Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email
AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere
IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues
Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away
UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts
AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware
Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results
Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time
Junior sysadmin’s first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules
Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe
Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter
Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away
This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY Chromium extension swaps promos for John Carpenter-style subliminal slogans
Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine Class A drugs loaded instead of A4
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu
Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope
The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.
London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London’s West End
Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive
Lego throws its own Hail Mary Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen
Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?
IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope
UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them
DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not
More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev
Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest
Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show
Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend
SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day
BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences
Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn
NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume
NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess
You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'
Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom
NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer Tests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown
NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms
Would you like fries with that terminal? Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't
Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam
Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start
Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices
Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many We've all been there
Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?