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Announcement Taking a break

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Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a sticker on it (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Technology

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Embrace and kill? AppGet dev claims Microsoft reeled him in with talk of help and a job – then released remarkably similar package manager (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Microsoft

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SD Cards hop on the PCIe bus to hit 4Gbps and spark NVMe in slower cards (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Technology

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Facebook to surround all of Africa in optical fibre and tinfoil (www.theregister.co.uk)

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ATLAS flubbed: Comet heading our way takes one look at Earth, self-destructs into house-sized chunks (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Space

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ICANN delays .org sell off after California's attorney general intervenes at last minute, tears non-profit a new one over sale (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by smallpond on Technology

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Antarctic science put on ice by coronavirus – next summer's expeditions restricted to essentials and robots (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Coronavirus

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16 years and counting: How ESA squeezed oodles of bonus science out of plucky Mars Express probe (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Space

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Yeah, that Zoom app you're trusting with work chatter? It lives with 'vampires feeding on the blood of human data' (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by smallpond on privacy

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Aww, a cute mini-moon is orbiting Earth right now. But like all good things, it too will abandon us at some point (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Space

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Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs that are valid for more than 13 months (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by pembo210 on ITSecurity

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London's Metropolitan Police flip the switch: Smile, fellow citizens... you're undergoing Live Facial Recognition (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on TheFutureIsStupid

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Parks and recreation escalate efforts to take back control of field terrorised by thug geese (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Animals

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US's secret spy payload offloaded: Rocket Lab demos missile muscle with second Electron guided home (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on rockets

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NASA: Remember that 2024 Moon thing? How about Mars in 2033? Authorization bill moots 2028 for more lunar footprints (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Space

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Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Apple

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Microsoft picks a side, aims to make the business 'carbon-negative' by 2030 (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Microsoft

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Privacy activists beg Google to ban un-removable bloatware from Android (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by smallpond on privacy

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Ring of fired: Amazon axes four workers who secretly snooped on netizens' surveillance camera footage (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on privacy

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Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if pilots land on specific runways (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on planes

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Starliner: Boeing, Boeing... it's back! Borked capsule makes a successful return to Earth (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by xyzzy on Space

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Congress to FCC: Where’s the damn report on mobile companies selling location data? (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by smallpond on Technology

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The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system – and we're going to court to prove it, says ACLU (www.theregister.co.uk)

posted by smallpond on privacy

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Watch tiny swimming magnetic robots suck up uranium in a droplet of radioactive wastewater (www.theregister.co.uk)

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