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1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines

Fri, 2025-09-12 14:30
Dorm management refuses to cover costs after payment system borked

More than a thousand university students in the Netherlands must continue to travel to wash their clothes after their building management company failed to bring its borked smart laundry machines back online.…

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Think tank warns China's polysilicon subsidies are frying Western fabs

Fri, 2025-09-12 13:45
US boffins say Beijing's bargain wafers are burning rivals below cost

China is moving to dominate the global market for polysilicon, a key material used in chips, by flooding the industry with cheap, subsidised product to drive producers in other countries out of business.…

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US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen

Fri, 2025-09-12 13:00
Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop

The US House Appropriations Committee has approved a bill that would maintain NASA's budget at the same level as last year. However, lawmakers missed an opportunity to strike out the proposed $85 million relocation of a space vehicle to Houston.…

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I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version

Fri, 2025-09-12 12:30
The first distro vendor to announces its move says nein, danke

The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.…

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