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The European Space Agency's short film Space Debris: Is it a Crisis? highlights the growing danger of orbital clutter, warning that '70% of the 20,000 satellites ever launched remain in space today, orbiting alongside hundreds of millions of fragments left behind by...

Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure Comment Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it's not floods or fires causing most outages anymore -...

Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have...

An art studio hopes its concept for a phone case that can flip around to cover most of your screen will help cure your screen addiction.

Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind Opinion Former UK prime minister Tony Blair became famous for standing shoulder to shoulder with allies, even though the fallout from the Iraq war forever sullied his...

Amazon and United Launch Alliance will launch 27 full-scale satellites on April 9 as part of Amazon's Project Kuiper, marking the company's first major step toward building a global satellite internet network to rival SpaceX's Starlink. GeekWire reports: ULA said the...

Stamp it out: Infostealer malware at German outfit may be culprit Updated Britain's Royal Mail is investigating after a crew calling itself GHNA claimed it was selling 144GB of the delivery giant’s customer data, perhaps after acquiring it with the same stolen credentials...

The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions The Open InfraFoundation has delivered a new version of OpenStack named “Epoxy” and thinks it’s an even better option for those seeking a VMware alternative.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A 'vibe coded' AI app developed by entrepreneur and Y Combinator group partner Tom Blomfield has generated recipes that gave users instruction on how to make 'Cyanide Ice Cream,' 'Thick White Cum Soup,' and 'Uranium Bomb,'...

GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.…

Apple, Amazon, and other tech companies reliant on global supply chains stand to lose the most from President Trump’s trade policies, but some software firms expect more demand for their services.

Robotics and machine learning engineer Naveen Kul developed WattWise, a lightweight open-source CLI tool that monitors power usage via smart plugs and throttles system performance based on electricity pricing and peak hours. Tom's Hardware reports: The simple program, called ...