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Silos of paper scans, photos, forms, and other unstructured data blight today's corps. How are you tearing them down?

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Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket

Like Visual Studio Code and your data lives in SQL Server? Microsoft has something for you

This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats

Just a friendly reminder there were no at-the-time classified secrets on Clinton's email server. Yes, the one everyone lost their minds over

ATTK of the Pwns: Trend Micro's antivirus tools 'will run malware – if its filename is cmd.exe'

Row erupts over who to blame after NordVPN says: One of our servers was hacked via remote management tool

Avast lobs intruders into the 'Abiss': Miscreants tried to tamper with CCleaner after sneaking into network via VPN

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GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

Euro data watchdog has 'serious concerns' as to whether EU deals with Microsoft obey GDPR

Ow-wei, says Huawei as Chinese giant admits US sanctions smacked it right in the phone biz

We read the Brexit copyright notices so you don't have to… No more IP freely, ta very much

Pack your pyjamas, Zuck: US bill threatens execs with prison for data failures

The sound of silence is actually the sound of a malicious smart speaker app listening in on you

Google ads from the po-po can prevent vengeful gamer nerds going full script kiddie – research

Microsoft Surface Pro X: Windows on Arm usable at long last – but, boy, are you gonna pay for it

A History of (Computer) Violence: Wait. Before you whack it again, try caressing the mouse

Geek's Guide

Yay! The ozone layer hole the smallest it's ever been seen. That's not necessarily good...

Rocket Lab plans to send small satellites to the Moon with Photon

Guess what's on the receiving end of more NASA dollars for SLS?

What's the scoop with Mars InSight's mired mole? It's digging again, thanks to trowel trickery

Er, hi. Small Q. Where's our billion-ish dollars gone? We summarize Bitcoin exchange's subpoena requests

Samsung on fridge cert error: Someone tried to view 'unsavoury content' in middle of John Lewis

Don't fall for the hype around OpenAI's Rubik's Cube playing robot, Berkeley bans facial recognition, and more

Guess who's dreaming of facial-recog body cams now? US border cops: AI tech sought to scrutinize travelers

Verity Stob

I discovered the world's last video rental kiosk and it would make a great spaceship

We're going deeper Underground: Vulture clicks claws over London's hidden tracks

Telstra chairman: If those darn kids can earn $5m playing Fortnite, why can't execs?

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

Science

Yay! The ozone layer hole the smallest it's ever been seen. That's not necessarily good...

It's all thanks to this year's 'unsually wonky' polar vortex

22 Oct 05:04 | 3

Science

Rocket Lab plans to send small satellites to the Moon with Photon

Only really, really little astronauts need apply

21 Oct 15:00 | 7

Science

Guess what's on the receiving end of more NASA dollars for SLS?

Hint: It rhymes with 'throwing' as lawmakers baulk at lobbing an unknown amount of cash into the 2024 lunar bonfire

19 Oct 14:02 | 23

Science

What's the scoop with Mars InSight's mired mole? It's digging again, thanks to trowel trickery

Heat probe tentatively resumes journey 5m into the red planet

18 Oct 17:00 | 38

Science

Hubble grabs first snap of interstellar comet... or at least that's what we hope this smudge is

PicEveryone knows the Ramans do everything in threes

17 Oct 05:07 | 72

Science

Some assembly required as Dream Chaser mini-shuttle's empty husk arrives in Colorado

Sierra Nevada Corporation eagerly awaits other bits to come in the post

16 Oct 13:09 | 24

Science

So, what's fashion going to look like on the Moon in 2024? NASA's ready to show you the goods

Hope you look good in orange

16 Oct 06:51 | 64

Science

Imagine finding this bad boy in your shower: Brit startup pulls the sheets off Moon spider mech

RoundupFour-legged robot will scuttle a grand total of 10m

15 Oct 11:34 | 45

Science

Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

AnalysisBoffins claim code was fine... when they wrote it

15 Oct 04:56 | 156

Science

RIP: First space-walk badass Alexei Leonov, who made it to 85 despite best efforts of Soviet machine

ObitLooking back on Voskhod, Salyut, Soyuz, Apollo and having the right stuff

14 Oct 11:49 | 19

Science

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

ESTECTop brass on keeping ISS lights on and life after Brexit

10 Oct 12:45 | 9

Science

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Goodenough for Goodenough as boffin is still working at 97

09 Oct 20:23 | 69

Science

Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

Whew, you're a bit of a rust bucket, aren't you?! Come with us

09 Oct 17:00 | 39

Science

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

ESTECWalt Cunningham and Rusty Schweickart take a moment to chat with 'the enemy'

09 Oct 10:46 | 131

Science

A trio of boffins scoop the Nobel Prize in physics for the first exoplanet discovery and big bang model

James Peebles gets half, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz each bag a quarter

08 Oct 21:25 | 6

Science

Tough luck, Jupiter, you've lost your crown for now: Boffins show Saturn has more moons

All hail the new moon king

08 Oct 05:03 | 44

Science

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

RoundupPlus: Space suits, walks and a new Crew Dragon

07 Oct 13:30 | 69

Science

Diggerland comes to Mars as boffins battle to save InSight's mole

Robot arm to give stricken burrower a helping scoop

07 Oct 10:30 | 17

Science

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

Only four billion years to wait to watch the pair duking it out

04 Oct 09:20 | 66

Science

RAF pilot seconded to Virgin Orbit for three years of launching rockets from a 747

Alright job for some, innit

03 Oct 12:24 | 47

Science

Cassini may be dead – but its data shows basic building blocks of life spewing from Enceladus

It's another encouraging sign that Saturn's most interesting moon could be habitable

03 Oct 09:01 | 32

Tune in online today: Find out how to smooth your path to a hybrid or multi-cloud environment

SAP and Microsoft pucker up, prepare for public cloud love under Project Embrace

Don't look too closely at what is seeping out of the big Dutch pipe

Silos of paper scans, photos, forms, and other unstructured data blight today's corps. How are you tearing them down?

New Teams goodies: Shared calendars? No. Private channels? No. Hold please ♩ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫

Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket

Like Visual Studio Code and your data lives in SQL Server? Microsoft has something for you

This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats

Just a friendly reminder there were no at-the-time classified secrets on Clinton's email server. Yes, the one everyone lost their minds over

ATTK of the Pwns: Trend Micro's antivirus tools 'will run malware – if its filename is cmd.exe'

Row erupts over who to blame after NordVPN says: One of our servers was hacked via remote management tool

Avast lobs intruders into the 'Abiss': Miscreants tried to tamper with CCleaner after sneaking into network via VPN

Soup up your serverless smarts with our practical hands-on workshops: Sign up now and we'll see you next month

GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

Euro data watchdog has 'serious concerns' as to whether EU deals with Microsoft obey GDPR

Ow-wei, says Huawei as Chinese giant admits US sanctions smacked it right in the phone biz

We read the Brexit copyright notices so you don't have to… No more IP freely, ta very much

Pack your pyjamas, Zuck: US bill threatens execs with prison for data failures

The sound of silence is actually the sound of a malicious smart speaker app listening in on you

Google ads from the po-po can prevent vengeful gamer nerds going full script kiddie – research

Microsoft Surface Pro X: Windows on Arm usable at long last – but, boy, are you gonna pay for it

A History of (Computer) Violence: Wait. Before you whack it again, try caressing the mouse

Yay! The ozone layer hole the smallest it's ever been seen. That's not necessarily good...

Rocket Lab plans to send small satellites to the Moon with Photon

Guess what's on the receiving end of more NASA dollars for SLS?

What's the scoop with Mars InSight's mired mole? It's digging again, thanks to trowel trickery

Er, hi. Small Q. Where's our billion-ish dollars gone? We summarize Bitcoin exchange's subpoena requests

Samsung on fridge cert error: Someone tried to view 'unsavoury content' in middle of John Lewis

Don't fall for the hype around OpenAI's Rubik's Cube playing robot, Berkeley bans facial recognition, and more

Guess who's dreaming of facial-recog body cams now? US border cops: AI tech sought to scrutinize travelers

I discovered the world's last video rental kiosk and it would make a great spaceship

We're going deeper Underground: Vulture clicks claws over London's hidden tracks

Telstra chairman: If those darn kids can earn $5m playing Fortnite, why can't execs?

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

Science

Yay! The ozone layer hole the smallest it's ever been seen. That's not necessarily good...

Rocket Lab plans to send small satellites to the Moon with Photon

Guess what's on the receiving end of more NASA dollars for SLS?

What's the scoop with Mars InSight's mired mole? It's digging again, thanks to trowel trickery

Hubble grabs first snap of interstellar comet... or at least that's what we hope this smudge is

Some assembly required as Dream Chaser mini-shuttle's empty husk arrives in Colorado

So, what's fashion going to look like on the Moon in 2024? NASA's ready to show you the goods

Imagine finding this bad boy in your shower: Brit startup pulls the sheets off Moon spider mech

Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

RIP: First space-walk badass Alexei Leonov, who made it to 85 despite best efforts of Soviet machine

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

A trio of boffins scoop the Nobel Prize in physics for the first exoplanet discovery and big bang model

Tough luck, Jupiter, you've lost your crown for now: Boffins show Saturn has more moons

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

Diggerland comes to Mars as boffins battle to save InSight's mole

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

RAF pilot seconded to Virgin Orbit for three years of launching rockets from a 747

Cassini may be dead – but its data shows basic building blocks of life spewing from Enceladus

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Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket

Don't look too closely at what is seeping out of the big Dutch pipe

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Iran? More like Ivan: Brit and US spies say they can see through Turla hacking group's facade

We read the Brexit copyright notices so you don't have to… No more IP freely, ta very much

The sound of silence is actually the sound of a malicious smart speaker app listening in on you

Google ads from the po-po can prevent vengeful gamer nerds going full script kiddie – research

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NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings

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Astroboffins baffled after spotting solar system with great gas giant that shouldn't exist

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