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open And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is... 8
By Dr. G. Freeman
Sunday 7th December 2025 17:29 GMT
open Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL 39
By the spectacularly refined chap
Sunday 7th December 2025 16:03 GMT
open EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception 66
By nobody who matters
Sunday 7th December 2025 17:08 GMT
open We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares 79
By MachDiamond
Sunday 7th December 2025 06:27 GMT
open Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL 5
By anthonyhegedus
Saturday 6th December 2025 13:02 GMT
open Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator 106
By bernmeister
Saturday 6th December 2025 19:09 GMT
open China's reusable rocket makes it to orbit but fails to stick the landing 10
By MachDiamond
Thursday 4th December 2025 18:57 GMT
open Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption 32
By The Organ Grinder's Monkey
Sunday 7th December 2025 07:48 GMT
open Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse 19
By the spectacularly refined chap
Sunday 7th December 2025 19:08 GMT
open ISS hits rare full house as all eight docking ports ocupado 3
By John Brown (no body)
Saturday 6th December 2025 11:27 GMT
open Waymo chalks up another four-legged casualty on San Francisco streets 58
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 6th December 2025 10:11 GMT
open Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever 121
By Antron Argaiv
Sunday 7th December 2025 05:44 GMT
open UK sinks to fifth in ESA funding league behind Spain 18
By Anonymous Coward
Wednesday 3rd December 2025 18:20 GMT
open Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam 61
By Anonymous Coward
Friday 5th December 2025 08:21 GMT
open Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight 46
By CRConrad
Friday 5th December 2025 19:52 GMT
open OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder 37
By midgepad
Monday 1st December 2025 20:37 GMT
open BOFH: Forward-facing AI brand experience meets forward-facing combustion risk management 56
By nevarre
Monday 1st December 2025 15:23 GMT
open Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks 107
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 6th December 2025 10:10 GMT
open Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA reaffirms commitment 11
By MachDiamond
Monday 1st December 2025 20:10 GMT
open TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel 14
By Benny Cemoli
Saturday 29th November 2025 02:48 GMT
open US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats 74
By Panicnow
Sunday 30th November 2025 11:45 GMT
open Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80 21
By Ken Shabby
Sunday 30th November 2025 07:56 GMT
open Campbell's CISO canned after lawsuit alleges hour-long rant against staff and customers 66
By ChoHag
Thursday 27th November 2025 13:34 GMT
open NASA pares back Boeing's Starliner deal after 2024 calamity 11
By I ain't Spartacus
Wednesday 26th November 2025 12:29 GMT
open Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous 17
By Anonymous Coward
Thursday 27th November 2025 01:57 GMT
open Russian spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault 20
By Strahd Ivarius
Friday 28th November 2025 18:37 GMT
open Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream 10
By MachDiamond
Wednesday 26th November 2025 10:14 GMT
open Old-school rotary phone dials into online meetings, hangs up when you slam it down 27
By J.G.Harston
Thursday 27th November 2025 14:03 GMT
open Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum 15
By BartyFartsLast
Tuesday 25th November 2025 18:09 GMT
open Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people 34
By Robin
Wednesday 26th November 2025 12:38 GMT
open SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap 69
By MachDiamond
Saturday 29th November 2025 06:39 GMT
open Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant 69
By Mimsey Borogove
Wednesday 3rd December 2025 00:10 GMT
open AI nudification site fined £55K for skipping age checks 79
By Czrly
Wednesday 26th November 2025 19:36 GMT
open Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing' 174
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 24th November 2025 19:09 GMT
open Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move 139
By Dave@Home
Thursday 4th December 2025 10:22 GMT
open Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos 14
By jfm
Monday 24th November 2025 11:22 GMT
open Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA’s Swift observatory from fiery demise 14
By MachDiamond
Thursday 20th November 2025 19:30 GMT
open DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move 31
By Spherical Cow
Sunday 23rd November 2025 01:53 GMT
open Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M 16
By Yet Another Anonymous coward
Sunday 23rd November 2025 01:18 GMT
open China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew 4
By Androgynous Cupboard
Tuesday 18th November 2025 21:47 GMT
open Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service 9
By W.S.Gosset
Friday 21st November 2025 03:01 GMT
open Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually 22
By Version 1.0
Wednesday 19th November 2025 18:05 GMT
open AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory 69
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 24th November 2025 09:06 GMT
open Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere 72
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 24th November 2025 06:31 GMT
open Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike 13
By Mishak
Monday 17th November 2025 09:06 GMT
open BOFH: You know something's up when the suits want to spend money 53
By Ropewash
Monday 1st December 2025 00:35 GMT
open Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects 34
By John Brown (no body)
Friday 14th November 2025 22:58 GMT
open Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches 18
By Flocke Kroes
Friday 14th November 2025 17:13 GMT
open First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun 14
By Elongated Muskrat
Thursday 13th November 2025 19:05 GMT
open Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas 71
By spold
Friday 21st November 2025 21:36 GMT

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