Posts by Aladdin Sane

Hate your IT job? Sick of computers? Good news: An electronics-frying Sun superflare may hit 'in next 100 years'

Nope, we're stuffed, shrieks Apple channel as iPhone shipments enter a double-digit spiral

TSB appoints new tech transformation chief cuz last tech transformation went really, really well

Bear insistent on playing tonsil tennis with you? Just bite its tongue off

Judge slaps down Meg Whitman for accusing Autonomy boss of being a 'fraudster who committed fraud'

Church roofs? Nyet, say Russian scrap thieves, we're taking this bridge

Heathrow Airport drops £50m on CT scanners to help smooth passage through security checks

'Happy to throw Leo under the bus', Meg Whitman told HP after Autonomy buyout

Ex-Autonomy CFO Hussain will not defend himself in the High Court

UK's internet registry prepares a £100m windfall for its board members – and everyone else will pay for it

Controversial American bigwig in London... no, not Trump: HPE ex-CEO Meg Whitman to give Autonomy trial evidence

Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand

I'll just clear down the database before break. What's the worst that could happen? It's a trial

Planes, fails and automobiles: Overseas callout saved by gentle thrust of server CD tray

Introducing 'freedom gas' – a bit like the 2003 deep-fried potato variety, only even worse for you

Truth, Justice, and the American Huawei: Chinese tech giant tries to convince US court ban is unconstitutional

Egg on North Face: Wikipedia furious after glamp-wear giant swaps article pics for sneaky ad shots – and even brags about it in a video

Ikea hopes to spare shoppers the one-way Helvete of its stores with ÅR app overhaul

If servers go down but no one hears them, did they really fail? Think about it over lunch

WikiLeaks boss Assange acted as a foreign spy, Uncle Sam exclaims in fresh rap sheet

Want to train a dragon? You'll need 500 million files, 730TB of data, 54,000 CPU cores...

Third time's a charm? SpaceX hopes to launch 60 Starlink broadband sats into orbit tonight

This is a sett-up! Mum catches badger feasting on contents of freezer

UK Space Agency cracks open its wallet, fishes out a paltry £2m for Brit plans to return to orbit

50 years ago: Apollo 10 takes an unplanned spin above the lunar surface – and sh!t gets sweary

Swedish prosecutors request Assange detention: First step to European arrest warrant

Big payout for Dell, Apple et al as Toshiba Mem 'prepares' to buy them out ahead of IPO

Boeing admits 737 Max sims didn't accurately reproduce what flying without MCAS was like

Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy: Run Huawei, Google Play, turns away, from Huawei... turns away

Dedicated techie risks life and limb to locate office conference phone hiding under newspaper

Cray's found a super scooper, $1.3bn's gonna buy you. HPE's the one

Want a good Android smartphone without the $1,000+ price tag? Then buy Google's Pixel 3a