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Thursday January 1, 2026. 08:00 AM
NASA is closing its largest research library at the Goddard Space Flight Center amid budget cuts and campus consolidation, putting tens of thousands of largely non-digitized historical and scientific documents at risk of being warehoused or discarded. The New York Times...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For a while, it seemed the notion that light drinking was good for the heart had gone by the wayside, debunked by new studies and overshadowed by warnings that alcohol causes cancer. Now the American Heart...
For a Walt Disney World worker trying to stop a runaway boulder from rolling into the crowd, the good news is that it was a fake prop boulder. The bad news is that it still weighed 400 pounds and left him bruised and bloodied. — Read the rest The post Disney worker hurt...
IBM is urging customers to quickly patch a critical vulnerability in its API Connect platform that could allow remote attackers to bypass authentication. The company describes API Connect as a full lifecycle application programming interface (API) gateway used “to create,...
Warren Buffett is retiring as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at age 95, ending a 55-year run that reshaped how generations of Americans think about investing. 'The 95-year-old, often referred to as the 'Oracle of Omaha' and the 'billionaire next door,' will relinquish the title...
Pibroch(CiH) writes: According to the obituary linked, Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame has died. The obituary states he passed Dec 28, 2025. Cheifet and Digital Research founder Gary Kildall hosted the public television show The Computer Chronicles starting in...
The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of tech startups are stocking offices with free nicotine pouches as founders and employees chase sharper focus and stamina in hyper-competitive AI-era work environments. The Wall Street Journal reports: Earlier this year, ...
There is a version of Brett Kavanaugh permanently preserved in the congressional record, tearfully explaining slang like 'boofing,' angrily insisting he liked beer, and treating a Supreme Court confirmation hearing like a disciplinary hearing he resented attending. That man...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cyber Press: A newly uncovered Chinese threat group, DarkSpectre, has been linked to one of the most widespread browser-extension malware operations to date, compromising more than 8.8 million users of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera ...
OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history, with average stock-based compensation hitting roughly $1.5 million per worker in 2025. 'That is more than seven times higher than the stock-based pay Google disclosed in 2003, before it filed for an...
Wednesday December 31, 2025. 11:52 PM
Whatever you intended to do when you opened a new tab, nothing stops you in your tracks quite like short-form video. The format, popularized by Tik Tok, 'degrades our capacity to retain intentions,' according to research from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. —...
Reuters reports that the United States Department of the Treasury under the Donald Trump administration has lifted sanctions on three executives linked to the spyware firm Intellexa. Reuters reports: The move partially reverses the imposition of sanctions last year by...
It’s 31 December 2025 today, the last day of the year, but it also happens to mark the end of support for the last and final version of one of my favourite operating systems: HP-UX. Today is the day HPE puts the final nail in the coffin of their long-running UNIX operating...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: France intends to follow Australia and ban social media platforms for children from the start of the 2026 academic year. A draft bill preventing under-15s from using social media will be submitted for legal checks and is ...
New Jersey has found its answer to the relentless flooding that has plagued the state's coastal and inland communities for decades: buy the homes, demolish them and turn the land back into open space permanently. The state's Blue Acres program has acquired some 1,200...
A judge in England ruled this week that the presence of a microwave does not turn a single room into an apartment. The St. George Hotel in Great Yarmouth said its rooms were flats after housing officers found that 32 of its 62 rooms were being used to house homeless people....
The future of policing apparently includes enchanted forests. Buried in a local Fox News story about police using AI to keep streets safer is the part that actually matters: the software once decided a person had turned into a frog. Not metaphorically. — Read the rest The po...
Elon Musk spent 2025 promising Mars, robotaxis, artificial godhood, flying cars, and trillions in government savings. What we got was a familiar silence at year's end, broken only by the sound of goalposts being dragged farther down the field. Mashable did the thankless work ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Getting to space is hard. In many ways, getting back is even harder. NASA soon aims to pull off the kind of re-entry it last conducted more than 50 years ago: safely returning astronauts to Earth after they fly to the moon and back. The...
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