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Monday November 24, 2025. 12:30 AM
Theia crashed into earth and formed the moon, the theory goes. But then where did Theia come from? The lead author on a new study says 'The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner Solar System. Earth and Theia...
Sunday November 23, 2025. 11:46 PM
PLUS: CISA issues drone warning; China-linked DNS-hijacking malware; Prison for BTC Samourai; And more Infosec In Brief Researchers have urged users of the glob file pattern matching library to update their installations, after discovery of a years-old remote code execution...
In October cryptologist/CS professor Daniel J. Bernstein alleged that America's National Security Agency (and its UK counterpart GCHQ) were attempting to influence NIST to adopt weaker post-quantum cryptography standards without a 'hybrid' approach that would've also...
'Three years ago, Google removed JPEG XL support from Chrome, stating there wasn't enough interest at the time,' writes the blog Windows Report. 'That position has now changed.' In a recent note to developers, a Chrome team representative confirmed that work has restarted to ...
'Fresh from announcing it is building an AI browsing mode in Firefox and laying the groundwork for agentic interactions in the Firefox 145 release, the corp arm of Mozilla is now flexing its AI muscles in the direction of those more likely to care,' writes the blog OMG...
Long-time Slashdot reader jenningsthecat shared this article from IEEE Spectrum: By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of rock and water as a natural containment system comparable to concrete...
With some animated graphics, CNN 'reimagined' what three of America's busiest air and road travel routes would look like with high-speed trains, for 'a glimpse into a faster, more connected future.' The journey from New York City to Chicago could take just over six hours by...
'Security, development, and AI now move as one,' says Microsoft's director of cloud/AI security product marketing. Microsoft and GitHub 'have launched a native integration between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security that aims to address what one...
'On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth,' reports the Washington Post: The plant will tap into the infernal energy of Newberry Volcano, 'one of the largest and most hazardous active volcanoes in the United...
Protect your home against dust, pets, allergies, and more with air purifiers tested firsthand by WIRED.
Panasonic’s new flagship OLED is one of the best TVs I’ve ever seen (or heard).
'The internet did transform work — but not the way 1998 thought...' argues the Wall Street Journal. 'The internet slipped inside almost every job and rewired how work got done.' So while the number of single-task jobs like travel agent dropped, most jobs 'are bundles of...
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.
Investing in a great surround sound system is the best way to get the movie theater experience at home. Here’s everything you need to know to get started.
A lot of companies are turning to employee monitoring tools to make sure workers aren't slacking off The COVID-19 lockdown meant a surge in remote work, and the trend toward remote and hybrid workplaces has persisted long after the pandemic receded. That has changed the...
'Copilot Actions on Windows 11' is currently available in Insider builds (version 26220.7262) as part of Copilot Labs, according to a recent report, 'and is off by default, requiring admin access to set it up.' But maybe it's off for a good reason...besides the fact that it...
A promotional video for Amazon's Kiro software development system took a unique approach, writes GeekWire. 'Instead of product diagrams or keynote slides, a crew from Seattle's Packrat creative studio used action figures on a miniature set to create a stop-motion...
A week ago Bitcoin was at $93,714. Saturday it dropped to $85,300. Late Thursday, market researcher Ed Yardeni blamed some of Thursday's stock market sell-off on 'the ongoing plunge in bitcoin's price,' reports Fortune: 'There has been a strong correlation between it and the ...
'PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a new standards-compliant URI parser,' reports the Register, 'marking one of the scripting language's more substantial updates... ' The pipe operator allows function calls to be chained together, which avoids...
In a 2023 pitch to investors, a 'well-financed, highly credentialed' startup named Stardust aimed for a 'gradual temperature reduction demonstration' in 2027, according to a massive new 9,600-word article from Politico. ('Annually dispersing ~1 million tons of sun-reflecting ...
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