Japan abandons ancient traditions
Ditches floppy disks and CD-ROMs
Japan is planning to bin floppy disks and CD-ROMs, which until now were needed for sending some official papers to the government.
NMSU shuts down ancient OS/2 archive
End of a systems error
US uni NMSU will close its Hobbes OS/2 Archive on April 15, 2024.
Musk finds a human willing to trust him with their brain
Who would have thunk it
Tech tycoon Elon [look at me] Musk says his Neuralink firm has stuck one of its wireless brain chips in a human for the first time.
Apple sticks two fingers up at the EU
Firefox fuming
Apple's new rule changes in the EU mean browsers like Firefox can finally ditch Safari's engine on iOS. But a big cheese in the Mozzarella Foundation is Mozilla's Damiano DeMonte. He's "gutted" with the way things turned out.
Microsoft did not kill Unix
It was suicide
IT pundit Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols says it was not Microsoft’s evil business deals of the 1990s that killed off Unix but the Unix companies themselves.
Cloudy with a chance of rip-off
Ex-geek warns cloud could go the same way as mainframes
A former software engineer has warned that cloud setups could end up the same way as the old mainframes,
London desperately tries to claw back Brexit cash
Hundreds of thousands of EU drivers have been stung by hefty fines for driving in London's Ulez zone, thanks to a sneaky scheme by Transport for London (TfL).
Pastor and wife scam flock with fake crypto coin
Holy moly, it’s what Jesus would have done
A dodgy Denver, Colorado pastor had a cunning crypto plan to fleece his faithful flock.
Yet another battery holy grail
A team of Harvard boffins has developed a new type of battery that can be juiced up quickly, lasts for ages, and will work in the same way as all the other miracle battery developments we have seen.
Putin's tanks jam Musk's satellites
Musky Russian tank jam
The Russian Tsar Putin doesn't trust the space cowboy Elon [look at me] Musk to switch off his Starlink satellites when he asks and has installed jammers on his tanks to block them.