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Musk Is Messing With The Cosmic Dawn. Will Alien Hunters Save The Day For All Mankind?

Science friction at the far end of time for SpaceX and astronomy Opinion  Elon Musk's Starlink flying circus is many t... Read more

Sh!t Happens, So Microsoft Is Paying Biz To Flush Its Carbon Sins Underground

Organic waste to be pumped out of sight as part of 4.9M-tonne CO2 removal deal Microsoft has signed a contract with a c... Read more

Stop Flooding Us With AI-based Grant Applications, Begs Health Institute

Already reeling from staff cuts, the health agency is choking on slop ai-pocalypse  Amid expectations that the Trump a... Read more

And Now For Our Annual Tape Is Still Not Dead Update

176.5 Exabytes of the stuff shipped in 2024, another double-digit jump Shipments of tape storage media increased again ... Read more

OpenAI Sweet-talks Oracle Into Another 4.5GW Worth Of Stargate Datacenters, Assuming The Check Clears

Who's picking up the tab again? AI hype man and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has convinced his buddies at Oracle to bring an a... Read more

Biden Broadband Benchmarks Are BS, Says Trump FCC

No more consideration of affordability or 1 Gbps speed goal if Chairman Carr gets his way The next edition of the Feder... Read more

How To Get Rid Of Useless Keys In Windows And Turn Them Into Something Helpful

Turn that Copilot or Scroll Lock key into a media control or extended character. HANDS ON  In the era of laptops and t... Read more

How AI Chip Upstart FuriosaAI Won Over LG With Its Power-sipping Design

Testing shows RNGD chips up to 2.25x higher performance per watt than.... five-year-old Nvidia silicon South Korean AI ... Read more

Humans Can Be Tracked With Unique 'fingerprint' Based On How Their Bodies Block Wi-Fi Signals

Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspot Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create... Read more

UK Government Swoons Over OpenAI In Legally Meaningless Love-in

Credulous minister claims MoU – not contract – with chatbot biz could help 'fix NHS' and 'drive economic growth' Th... Read more

The Real Reason Why Trump Is Killing The Mauna Loa Observatory In Hawai'i

The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions Column  When you don't like the... Read more

Mike Lynch Estate Owes HPE $943M Over Autonomy Fallout

High Court judge slashes tech titan's $4B damages claim by almost 80% A High Court judge has ruled that the estate of A... Read more

UK To Ban Ransomware Payments By Public Sector Organizations

'We're going to smash the business model' NHS, councils, and schools told The UK government is proposing to "ban" publi... Read more

Nvidia Extends CUDA Support To RISC-V Just In Time For Next Wave Of Chinese CPUs

The prime beneficiary of the AI boom has global ambitions Nvidia is officially bringing its CUDA software stack to RISC... Read more

Vintage Computing Boffin Releases Expansive Intel 286 Test Suite

A desire for cycle accuracy results in 32 million recorded CPU states derived entirely from original hardware The devel... Read more