America's National Science Foundation workers fired in bulk by Trump reinstated
Judge slams 'significant chaos' that's now Uncle Sam's standard operating procedure
Science04 Mar 2025 |
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SpaceX receives FAA blessing for another Starship test
Flying to the Turks and Caicos tonight? Good luck
Science03 Mar 2025 | 27
Polish space agency confirms cyberattack
Officials vow to uncover who was behind it
Ransomware in Focus03 Mar 2025 | 1
First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech
Science03 Mar 2025 | 22
Three charged in Singapore with alleged link to illicit shipments of Nvidia GPUs to China
Accused face up to 20 years in prison
On-Prem28 Feb 2025 | 18
ESA's Integral gamma-ray gazer gasps its last
After almost 23 years on the job, observations end for 2029 re-entry
Science28 Feb 2025 | 7
AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot
Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction
Science27 Feb 2025 | 13
DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures'
How to make them, and what to use them for
Science27 Feb 2025 | 39
FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline
It looks like you have died. Would you like help?
Offbeat27 Feb 2025 | 52
100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk
National intel boss slams naughty nattering on work systems as 'egregious violation of trust'
Bootnotes26 Feb 2025 | 73
Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect
Experts warned the UK’s recent 'victory' over Apple would kickstart something of a domino effect
Security26 Feb 2025 | 116
SpaceX says bad vibes most likely cause of Starship 7 flop
All fixed for Flight Test Eight, OK?
Science26 Feb 2025 | 34
The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin
Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory
Science25 Feb 2025 | 9
Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?
What is it with high-powered execs and their love for U2?
Offbeat25 Feb 2025 | 81
LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing
Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet
AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 31
SpaceX has an explanation for the Falcon 9 bits that hit Poland
Oxygen leak blamed for a lack of deorbit burn
Science24 Feb 2025 | 53
Microsoft's Euro-mandated File Explorer surgery shows 'less is more' is still a thing
Opinion Humble but with a huge history, the utility's privacy pare-back points to a productive possible future
Columnists24 Feb 2025 | 21
Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP
Who, Me? 'If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived'
Columnists24 Feb 2025 | 51
Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see
Analysis Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising
Science23 Feb 2025 | 261
California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid
Beast remains as mythical as the return on AI investment
Offbeat22 Feb 2025 | 66
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C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'
Bjarne Stroustrup wants standards body to respond to memory-safety push as Rust monsters lurk at the door
Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke
Open source browser maker ties itself up in legalese and explanations
US Cyber Command reportedly pauses cyberattacks on Russia
Infosec In Brief PLUS: Phishing suspects used fishing gear as alibi; Apple's 'Find My' can track PCs and Androids; and more
Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors
Opinion Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go
Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal
Criminal probe understood to have ended following settlement over 'inconsiderate' behavior
First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech
Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender
Who, Me? Don’t trust your tired self to do rm -rf right
Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows
Some may have second thoughts about going all-in with an American vendor, no matter where their data is stored
Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes
Why churn up roads when there's thousands of miles of disused infrastructure underfoot?
Cybersecurity not the hiring-'em-like-hotcakes role it once was
Analysis Ghost positions, HR AI no help – biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts
STORIES
BOFH: The USB stick always comes back – until it doesn't
Episode 4 The soldering iron will see to that
BOFH22 Feb 2025 | 74
Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses
And really, nothing out of the ordinary for Silicon Valley
Bootnotes22 Feb 2025 | 17
Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash
Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes
Networks21 Feb 2025 | 26
Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027
Plus: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen not happy with SpaceX chief for 'lie' about 'abandoned' Starliner crew
Science21 Feb 2025 | 136
As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick
License To Kill -9 ... For Your iPhone Only ... AI Another Day ... The name's Bezos, Jeff Bezos
Bootnotes21 Feb 2025 | 143
National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future
Feature An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more
Science21 Feb 2025 | 140
NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan?
Comment Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission
Science20 Feb 2025 | 74
Two arrested after pensioner scammed out of six-figure crypto nest egg
The latest in a long line of fraud stings worth billions each year
Security20 Feb 2025 | 18
France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run
Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance
Science20 Feb 2025 | 49
Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight
Updated Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too
Science19 Feb 2025 | 37
Want to play billionaire for a day? This app lets you rent your own armed goon squad
Black Escalade motorcade sold separately - of course
Offbeat19 Feb 2025 | 28
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites
Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone
Networks19 Feb 2025 | 1
Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward
It's probably fine
Science19 Feb 2025 | 51
Einstein Probe finds two stars that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other
Odd X-ray flashes gave the game away, just few weeks after China-led mission launched
Science19 Feb 2025 | 24
City-slaying space rock 2024 YR4 still has 2.4% shot at smacking Earth
Scientists refine estimates, but can't yet rule out an impact
Science18 Feb 2025 | 29
There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032
Very unlikely, but could make for a neat light show if it does
Science17 Feb 2025 | 61
The Doom-in-a-PDF dev is back – this time with Linux
What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV?
Bootnotes16 Feb 2025 | 39
International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15
The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe
Science14 Feb 2025 | 14
2 charged over alleged New IRA terrorism activity linked to cops' spilled data
Officer says mistakenly published police details were shared 'a considerable amount of times'
Security14 Feb 2025 | 21
HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive
Analyst argues stopping the deal benefits Switchzilla by preventing rise of strong challenger for AI networks
Networks14 Feb 2025 | 9
Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit
Talk about court red-handed
AI + ML14 Feb 2025 | 95
WD told to pay half a billion in patent damages before biz splits
With drivemaker poised to become 2 publicly traded companies, judge says he has 'concerns' over restructuring
Storage13 Feb 2025 | 11
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be
Global tech corps wrestle with policy disparity on either side of the Atlantic
CxO13 Feb 2025 | 291
Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel
Student shows 'uniform hashing is optimal' was just wishful thinking
Science13 Feb 2025 | 27
Insurance giant finds claims rep that gives a damn (it's AI)
Tech shows customers more humanity than its human staff
Offbeat13 Feb 2025 | 24
DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech
Previous NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real
Science12 Feb 2025 | 4
James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world
40 m or 90 m? The difference matters in the case of impact
Science12 Feb 2025 | 33
SpaceX Crew Dragons swapped so ISS crew can go home early
'Stranded' Starliner astronauts set for a March homecoming
Science12 Feb 2025 | 8
Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation
Einstein’s spooky action at a distance just got an upgrade
Science12 Feb 2025 | 57
A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap
You gotta fight ... for your Reuters ... to party
AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 34
Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up
More than a decade on, waste experts say the odds of finding those coins are next to nil
Bootnotes11 Feb 2025 | 112
Man who SIM-swapped the SEC's X account pleads guilty
Said to have asked search engine 'What are some signs that the FBI is after you?'
Cyber-crime11 Feb 2025 | 9
Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US
Updated So now everyone's happy
Personal Tech11 Feb 2025 | 194
Euro cloud crew says we-won't-sue deal with Microsoft is 'off-track'
Overseas pals urge US tech giant to 'rapidly' work on Azure Local project to make things right – sans licenses
PaaS + IaaS11 Feb 2025 | 2
RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101
Obit Engineer was behind the HEC series and more
Science11 Feb 2025 | 52
NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts
'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon
Off-Prem11 Feb 2025 | 38
Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way
Overdue, over budget and now... perhaps just over?
Science10 Feb 2025 | 41
Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation
Simian saboteur or a grid screaming for modernization?
Offbeat10 Feb 2025 | 46
New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned
Vladimir Putin opens airlock after just three years
Science08 Feb 2025 | 21
Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM
Updated And US government adverts at that, say senators
Personal Tech08 Feb 2025 | 42
Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out
Funding freeze while Feds review priorities
Science07 Feb 2025 | 64
NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco
Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water
Science07 Feb 2025 | 22
Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data
But 'original sin' has already been committed, shrugs industry
AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 50
UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks
Freshly minted organization aims to take the guesswork out of incident severity for insurers and policy holders
Cyber-crime07 Feb 2025 | 7
BOFH: Engage Hollywood Protocol – because nonsense always looks legit
Episode 3 And if that fails, there's cold, hard cash
BOFH07 Feb 2025 | 46
Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet
Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear
Science06 Feb 2025 | 9
Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil
For those for whom a runny white or a hard yolk is just not good un œuf
Offbeat06 Feb 2025 | 122
Robot dogs learn bomb disposal tricks in trials
'Fetch' just got a lot more interesting
Offbeat06 Feb 2025 | 17
Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers
Updated Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors' off-topic posts, legal eagle argues
Legal06 Feb 2025 | 110
Poland’s 2nd astronaut brings pierogi to the ISS party
Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter
Science05 Feb 2025 | 14
Blue Origin spins up lunar gravity for New Shepard flight
Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers
Science05 Feb 2025 | 24
You know something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times
It looks like you want to irritate Windows users. Do you want some help with that?
Offbeat05 Feb 2025 | 27
Early mornings, late evenings, weekends. Useless users always demand support
OnCall... even when I'm not Techie complains as biz ignores contractual working hours
On-Prem05 Feb 2025 | 108
Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024
More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters
Public Sector05 Feb 2025 | 31
DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices
As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms
AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 10
China sticks antitrust probe into Google amid retaliation for Trump import tariffs
Updated Plus, Middle Kingdom announces levies and export controls of its own
Software04 Feb 2025 | 14
FBI's secret UFO hunters fear Trump's January 6 purge will send them into orbit
Maybe Musk just wants the alien space tech that definitely doesn't exist?
Public Sector04 Feb 2025 | 53
OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit
Updated Lawyers argue billionaire's 105-page complaint 'lurches from theory to theory'
AI + ML04 Feb 2025 | 16
US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme
Suspect, still at large, said to back concept that 'code is law'
Legal04 Feb 2025 | 24
Ireland's AI minister has never used ChatGPT but swears she'll learn fast
Hey, it's not like any governments know what they are doing
Offbeat04 Feb 2025 | 23
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites
Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – again
Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 124
Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash
Updated Canadian province 'won't do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy'
Networks03 Feb 2025 | 103
Call of Duty studio co-founder pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting aircraft
Peter Tripp Akemann avoids jail, will pay 'Super Scooper' repair costs and is ordered to help with LA's wildfire recovery
Personal Tech03 Feb 2025 | 66
Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough
Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push
Science03 Feb 2025 | 17
Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price
Special report Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that?
Science02 Feb 2025 | 226
Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots
Comment Raymond Chen reflects on the never-ending cycle of updates and restarts
Personal Tech02 Feb 2025 | 123
'Abandoned' astro takes recordbreaking ninth spacewalk
Sunita Williams lays claim to lead for female EVAs
Science31 Jan 2025 | 27
Welsh woman fined for flatulence-fueled cyber harassment
Court said her approach to child access dispute with partner's ex really stinks
Bootnotes31 Jan 2025 | 95
European Space Agency picks Thales Alenia Space to build lunar lander
ESA and the Argonauts
Science31 Jan 2025 | 10
Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032
Video Is this NEO the one? Yup, as in, a 1% chance of hitting us ... sadly
Science31 Jan 2025 | 75
Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again
Boy who's cried wolf on autonomous driving for years swears 'there's a damn wolf this time'
Offbeat30 Jan 2025 | 173
A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles
Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing
Science30 Jan 2025 | 30
WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff
Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staff
Security30 Jan 2025 | 80
And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples
It's a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report
Science30 Jan 2025 | 22
White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em
'Research and various other reasons' behind hullabaloo ... but why didn't someone say that a month ago?
Offbeat29 Jan 2025 | 64
Boom's XB-1 jet nails supersonic flight for first time
US civil sector boldly goes where Concorde has gone before
Offbeat29 Jan 2025 | 94
Trump tells Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts
SpaceX was already planning to return 'virtually abandoned' astros. Did Elon forget?
Science29 Jan 2025 | 93
AI revoir, Lucie: France's answer to ChatGPT paused after faux pas overdrive
Slew of embarrassing answers sends open source chatterbox back for more schooling
AI + ML29 Jan 2025 | 69
Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands
Updated Official is official
Offbeat28 Jan 2025 | 162
Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers
Popular community site became unmentionable – the irony is thick enough to compile
Personal Tech28 Jan 2025 | 56
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