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By big_D
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open BOFH: The USB stick always comes back – until it doesn't 75
By FeRDNYC
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open Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027 136
open As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick 143
open National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future 144
open NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan? 74
open France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run 49
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open Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward 51
open Einstein Probe finds two stars that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other 24
By UCAP
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open There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032 61
open The Doom-in-a-PDF dev is back – this time with Linux 39
open International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15 14
open Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel 27
open Insurance giant finds claims rep that gives a damn (it's AI) 24
open DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech 5
open James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world 33
open SpaceX Crew Dragons swapped so ISS crew can go home early 8
open Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation 57
By Rich 11
open Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up 113
open RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101 52
By cray74
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open Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation 46
open New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned 21
By dvhamme
open Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out 64
open NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco 22
open BOFH: Engage Hollywood Protocol – because nonsense always looks legit 48
open Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet 9
open Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil 123
open Robot dogs learn bomb disposal tricks in trials 17
open Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers 110
By teebie
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open Blue Origin spins up lunar gravity for New Shepard flight 24
open You know something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times 27
By ThatOne
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open Ireland's AI minister has never used ChatGPT but swears she'll learn fast 23
open Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough 17
open Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price 227