Collaborate Disseminate
This week saw the release of the LXQt 2.0 desktop environment, reports 9to5Linux. And besides bringing Qt 6 support (and a new default application menu), it also brings support for the Wayland display protocol to more components:
The LXQt development… Continue reading LXQt 2.0 Released: Lightweight Desktop is Almost Wayland Compatible
CNBC visited a small group of bitcoin miners who “set up shop at the site of an extinct volcano” near Kenya’s Hell’s Gate National Park.
Their mine “consists of a single 500-kilowatt mobile container that, from the outside, looks like a small residen… Continue reading How a Renewable Energy-Powered Bitcoin Startup Helps Electrify Rural Africa
The EU’s European Data Protection Board oversees its privacy-protecting GDPR policies.
Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that nearly two dozen civil society groups and nonprofits wrote the Board an open letter “urging it not to endorse a strateg… Continue reading EU: Meta Cannot Rely On ‘Pay Or Okay’
San Francisco-based drone-delivery service Zipline “said Friday that it hit its 1 millionth delivery to customers,” reports CNBC, “and that it’s eyeing restaurant partnerships in its next phase of growth.”
Zipline’s clients already include more than … Continue reading Ziplines Drones Complete Their 1 Millionth Delivery, Flying Over 70 Million Miles
Several “high-profile astronomers” will meet at London’s Royal Society (the UK’s national academy of sciences), “to question some of the most fundamental aspects of our understanding of the universe.reports Futurism:
As The Guardian reports, the lumi… Continue reading Some Astronomers Will Re-Examine a 102-Year-Old Theory About the Universe’s Expansion
“Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line,” reports the Associated Press, knocking out 911 phone service “for emergency agencies in Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota, an official with the company that operates the line said Thu… Continue reading Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage
It’s “the new generation of Tablet for simplicity and privacy…” according to its Kickstarter page. “Top-tier performance, lightweight design and completely Google-free.” And it’s already reached its funding goal of $53,312 — climbing to over $7… Continue reading Volla Successfully Crowdfunds a Privacy-Focused Tablet on Kickstarter
South America’s Amazon River has reached its lowest level since measurements began, according to the Washington Post, while temperatures “hovered above 110 degrees Fahrenheit” for nearly a week as April began in the capital of Mali. “Nights offered lit… Continue reading Could the Earth’s Record Hot Streak Signal a New Climate Era?
Late Friday night the U.S. Senate “reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a key. U.S. surveillance authority,” reports Axios, “shortly after it expired in the early hours Saturday morning.”
The reauthorization came despite bipartisan… Continue reading US Passes Bill Reauthorizing ‘FISA’ Surveillance for Two More Years
A large-screen IMAX documentary about the James Webb Space Telescope “has just opened in 300 theaters across North America,” write an anonymous Slashdot reader, noting that it’s playing for one week only. “And it gets a rave review in Forbes.”
Imagine… Continue reading JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: ‘Deep Sky’