Collaborate Disseminate
How powerful is Jupiter’s lightning? Thick clouds cover the view, notes Science magazine. But using an instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft (orbiting Jupiter for the past decade), researchers determined Jupiter’s lightning bolts are 100 to 10,000 times… Continue reading Jupiter’s Lightning May Have the Force of Nuclear Weapons
Bell Labs “created many of the foundational innovations of the modern age,” writes Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — from transistors and telecommunications satellites to Unix and the C … Continue reading What Made Bell Labs So Successful?
Just six days ago — and 30 minutes after a Disney-OpenAI meeting about a project with Sora — Disney’s team was “blindsided” with the news Sora was being discontinued, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, describing OpenAI’s move … Continue reading Disney Ends $1B OpenAI Investment After Sora’s Surprise Closure. What’s Next?
“Emergency out-of-band fixes issued by enterprise IT giants Microsoft and Oracle have shone a spotlight on issues around both update cycles and patching,” reports Computer Weekly:
Microsoft’s emergency update, KB5085516, addresses an issue that arose… Continue reading Do Emergency Microsoft, Oracle Patches Point to Wider Issues?
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: ClickFix attacks are ramping up. These attacks have users copy and paste a string to something that can execute a command line — like the Windows Run dialog, or a shell prompt.
But MacRumors reports that mac… Continue reading MacOS 26.4 Adds Warnings For ClickFix Attacks to Its Terminal App
It’s FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But “a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight” afte… Continue reading SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling
“IBM says its quantum computer can now simulate real magnetic materials and match actual lab experiment results,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “which is something people have been waiting years to see.”
Instead of just theoretical output, the … Continue reading IBM Quantum Computer Simulates Real Magnetic Materials and Matches Lab Data
Memory and storage shortages and price hikes have “steadily rippled outward across all kinds of consumer tech,” reports Ars Technica.
“Today’s bad news comes from Sony, which is raising prices for PlayStation 5 consoles in the US just eight months af… Continue reading Sony is Raising PlayStation 5 Prices Again, Between $100 and $150
In a new 4,000-word article, CNN tells the story of a retired appellate paralegal and grandmother in her early 70s who was treated for depression with psilocybin. CNN notes there’s now retreats featuring psilocybin in a few countries — and while … Continue reading Thousands of Americans Treated With Psilocybin in 2025
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman tells The Register that AI-driven code review has “really jumped” for Linux. “There must have been some inflection point somewhere with the tools…”
“Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. N… Continue reading Linux Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman Says AI Tools Now Useful, Finding Real Bugs