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Astrobotic's Peregrine packed with NASA science gear and other payloads may be a bust

Astrobotic's Peregrine packed with NASA science gear and other payloads now looks like a bust

Kit sucked out of Alaska Airlines 1282 found on the side of the road

Apple has become the first smartphone manufacturer to pass the three-mile drop test after one of its iPhones was found on the side of a road by volunteers helping to recover debris from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 over the weekend.…

Once again, export restrictions are having the opposite to intended effects

Issue has been patched so be sure to check your implementations

SonicWall says it has observed thousands of daily attempts to exploit an Apache OFBiz zero-day for nearly a fortnight.…

Pandemic overhiring + AI-generated cuts at the entry level = A bad year to be an IT pro says Janco

Generative AI - huh - what is it good for? Premium priced PC sales, apparently says Canalys

The House of Zen's aging Ryzen 5000 processors get some love too

CES  AMD unveiled its first desktop processors with integrated neural processing units alongside refreshed 5000-series CPUs and a new entry-level graphics card at CES on Monday.…

NTSB chair pushes for 25 hours of cockpit voice and flight data recordings

Your turn, Starship

The relief was palpable as United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the first of its next-generation Vulcan rockets.…

How to overcome uncertainty and reduce potential risk following the Broadcom-VMware Acquisition

Authors continue to lose out on owed payments as rebuild of digital services drags on

Renewed focus follows TV drama

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has promised to speed up the process of exonerating Post Office employees wrongfully convicted of false accounting, theft and fraud decades after after faulty software led to one of the greatest miscarriage of justice in British history.…

Plus: A virtual Elvis Presley animated using AI to perform in shows, and the most popular chatbot on Character.ai

FOSS's license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way

How the hyperscalers derailed Europe's cloud infrastructure train

Interview  Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek is blunt about the future of Europe's Gaia-X project: it doesn't have one. At least, not in the way many of its founders hoped.…

Old BT green boxes to be repurposed

The BT Group has made good on its promise to repurpose street cabinets into EV charge points by kicking off a pilot to demonstrate the concept actually works.…

How badly do you want your name in the About box?

Who, me?  Welcome, gentle reader, and rejoice, for with the new year comes a new instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers recount tales of tech trouble for your edification.…

When record labels go bananas over brief samples, good luck generating tracks built from today's culture

Also: Twitter hijackings, BEC arrest, and critical vulnerabilities

Infosec in brief  We gather everyone's still easing themselves into the New Year. Deleting screens of unread emails, putting on a brave face in meetings, and slowly getting up to speed. While you're recovering from the Christmas break, Meta has been busy introducing fresh ways to monetize your web surfing habits while dressing it up as a user experience improvement.…

New Huawei AP designed to boost speed, access and efficiency in campus wireless networks