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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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Microsoft makes tweaks to Windows 11 Start Menu for Insiders but stops short of mimicking Windows 10

ESA's Mars Express picks up plaintive bleeps of China's Zhurong rover, adding much-needed comms redundancy

Santa's sack is bulging with browsers: Vivaldi 5.0 arrives full of festive cheer

Nextcloud boss: You gotta fight … for your right … to 'plug into Windows and offer the exact same service'

Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic

Russia: It isn't just us – a bit of an old US rocket might get as close as 5.4km to the ISS

Microsoft: What's that? A patch for make-me-admin vuln? Sorry – can't hear you. Have a new jumper instead

So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all

Microsoft shareholders vote for a report into harassment within the company

ESA's Solar Orbiter sails safely past Earth despite orbiting debris concerns

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy

Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it

You, me and debris: NASA cans ISS spacewalk because it's getting too risky outside

Think that spreadsheet in your company's accounts dept is old? 70 years ago, LEO ran the first business app

Want to buy your own piece of the Pi? No 'urgency' says Upton of the listing rumours

Nextcloud and cloud chums fire off competition complaint to the EU over Microsoft bundling OneDrive with Windows

UK Space Agency wants primary school kids to design a logo for first Brit launches

When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere

Nuclear fusion firm Pulsar fires up a UK-built hybrid rocket engine

Privacy Sandbox saga continues: UK watchdog extracts more commitments from Google over ad tech

Swooping in to claim the glory while the On Call engineer stands baffled

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint laid low. Not by malware, but by another buggy Windows patch

Alpine Linux 3.15 bids a fond farewell to MIPS64 support

ESA's Solar Orbiter will swing past Earth this week – sure hope nobody created a big cloud of space junk up there

Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix reports bigger loss than turnover

NASA boffins seem to think we're worth saving from fiery asteroid death so they're shooting a spaceship at one

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s: Impressively average, which is how corporate buyers like it

LoRa to the Moon and back: Messages bounced off lunar surface using off-the-shelf hardware

Zero-day proof-of-concept exploit lands for Windows make-me-admin vulnerability

A bug introduced 6 months ago brought Google's Cloud Load Balancer to its knees

Microsoft previews Azure App Service Automatic Scaling, for when defining your own rules is too much like hard work

Munich mk2? Germany's Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal

Intel audio drivers give Windows 11 the blues and Microsoft Installer borked following security update

EU digital sovereignty project Gaia-X opens its summit with the departure of Scaleway

A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes

British Airways Executive Club frequent flyers have their airmiles grounded

Everything but the catch: '90s pop act or a successful mission for Rocket Lab?

UK Telecommunications Act – aka 'power to strip out Huawei' – makes it to the statute book

Wouldn't it be nice not to duplicate data in a multicloud world? Storage supplier Dell certainly thinks so

CIOs across Europe add their VOICE to chorus of calls to regulate cloud gatekeepers

GitHub's State of the Octoverse survey shows devs are still swerving the office

Survey shows XP lingers on while Windows 11 makes a 0.21% ripple in the enterprise

Brits complained a bit less about connectivity when they were allowed to go outside and see people in the flesh

Northrop Grumman throws hat in the ring to design NASA's next-gen Lunar Terrain Vehicle

Mozilla sprinkles Firefox Relay with Premium fairy dust

Another brick in the (kitchen) wall: Users report frozen 1st generation Google Home Hubs

Wondering what to do with those empty offices? How about a data centre?

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