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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
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Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road
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Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist
Systems
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Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows
Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services
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AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink
Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack
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Who, Me? Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
Ticklish situation solved with a lie about emergency maintenance
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Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late
Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required
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Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand
Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree
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d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs
AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers
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Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain
Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory
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Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail
Firm wants to take atomic power generation on a barge to wherever the need is
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ASML and TSMC want bigger masks for smaller chips
Industry push aims to eliminate stitching constraints and ready high-NA EUV systems for production by 2033
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Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform
New CPU and GPU designs chase lower latency and richer games within a 1 W power budget
EVENTS
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The AI Iceberg: What 3,000+ Codebases Reveal About the Risk Hiding Below Your Model Count
Snyk analyzed 1.39 million repositories across 3,044 enterprise accounts.
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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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AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the deployment-confidence gap
This webinar, drawing from a global survey of security leaders, will dissect the structural control gaps hindering safe AI adoption.
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The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion
Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity.
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Operationalizing AI with visibility, control, and multitenancy
In this webinar, explore how an AI factory approach can help organizations build a scalable, secure and repeatable foundation for AI.
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The Attacker's View of a Leaked AWS Key
Join Product Manager Jim Freely in this session to learn why AWS access resists inspection, and how to see what a leaked credential really reaches.
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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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Building a Unified AI Data Platform with Qumulo and Databricks
As AI and analytics initiatives expand, organizations need governed access to distributed enterprise data — without the cost and complexity.
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Infosec
MORE INFOSEC
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CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore
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Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks
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Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack
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Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims' files
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Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free
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Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze
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The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patches
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Low-quality casino sites conceal highly dangerous threat actors
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Iranian spies hit Windows machines with Chosen Brick data-stealing malware
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Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email
Off Prem
MORE OFF PREM
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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
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SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year
And fly ‘significant scale’ in 2028 – a claim that isn’t entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt
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Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins
Cloudy AI is Chinese giant’s ‘most certain’ path to growth as e-commerce slows
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US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations
Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland
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Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown
And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal
Who Me?
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Who, Me? Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
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Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
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Who, me? 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
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Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe
Networks
MORE NETWORKS STORIES
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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
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Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release
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Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving
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Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return
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London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above
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Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up
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A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
Off Beat
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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
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Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine
Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons
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Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age
Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology
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Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon
Turns out this space thing really is hard
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This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph
Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books
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Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop
Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work
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Everything is better with pickles... except Windows
Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad
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We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi
What would be your tip for this stricken device?
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Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers
Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either
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Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time
It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound
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Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia
Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start
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New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut
The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range
Science
BOFH
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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
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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?
