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Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public
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GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in
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Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers
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The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech
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European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan
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Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester
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Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much
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Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow
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Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
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Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester
Systems
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Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall
Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity
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Google-backed energy outfit brings 33 MW of 4 GW geothermal potential online in Utah
Fervo Energy aims to have 100 MW online by New Year and half a gigawatt by 2028
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Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week
Part of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit
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Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion
Bull, the system builder behind JUPITER, takes delivery of SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea1 CPUs
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An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip
16 channels of DDR5, 5 GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?
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Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint
New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction
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Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club
Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too
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American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient
US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth
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Chinese memory-maker CXMT claims DRAM production breakthrough
PLUS: Toyota's robot hiring spree; China's CDNs struggle; India to charge for some UPI payments; and more!
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Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer
Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections
EVENTS
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How to prepare for the coming wave of autonomous attacks
AI has handed attackers a capability most security programmes were never built to face: finding architectural flaws, at machine speed.
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Resilient critical infrastructure
In this discussion, experts unpack what the Bill means for boards and their ability to keep essential services running and recover from disruption.
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Get agentic AI into production
Joann Starke of HPE talks to The Register’s Tim Phillips about getting agentic AI into production without losing your grip on it.
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Data sovereignty without compromise
Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.
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Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World
Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.
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Business of the Year: Organized Cybercrime.
If there were an award for the industry making the biggest moves this year, organized cybercrime would be a top contender.
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Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World
Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.
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Data Sovereignty in the AI Era
As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .
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Infosec
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Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script
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ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'
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Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
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Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid
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Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked
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Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers
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Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs
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Salesforce Agentforce vulns allowed 0-click CRM data theft, anonymous phishing
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Decades-old file security flaws found in Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows
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CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle
Off Prem
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Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI
First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition
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Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them
USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam
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AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth
Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap
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AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users
Improved signup experience for ‘AI builders’ hides complexity and includes spending cap
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AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good
Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible
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Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips
Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute
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Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals
PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more
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Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox
No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices
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Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud
This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale
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Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed
New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff
Who Me?
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Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on
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Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
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Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
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Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up
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Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
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Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
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Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
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IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day
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Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data
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Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
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User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap
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Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code
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Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess
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How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!
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Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet
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Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug
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Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident
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Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in
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Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything
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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
Networks
MORE NETWORKS STORIES
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Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it
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Europe’s internet registry wants governance ‘correction’ because its ‘Executive Board’ is not the executive
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Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes
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In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols
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Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal
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Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill
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BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs
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UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below
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Huawei pitches near-packaged optics as co-packaged costs bite
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Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider
Offbeat
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Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective!
Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation
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iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink
3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance
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Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology
Discord users asked to prove they’re adults get less intrusive options
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Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper
Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance
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A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch
Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
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BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth
MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored
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UK’s uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes
XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests
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Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
Meet ‘superintelligence’ and the ‘globalist scheme’ – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it
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NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon
Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain
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It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity
Please release me, let me close...
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British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky
Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas
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Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to
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SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22
Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific
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Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow
HALEU is still being produced at a snail's pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up – eventually
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US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace
Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?
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UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off
The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze
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The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker
Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware
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The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation
Information is not forthcoming from this screen
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Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists
Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures
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Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm
Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades
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Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft
Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded
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Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer
Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project
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US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification
Wheels turning on the road and in government
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Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
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Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2
The new extreme sport: Windows Updates
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UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo
Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense
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'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda
No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets
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British wind power to drive Maersk container ship
Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%
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AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip
Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend
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Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender
Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning
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From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again
This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper
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Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle
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Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
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AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?
Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense
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Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims
Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs
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Check out the width of that Debian display
Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?
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SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast
Plans to break ground in 2027, produce its own propellant, and power a 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 to orbit
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UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers
Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...
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Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago
So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it
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Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor
Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck
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Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles
At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 2027
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An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf
Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust
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Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost
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Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch
Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches
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China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing
Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster
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ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job
Astronauts removed broken hardware but will have to return for more orbital DIY
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NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon
As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations
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$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers
After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers
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The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments
Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change
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Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine
Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices
Science
BOFH
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BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting
Putting the 'om' in computing
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BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation
How could such a terrible tragedy have occurred?
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BOFH: Schrödinger's petty cash puts us in a very awkward superposition
Why oh why are the accountants stricter than the IRS and HMRC put together?
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BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime
Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza
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BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book
But so does this customer
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BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand
Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light
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BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry
There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud
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BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Mission Control sends its regards
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BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has
The Boss gives common sense an AI wrapper
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BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom
No sparks, no glory
