Simon Sharwood
APAC Editor at The Register
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theregister.com | Simon Sharwood
A trio of scientists have published a paper that explains how they found a dwarf planet in a database. As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201”, in 2014 scientists used Chile’s Blanco 4m telescope for a project called the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) that observed extragalactic objects.
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theregister.com | Simon Sharwood
Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday. A company post states the incident "is impacting commercial customer consoles," however The Register has seen several social media posts that show a SentinelOne dashboard listing 11 unavailable products – including threat intelligence services and the Singularity Endpoint protection service.
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theregister.com | Simon Sharwood
China’s National Space Agency today launched the nation’s first asteroid sample mission. The Tianwen 2 probe rode a Long March 3B rocket into orbit at 1:31 on Thursday morning. Its first destination is Asteroid 2016HO3, aka 469219 Kamoʻoalewa, which orbits the Sun but, when seen from Earth appears to orbit our home planet, earning it the title of a “quasi-moon” or “quasi-satellite”. The NASA video below illustrates the situation. Scientists think 2016HO3 has a diameter of just 40 to 100 meters.
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theregister.com | Simon Sharwood
India’s government has reminded big tech companies that it has rules that prohibit the use of dark patterns – deceptive design practices that deliberately mislead and confuse customers of online services and apps – and called for an end to their use. India’s Department of Consumer affairs consulted with local and global big tech companies about dark patterns in mid-2023 and worked with them to develop formal Guidelines on Dark Patterns.
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1 week ago |
theregister.com | Simon Sharwood
The USA’s Court of International Trade has ruled the Trump administration improperly implemented its “Liberation Day” tariff policy, effectively blocking the imposition of the duties.
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Curiouser and curiouser. As the internet archive shows, this competition was first envisioned as a six-week campaign. Now it's 13 months. Imagine how you'd feel if you entered months ago and see the deadline extended (by my count) at least three times https://t.co/frZFHLnNg8
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬. Submit your proposal for a decentralized registration database and be part of the digital revolution. Send to : [email protected] Deadline : April 30th 2025 For more info : https://t.co/lP7WROOxOY #NRS https://t.co/KxlMGiNItm
This is IMHO utterly ridiculous - by my count this is at least the third deadline extension for this contest. FYI this group has declined to answer questions about its governance and finances while preaching openness and accountability. Curiouser and curiouser.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬. Submit your proposal for a decentralized registration database and be part of the digital revolution. Send to : [email protected] Deadline : April 30th 2025 For more info : https://t.co/lP7WROOxOY #NRS https://t.co/KxlMGiNItm
RT @mjfree: https://t.co/ENyWstSdqD
