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Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal

2 months 4 weeks ago
Criminal probe understood to have ended following settlement over 'inconsiderate' behavior

SAP paid former CTO Jürgen Müller €7.1 million ($7.5 million) after he left the German software company by mutual agreement in September last year.…

Lindsay Clark

Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running

2 months 4 weeks ago
You probably shouldn't, but if you must, you can

As the expiration date for Windows 10 presses ever closer, spare a thought for its classic forerunner. No, not Windows 8 – nobody ever loved that – but Windows 7, with its classic Start menu, tasteful transparency, lack of built-in advertising, and so on.…

Liam Proven

Polish space agency confirms cyberattack

2 months 4 weeks ago
Officials vow to uncover who was behind it

The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is currently dealing with a "cybersecurity incident," it confirmed via its X account on Sunday.…

Connor Jones

How the British Broke Their Own Economy

2 months 4 weeks ago
Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, now suffers from its opposite: profound energy shortages and deep affordability crises [non-paywalled link]. A new report titled "Foundations" identifies the root cause -- "it is difficult to build almost anything, anywhere" in the UK. Housing exemplifies this malaise. Since the 1990s, homeownership among young British workers has halved while housing prices doubled. The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act effectively nationalized development rights, requiring special permission for new construction and establishing restrictive "green belts." Despite Margaret Thatcher's market reforms, British house-building never recovered. This constrictive policy has stymied potential growth beyond housing, Atlantic reports. Cambridge remains a small city despite biotech breakthroughs that might have transformed it into a major hub. Transit infrastructure languishes -- Leeds is Europe's largest city without a metro system. Energy production has collapsed, with per capita electricity generation now roughly one-third of America's. Britain faces a self-imposed scarcity crisis. Environmental regulations, while beneficial, created a one-way system where lawsuits easily block development. As co-author Sam Bowman summarized: "Europe has an energy problem; the Anglosphere has a housing problem; Britain has both." The solution requires comprehensive reform-- overhauling the planning system, reducing anti-growth litigation, and encouraging energy production to unlock what the private sector "already wants to do."

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Lenovo teases solar-powered and folding screen concept laptops

2 months 4 weeks ago
Annual Barcelona tech fest brings demo devices that aren't commercially available... will they ever see light of day?

MWC  Lenovo has used the MWC event in Barcelona to demo some unusual concept devices including a laptop with a folding screen and another that can be powered by the sun.…

Dan Robinson

First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies

2 months 4 weeks ago
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech

Sunday March 2nd has become a notable day in humanity’s exploration of outer space, after Firefly Aerospace became the first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon.…

Simon Sharwood