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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 102
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
open New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails 107
open Give Europe some space! 3 companies join forces to reach for the stars 6
open Blinded by the light: Tesla fixes glaringly bright Cybertruck headlights 40
open Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles 90
open Amazon's AI specs aim to stop delivery drivers getting lost between van and porch 52
By tiggity
open Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels' 29
By Manolo
open Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums 24
open China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests 85
open SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition 113
open Brit boffins teach fusion plasma some manners with 3D magnetic field 38
By herman
open In '90s Microsoft, you either shipped code or shipped out 16
By gaston
open Like Apollo before them, ESA astronauts hone lunar landing skills in helicopters 13
open Benioff backs off: Salesforce chief says sorry for Trump troop talk 33
open Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice 104
open Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall 60
open Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance 80
open Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT 61
open MIT boffins double precision of atomic clocks by taming quantum noise 10
open AI boffins teach office supplies to predict your next move 36
open Axiom Space ejects CEO after six months, installs NASA veteran as replacement 8
open SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb 121
open Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint 21
By BFeely
open NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building 43
open Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco 58
open SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement 29
open We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills 98
open Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual 76