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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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