Features
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Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits
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Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds
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SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question
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UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk
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Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future
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France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead
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OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'
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Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list
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Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing'
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Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet
Systems
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Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse
Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?
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Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’
Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips
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Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway
Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters
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Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’
Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler
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Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’
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ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine
ZTE and NCRCIM leverage "CardioMind" AI and full-stack computing to drive global healthcare equity
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Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm
They were doing it in Texas...
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Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores
After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse
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AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers
Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear
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Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet
EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon
EVENTS
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Securing the Untrusted Agentic Development Layer
Join us to learn how to architect a development environment where your builders and their agents can move fast and securely.
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Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack
When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision.
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The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence Is Forcing a New IT Playbook
Infrastructure teams are facing a perfect storm: extended hardware lead times, rising costs driven by AI demand, and accelerated platform timelines.
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Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival
Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape.
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Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival
Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape.
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Unfriendly Followers: The Black Market For Your Identity
They’ll reveal how attackers use your profile as intel and show you how to make yourself harder to target
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AI Found the Problem. Now What?
AI is transforming the software development lifecycle, helping teams identify and remediate vulnerabilities before they reach production.
DevClass | ENGINEERING
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C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply
Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations
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Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help
Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations
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Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked
Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future
Partner Content
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AI inference just plays by different rules
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How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot
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It's time to make agentic automation scalable
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ZTE and China Telecom win GSMA GLOMO "Best Private Network Solution" for EasyOn 5G-A-RobotNet
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China Unicom and ZTE release 5GAxI UniMAX ubiquitous deterministic connectivity solution to empower 5G-A+AI convergence
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ZTE launches GigaMIMO: AI-native wireless empowers human-agent synergy
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ZTE honored with three GSMA GLOMO Awards, pioneering an intelligent future
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U Mobile to leverage ZTE's AIR Core solution to pilot AI capabilities in their 5G network to improve efficiency, stability and capabilities in latest MoU
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ZTE debuts next-gen FWA line-up powered by AI, Wi-Fi 8 and 5G-A at MWC Barcelona 2026
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ZTE and SURGE mark milestone partnership to deliver world's first commercial 5G FWA 1.4GHz service
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Infosec
MORE INFOSEC
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Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
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BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks
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Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree
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Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine
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Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged
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Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that’s coming off the tracks
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Worm rubs out competitor's malware, then takes control
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Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction
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'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit
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Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext
Off Prem
MORE OFF PREM
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Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner
Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent
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Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email
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AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region
Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere
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IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power
Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues
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Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis
Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS
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Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028
Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away
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UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs
Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it
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ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012
$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts
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AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud
When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job
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Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
AI is driving more searches and ads
Who Me?
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Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
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Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
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PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch
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'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild
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IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it
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The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe
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Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference
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Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo
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Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble
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Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract
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Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction
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Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell
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Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead
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Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office
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Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server
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Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam
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ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key
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Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
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Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble
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New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good
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Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming
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Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
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Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books
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Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people
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Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
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Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
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‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’
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Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware
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Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice
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Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company
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Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it
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Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe
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Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery
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After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'
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Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league
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I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA
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CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it
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Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results
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Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off
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Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady
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Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server
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Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo
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Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production
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Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time
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Junior sysadmin’s first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company
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Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown
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Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules
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Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe
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Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter
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Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away
Networks
MORE NETWORKS STORIES
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Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims
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HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi
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It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet
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Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal
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Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear
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Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
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Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet
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Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1
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Wind Telecom Dominican Republic and ZTE join forces to accelerate smart home innovation
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ZTE and XLSMART officially launch Innovation Center in Jakarta, accelerating 5G-advanced and AI readiness for Indonesia
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Off Beat
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The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains
Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.
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London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool
Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London’s West End
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Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard
A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive
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Lego throws its own Hail Mary
Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price
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Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere
Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen
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Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets
Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?
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IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested
Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope
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UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones
Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports
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Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them
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DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to
A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not
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More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook
Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time
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Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area
Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags
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Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop
Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space
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Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge
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Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration
SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely
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SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev
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Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops
Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves
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Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages
Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info
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NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again
Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest
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Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute
Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show
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Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges
PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role
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Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects
DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects
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Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet'
That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed
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Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers
Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home
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China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions
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Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again
No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend
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SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months
Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team
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In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis
Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day
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BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges
Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?
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Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why
Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule
Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences
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Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes
Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn
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NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ
Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision
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FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap'
One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume
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NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing
Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess
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You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house
It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'
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Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit
Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place
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'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild
You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom
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NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer
Tests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown
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NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission
Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms
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Would you like fries with that terminal?
Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't
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Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars
Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam
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Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall
Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start
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Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment
Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices
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Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many
We've all been there
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Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031
Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?
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Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges
Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade
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Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London
Google sibling takes on the Big Smoke – with a human hand on the wheel
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Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt
Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering
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California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says
Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print files
Science
BOFH
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BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom
No sparks, no glory
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BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges
Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?
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BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them
How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data?
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BOFH: Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now?
Yet another AI sales creep ruined by PFY's manual reading tactics
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BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge
The Boss imagineers a new laptop spec with help from AI
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BOFH: Nobody would be stupid enough to go live with the mirror system, surely
Oh. Well. Color us surprised
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BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street
Insurance negotiations take a turn for the Thames
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BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough
The Boss has been on a retreat, which means he needs a factory reset ASAP
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BOFH: Every computer system eventually serves ads
Boss's bright idea enshittifies itself in record time
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BOFH: The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct
After the boardroom is ransacked, it's straight into Arse Covering 101