Google co-founder Brin named a defendant in wrongful death complaint Lawsuit accuses contractor and co-defendants of 'pacify and delay' tactics Legal23 Feb 2024 | 31
BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies Episode 4 Remember to fall to the ground clutching your chest if a salesperson addresses you BOFH23 Feb 2024 | 95
NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too No, this was not the cause of cellular network outages that hit the USA on Thursday Science23 Feb 2024 | 19
Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident Science23 Feb 2024 | 41
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing Updated It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part Science22 Feb 2024 | 8
Japanese Yakuza boss charged with nuclear trafficking by the US No, this isn't a pitch for a Godzilla sequel Offbeat22 Feb 2024 | 15
Boeing-backed air taxi upstart Wisk plans to fly you across town at UberX prices by 2030 Absence of an on-board pilot will lower costs and raise blood pressure, starting soon in Texas Offbeat22 Feb 2024 | 57
Google releases Gemma – LLMs small enough to run on your computer Your own personal chatbot awaits Bootnotes22 Feb 2024 | 8
A small Alaska town wants a big bronze Riker Now that definitely would be an encounter at far point Offbeat21 Feb 2024 | 20
London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale Hello room service? Can you call your provider? The Wi-Fi is down. Hello? Bootnotes21 Feb 2024 | 67
Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes 'plop,' fails to ignite UK demonstrates prowess at nuking the ocean Offbeat21 Feb 2024 | 139
Microsoft veteran on how to blue screen your way to better testing A crash course on making Windows crash on demand Offbeat21 Feb 2024 | 18
Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed Brain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency Science20 Feb 2024 | 23
Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering Science19 Feb 2024 | 11
Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency Science19 Feb 2024 | 36
Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable Opinion Like the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around? Science19 Feb 2024 | 297
India buys a third of the world's wearable devices Asia In Brief PLUS: Australian Parliament calls for Assange release; Japan's H3 rocket soars; LINE leak worsens Personal Tech18 Feb 2024 | 2
FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too Fakers face the wrath of Khan AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 22
Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? But where's the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying? AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 43
Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G Updated One giant leap for astronaut medicine Science16 Feb 2024 | 12
OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped 121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once Science16 Feb 2024 | 28
NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times Science16 Feb 2024 | 9
X accused of taking money from terrorists by selling checkmarks to US enemies Premium punters in the illustrious company of Hezbollah, Iranian militias, sanctioned Russian banks Personal Tech16 Feb 2024 | 25
Intuitive Machines IM-1 heading for Moon on SpaceX rocket Taking Disaster Recovery as a Service to lunar extremes Science15 Feb 2024 | 3
WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age The curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover Science15 Feb 2024 | 16
'Scandal-plagued' data broker tracked visits to '600 Planned Parenthood locations' Anti-abortion group said to have used that monitoring to push ad campaign Personal Tech15 Feb 2024 | 43
Roses are red, violets are blue, Opera GX gives Valentine's a gray, rainy hue HeartBlocker extension aimed at the 'forever alone' crowd Offbeat14 Feb 2024 | 1
Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit Who could possibly have predicted this backlash? Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 162
NASA solar sail tech is ready – now who's up to use it in a mission? Ready for cruising: successful deployment leaves the ball in the scientists' court Science14 Feb 2024 | 18
Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules Did someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictions Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 11
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all 'Literally bulletproof' but needs constant cleaning to stave off corrosion Bootnotes13 Feb 2024 | 209
Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group has just given 29 space rocks names Science13 Feb 2024 | 44
Quarter of polled Americans say they use AI to make them hotter in online dating Roses are red, violets are blue, a machine made my profile alluring to you AI + ML12 Feb 2024 | 26
Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss Networks12 Feb 2024 | 23
HPE seeks $4B in damages from Autonomy boss Mike Lynch and his ex-CFO Could have been worse – IT giant was asking for five On-Prem12 Feb 2024 | 16
Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry Lawyers argue requests for more info are tantamount to harassment Offbeat12 Feb 2024 | 45
Japan's space program seeks reboot with Wednesday launch Second test flight for failed H3 booster after a run of bad luck Science12 Feb 2024 | 6
Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours Rushed law will lose criminal sanction, but debate about its utility is fierce Legal12 Feb 2024 | 81
50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth Around The World in 84 days Science10 Feb 2024 | 11
California proposes government cloud cluster to sift out nasty AI models Big Tech's home turf set for law to ward against 'unsafe behavior' Legal09 Feb 2024 | 1
BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment Episode 3 It'll wink and blink, but not make you think BOFH09 Feb 2024 | 76
Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high Meanwhile ITER's not slated to start deuterium-tritium ops until 2035 Science09 Feb 2024 | 40
NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite 'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter Science09 Feb 2024 | 6
Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery 2 MWh of energy storage using dirt, winches, and cables set to be installed in Finland Science08 Feb 2024 | 87
Fintech engineer grounded by crypto fraud caper, including $300m spoof trades Fourth conviction in South Africa-linked scheme Legal08 Feb 2024 | 9
Saturnian moon Mimas: Crunchy on the outside, sub-surface ocean on the inside Data from Cassini suggests hidden depths beneath crater-ridden body Science08 Feb 2024 | 8
CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider Vid CERNquadbot can go off the rails – unlike science org's existing inspector bots Science08 Feb 2024 | 28
Japan's second-ranked mobile telco to buy convenience store chain from Mitsubishi KDDI wants to snack on data about who buys what at which of Lawson's 14,600 stores Offbeat08 Feb 2024 | 5
Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up 'Our Gen 2 vehicles won't launch unless we can get to a profit' Offbeat07 Feb 2024 | 255
Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole Launch windows do not respect political squabbling Science07 Feb 2024 | 26
How Neuraspace aims to clean up orbital clutter with AI Interview Can tech and regulations beat the great satellite landgrab? AI + ML07 Feb 2024 | 8
India to launch android into space to test crewed launch capability Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan launch in 2025 Science07 Feb 2024 | 6
India probes SAP and IBM over ancient Air India ERP tender Procurement process in 2011 deal raises suspicions Legal07 Feb 2024 | 1
Apple Vision Pro is creating a new generation of glassholes Comment They're back – and more oblivious than ever Offbeat06 Feb 2024 | 55
SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal Despite EV commitment, German giant tells Musk marque to buzz off Personal Tech06 Feb 2024 | 89
CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator The Future Circular Collider, if built, will be three times the size of the LHC Science06 Feb 2024 | 102
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong acquitted of stock manipulation charges What a surprise, said no one Legal06 Feb 2024 | 5
US research body sues chip tech company Japan’s government plans to buy The stakes are high because the disputed items - photoresists – are essential for EUV lithography Legal06 Feb 2024 | 4
Tesla power steering probe upgraded after thousands more incidents reported Probe that started with 12 records six months ago has ballooned to 2,191 claims of failed 2023 Model 3 and Y steering Offbeat02 Feb 2024 | 86
Save the Mars Sample Return mission, plead Congresscritters Letter: Budget cuts will 'essentially cancel' daring multi vehicle project unless reversed Science02 Feb 2024 | 19