some humans that live in the northern parts of the United States (or any part of Canada), monarch butterflies like to head south each ...

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Goddamn it, Jeff Bezos' lot can make a passable MMORPG after all The RPG   Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Play...

NYU boffins find the crowd is not all that wise when it comes to spotting misinformation Social media companies have proposed enlisting the...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a warning of a geomagnetic storm An aurora may light up the dark skies over the ...

Do you eat? Then you’ve experienced some very annoying side effects of shoving piles of stuff into your mouth and mashing it up with your t...

The data must flow Intel is diversifying its GPUs to work with architectures other than x86 chips, which could be a step toward making the ...

Have you ever wanted to block someone on your iPhone but wondered what actually happens when you do? You can block contacts through your M...

iCloud Keychain has always been a bit of an island: A hidden, secure nirvana, so long as you stayed within Apple’s strict ecosystem. To acc...

Flaw could have let miscreants slide rootkits onto your iDesktop A vulnerability in MacOS that could let a malicious person install rootkit...

Some of you have just upgraded to a shiny new iPhone. More of you probably thought nah, my old iPhone works just fine. Whichever camp you ...

Trader Joe’s is very good at two things: Stocking their frozen food section with a never-ending parade of novel and interesting convenience...

CFO warns of $4bn in extra costs in the Christmas quarter Amazon says inflationary pressures caused by labour shortages and the pandemic-st...

Constrained supply of parts like USB-C among reasons for price hikes Inflation is hitting the PC market, with prices jumping amid chip shor...

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Project Astoria – which evolved into Windows Subsystem for Linux – returns with its original intent Hands on   Microsoft has previewed the ...

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Indictment reveals org behind banking trojan even had nifty jobs titles like 'Malware Manager' The US Department of Justice claims ...

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Government offered to investigate itself – Court politely declined that kind suggestion India's Supreme Court has taken the unusual ste...

Use it, contribute to it, respect its licences – and plan for security emergencies it creates China has told its finance sector to embrace ...

His social network has Meta-stasized Comment   Facebook the company is being renamed to Meta, and the social network will be a brand within...

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Bobby Kotick vows zero tolerance on discrimination, will waive forced arbitration, and more Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is cutting...

Third time's the unlucky charm for loan outfit Decentralized finance biz Cream Finance became further decentralized on Wednesday with t...

On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department announced it had issued the first passport with an X gender marker for “non-binary, intersex, and ...

It’s that time of year again. To help your kids brainstorm, choose, and procure their costumes, alter the sleeves, finagle the belt, get th...

Most people are familiar with portfolio diversification, which is a fancy way of saying “don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” but fewer ...

Chocolate cake is never just delicious; it’s decadent . Popcorn can’t be merely tasty; it’s guilt-free . Your friend didn’t just help thems...

I am not good at carving pumpkins. I can manage a rudimentary face with a snaggletoothed smile and triangle eyes, or simple ideological sym...

Single-use tokens and reusable workflows explained at Universe event GitHub Universe   GitHub Actions have new security based on OpenID, al...

The first freezing night of autumn can be disastrous for your garden. Although some plants thrive in low temperatures, many others die at t...

Microsoft is involved. What could possibly go wrong? It's been a busy week for the Eclipse Foundation, as the group unveiled a new oper...

If you walk the aisles of your local drugstore, you’ll see bottle after bottle of multivitamins marketed specifically for kids. That has a ...

In case you’ve been living under a boulder, there’s a “new” social media giant on the scene called TikTok. Whether you use it a lot, a litt...

All thanks to Touchpad funding and a new maintainer – but X vs Wayland still a dilemma for community Version 21.1.0 of the X.Org Server has...

Between US sanctions on baddies and NRA claiming bankruptcy, what are the chances anyone’s getting paid? Grief ransomware gang took to a da...

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Yuan 1.0 said to pass Turing test, and require many fewer GPUs than the GPT-3 Microsoft licensed from OpenAI Chinese server-maker Inspur ha...

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Accursed semiconductor shortages to blame but it's only 15 bucks A new Raspberry Pi Zero launches today that comes loaded with speedier...

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Third parties get some data, use it to send mails as if they were your reseller, and – phew! – you don't get calls from sales people Th...

Sharding system coded in 40,000+ lines of Rust is changing the way cloud colossus ensures data durability Amazon Web Services has released ...

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We dubbed it the Antisocial Network – and it appears we were right Facebook on Wednesday was sued for allegedly violating federal securitie...

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CEO plans to hop into bed with the Beast of Redmond MediaTek intends to work with Microsoft on putting Windows 11 on devices powered by its...

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The CDC has cleared up one of the ambiguities in its recent COVID-19 booster shot recommendations : If you got a third shot of one of the ...

I don’t know if it’s the rain, the wind, or the fact that Bake-Off is back, but I’ve recently been struggling with the urge to bake. This ...

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Horizons Europe carrot dangled amid protocol wrangling A report from the UK House of Commons' European Scrutiny Committee has blamed d...

PAX Technology devices allegedly infected with malware US feds were spotted raiding a warehouse belonging to Chinese payment terminal manuf...

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Local players passed over for Digital Agency’s first project Japan's Digital Agency has picked Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud for...

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FCC urges more action against Huawei and DJI, too The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has terminated China Telecom's authori...

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You don't double operating income by giving silicon away AMD, which is raking in cash from its CPUs and GPUs, said higher price tags on...

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Connecting data and rewarding people with cryptocash, if they want it US carrier DISH Wireless has buddied up with Helium blockchain crew a...

Windows 11 can run Android apps as if they’re native PC software, but only a handful are officially supported at the time of this writing. ...

With the dog days of summer behind us, so are well-manicured feet. While we (hopefully) take better care of our peds when they’re on displa...

It's 2021 and of course code with classic buffer overflows is still shipping A mere two weeks after its most recent set of security pat...

China still in the toilet for internet freedom with 'draconian prison terms for online dissent' Google has published its semi-annua...

All potential homeowners face the same conundrum when it comes to the down payment for their potential new home: The money needs to be quic...

Apple tends to update their devices at the same time, so in addition to its massive macOS Monterey update , the company also released iOS 1...

Startup alleges IP wound up in Switchzilla's Quad product Cisco will face trial in a long-running case over claims that it stole trade ...

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Company recommends migration for those unhappy with current functionality Microsoft has further clarified its plans for the Universal Windo...

New package aimed at consumers Element, which makes Matrix-based communications and collaboration tools, has launched a consumer-oriented v...

James Webb Space Telescope in line for a December flight The veteran Hubble Space Telescope (HST) tripped back into safe mode yesterday, le...

FIrm fingers 'overseas criminals' for sending internet phone business TITSUP* It never rains but it pours. Internet telephone servi...

'Nice comparative boost' for AMP claimed to be achieved by actively slowing other formats More detail has emerged from a 173-page c...

Took Propofol, aka ‘the milk of amnesia’ or 'the drug that killed Michael Jackson' Samsung boss Lee Jae-Yong has been convicted of ...

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Sir Jeremy Fleming paints picture of a cultural battle over the internet, AI and the soul of future technology The UK's Government Comm...

Zuck says criticism is unfair and – look over here at our huge revenue growth, billions for future holo-conferences, and pivot to young adul...

Good thing the government didn't crank up the national alert system or anything ... Oh no, it did South Korean telco KT, which has arou...

Pretty ambitious – none of this Blue-Origin-led consortium can put humans in orbit yet Blue Origin is leading a consortium hoping to put th...

Unions face test on Staten Island after defeat in Bessemer, Alabama On Monday, a group representing workers at Amazon's warehouses on S...

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US govt issues alert over JS package downloaded 8m times a week – plus more news from world of infosec In brief   The US government's C...

If you’re lost while hiking, or your car has broken down and you’re stranded on the side of the road, the obvious thing to do is call for h...

Embezzlement from Massachusetts non-profit estiamted at $370,000 An IT manager in the US was arrested on Friday for allegedly embezzling ab...

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I’m not a senior citizen, even though I’m fussy, dislike loud restaurants and sometimes grunt when getting out of chairs. And yet, I’m also...

Reddit’s nosleep forum is a short-horror online crucible, wherein the most horrifically unsettling content is sent to the top and merely m...

Choice is the word for Jamf's Dean Hager Interview   As Apple's devices continue to find favour with enterprise users, the fortress...

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One of the most exhilarating stages of a new relationship is the moment when your butterflies start to turn into something a little more se...

Spooky season will find you wherever you are, and that includes the gym. While you can do creepy-sounding exercises like skullcrushers and ...

“Foreign” cinema has a reputation for being more erudite than mainstream American film—after all, watching a film with subtitles means you’...

Firm working on both old programme and its replacement - CMA checks potential 'incentive' to delay Britain's competition watchd...

Even though iOS works great for most people, it has a lot of minor, frustrating annoyances. With a little bit of effort, though, you can ge...

The full version of Android 12 dropped last week for Pixel devices , and we’ve spent the last few days testing out the OS, getting familiar...

Chipzilla's dreams for ControlFlag Intel Labs has big plans for a software tool called ControlFlag that uses artificial intelligence to...

Phishing and password spraying on the up Russia's Nobelium group – fingered as being a Russian state actor by both the United States an...

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At some point in our childhood, we learn that living in a society means controlling certain emotions. We suppress, in particular, emotions ...

FSD rolled back to 10.2 after 'issues' found Tesla has yanked the latest beta, 10.3, of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software from p...

While car rental prices have eased somewhat since summer, we’re not out of the woods yet. Rates were still 51% higher last month compared t...

Watchdog: Breach caused by 'serious deficiencies in technical and organisational measures' The United Kingdom's data watchdog i...

Enginners and researchers don't know why Twitter's algorithms are more likely to boost right-wing content than left-wing posts from...

Lack of data for planning also a problem, spending watchdog finds The UK court system's failure to implement its own recommendations fo...

It worked on Jolly Roger, it can work on ProudWhiteGuy66373 Opinon   Three things on the morning news reliably ruin breakfast for socially ...

Cheaper, better than running it yourself? Maybe Feature   Outsourcing generally has a bad reputation, scarred by countless failed projects ...

Apparently The Social Network TM is the only one allowed to do nasty things with users' data Facebook has sued a Ukrainian national fo...

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China backed the concept of tools users perceive as an extension of the OS, not just an app Catch a ride, pay your utility bills, order you...

He's free of governance duties now, but still an emeritus member Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) co-founder John Gilmore has been ...

With an average 1.27 million orders a week, many customers left hacked off The UK's largest retailer, supermarket titan Tesco, has rest...

Common network services are less important when we've moved to apps hosted at the edge What will the internet look like in the year 207...

First Artemis mission is stacked on a rocket – now for five punishing sets of tests before liftoff NASA has set a date for the test of the ...

When it comes to dollar stores, there’s a lot to unpack—like their tendency to pop up in food deserts , and their impact on a local economy...

Clearly, at this point, we know there’s no such thing as “work-life balance.” There never was, and there definitely isn’t now, during a pan...

Attics already have that mysterious quality, where items that were at some point important to us (or the home’s previous owners) fill boxes...

Unless you spring for the expensive anti-scratch coating, or take really good care of your glasses, chances are you’ll end up with a few s...

If you’re looking for a rug for a specific spot in your home, chances are the one you fall in love with won’t fit the space. But the good n...