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open Actor couldn’t understand why computer didn’t work when the curtain came down 100
open New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails 103
open Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice 100
open We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills 98
open I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA 76
open How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away 128
open Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync 134
open The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon 238
open CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it 75
By FeRDNYC
open Basic projector repair job turns into armed encounter at secret bunker 187
open The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety 139
open Tech support team won pay rise for teaching customers how to RTFM 146
By jake
open I just deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – and I'm a citizen 235
By hoola
open Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo 80
open ‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’ 108
open Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production 73
By TSM
open Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it 182
open Culture comes first in cybersecurity. That puts cybersecurity on the front line in the culture wars 44
open Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine 96
open Users hated a new app – maybe so much they filed a fake support call 98
By PC Paul
open Please sir, may we have some Moore? Doesn't look that way 31
open Dev loudly complained about older colleague, who retired not long after 133
open Microsoft's Euro-mandated File Explorer surgery shows 'less is more' is still a thing 21
open Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP 51
open Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account? 91
open Why Google's Chrome monopoly won't crack anytime soon 77
open Huawei's farewell to Android isn't a marketing move, it's chess 126
open The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source 45
By Tim99
open Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage 160
By Andy A
open Intel's processor failures: A cautionary tale of business vs engineering 94
By FeRDNYC
open The cybersecurity QA trifecta of fail that may burn down the world 32
By Dan 55
open Techie's enthusiasm for decluttering fails to spark joy 57
open Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT 93
open Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better? 121
By Bebu
open Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF 240
By flayman
open Rust is eating into our systems, and it's a good thing 124
open The International Space Station will deorbit in glory. How's your legacy tech doing? 101
open You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups 116
open Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there 105
open We were promised integrated packages. Instead we got disintegrated apps 145
By Grunchy
open Psst … Want to buy a used IBM Selectric? No questions asked 174
By MattPi
open Dell and Ubuntu certify latest model of XPS 13 ultrabook 19
open Getting that syncing feeling after an Exchange restore 83
open Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth 253
open RISC-V needs more than an open architecture to compete 57
By 3arn0wl
open September 16, 1992, was not a good day to be overly enthusiastic about your job 64
open Confirmation dialog Groundhog Day: I click OK and it keeps coming back 145
By rskurat
open Your AI can't tell you it's lying if it thinks it's telling the truth. That's a problem 52
By Rol
open In IT, no good deed ever goes unpunished 71
open The month I worked for DEADHEAD: Yes, that was their job title 71

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