Still destroying the planet, one big box at a time

Those of you who don't like trees very much will appreciate HP's continuing efforts to deforest the planet by using the maximum cardboard possible when dispatching items to expectant customers. Here's a big box the company recently delivered to loyal Reg reader Simon Lucas, who's based in Tokyo:…

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Gaming engines to model complex aviation projects

Graphic engines used in the latest videogames are set to be see more and more service in the French aerospace industry, according to reports.…

Don't care, won't care

A year and a day after losing child benefit records for every family in the UK and promising to reform data handling the British government is still losing a laptop every single week.…

Fuel for your HD TV

Round-up Happy Christmas, the format war is over. Now that Toshiba has abandoned HD DVD, Sony’s Blu-Ray has emerged as the new standard for high-definition discs, and the millions of folk who've been watching ye olde standard-def TV programmes on their HD TVs can go out and buy themselves a Blu-ray player safe in the knowledge it's not about to become obsolete.…

Zombie networks likely to resurface in two weeks

Analysis One week after rogue ISP McColo was shut down spam levels have yet to return to normalcy. But security experts are under no illusions that this represents anything more than a temporary reprieve, which will probably come accompanied by a change in tactics by spammers.…