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open Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos 14
By jfm
open Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA’s Swift observatory from fiery demise 14
open DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move 31
open Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M 16
open China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew 4
open Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service 9
open Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually 22
open AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory 69
open Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere 72
open Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike 13
By Mishak
open BOFH: You know something's up when the suits want to spend money 53
open Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects 34
open Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches 18
open First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun 14
open Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas 71
By spold
open Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme 9
By TLHH
open Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase 36
open Rocket Lab's Neutron slips to 2026: 'Our aim is to make it to orbit on the first try' 33
open EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Tech’s hands' 38
open UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing 29
By Boolian
open UK's Ajax fighting vehicle arrives – years late and still sending crew to hospital 78
open SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew 65
open Here's one way to cut support ticket volume… send them to another company entirely 28
open 25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS 60
By Dom 3
open FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute 25
open UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn 31
open China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS 37
By mcswell
open UK judge delivers a 'damp squib' in Getty AI training case, no clear precedent set 32
By hh121
open Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope 118
open Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting 141
open ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews 25
open SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship 81
open Actor couldn’t understand why computer didn’t work when the curtain came down 100
open Japan’s new space truck is also a temporary space lab, just worked first time 19
open Colorado launches lawyers at Trump admin over space base relocation 10
open There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing 26
open Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit 37
open Dame Emma Thompson gives the 'AI revolution' both barrels 80
open This is Doom, running headless, on Ubuntu Arm… on a satellite 17
By nsimic
open Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation 15
By JLV
open Clearview AI faces criminal heat for ignoring EU data fines 13
open Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell 62
By dipole
open Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm 23
By bill 27
open Automattic accuses rival WordPress outfit WP Engine of ‘false advertising, and deceptive business practices’ 10
open Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users about Copilot subscription options 34
By kshaeta
open High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses 58
open How do you solve a problem like Discovery? 194
open Shield AI shows off not-at-all-terrifying autonomous VTOL combat drone 55
By Meph
open BOFH: Saving the planet, one falsified metric at a time 71
By Dwarf