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Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Geek's Guide

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system

Verity Stob

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Science

Roundup

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

Also: Rocket Lab reschedules, ESA probe eats comet exhaust, China shares space station plans

01 Jun 12:14 | 7

Science

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

Even the aircon worked in the Muskmobile

01 Jun 07:42 | 36

Video

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Bob and Doug are first humans launched into orbit by Elon's Muskteers

30 May 20:06 | 78

Video

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

There's a starship waiting for the sky, he'd like to come meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds

30 May 00:44 | 33

Science

After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts

'We couldn't find half of what should be there. It was a bit of an embarrassment'

29 May 05:05 | 90

Science

Turns out Elon can't control the weather – what a scrub: Rain, clouds delay historic manned SpaceX-NASA launch

Lightning strike threat postpones lift-off to Saturday

27 May 22:23 | 51

Science

Gone in 9 seconds: Virgin Orbit's maiden rocket flight went perfectly until it didn't

'Something malfunctioned' as timer was about to hit double digits

27 May 19:06 | 44

Science

The Last J-Freighter: HTV-9 arrives at the ISS as ESA inks a deal for a third Moon-bound service module

RoundupMeanwhile: the UK government is going to clear everything up. Or at least keep an eye on it

26 May 15:33 | 10

Science

Beardy Branson’s 747-assisted sat-launcher can’t get it up

First Virgin Orbit test launch glitches out at rocket’s first stage

25 May 23:42 | 22

Science

SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon cleared to hoist real live American astronauts into space

Rocket taxi to fly on Wednesday in first all-American launch since 2011

25 May 05:41 | 41

Science

Virgin Orbit at last ready to live up to its name: Branson's other space adventure set for maiden flight this weekend

If all goes to plan, firm plans to begin commercial operations within months

22 May 14:05 | 12

Science

Well, that's something boffins haven't seen before: A strange alien streaks around Jupiter

PicWe know this sounds like a tall tail but...

22 May 06:11 | 36

Science

NASA renames dark-energy telescope after its first Chief of Astronomy and Mother of Hubble: Nancy Grace Roman

VideoBoffin immortalized, praised for her 'leadership and vision'

21 May 05:14 | 30

Science

NASA launches guide to Lunar etiquette now that private operators will share the Moon with governments

Old treaties don't mention space mining and a new one could take forever the sign off. Enter the new 'Artemis Accords'

18 May 07:02 | 34

Science

India opens its space industry to private companies

Seeing as India has launch sites nicely close to the equator, they should be interested

18 May 05:04 | 17

Science

Worried about the magnetic North Pole sprinting towards Russia? Don't be, boffins say, it'll be back sooner or later

Satellite data shows two huge iron blobs tussling under the surface

15 May 06:01 | 33

Science

There's a new comet in town and you don't need a fancy multi-million-dollar telescope to see it. Just regular eyeballs

One other minimum requirement: You need to be in the southern hemisphere

15 May 00:28 | 8

Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Science

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts

Turns out Elon can't control the weather – what a scrub: Rain, clouds delay historic manned SpaceX-NASA launch

Gone in 9 seconds: Virgin Orbit's maiden rocket flight went perfectly until it didn't

The Last J-Freighter: HTV-9 arrives at the ISS as ESA inks a deal for a third Moon-bound service module

Beardy Branson’s 747-assisted sat-launcher can’t get it up

SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon cleared to hoist real live American astronauts into space

Virgin Orbit at last ready to live up to its name: Branson's other space adventure set for maiden flight this weekend

Well, that's something boffins haven't seen before: A strange alien streaks around Jupiter

NASA renames dark-energy telescope after its first Chief of Astronomy and Mother of Hubble: Nancy Grace Roman

UK takes a step closer to domestic launches as Skyrora fires up Skylark-L

NASA's Human Spaceflight boss hits eject a week before SpaceX crew launch

Dickens' forgotten spaceship classic: A Tale of Three Missions

NASA launches guide to Lunar etiquette now that private operators will share the Moon with governments

India opens its space industry to private companies

Worried about the magnetic North Pole sprinting towards Russia? Don't be, boffins say, it'll be back sooner or later

There's a new comet in town and you don't need a fancy multi-million-dollar telescope to see it. Just regular eyeballs

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80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Australia to refund $720m in 'debts' determined by dodgy algorithm

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Two weeks before the first US commercial crew launch, NASA spanks more cash on an autumn Soyuz seat

Meteorite's tiny secrets reveal Solar System's sodium-rich, alkaline liquid past – a clue to formation of life

Psst... Wanna buy some stock in a spaceplane company? Virgin would like a word

Russia admits, yup, the Americans are right: One of our rocket's tanks just disintegrated in Earth's orbit

US piles yet more charges on Theranos CEO, COO. We could do with good blood testing now... and this wasn't it

Briny liquid may be more common on Mars than once thought, unlikely to support life as we know it

There's a world out there with a hexagon vortex over its pole packed with hydrocarbon ice crystals. That planet is Saturn

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Spacecraft with graphene sails powered by starlight and lasers

We dunno what's more wild: This vid of Japan's probe bouncing off an asteroid to collect a sample – or that the rock was sun-burnt

Quick Q: Er, why is the Moon emitting carbon? And does this mean it wasn't formed from Theia hitting Earth?

There's a black hole lurking within 1,000 light years of Earth – and you can see stars circling it with the naked eye

China successfully launches its biggest-ever space truck to fire up its space station ambitions