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By midgepad
Thursday 7th August 2025 16:37 GMT
open Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production 73
By TSM
Monday 11th August 2025 10:30 GMT
open BOFH: The auditor is asking too many questions. We have just the laptop for that 45
By Spherical Cow
Thursday 28th August 2025 03:23 GMT
open Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator 62
By Always Right Mostly
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open Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds 59
By Stork
Friday 11th July 2025 16:20 GMT
open Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts 26
By Ken Shabby
Friday 11th July 2025 07:09 GMT
open Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality 15
By jfm
Monday 14th July 2025 19:56 GMT
open ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded 13
By John Brown (no body)
Thursday 10th July 2025 15:48 GMT
open One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts 40
By Anonymous Coward
Thursday 10th July 2025 18:37 GMT
open Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung 2
By Andrew Scott
Wednesday 9th July 2025 13:41 GMT
open Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho 100
By bernmeister
Friday 1st August 2025 17:55 GMT
open Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles 27
By Macs1000
Tuesday 15th July 2025 19:50 GMT
open Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long 38
By An_Old_Dog
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open TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions 7
By Chris Evans
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open Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway 107
By MachDiamond
Friday 11th July 2025 17:57 GMT
open UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites 52
By MachDiamond
Thursday 10th July 2025 18:12 GMT
open Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests 42
By Anonymous Coward
Thursday 10th July 2025 19:45 GMT
open Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy 19
By Liam Proven
Tuesday 8th July 2025 09:25 GMT
open Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box 44
By Paul Hovnanian
Thursday 17th July 2025 21:10 GMT
open MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth 27
By Jellied Eel
Tuesday 8th July 2025 11:10 GMT
open Trump's budget bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle 100
By Casca
Wednesday 30th July 2025 08:21 GMT
open NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets 28
By flayman
Friday 4th July 2025 19:49 GMT
open NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone 2
By Irongut
Wednesday 2nd July 2025 12:07 GMT
open A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws 28
By C R Mudgeon
Wednesday 9th July 2025 13:17 GMT
open Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open 18
By drankinatty
Thursday 3rd July 2025 21:49 GMT
open China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12 62
By tobymouse
Thursday 3rd July 2025 12:40 GMT
open Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work 13
By MachDiamond
Thursday 3rd July 2025 18:02 GMT
open Norwegian lotto mistakenly told thousands they were filthy rich after math error 39
By HelpfulJohn
Friday 4th July 2025 17:44 GMT
open Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions 11
By MachDiamond
Thursday 3rd July 2025 16:16 GMT
open Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits 206
By Ignazio
Sunday 24th August 2025 08:33 GMT
open Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult material 49
By Claptrap314
Wednesday 2nd July 2025 10:04 GMT
open Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’ 15
By Boris Dyne
Friday 4th July 2025 14:12 GMT
open US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data 78
By Jellied Eel
Tuesday 1st July 2025 14:03 GMT
open So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller 36
By john567
Sunday 21st September 2025 19:08 GMT
open There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth 100
By Wexford
Thursday 7th August 2025 04:11 GMT
open BOFH: Peeling back the layers of the magic banana industrial complex 77
By FeRDNYC
Tuesday 1st July 2025 02:05 GMT
open NICER science not so nice as ISS telescope pauses operations 2
By lglethal
Friday 27th June 2025 07:27 GMT
open Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan 28
By MachDiamond
Saturday 28th June 2025 15:53 GMT
open Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues 8
By doublelayer
Thursday 26th June 2025 02:00 GMT
open Axiom Mission 4 finally set for launch June 25 4
By druck
Saturday 28th June 2025 14:23 GMT
open World's largest camera shows galaxy in 3,200 megapixel glory as Rubin telescope goes online 26
By HelpfulJohn
Friday 4th July 2025 17:13 GMT
open Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says 152
By Alan Brown
Monday 30th June 2025 19:04 GMT
open Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink 9
By MachDiamond
Monday 23rd June 2025 05:16 GMT
open Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747 63
By Anonymous Coward
Wednesday 25th June 2025 11:28 GMT
open Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it 182
By Spanners
Friday 27th June 2025 11:29 GMT
open AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails 4
By MiguelC
Friday 20th June 2025 11:15 GMT
open EU Advocate General advises top court to toss Google appeal against €4B fine 7
By druck
Monday 23rd June 2025 10:32 GMT
open ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter 20
By Philo T Farnsworth
Friday 20th June 2025 15:37 GMT
open SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground 214
By Elongated Muskrat
Tuesday 24th June 2025 15:11 GMT

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