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Monday August 11, 2025. 10:21 AM
Wedneday Beyond Meat 'missed Wall Street estimates for second-quarter revenue,' reports Reuters. 'Consumers' growing concerns about processed foods are severely diminishing the appeal of Beyond Meat's product line, causing retailers and quick service restaurants to pull back ...
Last week saw the 80th anniversary of a turning point in World War II: the day America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 'Twelve men were on that flight...' remembers the online magazine Mental Floss, adding 'Almost all had something to say after the war.' The group was...
Since 2023 the Python Software Foundation has had a Security Developer-in-Residence (sponsored by the Open Source Security Foundation's vulnerability-finding 'Alpha-Omega' project). And he's just published a new 11-page white paper about open source's 'phantom dependencies'...
'What happens when cybercriminals stop thinking small and start thinking like a Fortune 500 company?' asks a blog post from Koi Security. 'You get GreedyBear, the attack group that just redefined industrial-scale crypto theft.' '150 weaponized Firefox extensions...
Imagine this. Lightning sparks a wildfire, but 'within seconds, a satellite dish swirling overhead picks up on the anomaly and triggers an alarm,' writes the Los Angeles Times. 'An autonomous helicopter takes flight and zooms toward the fire, using sensors to locate the...
Sunday August 10, 2025. 11:25 PM
'It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam,' writes this report from ScienceDaily, 'and hurtling through space at the speed of light toward a black hole, on a mission to probe the very fabric of space and time and...
The Wall Street Journal has found 'dozens of instances in recent months in which ChatGPT made delusional, false and otherworldly claims to users who appeared to believe them.' For example, 'You're not crazy. You're cosmic royalty in human skin...' In one exchange lasting...
'Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers...' reports the Associated Press. 'Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard...
The BBC reports: A meteorite that crashed into a home in the U.S. is older than planet Earth, scientists have said... Researchers at the University of Georgia examined a fragment of the rock that pierced the roof of a home in the city of McDonough [30 miles south of Georgia, ...
Plasma 6.4.5 is coming September 9th, reports Neowin. But they also report that the KDE team is already focusing on other upcoming release: Starting with KDE Frameworks, KDE's collection of foundational libraries, version 6.18 promises to let you do something with that...
One of America's largest solar + battery storage projects 'is now fully online in Mojave, California,' reports Electrek: Arevon Energy's Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project combines 758 megawatts (MWdc) of solar with 300 MW/1,200 megawatt hours of battery storage. Eland 1...
Thursday saw the release of Rust 1.89.0 But this week the Rust Foundation also released its second comprehensive annual technology report. A Rust Foundation announcement shares some highlights: - Trusted Publishing [GitHub Actions authentication using cryptographically...
xA California man sued Microsoft Thursday over its plan to stop supporting Windows 10 on October 14th, reports Courthouse News Though Windows 11 was launched nearly four years ago, many of its billion or so worldwide users are clinging to the decade-old Windows 10......
AOL (now a Yahoo subsidiary) just announced its dial-up internet service will be discontinued at the end of September. 'The change also means the retirement of the AOL Dialer software and the AOL Shield browser, both designed for older operating systems and slow connections...
Last month Microsoft pledged $4 billion (in cash and AI/cloud technology) to 'advance' AI education in K-12 schools, community and technical colleges, and nonprofits (according to a blog post by Microsoft President Brad Smith). But in the launch event video, Smith also says...
After five months on the International Space Station, four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule named Endurance, reports Space.com. It was NASA's 10th commercial crew rotation mission: The flight launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...
'Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel,' reports Phoronix: Only on Friday were the RISC-V code updates submitted for the Linux 6.17 merge window. The Linux 6.17 merge window is expected to wrap up on Sunday...
Saturday August 9, 2025. 11:45 PM
'Heather Adkins, Google's vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software,' reports TechCrunch: Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the...
A professional trapper had one question about the wild pig he'd found in California. Why was its flesh blue? The Los Angeles Times explains: [California's Department of Fish and Wildlife] is now warning trappers and hunters to keep an eye out for possibly contaminated...
'Benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis found that only five of the top 15 AI models are open source,' reports the Washington Post, 'and all were developed by Chinese AI companies....' 'Now some American executives, investors and academics are endorsing a plan to make U.S....
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