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But will there be any ‘nauts left on the ISS after AI bot CIMON has finished with them? A resumption of crewed flights from US soil has inched closer after NASA named a date for SpaceX’s Demo-1. But the latest Delta IV Heavy remains firmly earthbound following the second and latest abort. First SpaceX commercial...

But how Earth ended up with all its water is still a mystery NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered water on the asteroid Bennu less than a week after its arrival at the hunk of space rock. The journey to Bennu began over two years ago when OSIRIS-Rex left Earth, it has been chugging along since...

Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and other identify lots of problems, few solutions If ever there was doubt that 2018 is the year of fear, it was confirmed by a panel discussion involving the two men that are credited with inventing the internet and the world wide web. Inventor of the internet protocols TCP/IP Vint Cerf...

52.5 million accounts at risk, tens of people are worried Google says it will be speeding up the dismantling of its Google+ social network following the discovery of a new security bug that affected 52.5 million users. The Chocolate Factory maintains that it has no evidence that the vulnerability, which was found in the API...

Malware hides cheap Android clicks as high-end Apple traffic An enterprising malware writer has been masquerading infected Android devices as Apple gear in order to make a few extra bucks. Researchers with SophosLabs say the Andr/Clickr-ad malware takes advantage of the demand for ads that reach iPhone owners, as advertisers believe Apple fanbois are more...

DNS overseer faces probe over decision to award TLD to dot-com giant Analysis An ugly struggle over the .Web top-level domain may soon spill into public view again, after one of the companies vying for control of the dot-word demanded an independent review of DNS overlord ICANN’s handling of the saga. More than two years...

Web admin blames public Whois and lack of 2FA The Linux.org domain was hijacked on Friday morning, with the hacker plastering the message “G3T 0WNED L1NUX N3RDZ” complete with expletives and a very NSFW image (a hairy asshole). The real administrator of the site, Mike McLagan, immediately ‘fessed up on Reddit, and said the vandal...

1,000mph dreams dashed as administrators throw in the towel Bloodhound, a British project to strap a rocket to a car and fling it at the horizon, is officially dead, as administrators finally pulled the plug on the venture. The project entered administration in October and now, alas, it looks as though time has run out...

So much for the Apophis Squad’s Twitter boasts A teenage bomb hoaxer from Watford who taunted the UK’s National Crime Agency on Twitter while pretending to be a hacker crew called Apophis Squad has been jailed for three years. George Duke-Cohan, 19, from the village of Garston, near Watford, just north of London, previously pleaded...

Bring your own AWS. Or let us take care of everything. For a fee The team at Red Hat has continued its toiling in the Big Blue shadow of IBM, and has churned out some tweaks to its OpenShift Dedicated platform and also sliced a few prices for the Kubernetes service. Red Hat’s OpenShift Container...