NASA is moving ahead with its contribution to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover despite another attempt by the Trump administration to cut funding for the effort. The US space agency announced that its Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) project had been approved to begin implementation. It is up to…
This weekend’s scheduled Blue Origin rocket launch is rather momentous. Success would signal an end to SpaceX’s monopoly on reusable orbital launch vehicles, and set up a three-way race to make that “No Service” indicator on your phone disappear forever. On Sunday morning, Jeff Bezos’ massive New Glenn rocket is scheduled to launch with the…
Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to wrangle their media library out of luck. Debian’s FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud READ MORE For those not living in it daily, Plex is a media server platform that lets users stream their own collections of…
Textbook giant McGraw Hill has landed on a ransomware crew’s leak site after an alleged Salesforce-linked misconfiguration spilled 13.5 million records into the wild. Have I Been Pwned says the breach exposed names, phone numbers, email addresses, and some physical addresses. McGraw Hill described the source as a “limited” Salesforce-hosted webpage – though the data…
Apple is finally working on a fix for a bug that has locked some users out of their iPhones for months, The Register understands. Cupertino’s iOS engineers apparently became aware of the Czech keyboard blunder last week via university student Connor Byrne’s Reddit post and set out to fix it in an upcoming iOS 26…
Bork!Bork!Bork! It was not so much Jack in the Box as Bork on the Screen at a US drive-through fast food outlet the other day. Luckily, a Reg reader was there to take it all in. Customer order screen showing terminal window – click to enlarge It was reader Justin Wilson in Santa Rosa, California,…
The UK government awarded Capita a £239 million contract to run the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) after assessing its past performance, despite the rollout later leaving thousands of retirees waiting for payments, a senior civil servant has said. Capita wins four out of five stars for ‘good’, ‘inexpensive’ service FROM THE ARCHIVES The tech…
Security boffins say Anthropic’s Claude can be tricked into approving malicious code with just two Git commands by spoofing a trusted developer’s identity. In a blog published this week, Manifold Security showed how an AI-powered code reviewer built on Claude accepted changes that appeared to come from a legitimate maintainer. By setting a fake author…
Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet developer frustration over color contrast and forced updates continue to overshadow the improvements. Many developers are familiar with the problem: they are typing in the code editor and multiple assistants intervene with suggested code, causing…
On Call Life is filled with random events, but The Register tries to make readers’ lives just a little more predictable by always using Friday morning to bring you a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Benny” who…