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

'This is why we can't have nice things'

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Google employee helped UK government switch from disastrous COVID-19 strategy, according to Dominic Cummings

Explosive Whitehall testimony also reveals former Faculty data scientist Ben Warner’s influence on decision making during national emergency

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The Epic vs Apple trial is wrapping up, but the battle has just begun

For now it's full send... but what will things look like when the smoke clears?

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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

What do I do for a living? I'm a marketing exec. Yeah, didn't think you'd have any questions

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Seeking an escape from the UK? Regulations aimed at rocket and satellite launches from 2022 have arrived

Unclear if 'space' is on the green, amber or red list

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Astroboffins think strangely porous boulders found on asteroid Ryugu may be the stuff of proto-planets

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

Raiding the iPhone's parts bin: $$. Making sure users can't upgrade a desktop computer? Priceless

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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

Drive looks to be an industrial model, so probably not a wider threat

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Pakistan lures '19 mobe makers' to open local factories

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Computer Misuse Act: Tell the Home Office infosec needs a public interest defence in law, says CyberUp campaign

Bug-hunting industry wants to know a bit more before doing that, though

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Contract killer: Certified PDFs can be secretly tampered with during the signing process, boffins find

24 out of 26 tools vulnerable – with bonus JavaScript attack for Adobe

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VMware reveals critical vCenter hole it says ‘needs to be considered at once’

Unauthenticated remote code execution possible thanks to vSphere Client bug

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US Patent Office to take only DOCX in future – or PDFs if you pay extra

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Insurance startup backtracks on running videos of claimants through AI lie detector

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

Gentoo and Raku call foul

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

Faster WebAssembly, and last stages of trial to test Trust Tokens

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