Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts 'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing Science09 Jul 2025 | 5
Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality Welcome back to the age of dark patterns Legal09 Jul 2025 | 4
ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded Comment Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuff Science09 Jul 2025 | 10
One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts 'If this is the priority for our tax dollars, we are doomed' Science08 Jul 2025 | 35
Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI 'We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court’s order' AI + ML08 Jul 2025 | 35
Suspected Chinese cybersnoop grounded in Italy after US tipoff Zewei Xu's family reportedly bemused at arrest as extradition tabled Security08 Jul 2025 | 10
Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung They're both silent on what, if anything, has changed Legal08 Jul 2025 | 2
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness Science07 Jul 2025 | 93
Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles Lucy in the sky with calcium Science07 Jul 2025 | 24
Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long Line-judging tech flubs crucial point, leaving players and fans seeing red Offbeat07 Jul 2025 | 38
'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings Networks07 Jul 2025 | 55
TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions Comment Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't Legal07 Jul 2025 | 7
Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway Airlines get the chance to cool their jets rather than burn fuel on the ground Offbeat07 Jul 2025 | 97
UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites Updated Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits? Science06 Jul 2025 | 50
Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 62
Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared Science04 Jul 2025 | 40
Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy Comment There's more to the Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia Offbeat04 Jul 2025 | 19
EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations' AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 41
Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it Public Sector04 Jul 2025 | 17
Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork If you come out of a coma in 2026, this is the machine you might see staring down at you On-Prem04 Jul 2025 | 40
Tim Cook's Tim Cook stepping down from Apple Operations king Jeff Williams abdicates – just don't give him a watch
Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users These extensions weren't malware-laced from the start, researcher says
Microsoft developer ported vector database coded in SAP’s ABAP to the ZX Spectrum The mighty Z80 processor ran the code at astounding speed, proving retro-tech got a lot of things right
Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI 'We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court’s order'
Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry Climate risks threaten to fry the supply chain for essential chipmaking metal
Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet
SUSE launching region-locked support for the sovereignty-conscious Move targets European orgs wary of cross-border data exposure
Suspected Scattered Spider domains target everyone from manufacturers to Chipotle Plus: Qantas makes contact with 'potential cyber criminal'
Post Office and Fujitsu execs 'should have known' Horizon IT system was flawed First volume of inquiry report focuses on the UKscandal's human impact
Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool Science03 Jul 2025 | 41
Meta calls €200M EU fine over pay-or-consent ad model 'unlawful' 'Deserves fair compensation for the valuable and innovative services'? Which ones are those then? Personal Tech03 Jul 2025 | 65
MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth Methane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise Science02 Jul 2025 | 27
23andMe's new owner says your DNA is safe this time Nonprofit TTAM assures everything is BAU. Whether that makes customers feel better is another matter Cyber-crime02 Jul 2025 | 18
Huawei can't wriggle out of Iran sanctions trial, judge rules Dismissal bid denied as 16-count indictment moves toward court in May 2026 Networks02 Jul 2025 | 4
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle NASA science might be cut, but cash can be found to move a 'space vehicle' from museum to museum Science02 Jul 2025 | 94
US imposes sanctions on second Russian bulletproof hosting vehicle this year Aeza Group accused of assisting data bandits and BianLian ransomware crooks Cyber-crime02 Jul 2025 | 10
NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets Mysterious ‘Alloy 30’ gets smaller when heated, which could help stabilize super-sensitive space telescopes Science02 Jul 2025 | 28
International Criminal Court swats away 'sophisticated and targeted' cyberattack Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaign Cyber-crime01 Jul 2025 | 4
NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment Science01 Jul 2025 | 2
Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess Copilot's confidence was... misplaced AI + ML01 Jul 2025 | 76
A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well Legal01 Jul 2025 | 28
Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacy Legal01 Jul 2025 | 18
China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12 America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing Science01 Jul 2025 | 62
Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work Someday, my prince will come Science30 Jun 2025 | 13
Norwegian lotto mistakenly told thousands they were filthy rich after math error Oh, you have to divide by 100? Offbeat30 Jun 2025 | 39
Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions video NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test Science30 Jun 2025 | 11
Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits Test run offers hope for a rail system long past its best-before date Offbeat30 Jun 2025 | 204
DoJ clears HPE to buy Juniper if it sells Instant On Wi-Fi and licenses some code Which it will, happily, to create a networking biz that’s still far smaller than Cisco’s or Nvidia’s Networks30 Jun 2025 | 5
China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021’s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems Systems30 Jun 2025 | 8
Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult material Over 18? Prove it Legal27 Jun 2025 | 49
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’ Now play dead, like a lot of NASA science programs if the White House gets its way Science27 Jun 2025 | 15
US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data updated No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent' Science27 Jun 2025 | 78
So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller Pen Test Partners hijack data from Renault Clio to steer, brake, and accelerate in SuperTuxKart Offbeat27 Jun 2025 | 35
Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking When it was all about the baud rate Datacenter Networking Nexus27 Jun 2025 | 79
There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK Science27 Jun 2025 | 99
BOFH: Peeling back the layers of the magic banana industrial complex Episode 12 New fruit detected – please update hype cycle BOFH27 Jun 2025 | 77
Australia not banning kids from YouTube – they’ll just have to use mum and dad’s logins Regulator acknowledges that won’t stop video nasties, but welcomes extra ‘friction’ Public Sector27 Jun 2025 | 29
More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama drama AI scraping case Updated Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers AI + ML27 Jun 2025 | 19
NICER science not so nice as ISS telescope pauses operations Cosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor Science26 Jun 2025 | 2
Japanese company using mee-AI-ow to detect stressed cats Rabo’s ‘Catlog’ smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 23
AFRINIC election annulled after ICANN writes angry letter to African regional internet registry Updated The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022 Networks26 Jun 2025 | 23
French cybercrime police arrest five suspected BreachForums admins Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes Cyber-crime25 Jun 2025 |
Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks Science25 Jun 2025 | 28
Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy Legal24 Jun 2025 | 8
Axiom Mission 4 finally set for launch June 25 Fifth and final Crew Dragon ready for first flight to the ISS tomorrow Science24 Jun 2025 | 4
WD escapes half a billion in patent damages as judge trims award to $1 SPEX Technologies still gets the win, but failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to infringing acts, says order Storage24 Jun 2025 | 19
Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites Networks24 Jun 2025 | 6
World's largest camera shows galaxy in 3,200 megapixel glory as Rubin telescope goes online 20TB of galactic shots a day, backed by Microsofties Science24 Jun 2025 | 26
Google faces UK clampdown as watchdog floats market power rules CMA roadmap outlines potential restrictions on how ad slinger operates in the country Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 6
Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says Skull emoji knife emoji moneybag emoji Offbeat21 Jun 2025 | 152
Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti Science20 Jun 2025 | 9
Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747 'Black side down,' Lego style Bootnotes20 Jun 2025 | 63
Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it On Call Sometimes the 'R' in RTFM stands for 'Remember' Columnists20 Jun 2025 | 182
Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties Personal Tech20 Jun 2025 | 36
AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails Regulator remains concerned about election integrity Legal20 Jun 2025 | 4
EU Advocate General advises top court to toss Google appeal against €4B fine Case over bundling Play Store with Chrome and Google Search set to continue Legal19 Jun 2025 | 7
ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works Science19 Jun 2025 | 20
SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero Science19 Jun 2025 | 215
Space manufacturing company Varda gets clearance to launch more uncrewed capsules UPDATED Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space Science19 Jun 2025 | 2
Europe slams online tat bazaar AliExpress for dodging obligation to stop dodgy traders Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop ‘em are hopeless Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 43
Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down $650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030 Science18 Jun 2025 | 14
Brit space sector struggles to compete with £90K graduate banking salaries UK needs skills task force to get slice of $1.8 trillion pie, Lords told Science18 Jun 2025 | 116
Japan set to join the re-usable rocket club after Honda sticks a landing France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day Science18 Jun 2025 | 31
Apple dodges Optis patent payout for now as judge orders a do-over Third time's a charm? Personal Tech17 Jun 2025 | 7
Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad Science17 Jun 2025 | 12
AFRINIC election delayed after ISP Association wins injunction over voter rights UPDATED Polling was supposed to start on Monday - moved to Wednesday after court revisited the case Legal17 Jun 2025 | 2
Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet Science16 Jun 2025 | 34
Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0 Science16 Jun 2025 | 13
ISS leaks push Axiom Mission 4 launch to no earlier than June 19 Evaluation of latest repairs to Russian segment ongoing Science16 Jun 2025 | 9
Eurocops arrest suspected Archetyp admin, shut down mega dark web drug shop Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250M Security16 Jun 2025 | 9
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules Who, Me? Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protest Offbeat16 Jun 2025 | 56
VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA Legal16 Jun 2025 | 10
Windows 95 testing almost stalled due to cash register overflow Microsoft veteran on breaking down numbers at the computer store Bootnotes15 Jun 2025 | 37
Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied on Science14 Jun 2025 | 70
Forget Vibe Coding, we're all about Vine Coding nowadays Flame Of The Week More like FlAIme Of The Week Offbeat13 Jun 2025 | 41
BOFH: Rerouting responsibility via firewall configs Episode 11 Two lines of code for an arbitrary office reshuffle sounds too much like work BOFH13 Jun 2025 | 60
UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions UPDATED STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished Science13 Jun 2025 | 102
I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world Mattel-OpenAI deal paves the way for an AI beach-off AI + ML13 Jun 2025 | 26
Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads Despite 'multiple enforcement actions,' Joy Timeline HK allegedly wouldn't stop Legal12 Jun 2025 | 37
Single passenger reportedly survives Air India Boeing 787 crash Aircraft didn't even get its wheels up before sinking into suburban area Offbeat12 Jun 2025 | 40
Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission on the ground Weather and propulsion system problems conspire to keep astronauts away from the ISS Science12 Jun 2025 | 3
Google faces billion-quid bruising over Play Store fees in the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal gives nod for claim to go to trial Legal12 Jun 2025 | 28
Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them Science12 Jun 2025 | 46
DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic Science11 Jun 2025 | 28
NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience' Science11 Jun 2025 | 50
Tug reaches flaming ship carrying electric cars off Alaska coast It's still smoking, but help is on hand Science11 Jun 2025 | 36
Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome AI could bring a new round of browser wars AI + ML11 Jun 2025 | 21
Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases Scientists improve knowledge by 20% thanks to James Webb Space Telescope data Science10 Jun 2025 | 28
Google outfoxed by crafty squatters in $1B London HQ's rooftop garden Vulpes vulpes has run of five-story park before staffers move in Offbeat10 Jun 2025 | 97