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State	Forum	Posts	Latest Post
	An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf	34	By Eric 9001 Friday 28th August 2026 03:44 GMT
	Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs	5	By HelpfulJohn Friday 11th September 2026 21:20 GMT
	Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch	65	By MachDiamond Sunday 20th September 2026 07:51 GMT
	Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation	13	By Anonymous Crowbar Tuesday 25th August 2026 15:55 GMT
	No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue	16	By Spazturtle Monday 24th August 2026 07:24 GMT
	China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing	52	By FrogsAndChips Friday 21st August 2026 16:11 GMT
	NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon	41	By Spamfast Saturday 29th August 2026 17:17 GMT
	$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers	99	By The Organ Grinder's Monkey Sunday 23rd August 2026 08:19 GMT
	Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures	23	By PB90210 Sunday 23rd August 2026 13:21 GMT
	Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay	178	By Anonymous Coward Sunday 4th October 2026 02:56 GMT
	Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await	18	By imanidiot Monday 31st August 2026 14:02 GMT
	The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments	27	By FirstTangoInParis Monday 17th August 2026 18:15 GMT
	Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine	35	By Stork Friday 21st August 2026 14:10 GMT
	Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine	109	By Anonymous Coward Wednesday 19th August 2026 09:15 GMT
	Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age	196	By Anonymous Coward Thursday 20th August 2026 23:03 GMT
	Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon	27	By Anonymous Coward Thursday 20th August 2026 21:36 GMT
	BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime	70	By Kimo Tuesday 25th August 2026 02:53 GMT
	This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph	53	By CrazyOldCatMan Tuesday 18th August 2026 11:14 GMT
	Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop	41	By nobody who matters Friday 14th August 2026 18:39 GMT
	Everything is better with pickles... except Windows	21	By Anonymous Coward Monday 17th August 2026 02:10 GMT
	How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget	37	By Rjan Saturday 15th August 2026 14:41 GMT
	We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi	45	By IGotOut Tuesday 18th August 2026 01:02 GMT
	Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas	42	By jeffdyer Wednesday 30th September 2026 11:21 GMT
	Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation	6	By Spazturtle Tuesday 11th August 2026 14:43 GMT
	Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic	58	By Ensign Nemo Monday 7th September 2026 09:38 GMT
	South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact	38	By MachDiamond Tuesday 11th August 2026 00:52 GMT
	Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power	67	By Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck Friday 14th August 2026 17:22 GMT
	Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses	20	By Anonymous Coward Thursday 13th August 2026 22:21 GMT
	Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs	19	By Jim84 Monday 10th August 2026 09:29 GMT
	Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?	22	By Jou (Mxyzptlk) Saturday 8th August 2026 05:14 GMT
	Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve	6	By Herring` Friday 7th August 2026 15:49 GMT
	Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time	16	By Bbuckley Saturday 8th August 2026 09:02 GMT
	Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year	37	By the spectacularly refined chap Friday 7th August 2026 17:23 GMT
	Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia	46	By mickaroo Monday 10th August 2026 14:15 GMT
	New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut	103	By Blackjack Friday 7th August 2026 18:54 GMT
	NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck	86	By FeRDNYC Monday 10th August 2026 13:59 GMT
	China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits'	4	By Conor Stewart Thursday 6th August 2026 02:26 GMT
	NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover	33	By Steve K Wednesday 5th August 2026 13:36 GMT
	Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it	14	By cyberdemon Friday 21st August 2026 01:05 GMT
	Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online	27	By hmas Friday 7th August 2026 07:10 GMT
	Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in	29	By Monty Burns Tuesday 4th August 2026 08:48 GMT
	NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin	12	By I ain't Spartacus Monday 3rd August 2026 08:54 GMT
	Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene	17	By Yet Another Anonymous coward Saturday 1st August 2026 19:30 GMT
	Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button	10	By Anonymous Coward Monday 3rd August 2026 01:45 GMT
	30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage	8	By TeeCee Friday 31st July 2026 12:46 GMT
	Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up	17	By Sykowasp Monday 24th August 2026 15:04 GMT
	Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law	25	By amanfromMars 1 Sunday 2nd August 2026 15:43 GMT
	Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees	17	By Spherical Cow Sunday 2nd August 2026 08:59 GMT
	Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel	20	By Ken Shabby Friday 31st July 2026 08:13 GMT
	NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning	12	By rskurat Saturday 1st August 2026 13:43 GMT