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Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service – and we get the square root of nothing

Live in-depth interviews with tech makers and shakers in the heart of Silicon Valley? Why yes, it's The Next I/O Platform

Hard luck, Claranet. You managed to go 29 whole days without an incident

You better get a wiggle on then: BT said to be mulling switching off UK's copper internets by 2027

German ministry hellbent on taking back control of 'digital sovereignty', cutting dependency on Microsoft

Huawei to lob devs $1.5bn in apparent effort to Trump-proof cloud and mobile ecosystem

Adobe results show it is still creaming those subscriptions but its share price fell – why?

UK.gov confirms: Yes, our former DWP perm sec will join Salesforce

Nice work if you can grift it: Two blokes accused of swindling $10m from the elderly with bogus virus infection alerts

If you're using Harbor as your container registry, bear in mind it can be hijacked with has_admin_role = True

FedEx execs: We had no idea cyberattack would be so bad. Investors: Is that why you sold $40m+ of your own shares?

Chinese students in UK ripe target for scammers exploiting visa concerns

What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud

Created to mimic Heroku: Cloud Foundry explained by its chief technology officer

Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!

Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We've got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you're quick

Google engineering boss sues web giant over sex discrim: I was paid less than men, snubbed for promotion

UK taxman wins tribunal case against BBC presenters

UK launches online VAT inquiry following fears of Brexit fraudster surge

Ebuygumm doesn't break t' Nominet rules, eBay and Gumtree told

Facebook campus death plunge: Cops say man jumped from 4th floor in apparent suicide

Gasp! Google Chrome kills uBlock, Adblock ad filters – grab the pitchfo- no wait, it's OK: They were evil fraud clones

Class-action sueball over refurbed iThings will ask Apple what 'as good as new' means

How long is a lifetime? If you’re Comcast, it’s until a rival quits a city: ISP 'broke' price promise

Geek's Guide

The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

NASA's lunar spy looks for hide-and-seek champ Vikram, Starliner test success, and more

You look like a fungi. Got mushroom in your life to build stuff with mycelium computers?

Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

Five NHS trusts do DeepMind data deal with Google. One says no

IBM cuts ribbon on quantum computing centre wherein a 53-qubit monster lurks

We trained an AI to predict how bad a forest fire will be. It's just as good as a coin flip!

MPs call for 'immediate' stop to facial recog in UK as report underlines bias risks in 'pre-crime' algos used by coppers

Verity Stob

Call-center scammer loses $9m appeal in stunning moment of poetic justice

Byte Night 2019 just weeks away: Ready to sleep on the streets for charity?

Flying priests crop-dust Russian citizens with holy water to make them stop boozing and bonking

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Science

Geek's Guide

The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

Geek's Guide to BritainFarewell to St Paul's telco treasury

19 Sep 08:16 | 38

Science

NASA's lunar spy looks for hide-and-seek champ Vikram, Starliner test success, and more

RoundupHappy 43rd birthday to Space Shuttle Enterprise

17 Sep 12:33 | 23

Science

You look like a fungi. Got mushroom in your life to build stuff with mycelium computers?

IRL Star Trek: Discovery, sort of

17 Sep 10:04 | 43

Science

Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

This year's theme was 'habits' and they were baaaaad

14 Sep 13:00 | 58

Science

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black

14 Sep 00:34 | 101

Science

Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once

Boffins spot a possible follow-up to 'Oumuamua

13 Sep 16:15 | 40

Science

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

Video'We've never seen it eat so much in over 20 years!'

13 Sep 04:56 | 57

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DNA-in-space archive could spark 'Upload Me to the Moon' croon boom soon

UpdatedThe amber DNA in Jurassic Park? That's you, that is

12 Sep 18:30 | 8

Science

There and back again: NASA's mobile launcher returns to testing after ducking out for Dorian

Trials might be done before SpaceX's Starship hop

12 Sep 15:00 | 25

Science

MPs would love to hear all about how UK.gov plans to ratchet R&D spend to 3% of GDP

Go on, we're listening

12 Sep 08:15 | 32

Science

First water world exoplanet spotted – and thankfully no sign of Kevin Costner, rejoice!

Red Dwarf solar system too far away for a jaunt on Starbug

12 Sep 04:59 | 46

Science

Oops: Rockets lighting their tails is a good thing – but not three-plus hours before lift-off

Japanese cargo spaceship launch scrubbed after premature deflagration

11 Sep 05:02 | 15

Science

India pokes Vikram with a stick, drill-toting robot lands on Earth, UK plans launch site, and more

RoundupAlso: A billion lucky smartphone owners can make use of Galileo

10 Sep 14:10 | 7

Science

Geo-boffins drill into dino-killing asteroid crater, discover extinction involves bad smells, chilly weather, no broadband internet...

Sounds like normal life in the Shetland Islands

10 Sep 06:56 | 131

Science

Finally! A solution to 42 – the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything

400k+ volunteer computer crack tough three-cubes problem

07 Sep 00:42 | 90

Science

Valorous Vikram lunar lander – or Star Wreck: Enterprise? India's Moon craft goes all silent running during descent

Nation braces for bad news after last-minute comms blackout

06 Sep 23:36 | 45

Science

Look, we know it feels like everything's going off the rails right now, but think positive: The proton has a new radius

0.833 femtometers also happens to be how close we are to losing our minds

06 Sep 05:24 | 77

Science

Big bang theory: Was mystery explosion over New York caused by a meteor? Dunno. By a military jet? Maybe...

US Space Command launches probe – wait, is that the sound of a black helicopt

05 Sep 01:57 | 92

Science

SpaceX didn't move sat out of impending smash doom because it 'didn't see ESA's messages'

It was a bug, I tell you! A bug!

04 Sep 13:32 | 119

Science

Pompey boffin bags €1.3m off EU for dark matter research – shame a no-deal Brexit looks more and more likely

Study to decode the universe's first seconds, but crashing out of bloc may be a problem

03 Sep 11:00 | 61

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Everyone remembers their first time: ESA satellite dodges 'mega constellation'

Spoiler: Yes, it was SpaceX's Starlink

02 Sep 17:39 | 82

Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service – and we get the square root of nothing

Live in-depth interviews with tech makers and shakers in the heart of Silicon Valley? Why yes, it's The Next I/O Platform

Hard luck, Claranet. You managed to go 29 whole days without an incident

You better get a wiggle on then: BT said to be mulling switching off UK's copper internets by 2027

German ministry hellbent on taking back control of 'digital sovereignty', cutting dependency on Microsoft

Huawei to lob devs $1.5bn in apparent effort to Trump-proof cloud and mobile ecosystem

Adobe results show it is still creaming those subscriptions but its share price fell – why?

UK.gov confirms: Yes, our former DWP perm sec will join Salesforce

Nice work if you can grift it: Two blokes accused of swindling $10m from the elderly with bogus virus infection alerts

If you're using Harbor as your container registry, bear in mind it can be hijacked with has_admin_role = True

FedEx execs: We had no idea cyberattack would be so bad. Investors: Is that why you sold $40m+ of your own shares?

Chinese students in UK ripe target for scammers exploiting visa concerns

What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud

Created to mimic Heroku: Cloud Foundry explained by its chief technology officer

Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!

Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We've got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you're quick

Google engineering boss sues web giant over sex discrim: I was paid less than men, snubbed for promotion

UK taxman wins tribunal case against BBC presenters

UK launches online VAT inquiry following fears of Brexit fraudster surge

Ebuygumm doesn't break t' Nominet rules, eBay and Gumtree told

Facebook campus death plunge: Cops say man jumped from 4th floor in apparent suicide

Gasp! Google Chrome kills uBlock, Adblock ad filters – grab the pitchfo- no wait, it's OK: They were evil fraud clones

Class-action sueball over refurbed iThings will ask Apple what 'as good as new' means

How long is a lifetime? If you’re Comcast, it’s until a rival quits a city: ISP 'broke' price promise

The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

NASA's lunar spy looks for hide-and-seek champ Vikram, Starliner test success, and more

You look like a fungi. Got mushroom in your life to build stuff with mycelium computers?

Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

Five NHS trusts do DeepMind data deal with Google. One says no

IBM cuts ribbon on quantum computing centre wherein a 53-qubit monster lurks

We trained an AI to predict how bad a forest fire will be. It's just as good as a coin flip!

MPs call for 'immediate' stop to facial recog in UK as report underlines bias risks in 'pre-crime' algos used by coppers

Call-center scammer loses $9m appeal in stunning moment of poetic justice

Byte Night 2019 just weeks away: Ready to sleep on the streets for charity?

Flying priests crop-dust Russian citizens with holy water to make them stop boozing and bonking

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Science

The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

NASA's lunar spy looks for hide-and-seek champ Vikram, Starliner test success, and more

You look like a fungi. Got mushroom in your life to build stuff with mycelium computers?

Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

DNA-in-space archive could spark 'Upload Me to the Moon' croon boom soon

There and back again: NASA's mobile launcher returns to testing after ducking out for Dorian

MPs would love to hear all about how UK.gov plans to ratchet R&D spend to 3% of GDP

First water world exoplanet spotted – and thankfully no sign of Kevin Costner, rejoice!

Oops: Rockets lighting their tails is a good thing – but not three-plus hours before lift-off

India pokes Vikram with a stick, drill-toting robot lands on Earth, UK plans launch site, and more

Geo-boffins drill into dino-killing asteroid crater, discover extinction involves bad smells, chilly weather, no broadband internet...

Finally! A solution to 42 – the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything

Valorous Vikram lunar lander – or Star Wreck: Enterprise? India's Moon craft goes all silent running during descent

Look, we know it feels like everything's going off the rails right now, but think positive: The proton has a new radius

Big bang theory: Was mystery explosion over New York caused by a meteor? Dunno. By a military jet? Maybe...

SpaceX didn't move sat out of impending smash doom because it 'didn't see ESA's messages'

Pompey boffin bags €1.3m off EU for dark matter research – shame a no-deal Brexit looks more and more likely

Everyone remembers their first time: ESA satellite dodges 'mega constellation'

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Scotiabank slammed for 'muppet-grade security' after internal source code and credentials spill onto open internet

You know SAP's doing a great job when a third of German users say they 'have no confidence in it'

Gasp! Google Chrome kills uBlock, Adblock ad filters – grab the pitchfo- no wait, it's OK: They were evil fraud clones

Revealed: The 25 most dangerous software bug types – mem corruption, so hot right now

Congratulations! You finally have the 10Mbps you're legally entitled to. Too bad that's obsolete

Remember that security probe that ended with a sheriff cuffing the pen testers? The contract is now public so you can decide who screwed up

This image-recognition roulette is all fun and games... until it labels you a rape suspect, divorcee, or a racial slur

How to break out of a hypervisor: Abuse Qemu-KVM on-Linux pre-5.3 – or VMware with an AMD driver

How long is a lifetime? If you’re Comcast, it’s until a rival quits a city: ISP 'broke' price promise

You can trust us to run a digital currency – we're Facebook: Exec begs Europe not to ban Libra

India's Chandrayaan-2 and Vikram lander split amicably above Moon, SpaceX hops over Texas

Behind time and way over budget, but the James Webb Space Telescope has finally been put together

Eight-hour comms lags and shock discoveries: 30 years after Voyager 2 visited gas giant Neptune

Russian spacebot stranded outside the ISS as Soyuz fails to dock

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

End of an era for ULA as the last Delta IV Medium rocket leaves launch pad

Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Clip, clip, hooray: NASA says it will send Clipper probe to Europa, will attempt no landing there

Squabbles over NASA's lunar lander, Astrobotics takes a punt on ULA and India arrives at the Moon

Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules