No rest for the rocketry as NASA's Easter weekend heats up Returning crew and a vital supply launch distract managers from chocolate eggs Science17 Apr 2025 | 4
Small ocean swirls may have an outsized affect on climate, NASA satellite shows SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time Science17 Apr 2025 | 10
Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins Future chargers could re-arrange battery chemistry to make them live longer Science17 Apr 2025 | 16
Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly Bootnotes17 Apr 2025 | 98
20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide Science16 Apr 2025 | 9
Law firm 'didn't think' data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it's nursing a £60K fine DPP Law is appealing against data watchdog's conclusions Security16 Apr 2025 | 23
AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair Software16 Apr 2025 | 36
In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns Legal16 Apr 2025 | 48
Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals Won't let the Big G require its apps and search to be installed on smartphones Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 27
Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm? AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 21
US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door Science15 Apr 2025 | 63
Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 33
White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades Houston, we have a funding problem Science14 Apr 2025 | 25
It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter Opinion Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 74
The LittleGP-30: A tiny recreation of a very big deal from the 1950s Royal McBee's desk-sized deskside early computer was the stuff of legend Offbeat14 Apr 2025 | 19
AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18
Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again A thing of beauty for map fans and those with kids Offbeat12 Apr 2025 | 20
BOFH: There's a fatal error in the blinkenlights Episode 7 Who needs actual server hardware when you can fire up a Linux laptop with the Matrix screensaver? BOFH11 Apr 2025 | 62
Users hated a new app – maybe so much they filed a fake support call On Call Sysadmin sent on road trip that required a lot of time doing nothing Columnists11 Apr 2025 | 96
Tech CEO: Four-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity Interview 'There are challenges' but staff recruitment and retention isn't one of them Offbeat10 Apr 2025 | 58
CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home Uncertainty is the new certainty
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed
White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo World War Fee Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers 'It's amazing how fast the change has been'
Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies Truck-mounted demonstration weapon costs 10p a pop, says MOD
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system
Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim
Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly
Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us
Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades Intune policies turn out to be mere suggestions
Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights CxO10 Apr 2025 | 3
UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year Science09 Apr 2025 | 29
Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027 Science09 Apr 2025 | 15
Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 35
AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast Interview We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 29
Canada OKs construction of first licensed teeny atomic reactor Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another slip of paper entirely Science08 Apr 2025 | 31
Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth Science08 Apr 2025 | 32
Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash Government boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit Science08 Apr 2025 | 56
SpaceX scores $5.9B lion's share of Space Force launch contracts ULA wins $5.4B and Blue Origin $2.4B Public Sector07 Apr 2025 | 45
Please sir, may we have some Moore? Doesn't look that way Opinion We're on a roadmap to nowhere. Come on inside Columnists07 Apr 2025 | 31
Dev loudly complained about older colleague, who retired not long after Who, Me? The graybeard wasn't doing a great job and morale improved once he left. How would you handle this? Columnists07 Apr 2025 | 131
NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid Heads up to those living on lunar base in 2032: DUCK!! Science05 Apr 2025 | 54
Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week Science03 Apr 2025 | 7
EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption! ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too Security03 Apr 2025 | 147
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling Double-oh-sh... CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10
Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2025 | 9
Speech now streaming from brains in real-time Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak Science02 Apr 2025 | 22
FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems Science01 Apr 2025 | 20
Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer Software01 Apr 2025 | 121
Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success' Comment What counts as failure in New Space? Science01 Apr 2025 | 43
GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison Not exactly Snowden levels of skill Security01 Apr 2025 | 87
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt Science01 Apr 2025 | 21
Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find? AI + ML01 Apr 2025 | 14
European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that Science31 Mar 2025 | 27
Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses NHS boffins think there's a connection, but ‘snot all good news: Swallowing batteries is even more dangerous Science31 Mar 2025 | 33
Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan 11 companies, including SMIC, accused of disguising outposts so they can illicitly serve Beijing Legal31 Mar 2025 | 8
Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project Science29 Mar 2025 | 44
Mobile ad world drama: AppLovin not lovin' short seller assault claiming fraud A peek behind the curtain in one corner of online advertising Personal Tech28 Mar 2025 | 9
Boeing's Starliner may fly again, pending fixes to literally everything Updated More than 70 percent of anomalies closed out, but those pesky thrusters are still a problem Science28 Mar 2025 | 35
Meanwhile, in Japan, train stations are being 3D-printed in an afternoon How's that for Platform-as-a-Service? Offbeat28 Mar 2025 | 55
From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everything Interview JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team' Science28 Mar 2025 | 12
Nuclear center must replace roof on 70-year-old lab so it can process radioactive waste Project sees 7-year delay and budget swell to £1.5B, but nuclear leadership 'confident' it has an alternative Science28 Mar 2025 | 64
Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software Software28 Mar 2025 | 22
ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch All eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost Science27 Mar 2025 | 20
The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2 Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Personal Tech27 Mar 2025 | 109
From MP3 to Web3 to now 3D, Napster gets a new owner Beating a dead horse to a 4-4 beat Bootnotes27 Mar 2025 | 25
It's International Datacenter Day for those who colocate, er, celebrate It's not a party until someone builds a bit barn on greenbelt land Offbeat26 Mar 2025 | 2
50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors Science26 Mar 2025 | 40
Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost Science26 Mar 2025 | 31
Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that? Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss's Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission Science26 Mar 2025 | 50
VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement Virtualization26 Mar 2025 | 58
Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right? Science25 Mar 2025 | 117
God didn't have a plan for Gelsinger at Intel. Maybe there is one for his new gig, Gloo Updated Chip guru preaches virtues of 'values-aligned' pray-I, sorry, AI. He's also taken a VC gig Bootnotes25 Mar 2025 | 22
Judge halts DOGE's union personal data grab at OPM, Treasury, Education Officials likely broke Privacy Act by dishing out info without consent Public Sector25 Mar 2025 | 58
Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees Redmond veteran proposes Zero Sugar and Caffeine Free variants Applications25 Mar 2025 | 112
4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer Microsoft and Dell keeping quiet on their work-life-balance trials CxO25 Mar 2025 | 35
Top Trump officials text secret Yemen airstrike plans to journo in Signal SNAFU Updated Massive OPSEC fail from the side who brought you 'lock her up' Public Sector24 Mar 2025 | 186
NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat First woman and first person of color pledges dropped Science24 Mar 2025 | 104
Museum digs up Digital Equipment Corporation's dusty digital equipment Remembering the fallen giant's first UK office On-Prem22 Mar 2025 | 103
NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry EXCLUSIVE A lone voice cries out from reply-all chaos: 'Someone tell DOGE to rehire whoever maintains this email list' Applications21 Mar 2025 | 37
Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states Attorney General warns people tempted to join 'wave of domestic terrorism' Legal21 Mar 2025 | 92
BOFH: Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot? Episode 6 Schrödinger's firmware and the refreshing power cycle BOFH21 Mar 2025 | 94
Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 78
Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps Comment Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough? Science20 Mar 2025 | 71
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space Begun, preparation for orbital wars has Science20 Mar 2025 | 50
HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money Legal19 Mar 2025 | 90
Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank Cyber-crime is officially getting out of hand Bootnotes19 Mar 2025 | 17
Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense Comment Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line Science19 Mar 2025 | 75
Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout Science19 Mar 2025 | 9
Trump fires Democrat FTC commissioners, presaging big tech policy shifts Analysis Remaining Republicans don't like the right to repair, non-compete clause ban, or some social media moderation Public Sector19 Mar 2025 | 99
Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court Updated Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a © AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 30
Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom Updated There's nothing bog-standard about this bombshell loo-suit Bootnotes18 Mar 2025 | 25
Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next? Science17 Mar 2025 | 23
SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair Second time's a charm Science17 Mar 2025 | 32
Bubble trouble in hydraulics blamed for NASA and SpaceX Crew-10 scrub Trapped gas isn't just a party foul – it's a launch-stopper Science14 Mar 2025 | 20
France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts Offbeat14 Mar 2025 | 338
Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash Mooney M20 propeller plane hit mountain in Slovenia amid bad weather Offbeat14 Mar 2025 | 68
BOFH: HR's AI hiring tool is perfectly unbiased – as long as you're us Episode 5 Who knew the secret to workplace harmony was JUGULATOR? BOFH14 Mar 2025 | 51
Saturn runs rings around Jupiter Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count Science14 Mar 2025 | 18
We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 44
Starliner astronauts' stay drags on as Crew-10 launch scrubs Updated Hydraulic problems stop the countdown clock at T-44 minutes Science13 Mar 2025 | 35
ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in HPC13 Mar 2025 | 8
AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 51
As Elon Musk makes thousands of federal workers jobless, tycoon pushes for $56B Tesla pay deal Not so much thrown under a bus as under an unwanted electric car Bootnotes12 Mar 2025 | 92
Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt? Science12 Mar 2025 | 29
Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent' Updated Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon Systems12 Mar 2025 | 65
Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital Skip the schnitzel with gravy and chips for lunch - this is an experimental device for transplant candidates Science12 Mar 2025 | 27
From pantyhose to power cells, nylon gives lithium batteries a leg up Researchers claim efficiency boost plus reduction in environmental harm Science11 Mar 2025 | 12
Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole? COMMENT Dare mighty things ... as long as we can afford it Science11 Mar 2025 | 111
Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility Science11 Mar 2025 | 72