Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon Turns out this space thing really is hard
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key
30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold
Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun
AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year
Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?
British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes Tekever AR5 drone regarded as more up-to-date answer to provide battlefield surveillance for soldiers
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails Would you like an error with your terror?
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network
Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local
Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal
Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too
Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'
Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole 'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'
Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological
Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car’s array of cameras
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule
HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station
Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM
US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says
Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening
Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest
Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen
Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here
Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?
EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation
Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package
Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes
Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches
Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM
DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements
The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build 26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts
Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about When art reflects modern realities
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet This is why you don’t let junior staff ‘save the company a few dollars’
US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets
World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register
Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000 Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut
