Nintendo’s Labo playset slaps the Switch into build-your-own cardboard toys
Coming April 20, "crafted for kids and those who are kids at heart."
View ArticleScientists racing to save vital medical isotopes imperiled by shabby reactors
Current situation is “like running through the desert with an ice cream cone.”
View ArticleApple will give users the option to control their own battery’s destiny
Battery health will be much easier to understand in future iOS software updates.
View ArticleF-35 ‘incomparable’ to Harrier jump jet, top test pilot tells El Reg
Naturally we demanded proof – and we got it Interview What's it like to fly an F-35 fighter jet? We interviewed the chief British test pilot on a uniquely British flying technique – and then had a...
View ArticleMeltdown and Spectre: Good news for AMD users, (more) bad news for Intel
Windows patches are fixed, but microcode updates are causing even more trouble.
View ArticleSomeone is touting a mobile, PC spyware platform called Dark Caracal to...
Hundreds of gigabytes already slurped, say EFF and Lookout An investigation by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and security biz Lookout has uncovered Dark Caracal, a surveillance-toolkit-for-hire...
View ArticleInvestigation outs Dark Caracal, the high-tech spying network for hire to...
Advanced surveillance system puts mobile first for stealing data An investigation by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and security firm Lookout have uncovered Dark Caracal, a highly advanced spying...
View ArticleTwitch challenges YouTube with new video producer tools, Disney partnership
Four of YouTube's most popular gamers will produce "exclusive" Twitch content.
View ArticlePlanet finally stops setting warmest year records, 2017 merely finishes Top 3
Regardless of the dataset, just a touch cooler than last couple years.
View ArticleHere’s why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
“Cryptocurrency canrsquo;t crash soon enough,” one gamer fumes.
View ArticleSad-sack Anon calling himself ‘Mr Cunnilingus’ online is busted for DDoSing...
Electronics tutor's taunts come back to haunt him An electronics technician pleaded guilty on Wednesday to orchestrating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a former employer and other...
View ArticleFCC admits mobile can’t replace home Internet, won’t lower speed standard
Pai offers no data for claim that Title II repeal boosts broadband construction.
View ArticleYou get a lawsuit! And you get a lawsuit! And you! Now Apple sued over CPU...
iGiant up next in the Meltdown-Spectre-sueball-a-palooza Add Apple to the list of companies facing a legal backlash in the US over the Spectre and Meltdown CPU security fiasco.…
View ArticleOffice for Mac now shares a codebase with Windows, gets real-time collaboration
Office will share a codebase across all platforms for the first time in 20 years.
View ArticleTwo things will survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches and crafty URLs like...
Pesky phishing pages using international domain names just won't go away It's been known for a long while that people can use similar-looking non-Roman characters to create internet addresses that look...
View ArticleDelve into the hidden corners of security at CyberThreat18
New event set to infiltrate QEII Promo If you are a cybersecurity practitioner who feels on top of the latest developments in your field, CyberThreat18 may make you want to think again.…
View ArticleCloud portability: Why you’ll never really get there
Portability means that you can move an application from one host environment to another, including cloud to cloud such as from Amazon Web Services to Microsoft Azure.The work needed to complete the...
View ArticleFirefox speeds up WebAssembly through streaming compilation
Mozilla’s Firefox 58 browser, to be released January 23, features a compilation technology designed to make the WebAssembly portable code format run even faster.This performance boost is enabled by...
View ArticleThere are other, legal ways to nab Microsoft emails, privacy groups remind...
Redmond finds allies in Irish data centre spat Allowing Uncle Sam to seize emails stored in Microsoft's Irish data centre would violate foreign data protection laws and risk setting a damaging...
View ArticleThe Zuma failure has emboldened critics of SpaceX
"Taxpayers are tired of getting ripped off," a professional coalition builder wrote.
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