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open Apple, Google tell Europe its Digital Markets Act isn't working for them – or consumers 11
open 800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics a little more expensive 32
By sedregj
open Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime 16
open Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know 47
open Google is very sorry for pulling down COVID misinfo and pledges never to use outside fact-checkers 94
open Japanese city passes two-hours-a-day smartphone usage ordinance 43
By VBF
open Slow Wi-Fi? Add houseplants to the list of suspects 79
By Roland6
open Don't panic: H-1B visas will cost companies $100K only for new petitions 29
open NASA panel fears a Starship lunar touchdown is more fantasy than flight plan 70
open Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil 77
open Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself 12
open Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants 19
open Nice try, sinners: Pope nixes idea of AI pontiff blessing netizens 61
By Adair
open Charities warn Ofcom too soft on Online Safety Act violators 60
open BOFH: HR discovers the limits of vertical mobility 50
open Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year ‘Dawn’ mission 12
open AI can now design functional viruses – not the computer kind, either 33
open French jet left circling while Corsican controller caught Zs 43
open How and why Linux has thrived after three decades in Kernelland 69
By Blerpo
open Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy 6
open Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say 21
By Orv
open Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists 53
open Indian court stops streaming hearings on social media to protect lawyers from mean memes 3
open Engineer turned a vape into a web server 55
open Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA 33
open Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum 53
open Inventor who encouraged Elon Musk to make Optimus says most humanoid robots today are 'terrifying' 66
By Roland6
open 1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines 96
open US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen 11
open BOFH: These office thefts really take the biscuit 133
open Appeals court blocks Trump bid to ax top copyright official in AI spat 14
By rcxb
open US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream 13
By mcswell
open Experts scrutinized Ofcom's Online Safety Act governance. They're concerned 28
open NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far 46
open AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments 47
open WhatsApp's former security boss claims reporting infosec failings led to ousting 12
open Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated 39
open After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus 76
open As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life 83
open US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid 141
open SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit 17
By NetMage
open Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again 72
open UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government 6
open France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies that led to crummy privacy 17
open Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited 59
open Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up 28
By teebie
open White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty 72
open Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University 28
By ThatOne
open Norway's £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships 155
open ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections 2