Successful qualification run for P160C solid-fuel motor in South American spaceport A qualification version of the P160C solid-fuel motor was successfully tested at the European Spaceport in French Guiana on April 24, paving the way for heftier payl…
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Lees meerNow that AI is invading classrooms and homework assignment, students need to learn reasoning more than ever Students are increasingly turning to AI to help them with coursework, leaving academics scrambling to adjust their teaching practices or deba…
Lees meerThousands face ax, more given RTO orders in quest to suck less Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan is swinging the ax again, with another round of layoffs incoming as Chipzilla tries to reboot its core.…
Lees meerCursor, Codium makers lose access as add-on goes exclusive Microsoft's C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) no longer works with derivative products such as VS Codium and Cursor – and some developers are crying foul.…
Lees meerAt least it wasn't Harvard Yale New Haven Health has notified more than 5.5 million people that their private details were likely stolen by miscreants who broke into the healthcare system's network last month.…
Lees meerWatch your partitions – GPT and dual-boot don't always mix While The Reg FOSS desk was on spring break, both the latest interim Ubuntu and latest Fedora debuted.…
Lees meerTech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anyway US health insurance giant Blue Shield of California handed sensitive health information belonging to as many as 4.7 million members to Google's…
Lees meerThis one weird trick can stop Windows updates dead in their tracks Turns out Microsoft's latest patch job might need a patch of its own, again. This time, the culprit is a mysterious inetpub folder quietly deployed by Redmond, now hijacked by a secu…
Lees meerUK org backing it promises 'legal certainty' for devs, money for creators... but is it too late? A UK non-profit is planning to introduce a new licensing model which will allow developers of large language models to use copyrighted training data whi…
Lees meerTech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anyway US health insurance giant Blue Shield of California handed sensitive health information belonging to as many as 4.7 million members to Google's…
Lees meer'Inventory accumulation' as vendors hoard HBM amid tariff and other pressures South Korean memory maker SK Hynix is reporting a sales bounce due to the demand for AI systems, helped by US businesses stockpiling HBM supplies amid tariff uncertainty.…
Lees meerAlleges semi designer tried to obstruct Qualy's build of Arm-compatible custom cores Qualcomm has amended its complaint against Arm in a 2024 lawsuit, adding more allegations about Arm's purported breach of license agreements and accusing it of "mis…
Lees meerGet a new, clean (maybe suspiciously empty) install up to speed – and keep it there When you install a fresh, clean copy of Windows – say, if you're switching to the LTSC edition – Ninite is here to kickstart provisioning the new OS.…
Lees meerExtreme weather is such a problem when building bit barns... hmmm, wonder what could be causing that? When it comes to building datacenters, reducing the environmental impact of the project is still not seen as a major concern – it is lower on the l…
Lees meerCustomers told to expect further delays as contactless payments still down UK high street retailer Marks & Spencer says contactless payments are still down following its "cyber incident" and order delays are likely to continue.…
Lees meerCybercriminals are targeting software shops, accountants, lawyers The percentage of confirmed data breaches involving third-party relationships doubled last year as cybercriminals increasingly exploited weak links in supply chains and partner ecosys…
Lees meerBad timing, claim industry watchers, who say rulings could seriously upset an already delicate US-EU relationship Meta and Apple have earned the dubious honor of being the first companies fined for non-compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act, w…
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