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Hubble Space Telescope to switch to backup memory module after instrument computer halts

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Intrepid Change.org user launches petition to make Jeff Bezos' space trip one-way

Jeff's younger brother and mystery hyper-rich paying passenger may end up as unfortunate collateral damage

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SpaceX spat with Viasat: Rival accused of abusing legislation to halt Elon's Starlink expansion

Viasat's 'newfound environmentalism is belied by its actions at every turn'

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UK spends £36m on 18 little 'bullet-proof' boats to protect Royal Navy assets

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Spacewalk veterans take a trip outside the ISS to pump up the power with new solar arrays

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China launching first crew to its own space station on Thursday

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China's latest online crackdown targets mean girl online fan clubs that turn toxic

China’s fan economy is the new business model for artists and brands - and it sometimes gets ugly

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School teacher accused of pocketing $1m+ in insider trading using tips from Silicon Valley pal

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Ryuk ransomware recovery cost us $8.1m and counting, says Baltimore school authority

Spreadsheet breaks down spend on staving off future badness

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We've found another reason not to use Microsoft's Paint 3D – researchers

Scream if you wanna go raster: Vulnerability uncovered in unloved software

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Cuffed: Ukraine police collar six Clop ransomware gang suspects in joint raids with South Korean cops

Cobalt Strike and Flawedammyy RAT named as favoured tools

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Papa don't breach: UK data watchdog fines that other pizza place £10,000 over unsolicited marketing blitz

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Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers

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Systemd 249 release candidate includes better support for immutable OSes and provisioning images

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Open-source projects glibc and gnulib look to sever copyright ties with Free Software Foundation

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British Medical Association calls for clarity on patient deadline for opting out of NHS Digital's GP data grab

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Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release

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Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different

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Bad Apple Safari update breaks IndexedDB JavaScript API, upsets web apps

Developers fed up with iGiant neglecting non-native software

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Funny how Sir Tim Berners-Lee, famous for hyperlinks, is into NFTs, glorified hyperlinks

Source code auction 'similar to selling an autograph copy of a book'

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Indian tax authorities summon Infosys to explain glitchy tax portal’s obvious shortcomings

Services giant given a week’s notice of interrogation as e-tax service continues to splutter

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VMware’s ESXi-on-Arm adds support for two-socket servers, Nvidia boards

Ampere gets more love and the Raspberry Pi gets some stability tweaks for you virtual adventurers out there

 
 
  
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