janrinok writes:Poverty in Australia increases to 1 in 7 people, according to report

hubie writes:Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again:

fliptop writes:The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence but it's facing a shortage of training data:

janrinok writes:New psychology research looks at why we help our friends when they need it

janrinok writes:Understanding volcanoes better: Scientists find exact locations of magma movement

VLM writes:Anyone get good views of Comet C/2025 A6 aka "Lemmon"? Anyone doing astrophotography of it? Anyone see it a couple times and watch it change day to day?In the USA, you'd look vaguely NE an hour before sunrise about a hands width above the horizon. Supposedly no optics needed although all I see is clouds. Naturally it has been raining every morning for me LOL, but I hope to see it soon, thats life in an area that gets like four feet of rain annually LOL. Peak closest approach is supposed to be next Tuesday ish the 21st (hopefully this story will be posted before then)https://www.astronomy.com/observing/nows-the-time-to-see-comet-lemmon/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-see-comet-lemmon-and-the-orionids-meteor-shower-peak/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2025_A6_(Lemmon)https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250930.htmlhttps://www.space.com/stargazing/how-to-find-comet-lemmon-in-the-night-sky-as-it-brightens-this-october-2025I just thought it would be fun to have a very chill astronomy "event" post, once in awhile. Comets are cool.Note this is not comet 3I/ATLAS aka "it's probably an interstellar alien space probe", although I suppose thats fun to talk about too.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

fliptop writes:General Motors said on Oct. 14 that it will bear a $1.6 billion loss to scale back its electric vehicle (EV) operations, citing weaker expected demand following recent U.S. policy changes that ended federal EV tax credits and loosened emissions rules:

hubie writes:Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits:

janrinok writes:Lasers and gold nanoparticles enable on-demand crystal growth for new materials

hubie writes:New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness:

looorg writes:

janrinok writes:First device based on 'optical thermodynamics' can route light without switches

jelizondo writes:The Times of India published an interesting article explaining the 2025 Economics Nobel Prize:

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-10-nanoplastics-farm-animal-cells-human.html

upstart writes:After blasting Wikipedia as biased and 'woke' and pushing for it to be defunded, Elon Musk says he's building his own online encyclopedia through xAI:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Drones fell out of the sky causing fires in a light show in Southern China in Liuyang Hunan Province went horribly wrong. Footage shared online shows the drones spiralling out of control and crashing into the ground, some bursting into flames and igniting fires. Social media users compared the fallout to the Armageddon movie.

fliptop writes:After visiting a string of factories, Jim Farley (Ford's chief executive) was left astonished by the technical innovations being packed into Chinese cars - from self-driving software to facial recognition:

upstart writes:New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes:

Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-restricts-ie-mode-access-in-edge-after-zero-day-attacks/

janrinok writes:Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU

upstart writes:97% of companies struggle to prove AI's ROI - but these 5 expert tips can help:

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-10-green-solvents-protein-rapeseed.html

fliptop writes:A new analysis of our solar system's interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, reveals that it's spewing huge amounts of water - and astronomers can't immediately explain why:

janrinok writes:Nobel economics prize goes to 3 researchers for explaining innovation-driven economic growth

upstart writes:Warp Speed! How Some Galaxies Can Move Away from Us Faster Than Light:

jelizondo writes:PsyPost has a very interesting report about the consequences of using Ayahuasca on our feelings about death.I've been interested in the stuff but a couple of friends that tried it reported there is a large possibility of vomiting after drinking the stuff and I just don't like that. Point of fact, they ask you to fast before the ceremony to minimize vomiting but to me dry heaves are worst.Anyway, a very interesting read.

upstart writes:A unique case of a woman with male chromosomes in her blood:

upstart writes:Tom's Hardware published a report about the new deal between AMD and OpenAI:

canopic jug writes:Tom's Hardware is reporting on a project by Cambridge University to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks. Magnetic media only lasts a decade or so under optimal, climate controlled storage conditions. So this task is much more fundamental than just pushing the old disks into off-the-shelf drives.

An Anonymous Coward writes:CRM giant Salesforce has been hacked affecting Qantas and other large corporations. While Salesforce claims to be number 1 in the world, a big claim in the presence of SAP and Microsoft, this recent hack shows that no system is completely secure. More than a billion records have been stolen from the 39 companies, including the Qantas Frequent Flyers program, Toyota, Disney, McDonalds, and HBO Max. Hackers have threatened to release this personal data unless Salesforce pay a ransom.Problem is that when you start paying ransoms you don't stop paying.Updates:

It's so common to hear that the gov't can't possibly do anything right, or for a good price, that many people believe it was always true. Here is a counter example to discuss:https://theconversation.com/believe-it-or-not-there-was-a-time-when-the-us-government-built-beautiful-homes-for-working-class-americans-to-deal-with-a-housing-shortage-253512

upstart writes:Teachers need to be scientists themselves, experimenting and measuring the impact of powerful AI products on education:

upstart writes:While drones flying over different parts of Europe have raised concerns in many countries, some are worried about a more dystopian future with the technology:

upstart writes:Comets Lemmon and SWAN may be visible around the same time as they race across the solar system:

upstart writes:Some early experiments with AI are revealing the technology's shortcomings - and, by extension, the value of human workers:

Snotnose writes:To cat lovers, a litter box is a necessity. But not to scientists. A team of researchers decided to investigate litter boxes as records of behavior: the pre-squat scratch, the whirl, the precise geometry of the bury

digitalaudiorock writes:As a very long time user of MythTV and free OTA ATSC 1.0 TV, reading this one did not make my day:CordCutters published news of a recent FCC decision to allow broadcasters flexibility on switching to ATSC 3.0 technology:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/like-putting-on-glasses-for-the-first-time-how-ai-improves-earthquake-detection/

upstart writes:Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse:

An Anonymous Coward writes:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Covert Eavesdropping through Computer MiceThe abstract from the arXiv paper states:

hubie writes:From Cory Doctorow's blog:

Last week the U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon produced the latest attack on academia, "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," which was addressed to a small group of well known US universities. If you missed it, there is a description at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_for_Academic_Excellence_in_Higher_EducationToday (10/10/2025) MIT was the first of the group to reject the offer. Here is the letter from MIT's president, https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

upstart writes:Baseload power is functionally extinct:

canopic jug writes:David C Brock interviewed Ken Thompson for the Computer History Museum. It's a long interview with a video with a written transcript. The video is just over 4.5 hours long. The transcript weighs in at 64 pages as a downloadable PDF locked behind a CPU- and RAM-chewing web app.

AnonTechie writes:From the TrenchesAn interesting article about software quality over the years - by Denis Stetskov

Rich writes:Qualcomm on Tuesday said it has acquired Arduino, an Italian not-for-profit firm that makes hardware and software for developing prototypes of robots and other electronic gadgets, Reuters reports at https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/qualcomm-buys-open-source-electronics-firm-arduino-2025-10-07/.Arduino's own announcement can be found at https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/07/a-new-chapter-for-arduino-with-qualcomm-uno-q-and-you/.Along with the news that might confuse those that could not imagine "Arduino" itself as a tangible sales item, Arduino introduced a new model in the Uno form factor that comprises a Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 to run Linux, an STM32U585 microcontroller for hardware interfacing, and some new high density connector on the bottom side. It is priced at $44 in the Arduino store.Reception of the news seems to be mixed in various channels, many doubt Qualcomm with its history would be a good steward for an ecosystem like Arduino.The new Arduino Q moves squarely into Raspberry Pi territory, where the Pi 5 currently sells for around $55 with mostly comparable features, at least if the RP2040-like features in the RP1 I/O controller are counted in.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:Turning dissolved carbon dioxide from seawater to biodegradable plastic is an especially powerful way to clean up the ocean:

upstart writes:The transistor was patented 75 years ago today:

looorg writes:Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace PrizeSomewhat better then the IG Nobel is the actual Nobel prizes. Winners started to be announced this week. So far Medicine and Physics, others to be revealed in the following days as I write this.Physics. "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"