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Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester
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Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much
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Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow
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Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
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Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester
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Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road
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Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist
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France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well
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Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend
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Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition
Systems
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A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it
88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip
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UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests
Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized
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Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold
Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices
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Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon
But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple
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Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix
Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay
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Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan
Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day
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AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
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AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's
Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper
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Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing
If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?
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Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet
Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon
EVENTS
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Taming Hybrid Cloud Chaos: Secure and Efficient Kubernetes Across Clouds
Extending containerized applications to hybrid cloud and edge infrastructure often doubles operational overhead before delivering real agility.
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The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion
Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity.
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Infosec
MORE INFOSEC
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The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters
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US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data
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Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
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Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts
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Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in
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Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations
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Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages
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Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew
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Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook
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Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine
Off Prem
MORE OFF PREM
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Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing
Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
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The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time
Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time
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Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
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Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
‘Digital transformation’ is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn
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Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud
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Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
UPDATED: Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem and failure of diesel generators
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AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral
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Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates
Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug
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Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content
You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned
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AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites
Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery
Who Me?
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Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data
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Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
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User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap
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Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code
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Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess
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How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!
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Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet
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Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug
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Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident
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Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in
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Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything
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Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
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Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
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PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch
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'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild
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IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it
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The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe
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Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference
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Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo
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Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble
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Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract
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Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction
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Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell
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Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead
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Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office
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Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server
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Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam
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ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key
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Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
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Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble
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New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good
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Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming
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Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
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Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books
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Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people
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Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
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Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
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‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’
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Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware
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Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice
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Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company
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Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it
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Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe
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Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery
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After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'
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Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league
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I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA
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CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it
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Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results
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Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off
Networks
MORE NETWORKS STORIES
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Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner
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Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first
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Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber
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Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops
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EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?
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China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol
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NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage
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Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers
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User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap
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Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down
Off Beat
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Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online
Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web
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Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in
Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key
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Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene
Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police
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30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage
Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold
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Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up
Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun
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Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel
Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba
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AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness
Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places
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Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours
Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year
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Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory
Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?
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British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes
Tekever AR5 drone regarded as more up-to-date answer to provide battlefield surveillance for soldiers
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The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails
Would you like an error with your terror?
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Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs
Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network
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Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs
Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local
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Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots
Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat
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UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet
Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal
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Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display
ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste
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Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor
A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted
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US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns
Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too
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Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity
Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'
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Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5
This elevator is headed for floor Bork
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Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole
'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'
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Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street
Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors
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Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test
Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price
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Backup and running? Not this digital sign
Nagware goes large on the mean streets of Derby
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Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains
Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological
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Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car
Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car’s array of cameras
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C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability
Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched
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Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer
Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error
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An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time
SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world
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NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight
Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule
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Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands
It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix
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Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great
61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead
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HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track
Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station
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Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad
CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious
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Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out
Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM
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US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals
Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says
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Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit
Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening
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They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius
'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI
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Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars
Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home
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Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia
A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest
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Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch
Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite
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Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage
Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen
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Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart
TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had
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Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems
One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here
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Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy
Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?
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EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife
Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation
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Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up
Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package
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Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones
Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes
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Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting
Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches
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Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows
Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM
Science
BOFH
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BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book
But so does this customer
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BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand
Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light
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BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry
There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud
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BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Mission Control sends its regards
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BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has
The Boss gives common sense an AI wrapper
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BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom
No sparks, no glory
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BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges
Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?
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BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them
How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data?
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BOFH: Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now?
Yet another AI sales creep ruined by PFY's manual reading tactics
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BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge
The Boss imagineers a new laptop spec with help from AI