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AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web (opens the original)
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Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills Fears of an AI takeover remain unfounded after Microsoft demonstrated that Copilot can sometimes struggle to remain upright, let alone march over the remnants of humanity. The copilot.microsoft.com website fell over for an hour and 40 minutes overnight, returning a Cloudflare Error 1016 message when users attempted to chat with the bot. The outage lasted from 2225 UTC on September 9 unt
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango (opens the original)
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Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering The European Space Agency's Cluster quartet is preparing for its final bow after Samba reentered Earth's atmosphere, with Tango due to follow tonight. Samba lost contact at 21:26 UTC on August 31 and reentered at 21:39:38 UTC. Tango is expected to follow at 21:30:31 UTC tonight. The other two satellites, Rumba and Salsa, reentered in 2025 and 2024, respectively. The final reentries close the book on a prodigiously long-lived qu
Philips to replace bricked Hue Bridge Pro devices (opens the original)
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Company releases a fresh firmware update. Go on, install it, we dare you... Philips is replacing Hue Bridge Pro devices after a software update left several units bricked with no way for users to restore them. Rumblings began in forums in June after a seemingly innocuous update left users, quite literally, in the dark. After a few weeks attempting to resolve the issues, Philips has thrown in the towel and said it will replace affected devices. A spokesperson told The Register, "We have identifie
Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test (opens the original)
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Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price UPDATED: SpaceX is scheduling another test flight of its monster Starship rocket later this week. Flight test 13 will carry 20 Starlink satellites and, hopefully, will not repeat the anomalies seen during the previous test. The mission is set to launch on Thursday, July 16, with a 90-minute launch window opening at 2245 UTC. It will carry next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time, deploying them dur
Backup and running? Not this digital sign (opens the original)
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Nagware goes large on the mean streets of Derby BORK!BORK!BORK! Microsoft and backup are two words often uttered together, usually in the form of "Microsoft Windows has crashed again, where's my backup?" The question is: what would a backup look like for a digital sign in Derby? Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader "nategee" on a stroll in Derby, this sign appears to have spent much of the day pleading to be backed up. This poses an interesting question. What, exactly, would constitute a backup
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