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Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project

Airbus UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the European aerospace giant, has won the £150 million contract to complete a landing system for the long-delayed ExoMars rover.…

More silicon, more power, more pain for datacenter operators

Comment  As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead – and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is.…

Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection

Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell.…

A peek behind the curtain in one corner of online advertising

AppLovin, which provides a way for software developers to make money by embedding ads in their mobile apps, has been sued for a third time this month – after short-seller reports accused the biz of fraud and deceptive revenue practices.…

SAMOSA digested by House last year, but choked on in Senate. Second time's a charm?

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is once again pushing legislation aimed at reining in the federal government's fragmented and wasteful software licensing practices.…

Department director admits Welsh capital's council still trying to get heads around threat of dark web leaks

Cardiff City Council's director of children's services says data was leaked or stolen from the organization, although she did not clarify how or what was pilfered.…

That stands for I Probably Overestimated?

CoreWeave has pared back the scope of its initial public offering amid growing investor uncertainty in an overheating AI marketplace and risks posed by the GPU cloud specialist's exposure to a small number of customers.…

More than 70 percent of anomalies closed out, but those pesky thrusters are still a problem

Updated  NASA says Boeing's Starliner – dubbed the Calamity Capsule – could fly again, but not before the end of 2025 or start of 2026.…

Bad news about the Linux system monitor may be on the way

Updated  Veteran sysadmin and tech blogger Rachel Kroll posted a cryptic warning yesterday about a popular Linux system monitoring tool. Maybe it's better to be safe than sorry.…

How's that for Platform-as-a-Service?

You've seen small 3D printed models, heard about 3D printers being used to make guns, and even read news about printed food, but a 3D printed train station? Where else could this be but Japan?…

Microsoft promises clarity, gets partway there

Microsoft has introduced a roadmap for Windows 11 that takes customers all the way to ... April 2025.…

Claims Broadcom will levy 20 percent penalty for customers who don’t pay before renewal deadlines

The French limb of global tech distributor Arrow has emailed VMware partners it serves with news of big price increases.…

JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team'

Interview  The team behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science.…

Similar issue in Windows 11 resolved as of Wednesday

Microsoft is warning that a faulty patch pushed out in February is causing Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop sessions to freeze under certain circumstances.…

Despite pockets of excellence, many wouldn't make the grade in business, AI advisor implies

A former director of data science at the UK prime minister's office has told MPs that people working with data in government are not typically technical and would be unlikely to get a similar job in the private sector.…

Project sees 7-year delay and budget swell to £1.5B, but nuclear leadership 'confident' it has an alternative

The center of the UK's nuclear industry has agreed on alternatives for how it will process waste into the next decade after delays and overspending hit a lab project.…

Self-described 'visionary' made life hell for our hero, then some oily vids returned the favor

On Call  The working week can be ugly, which is why The Register beautifies each Friday morning with a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of tech support splendor.…

Argues making stuff using foreign-designed tech isn't leadership, as x86 giant shakes up board

Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger has thrown shade on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC's plans to build fabrication plants in the USA, saying the factories will do nothing to advance American semiconductor leadership.…

Single click on a phishing link in Google browser blew up sandbox on Windows

Google pushed out an emergency patch for Chrome on Windows this week to stop attackers exploiting a sandbox-breaking zero-day vulnerability, seemingly used by snoops to target certain folks in Russia.…

As this year’s buyers rush to beat Trump’s tariffs

Korean chipmaker SK hynix has told investors the future looks bright thanks to strong demand for its memory products and early delivery of its first HBM4 samples.…