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hubie writes:Uncovering the unavoidable energy costs of sending information through communication channels could help build energy-efficient systems:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fda-officially-confirms-kava-food-140000605.html

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hubie writes:New Study Reveals How the Brain Measures Distance:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.heise.de/en/news/39C3-Multiple-vulnerabilities-in-GnuPG-and-other-cryptographic-tools-11125362.html

hubie writes:Funding agencies can end profit-first science publishing:

janrinok writes:https://scitechdaily.com/aging-immune-cells-may-rewrite-their-own-dna-to-stay-inflammatory/

hubie writes:The new material is as strong as conventional plastics and biodegradable, but what makes it special is that it breaks down in seawater:

janrinok writes:Players of Sacred and Gothic games can rejoice once again:

janrinok writes:https://mashable.com/article/study-ai-slop-youtube

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/us-insurance-giant-aflac-says-hackers-stole-personal-and-health-data-of-22-6-million-people/

hubie writes:Some brains perform a complicated assessment while others seem to take a shortcut:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:Over 3,200 backers secure the future of Jolla's upcoming Linux phone, pushing the project beyond its initial funding milestone:

upstart writes:The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling and supercomputing to researchers around the world - but the Trump administration is set to shut it down:

fliptop writes:A California-based aerospace startup, Reflect Orbital, has ignited intense debate within the scientific community by proposing an ambitious plan to "sell sunlight" using massive mirrors placed in low Earth orbit:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://therecord.media/spotify-disables-scraping-annas

An Anonymous Coward writes:Several of Proton's products could be headed elsewhere in Europe in the wake of proposed surveillance laws:

hubie writes:Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms:

turgid writes:The Register reports that UNIX V4, the first with the kernel written in C, has been recovered, restored and run.The source code and binaries were recovered from a 1970s-vintage nine-track tape and posted to the Internet Archive where it can be downloaded.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://therecord.media/south-korea-facial-recognition-phones

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://linuxiac.com/phoenix-emerges-as-a-modern-x-server-written-from-scratch-in-zig/

hubie writes:The experiment showed that physical violence is not necessary to scare off gulls:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Engineer turns E-ink tablet into computer monitor in Linux - perfect secondary reading screen to reduce eye strain over the networkE-ink enjoyers can upgrade old tablets into part of the desktop experience using a simple server setup

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/lg-forces-tv-owners-to-use-microsoft-ai-copilot-app-you-cant-uninstall-and-nobody-asked-for/

hubie writes:Examining the use of expressions like "recent studies" or "recent data" in different medical specialties:

[Ed. note: Dec. 30 - The headline has been updated to reflect the fact that the Microsoft researcher who posted the original LinkedIn post stating they want to rewrite all Windows code in Rust later qualified his statement by saying that this is a research project --hubie]turgid writes:The Register reports that Microsoft wants to replace all of its C and C++ code bases with Rust rewrites by 2030, developing new technology to do the translation along the way.

hubie writes:Swearing boosts performance by helping people feel focused, disinhibited, study finds:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html

upstart writes:"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent writing code:

What happens when a computer can do your job better than you can? What happened to all those people who studied in school and trained to draft designs on huge desks with filing cabinets that would kill you if it fell? What happened, well, to any job that could be done faster, cheaper, or more effectively? Gone like the dodos. So, in this vein, how long do lawyers have before their profession is made redundant? If an LLM can find which law applies, how it applies, and write the legal argument needed, then why pay tens of thousands for a human to do this? Have lawyers had their day in sun and are now the buggy whip makers of the 21st century?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/texas-sues-tv-makers-for-spying-on-users-selling-data-without-consent/

jelizondo writes:Recently Popular Mechanics published a report titled Who sets the doomsday clock?. It is a very interesting report and while a bit lengthy, it is perfect to reflect, as we approach a new year, on the fragility of our civilization and indeed, our very existence. Enjoy!

hubie writes:Older adults who were awake more during the night performed worse on cognitive tests the next day, no matter how long they slept:

janrinok writes:Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics:

upstart writes:Science sleuths raise concerns about scores of bioengineering papers:

hubie writes:This gulf in knowledge could be exploited by a tech industry intent on selling the "next level of AI cleverness":

janrinok writes:https://scitechdaily.com/mit-reveals-how-high-fat-diets-quietly-prime-the-liver-for-cancer/

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-12-disaster-raw-materials.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/

An Anonymous Coward writes:Reddit has filed suit against Australian social media laws on the grounds of privacy and free speech. It is the first major company to do so. The Australian government is confident the social media ban will be upheld saying that they act in the interests of the children. Meanwhile, Australian children are easily circumventing the ban by ditching accounts associated with their real identity leaving the people primarily affected by the intrusive age testing to be adults.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-12-climate-misinformation-national-threat-canada.html

hubie writes:Over the span of the past 15 years, Ubuntu started several projects. Not all of them are active today. And yet, they live in our memory:

fliptop writes:The court's ruling suggests that using the internet now means agreeing to be searched:

janrinok writes:https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/hybrid-electric-vehicles/shock-horror-in-car-touchscreens-are-way-more-distracting-than-we-first-thought-says-new-study

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/trump-pot-reclassification-cannabis-stocks-medicare-cbd.html

An Anonymous Coward and upstart write:Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years:

hubie writes:Hubble Space Telescope captures rare collision in nearby planetary system:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/alan-turings-delilah