Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply
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
Flight delayed? So are these codec updates A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport
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
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
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
Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers
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
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
What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens? A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger
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
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
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
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology Discord users asked to prove they’re adults get less intrusive options
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation Information is not forthcoming from this screen
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification Wheels turning on the road and in government
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
'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
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%
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
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning
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 smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper
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
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense
Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck
Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 2027
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon Turns out this space thing really is hard
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key
30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold