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Tuesday July 22, 2025. 12:46 AM
No customer, partner info stolen, spokesperson tells The Reg Dell has confirmed that criminals broke into its IT environment and stole some of its data — but told The Register that it's 'primarily synthetic (fake) data.'…
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Ninety-year-old University of Washington emeritus physics professor John G. Cramer has volunteered to join a pioneering effort to surpass the 122-year human longevity limit by undergoing bioreactor-grown mitochondrial transplantation. The work is overseen by physicians and...
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NVIDIA has released additional open-source header files for its Blackwell and Hopper GPU architectures, continuing its effort to support open-source drivers like Nouveau/NVK and the NOVA Rust driver. Phoronix reports: Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files ...
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Fight back against Redmond's productivity sinks HANDS ON Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop operating system, finally beating Windows 10. But it's also loaded with head-scratching default settings that sap your productivity and treat you like a computer...
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A magnetic oil drain plug for a Challenger 350 business jet engine starter costs an eye-popping $10,000 — more than many used cars. The astronomical price tag for this simple part, shared on Reddit's aviation maintenance forum, is an example of the extreme cost inflation...
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Monday July 21, 2025. 11:54 PM
Ending several uncomfortable weeks for the Marines, the troops are leaving the City of Angels after defending several buildings that were not under any danger of assault. Immediately after leaving a press conference where Mayor Karen Bass called on the Federal government ...
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A Federal Immigration court judge has determined, 'We're not really doing names publicly,' in reference only to ICE's lawyers, after disclosing the names of the immigrants and their lawyers, as well as her own, and offering a free pass to the brown shirts. — Read the rest ...
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Claims it's all a witch hunt by local lawmakers The site formerly known as Twitter has said it will not hand over any information to French police over an investigation into its recommendation algorithms.…
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If you've been enjoying Matt Bors' and Fred Harper's Toxic Avenger comics from AHOY, you'll be interested to know that Harper has cooked up a tribute 'variant cover' for a new book that puts the mop-wielding mutant janitor side-by-side with the monster who created him: the...
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As the EPA moves to shut down the Office of Research and Development, leadership is unable to answer questions as basic as when it will close and how many will lose their jobs.
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You only live once, but regret is forever Cursor's AI coding agent will run automatically, in YOLO mode, if you let it. According to Backslash Security, you might want to think twice about doing so.…
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TL;DR: Refresh your home with this easy paint hack. Get the Nix Mini 3 for just $79.99 (Reg. $119.00) Here's the thing: only art can save us. In an increasingly chaotic world, people are turning back to the basics. — Read the rest The post Turn home decor into dopamine with...
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Another day, another question no one has ever asked being solved. Granted, however, in a city as real-feeling as Cyberpunk 2077's Night City, it should be expected that someone would start wondering where the water came from at some point. — Read the rest The post The weirdl...
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Microsoft is rolling out updates to the Xbox PC app and consoles that sync your cloud gaming history and progress across devices, making it easier to resume cloud-playable titles on PCs, handhelds, and other Xbox hardware. The Verge reports: Cloud-playable games are now...
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In a move which will surely make JK Rowling's transphobic head explode, Humble Bundle is offering a Harry Potter bundle that supports the Trevor Project. JK Rowling is an overt and aggressive transphobe. This has understandably caused fans to abandon her work in droves. —...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP -- a Northamptonshire transport company -- is just one of tens of thousands of UK...
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2021's Mortal Kombat movie wasn't bad, per se, but it was painfully generic and didn't come close to the (likely unintentional, but still present) campy goodness of the original. 'YOUR SOUL IS MINE!' still lives rent-free in my head. Luckily, Warner Bros. — Read the rest ...
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Move along, nothing to see here comment Here we go again. Another major Microsoft attack, with this one seeing someone — most likely government-backed hackers — exploiting a zero-day bug in SharePoint Server that Redmond failed to fix.…
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This video shares the history of how cut and paste's shortcut keys ended up where they are, and why moving between operating systems is a PITA. Apple's command key has been in my way for ages. Moving back and forth between operating systems is made extra annoying by...
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Wow, 'V' the mini-series was a phenomenon, and then it just wasn't and kinda stunk. This video explains why: OG V struck at just around the right time in both Science Fiction and the Reagan era for folks to really be a colossal hit. — Read the rest The post Why 'V'...
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