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open Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep 110
open 'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city 69
open Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed 16
By rg287
open Willy Wonka event leaves bitter taste with artificially sweetened promises 46
open Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe 97
open Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp 77
By thomn8r
open Google releases Gemma – LLMs small enough to run on your computer 8
open London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale 67
open Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all 209
open Building a 16-bit CPU in a spreadsheet is Excel-lent engineering 23
open Add bacteria to the list of things that can run Doom 28
open Robots with a 'Berliner Schnauze' may appear more trustworthy to locals 22
open Windows 3.11 trundles on as job site pleads for 'driver updates' on German trains 107
By wegie
open Techie resurrects teletext on a vintage BBC Master 20
By ethump
open We put salt in our tea so you don't have to 204
open AI-driven booze bouncers can ID you with face scan 27
open Apple's Vision Pro costs big bucks to buy and repair ... just don't mention the box design 7
open 'Birthplace of Amazon' on the market for $2.28M 21
open DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry 48
open Tech bros are playing God, Catholic Church's AI priest complains 14
open Silicon Valley weirdo's quest to dodge death – yours for $333 a month 87
open Michael Dell: Don't worry about AGI, after all we solved that ozone layer thing 10
By big_D
open Data wrangler Zuckerberg becomes world's least likely cattle rancher 19
By druck
open The Register's 2023 in gaming had one final boss: Baldur's Gate 3 30
By MJI
open How the Xbox Series X fridge chilled our holiday spirits 15
open How do you teach a robot dog new tricks? Throw it a string of hex, a crayon, and a canvas 17
open Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency 43
By jake
open SEC charges ex-medtech CEO with fraud for selling plastic fake implants 14
open This could still wing its way to you, if you have the dosh: One Concorde engine seeks new home 39
open California approves lavatory-to-faucet water recycling 46
open Musk floats idea of boat mod for Cybertruck 123
open Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse 82
open Last Vega rocket launch delayed over fuel tank vanishing act 26
By ArrZarr
open Is it 2000 or 2023? Get ready for AI-anchored news. Again 36
open GM, Komatsu partner to build hydrogen-powered monster mining truck 23
open Time for a Geeko remix: openSUSE is looking for a new logo 9
open HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' 94
open YouTuber who crashed plane for sponsorship dollars earns 6 months behind bars 34
open From Joaquin Phoenix to Rowan Atkinson, we enjoyed your Musk movie casting calls 20
open Nostalgia for XP sells out Microsoft's 2023 'Windows Ugly Sweater' 25
By JWLong
open We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far 38
open AI threatens to automate away the clergy 76
open Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids 15
open Either the FBI is recruiting in Iran – or some govt Google ad buyers are getting a lousy deal 5
By MiguelC
open Virgin Atlantic flies 'world's first fossil-fuel free' transatlantic commercial flight 40
open Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater 311
open USB Cart of Death: The wheeled scourge that drove Windows devs to despair 89
open Surface Duo crashes the party as Doctor Who celebrates 60th birthday 57
open Long-term space missions may make liftoff harder for male astronauts 35
open Remembering the time Windows accidentally sent Poland to the bottom of the sea 30

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