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'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer
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Mapping, navigation and communications - without satellites? Using portable, optical atomic clocks, that’s how. Hear more about this promising research area with Dr Alessia Pasquaz at our January 23 lecture. Full deets here:
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Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans
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SpaceX ponders its next mission to blot out the Sun with another 60 Starlink sats
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Looking for a great value broadband deal? War-torn Syria will do you proud
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How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job
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Looks like the party's over, folks: Global PC sales set to shrink as Windows 10 upgrade cycle tails off, says Gartn…
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Fly me to the M(O2)n: Euro scientists extract oxygen from 'lunar dust' by cooking it with molten salt electrolysis
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Tickets for Carsten Roensdorf’s February Reg lecture on mapping underground Britain have now all been sold. But wait - there’s more. The Reg’s Lectures team is working on a new date for a second run. Details soon...
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Server-side Swift's slow support story sours some: Apple lang tailored for mobile CPUs, lacking in Linux world
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World-record-breaking boffins reveal the fastest spinning thing on Earth – and it's not George Orwell in his grave
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Let’s check in on the .org sale fiasco: Senators say No, internet grandees say Yes – and ICANN pretends there's abs…
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Wave goodbye: DigitalOcean decimates workforce as co-founder reveals lack of profitability, leadership turmoil
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Presumably GCHQ, MI6, CIA, NSA, BND, DGSE, Mossad, MSS, CSIS, etc remain undetected.
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Whoa, whoa... Tesla slams brakes on allegations of 'unintended acceleration' bug: 'Completely false and was brought…
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Leaving your admin interface's TLS cert and private key in your router firmware in 2020? Just Netgear things
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FYI: @HPE has warned it will be affected by Intel's Xeon chip shortage to April if not the whole year.

As a result, it's steering customers to Skylake, rather than Cascade Lake, or "alternative processors." Exclusive by @Richard_Speed:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/20/intel_hpe_xeon_shortage/ …

Citrix emits patches to stop RCE-holes fiddling with Gateway and ADC
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Over a thousand electronic gizmos went missing from London councils last year
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Ubisoft sues handful of gamers for DDoSing Rainbow Six: Siege
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