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Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative
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Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop
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Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain
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Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public
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GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in
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Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers
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The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech
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European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan
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Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester
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Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much
Systems
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TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal
Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters
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Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive
Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness
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Samsung eyes $80B quarterly profit as memory buyers pay the price
AI demand fattens chipmakers' margins while cheaper PCs and phones become harder to produce profitably
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Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up
Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity
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Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies
Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra
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Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators
Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?
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Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent
Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!
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Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch
Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
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Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work
If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...
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RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices
Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come
EVENTS
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From Connectivity Infrastructure to Intelligence Infrastructure
AI is moving from an application layer directly into the digital infrastructure itself.
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Data sovereignty without compromise
Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.
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Escaping the Postgres Optimization Treadmill
Learn why high-volume, time-series workloads can push PostgreSQL beyond the limits of routine optimization.
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Lessons from deploying high-performance & resilient AI fabrics at hyperscalers, frontier model builders and neo-clouds
This session covers key AI data center trends, MRC/UEC architectures, customer requirements and how HPE Juniper Networking addresses those needs.
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A Flexible Path from VMware to Nutanix on Azure
Nutanix experts discuss VMware customer challenges and key considerations for planning a migration to the public cloud.
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Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World
Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.
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Business of the Year: Organized Cybercrime.
If there were an award for the industry making the biggest moves this year, organized cybercrime would be a top contender.
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Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World
Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.
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Data Sovereignty in the AI Era
As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .
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Infosec
MORE INFOSEC
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US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
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High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers
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Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise
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Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms
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CrowdStrike finds possible bank hacker's CV among exposed AI logs
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UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as Brexit rethink looms
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Cheapskates wouldn't pay for security help, got hit by ransomware, and went bust months later
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Ransomware fixer claimed he could decrypt files, allegedly defrauded clients instead
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Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs
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Browser-in-browser attacks use fake Meta Muse Ad lure to steal credentials
Off Prem
MORE OFF PREM
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Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter
Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex
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Microsoft defines its Azure instance lifecycle, without any info about timing
Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen
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AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs
Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions
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Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work
If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...
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Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services
Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn’t sure how
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Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI
First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition
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Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them
USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam
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AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth
Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap
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AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users
Improved signup experience for ‘AI builders’ hides complexity and includes spending cap
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AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good
Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible
Who Me?
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Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed
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Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data
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Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on
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Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
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Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
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Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up
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Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
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Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
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Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
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IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day
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Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data
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Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
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User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap
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Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code
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Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess
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How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!
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Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet
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Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug
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Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident
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Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in
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Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything
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Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
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Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
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PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch
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'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild
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IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it
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The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe
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Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference
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Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo
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Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble
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Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract
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Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction
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Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell
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Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead
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Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office
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Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server
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Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam
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ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key
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Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
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Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble
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New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good
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Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming
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Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
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Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books
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Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people
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Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
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Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
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‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’
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Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware
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Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice
Networks
MORE NETWORKS STORIES
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ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains
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BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected
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Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed
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Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP
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Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount
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Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it
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Europe’s internet registry wants governance ‘correction’ because its ‘Executive Board’ is not the executive
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Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes
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In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols
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Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal
Offbeat
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NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors
Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up
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Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra
What the f?
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It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat
The ALBATROSS has landed
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Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing
Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?
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Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb
Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity
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Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station
No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety
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Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw
Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem
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Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand
Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply
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Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40
The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today
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Clever database, but can it run Doom?
Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'
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Flight delayed? So are these codec updates
A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport
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Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes
So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda
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YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator
If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have
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Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates
A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption
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Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time
The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers
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Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business
Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well
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Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short
SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three
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What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens?
A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger
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Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites
Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats
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Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective!
Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation
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iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink
3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance
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Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology
Discord users asked to prove they’re adults get less intrusive options
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Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper
Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance
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A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch
Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
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BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth
MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored
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UK’s uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes
XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests
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Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
Meet ‘superintelligence’ and the ‘globalist scheme’ – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it
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NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon
Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain
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It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity
Please release me, let me close...
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British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky
Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas
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Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to
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SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22
Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific
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Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow
HALEU is still being produced at a snail's pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up – eventually
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US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace
Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?
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UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off
The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze
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The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker
Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware
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The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation
Information is not forthcoming from this screen
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Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists
Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures
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Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm
Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades
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Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft
Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded
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Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer
Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project
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US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification
Wheels turning on the road and in government
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Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
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Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2
The new extreme sport: Windows Updates
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UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo
Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense
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'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda
No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets
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British wind power to drive Maersk container ship
Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%
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AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip
Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend
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Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender
Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning
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From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again
This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper
Science
MORE SCIENCE
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Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks'
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Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to
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Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb
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Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system
BOFH
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BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting
Putting the 'om' in computing
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BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation
How could such a terrible tragedy have occurred?
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BOFH: Schrödinger's petty cash puts us in a very awkward superposition
Why oh why are the accountants stricter than the IRS and HMRC put together?
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BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime
Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza
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BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book
But so does this customer
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BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand
Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light
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BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry
There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud
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BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Mission Control sends its regards
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BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has
The Boss gives common sense an AI wrapper
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BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom
No sparks, no glory
