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06  october     20h32
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb
   Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity
    07h15
Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station
   No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety
    02h06
Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw
   Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem
05  october     14h29
Musk follows Trump’s lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand
   Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply
04  october     08h29
Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project 40
   The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today
03  october     12h02
Clever database, but can it run Doom?
   Reg hack learns the meaning of ’Be careful what you wish for’
02  october     08h30
Flight delayed? So are these codec updates
   A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarà International Airport
01  october     08h29
Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes
   So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda
30  september     20h39
YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator
   If you can’t afford a Curta, we still don’t recommend trying this: It’ll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have
    11h29
Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates
   A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption
    06h22
Airbus gets a new freighter - and its giant door - into the air for the first time
   The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers
29  september     17h00
Boeing’s Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business
   Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well
    12h01
Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short
   SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three
    09h15
What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow’s information screens?
   A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger
26  september     08h08
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites
   Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats
25  september     09h15
Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It’s super effective
   Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation
24  september     16h34
iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink
   3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance
23  september     16h59
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology
   Discord users asked to prove they’re adults get less intrusive options
    16h33
Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper
   Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance
    12h40
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix - and now you can watch
   Yeah, you’d like that, wouldn’t you?
    09h15
BT Tower’s rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth
   MCR’s hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored
    08h30
UK’s uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes
   XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests
    04h32
Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
   Meet superintelligence’ and the globalist scheme’ - probably a polite diplomatic letter - to control it
21  september     12h01
NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon
   Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner’s future remains uncertain
    09h45
It’s raining, the transport isn’t working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity
   Please release me, let me close...
18  september     09h29
British Army spends 16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky
   Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas
16  september     15h51
Nine-year-old runs up 118,000 bill on dad’s corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
   He’ll need to earn around 13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there’s that free labor to look forward to
    12h46
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22
   Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific
15  september     17h39
Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow
   HALEU is still being produced at a snail’s pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up - eventually
    12h00
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace
   Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?
    10h31
UK’s Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off
   The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you’re old enough to buy booze
13  september     13h00
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum’s one-bit speaker
   Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware
12  september     09h00
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation
   Information is not forthcoming from this screen
11  september     16h50
Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists
   Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures
    16h03
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm
   Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect 100 and lets its neurons make the trades
09  september     16h56
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft
   Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded
08  september     16h56
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer
   Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project
07  september     15h53
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla’s Cybercab self-certification
   Wheels turning on the road and in government
06  september     08h09
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
   Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
04  september     10h00
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London’s O2
   The new extreme sport: Windows Updates
    08h30
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo
   Project PANOPTES puts 5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense
03  september     12h00
Uber rapture’ leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda
   No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets
    08h30
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship
   Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%
02  september     20h34
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip
   Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend
01  september     09h15
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender
   Or possibly AI , it’s hard to tell behind the firewall warning
31  august     12h33
From watches to passwords on paper, everything that’s old is new again
   This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP’s 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the...
29  august     10h15
Startup bags 7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
   Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle
    07h28
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
   At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
28  august     19h46
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?
   Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon’s expense
27  august     21h00
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims
   Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their...
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