ISS spacewalkers discover there’s no such thing as a quick antenna job
Stubborn electrical connections and bolts thwarted an attempt to replace an antenna on the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, forcing […]
Month: August 2026
Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world
INTERVIEW Oracle inadvertently helped turn PostgreSQL into the database technology now backed by Microsoft, AWS, and Google, according to Postgres […]
Comcast gives its Wi-Fi motion detector a security makeover
Comcast has folded its Wi-Fi-based intruder detection feature into Xfinity Shield, a repackaged bundle of physical and cybersecurity offerings. The […]
Scotland’s AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up
Datacenter operator DataVita has secured £300 million ($406 million) to expand its campus in Scotland’s Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone, while […]
GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm
GitHub has published its account of this week’s nearly eight-hour outage, tracing the developer pain to saturated load balancers, a […]
UK taxman discovers low code doesn’t mean low cost with £657M awards
The UK tax collector has awarded three contracts worth up to £657 million for low-code software development and support, dispelling […]
Raspberry Pi gets jiggy with batch CM5 provisioning
Raspberry Pi has unveiled a $600 Programming Jig to take the faff out of preparing batches of Compute Module 5 […]
SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims
SAP consultant job ads across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland typically quote salaries 10 to 12 percent above the eventual offer, […]
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon
NASA has used its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to capture more pics of the mess on the moon left by […]
Australian hotel chain leaks guests’ PII after breach at third-party database operator
Australian aparthotel chain Quest has revealed it leaked customer data. A Reg reader kindly shared an email from the chain […]