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open One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts 16
open Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung 1
By IGotOut
open Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho 78
By MyffyW
open Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles 20
open Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long 38
open TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions 7
open Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway 93
open UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites 49
open Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests 36
open Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy 19
open Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box 41
By rcxb
open MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth 27
open Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle 91
open NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets 28
By flayman
open NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone 2
By Irongut
open A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws 27
open Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open 18
open China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12 62
open Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work 13
open Norwegian lotto mistakenly told thousands they were filthy rich after math error 39
open Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions 11
open Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits 204
open Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult material 49
open Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’ 15
open US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data 78
open So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller 35
open There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth 99
open BOFH: Peeling back the layers of the magic banana industrial complex 77
By FeRDNYC
open NICER science not so nice as ISS telescope pauses operations 2
open Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan 28
open Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues 8
open Axiom Mission 4 finally set for launch June 25 4
By druck
open World's largest camera shows galaxy in 3,200 megapixel glory as Rubin telescope goes online 26
open Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says 152
open Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink 9
open Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747 63
open Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it 182
open AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails 4
By MiguelC
open EU Advocate General advises top court to toss Google appeal against €4B fine 7
By druck
open ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter 20
open SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground 215
open Space manufacturing company Varda gets clearance to launch more uncrewed capsules 2
open Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down 14
open Brit space sector struggles to compete with £90K graduate banking salaries 116
open Japan set to join the re-usable rocket club after Honda sticks a landing 31
open Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch 12
open AFRINIC election delayed after ISP Association wins injunction over voter rights 2
By druck
open Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer 34
open Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent 13
open ISS leaks push Axiom Mission 4 launch to no earlier than June 19 9

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