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open The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety 139
open Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry 12
open NASA starts bolting together Artemis III rocket for 2027 Moon shot 50
open End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs 321
By Steevee
open China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk 7
By Ken G
open Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030 65
open Physicist models new use for nuclear waste: Turning it into super-rare fusion fuel 24
By JulieM
open Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy 37
open SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test 54
open In Otter news, transcription app accused of illegally recording users’ voices 15
open Google admits anticompetitive conduct in Australia, agrees to modest fine 12
open Timekettle T1 AI translator helps you scale the Tower of Babel 10
open No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers 137
open Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? 27
open Who made the demo list for Trump's fast-track nuclear reactor scheme? 55
open Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins 22
open Desktops and printers in coffee shops? Starbucks Korea tells customers to 그만 해 38
open I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11 137
By Joe W
open NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit 7
open Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room 10
open Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia 1
open You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by deleting old emails 71
open UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly' 63
open Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft 134
open Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit 18
open Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study 21
open China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests 11
open NASA won't name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas 87
By Casca
open UK unveils plans to 'transform' the consumer smart meter experience 127
open NASA boss calls for nuclear reactor on the Moon 103
open Behold the wood-block wonder of the Kilopixel display 25
By Roland6
open Tech support team won pay rise for teaching customers how to RTFM 146
By jake
open North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme 18
open Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them 61
open NASA changes the rules of the game for commercial space stations 16
open Politically hot parts of US Constitution briefly deleted thanks to 'coding error' 47
open Euro Commish on US lobbying against EU DSA rules: 'Our standards are not up for discussion' 49
open Not big in Japan: Apple's WebKit browser requirement may break new law 13
By DS999
open More NASA spacecraft give controllers the silent treatment 9
open Mistakenly sold NASA command trailer could be yours – for $199K 11
open Fungus-inspired Linux hack gives Amiga a Doom-only brain 11
open Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds 34
By druck
open Lunar Trailblazer trails off as NASA loses probe to the void 6
open How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier 16
open Skyrora wins green light to lob rockets from Scotland 14
By druck
open Germany and Japan teamed their ISS robots for seek-and-photograph mission 7
open Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar 17
By frankvw
open Study finds radical nutjobs targeting gamers via Discord, Twitch, Steam 27
By Casca
open Untangling the Jeff Bezos web: Who pays for the billionaire's space lust? 21
open Florida jury throws huge fine at Tesla in Autopilot crash 91
By jake