Bootnotes
How hot is it right now? 'Water park catching fire and burning down' hot
It's a Jersey thing, you wouldn't understand
20 Jun 13:04 | 17
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Petition instructs Jeff Bezos to buy, eat world's most famous painting
Booze-fuelled Change.org campaign implores Amazon founder to 'GOBBLE DA LISA!'
18 Jun 17:20 | 39
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
What job title would YOU want carved on your gravestone? 'Beloved father, Slayer of Dragons, Register of Domains'
How did I love thee? Let me count the email redirections
18 Jun 08:30 | 117
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Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request
Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world'
17 Jun 19:35 | 156
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Space Force turtle expert uncovers $1.2m Cape Canaveral cocaine haul
30kg stash lost overboard by smugglers enough to get anyone out of their shell
17 Jun 17:15 | 23
Stob
Stob treks back across the decades to review the greatest TV sci-fi in the light of recent experience
To boldly zoom
17 Jun 08:30 | 53
Bootnotes
Intrepid Change.org user launches petition to make Jeff Bezos' space trip one-way
Jeff's younger brother and mystery hyper-rich paying passenger may end up as unfortunate collateral damage
16 Jun 18:01 | 69
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Deluded medics fail to show Ohio lawmakers that COVID vaccines magnetise patients
Buckeye State legislature looks on as key, hairpin fall off of entirely unmagnetic nurse
15 Jun 16:47 | 114
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Boffins show sleight-of-hand tricks to Corvids, find they are smarter than people
Eurasian Jays mostly unmoved by illusionist jiggery-pokery, more interested in worms
15 Jun 10:01 | 23
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'Welcome to Perth' mirth being milked for all it's worth
Chap painted greeting on rooftop... in Sydney
14 Jun 22:58 | 35
Bootnotes
Dealing with the pandemic by drinking and swearing? Boffins say you're not alone
While social media gets a portion of the blame for COVID-19's initial spread
11 Jun 16:02 | 50
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Whatever you've been doing during lockdown, you better stop it right now
You never did learn to play guitar, did you? Too late now...
11 Jun 09:15 | 70
Bootnotes
Apple, it's OK. Seriously. You don't need to blind your iOS 15 engineers to prevent leaks
No one expects the Worldwide Loyalty Team!
10 Jun 20:16 | 17
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Prez Biden narrowly escapes cicada assassination attempt, hunkers down in Cornwall
Brood X vents frustration at missed opportunity on free press, random Ohio drivers
10 Jun 17:45 | 17
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Door-opening insect mega-swarm emerges in Eastern US, descends on Washington DC
We're gonna need a bigger rolled-up newspaper
08 Jun 18:34 | 19
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Sold: €15k invisible sculpture that's a must-see for art lovers
Can be viewed in any light. Bargain
07 Jun 10:45 | 58
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Flying dildo poses a slap in the face for serious political debate
'Is that a dong on a drone?'
04 Jun 20:16 | 50
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Conservative Party fined one-third of a luxury food hamper by ICO for nuisance email campaign
For once, Boris Johnson ignored calls of PECR
03 Jun 15:09 | 23
Boatnotes
Royal Yacht Britannia's successor to cost about 1 North of England NHS IT consultancy framework
Yep, UK.gov to build literal flagship - for about £200m
01 Jun 13:01 | 170
Bork!Bork!Bork!
If a kiosk borks when nobody is using it, can it be said to have borked at all?
Fond memories of the before times and Windows Aero at a shuttered McDonald's order point
01 Jun 11:30 | 7
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Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request
Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world'
OSes
Mark it in your diaries: 14 October 2025 is the end of Windows 10
Wasn't it to be the 'last version of Windows'? Maybe not...
Security
Biden to Putin: Get your ransomware gangs under control and don’t you dare cyber-attack our infrastructure
Putin to Biden: чушь! You already attack us way more than we attack you!
Devops
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Community to think outside the pants
In brief
Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down
Plus: Canon has cameras that only let employees into meeting rooms if they smile, and more
Security
Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers
Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed
OSes
Debian's Cinnamon desktop maintainer quits because he thinks KDE is better now
Panic over for users as others step up to take his place
Hands on
Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different
A lot of effort has gone into this release and it shows – everything 'just works'
OSes
What Microsoft's Windows 11 will probably look like
Leak of glossy makeover turns hype up to ... you get the idea
AI + ML
Facebook, academics think they've cracked spotting deepfakes by spotting how they're generated
99% accuracy in testing
STORIES
The RPG
Days Gone PC: Melting pot of open-world influences makes for one of the more immersive zombie slayers out there
Decent port of a PlayStation 4 'exclusive', but it's far from original
29 May 06:58 | 19
Bootnotes
Be careful, 007. It’s just had a new coat of paint: Today is D-day for would-be Qs to apply to MI6
What do I do for a living? I'm a marketing exec. Yeah, didn't think you'd have any questions
26 May 10:47 | 21
Column
Just what is the poop capacity of an unladen sparrow? We ask because one got into the office and left quite a mess
The unspoken perils of remote working
24 May 11:22 | 91
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Déjà bork: BSOD fairy pays key-cutting kiosk another visit
Lessons have been learned – now there's a bucket for Windows to be poorly into
18 May 09:15 | 23
Bootnotes
Activist millionaires protest outside Jeff Bezos' homes to support tax rises for the rich
'He is the leading beneficiary of the unequal treatment our nation's tax code gives the rich and powerful'
18 May 02:02 | 149
Bork!Bork!Bork!
For the marketeer that has everything – except a CPU fan
You know it's time for an upgrade when your PC gets spanked by a sign
14 May 09:15 | 37
Bootnotes
Rude awakening for O2 customers after network runs surprise test of emergency mobile alert system
Sorry, there's no nuclear missile inbound. You have to go to work
11 May 17:01 | 41
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Another platform on which Java will not run – platform 1 of Newcastle's Central Station
What is Geordie for bork?
11 May 10:47 | 23
Bootnotes
Meme crypto-coin literally going to the Moon, if Elon Musk is to believed, on DOGE-1 mission courtesy of SpaceX Falcon 9
Rocket marks 10th successful launch and landing, though Dogecoin's descent was a little rougher
10 May 13:02 | 7
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Stale and past its best. Are you talking about Windows or the pizza you're waiting for?
A reminder of golden Start Menu days
07 May 12:14 | 29
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Gone in 60 electrons: Digital art swaggers down the cul-de-sac of obsolescence
No lessons learned from (literally) decades of media format wars
07 May 09:28 | 102
Bootnotes
File this next to Mars bars under 'things that should not be deep-fried': Marks & Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar
How was this allowed to happen? Ah right, food delivery app publicity stunt
04 May 12:42 | 38
Bootnotes
Philanthropist and ex-Microsoft manager Melinda Gates and her husband Bill split after 27 years of marriage
We know the pandemic has been tough on relationships but...
03 May 22:05 | 114
The RPG
Octopath Traveler: Love letter to JRPG golden age has great combat but retro graphics highlight the genre's tedium
You sure have to press 'A' a lot
01 May 07:48 | 7
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Börk returns to its spiritual home of Sweden as duff disks take down Stockholm signage
Think we already made a Stockholm syndrome joke the other day so...
30 Apr 09:50 | 9
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Helsinki Syndrome: Ubuntu utterly fails to boot on metro
Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I want to bork
28 Apr 09:21 | 46
