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Employed as an intern at Vulture Central in 2018, Richard Speed stuck around and managed to achieve the lofty title of Reporter after demonstrating his prowess at carrying beer glasses. He studied English Literature and Computer Science at university before spending a quarter of a century at the sharp, pointy end of IT. Now he much prefers writing about it rather than having to make it work. Richard covers Microsoft and open source software. He is also responsible for the Bork!Bork!Bork! feature, and the On Call and Who, Me? columns.

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Running Windows 10? Microsoft is preparing to fire up the update engines

Hive View security camera customers left in the dark as some gear goes TITSUP*

Elvis may have left the building, but Windows remains very much on show

Pop quiz: The network team didn't make your change. The server is in a locked room. What do you do?

Almost there: James Webb Space Telescope frees its mirrors and prepares for insertion

Joint European Torus celebrates 100,000 pulses: Neither Brexit nor middle age has stopped '80s era experiment

Why should I pay for that security option? Hijacking only happens to planes

First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

Lots of new toys, caps lock still stuck on: ONLYOFFICE hits version 7

Party on Semiconductor Street as worldwide 2021 revenues top record half a trillion dollars

Microsoft sends HoloLens 2 into a care home... Nope, not a headline gag about retiring the tech. They actually did this

NASA's Curiosity finds signs of ancient life on Mars. Or maybe not. More data needed

ESA boss gives update on stricken Sentinel-1B imaging satellite: All is not lost yet

Microsoft seems intent on buying the gaming industry with $68.7bn purchase of troubled Activision Blizzard

European Space Agency whittles wannabe astronauts down from 23,000 to 1,391

Microsoft patches the patch that broke VPNs, Hyper-V, and left servers in boot loops

Email blocklisting: A Christmas gift from Microsoft that Linode can't seem to return

Planning for power cuts? That's strictly for the birds

Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket deploys seven satellites with third successful mission

Google splurging cash on UK offices to lure staffers back from the kitchen table

Scam, pyramid scheme, environmental disaster: Vivaldi boss shares his thoughts on crypto-coins

Microsoft rolls out Files On-Demand with tighter macOS integration – but it defaults to 'on' and can't be disabled

Could BYOB (Bring Your Own Battery) offer a solution for charging electric vehicles? Microlino seems to think so

Software guy smashes through the Somebody Else's Problem field to save the day

Google leads legacy Voice phone service out behind the barn, two shots ring out

Admins report Hyper-V and domain controller issues after first Patch Tuesday of 2022

NASA's Mars InSight trips into safe mode and ESA's Sentinel-1B gives scientists the silent treatment

Microsoft tweaks Teams and Viva to help bridge gap between frontline workers and their managers, among other things

UK competition watchdog closes the comment book on Microsoft's Nuance merger

Back to school for Microsoft as it prises apart the repairable Surface Laptop SE

European Space Agency: Come on, hack our satellite if you think you're hard enough

Logitech Signature M650: A mouse that will barely emit a squeak or a clickety-click

What begins with a 'B' and is having problems at tsoHost? Hopefully not your website

Spruce up your CV or just bin it? Survey finds recruiters are considering alternatives

The James Webb Space Telescope has only gone and deployed its primary mirror

To err is human. To really screw things up requires a wayward screwdriver

Ubuntu-on-a-phone crowd fix Google account issues in new Touch update

Notes on the untimely demise of 3D Pinball for Windows

New batch of AstroPis relieve Ed and Izzy of duty on board the International Space Station

Snap continues to make a spectacle of itself as it tries to trademark the word spectacles

Nothing's working, and I've checked everything, so it must be YOUR fault

The inevitability of the Windows 11 UI: New Notepad enters the beta channel

How's 2022 going for you so far? Hopefully better than it is for IBM Cloud

It takes more clicks to reject their cookies than accept them, so France fines Facebook and Google over €200m

NASA confirms International Space Station is to keep orbiting through 2030

Alexa and Webex to hitch a ride around the Moon on Artemis I – what could possibly go wrong?

Windows giant seeks Pluton-ic relationship with chipmaker: AMD first out of the gates with Microsoft's security processor

Bork ends where it began. At McDonald's, home of the finest bork product

A moment of tension as the James Webb Space Telescope stretches sunshield on way to L2 destination

Microsoft rang in the new year with a cutesy tweet in C#. Just one problem: The code sucked

Nationwide Building Society's Faster Payments turn into Slower Payments for 2022

France loves open source so much, even its cinema borks have Linux behind the scenes

A time when cabling was not so much 'structured' than 'survival of the fittest'

A kitchen splashbork on sale at the Cardiff IKEA

The Ghost of Windows Past haunts a street corner in Bermondsey

Going round in circles with Windows in Singapore

You've stolen the antiglare shield on that monitor you've fixed – they say the screen is completely unreadable now

Some errors fill the screen. And some come from the .NET Framework

Too busy feasting on meatballs, Windows struggles to update itself in IKEA

Low on passengers, low on memory: A bad day on the London Underground

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