Richard Speed

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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.

Richard Speed

Space is hard: Rocket Lab's 20th Electron launch fails

Staying in the UK this summer? Good news: Temples of IT nerdery are reopening

The future is now, old man: Let the young guns show how to properly cock things up

Audacity's new management hits rewind on telemetry plans following community outrage

NASA pops old-school worm logo onto Orion spacecraft

For the marketeer that has everything – except a CPU fan

Protip: If Joe Public reports that your kit is broken, maybe check that it is actually broken

Google Cloud and SpaceX buddy up to fling edgy data and cloud services via Starlink

James Webb Space Telescope runs one last dress rehearsal for its massive golden mirrors before heading to launchpad

If you said the semiconductor shortage will last until Q2 2022, you would be correct, according to Gartner

Another week, another issue: Virgin Galactic mulls test flight restart as VSS Unity fixed – but VMS Eve might be borked

Not keen on a 5G mast in your street? At least it'd be harder for crackpots to burn down 'a flying cell tower in orbit'

IBM wheels out AutoSQL, Watson Orchestrate in bid to fend off cloud irrelevance

Preliminary report on Texas Tesla crash finds Autosteer was 'not available' along road where both passengers died

Another platform on which Java will not run – platform 1 of Newcastle's Central Station

NASA ups price of a private stay aboard the ISS to reflect true expense of keeping tourists alive in space

Microsoft unveils Rust for Windows v0.9, with 'full consumption support' for the Windows API

Meme crypto-coin literally going to the Moon, if Elon Musk is to believed, on DOGE-1 mission courtesy of SpaceX Falcon 9

Accidentally wiped an app's directory? Hey, just play the 'unscheduled maintenance' card. Now you're a hero

GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies

'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

Stale and past its best. Are you talking about Windows or the pizza you're waiting for?

Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward

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