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upstart writes:American Kids Can't Read or Do Math Anymore:

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-09-world-coastal-settlements-retreating-seas.html

upstart writes:Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time:

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-09-facebook-reveal-devastating-real-world.html

upstart writes:China starts producing world-first non-binary AI chips for aviation, manufacturing:

upstart writes:The Future Of Nuclear Reactors Is Making Its Way To The US:

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-09-magic-mushrooms-unique-biochemical-paths.html

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ganges-river-drying-unprecedented.html

upstart writes:Invest in a major customer, then get money from a major customer?

upstart writes:Consent fatigue and clickspamageddon to be addressed by European Commission amendments to its 2009 e-Privacy Directive:

DannyB writes:Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy

upstart writes:How billions of hacked mosquitoes and a vaccine could beat the deadly dengue virus:

jelizondo writes:The Guardian has a very interesting article about Human Computer Interactions and its implications beyond gamers:

upstart writes:'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community:

upstart writes:When cancer targets the young:

fliptop writes:Porsche AG on Friday dialled[sic] back plans for its electric vehicle rollout due to weaker demand, pressure in key market China and higher U.S. tariffs, causing the luxury sportscar maker and its parent Volkswagen to slash their 2025 profit outlooks:

fliptop writes:This ancient people lived in the Sahara when it was a much more welcoming environment:

upstart writes:Deaths from flesh-eating bacteria are on the rise. Who is at risk?:

hubie writes:We risk a deluge of AI-written 'science' pushing corporate interests - here's what to do about it:

upstart writes:Something Extremely Strange Is Happening at the Event Horizon of This Supermassive Blackhole:

hubie writes:OpenAI's research on AI models deliberately lying is wild:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://metapatterns.io/

An Anonymous Coward writes:It might come as no surprise that, much like recent stories about backdoors into encryption systems and poorly implemented DIY security, electronic locks have similar problems (originally seen on Bruce Schneier's Blog).

upstart writes:Unit housed in original wood case thought to be one of just nine surviving examples:

upstart writes:AI can forecast your future health - just like the weather:

upstart writes:When Non-Avian Dinosaurs Went Extinct, the Earth Changed:

fliptop writes:Toyota announced a voluntary recall because the display may "go blank on start-up:"

canopic jug writes:Former programmer, Jamie Zawinski, also a founder of Netscape and Mozilla, has observed that Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago. Netscape's full feature set existed identically on Macintosh, Windows, and nine flavors of Unix, something which was basically unheard of at the time.Netscape was finished off by a double hit. First, Microsoft illegally abused its desktop monopoly to enter and crush the browser market. Second, and probably even more detrimental, they got taken over from the inside through what should have been an acquisition of another, smaller company.The remnants are known as Mozilla. That is a separate story.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Tokolosh writes:Pix is a free instant payment system that the Brazilian Central Bank launched in 2020. It has obliterated expensive electronic funds transfers (EFTs) in Brazil, and is well on its way to replace payments that were traditionally made with credit cards issued by companies such as Visa, Mastercard and Amex.Everyone seems to rave about it, except Trump (and possibly his vocal Brazilian supporters, who bizarrely applaud Trump's sanctions and tariffs imposed on their own country). When on July 15 he announced his investigation of Brazil's "unfair trading practices" (which ultimately resulted in the 50% import duties on Brazilian exports to the US), one of the justifications for the investigation was stated as follows: "The investigation will seek to determine whether acts, policies and practices of the government of Brazil related to digital trade and electronic payment services ... are unreasonable or discriminatory and burden or restrict US commerce."Yet Brazil has not prohibited anyone from using American-branded credit cards. There are still some dinosaur businesses in Brazil that only accept credit cards, and all businesses that accept Pix payments still accept credit card payments.But credit card payments in Brazil are undoubtedly dwindling, as the convenience of Pix rapidly overtakes credit cards. That is not a policy aimed specifically at US credit card companies, but rather a reflection that outdated credit card payment systems have not kept up with the latest disruptive technology.For that America should rather ask why its own innovation has lagged behind that of countries such as Brazil that it traditionally regards as its backyard. Maybe it has something to do with the sizeable portion of the American population that believes humans and dinosaurs cohabited planet earth in the last 6,000 years.Read more at https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2025-09-19-emile-myburgh-brazils-payment-system-puts-credit-card-firms-to-the-test/Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

looorg writes:IG Nobel Prizes 2025https://www.popsci.com/science/ig-nobel-prizes-2025/

hubie writes:Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete:

hubie writes:"When you turn off those spacecraft's radio receivers, there's no way to turn them back on."

upstart writes:Nobody Wanted This: Samsung Fridges Are Getting Ads:

upstart writes:L.A. Man Sentenced to 14 Days in Prison for Accidentally Crashing Drone Into Firefighting Plane:

upstart writes:Feds Launch Investigation Into Faulty Tesla Doors:

upstart writes:Ban social media for under 15s, says French report warning of TikTok dangers:

upstart writes:It's a bit hacky, but with some tweaking, older GPUs get a nice new upscaling option:

upstart writes:Has the Apple iPhone Air killed off the Sim card?:

upstart writes:New Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs:

upstart writes:The oldest known mummies have been found:

upstart writes:GNOME 49 arrives this week, and it's packed with features and polish you'll love:

upstart writes:China Bans Nvidia's AI Chips:

upstart writes:Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won't be ready any time soon:

upstart writes:'Beyond EUV' chipmaking tech pushes Soft X-Ray lithography closer to challenging Hyper-NA EUV:

upstart writes:"We're excited that Northrop is ready to deliver this incredibly beneficial increase in capacity" :

China Rules That Nvidia Violated its Antitrust Lawsupstart writes:China rules that Nvidia violated its antitrust laws:

upstart writes:There's no such thing as free laundry:

upstart writes:A new stealthy radio device could help give people the edge, letting them fly drones without detection:

canopic jug writes:Famed developer Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) has posted an update on the status and future of the project currently known as Varnish Cache. And, after 20 years of being a go-to component in WWW infrastructure, it will change its name to The Vinyl Cache Project with version 8.0.0 being the last under the old name. The software project will be sheperded under the new name by a Danish association formed for that specific purpose.

upstart writes:FAA found factory violations, says Boeing sought approval for unairworthy planes: