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Who gave dusty Soviet-era spacecraft that unwanted lick of paint? It was an idiot, with a spraycan, in Baikonur

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Be careful, 007. It’s just had a new coat of paint: Today is D-day for would-be Qs to apply to MI6

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Apple's iPad Pro on a stick, um, we mean M1 iMac scores 2 out of 10 for repairability

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Home Office slams PNC tech team: 'Inadequate testing' of new code contributed to loss of 413,000 records

Poorly defined business requirements, failure in documentation, independent report finds

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Cisco names Micron as supplier of SSDs that make Nexus and Firepower kit snooze

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After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for 'policy violations'

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Big changes for devs: Chrome 91 lands with WebAssembly SIMD, JSON modules, clipboard file support

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