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An Anonymous Coward writes:In 2026, scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider ran experiments colliding lighter atomic nuclei-oxygen-16 with oxygen-16, and neon-20 with neon-20-at energies of 5.36 TeV per nucleon pair. The four main LHC experiments confirmed these lighter ions can produce quark-gluon plasma, the super-dense, ultra-hot state of matter that existed microseconds after the Big Bang.What made this notable was what the collision debris revealed about nuclear structure. By analyzing how particles flowed outward after impact, physicists mapped patterns tied directly to the shapes of the incoming nuclei:Oxygen-oxygen collisions produced radially symmetric particle flow, suggesting a more spherical, tetrahedral-like nucleus structure

Dolly Parton has passed away.https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/08/25/dolly-parton-death-cause-country-music-legend-singer/89232175007/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/framework-responds-to-complaints-that-bios-update-bricked-ryzen-7040-laptops/

owl writes:https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/24/ancient-who-owns-linux-case-now-has-one-foot-very-deep-in-the-grave/5291513

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/08/24/software-should-work-and-talking-about-it-neednt-be-boring/5290862

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The Dead Internet Theory May Be Coming True, Pew Research Findings Show

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Chinese safety regulators have cracked down on doors that don't open in a crash:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power:

VLM writes:https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214Here's a strange, light space story. Obviously, everyone knows ionizing radiation damages silicon. Anyone have good stories from the old days of marginal ram detecting cosmic rays? That meme seemed to die out around the dram kilo to mega transition, certainly forgotten by giga sized dram, which you'd think would be more severely impacted from being smaller... Anyway, surprisingly, a data analysis comparing known HST silicon damage to known solar radiation levels shows it's out of phase by some years.1) Is it new physics? Either the radiation or silicon damage?2) Is it P-Hacking in STEM where it's just numerology, abuse R and numpy.py until you get clickbait? The authors admit "We obtain remarkably accurate fits to Hubble data but with physically absurd parameter values."3) Some of both or maybe none of either? Some other cause?Any fun P-hacking stories from the world of STEM?Just a fun light news story, but there's also some depth to think about.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:If you have a dispute with the e-commerce giant, you'll have to hash it out through an individual claim with a third-party arbitrator:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/planned-us-data-centers-set-to-produce-24m-cars-worth-of-co2/

An Anonymous Coward writes:The Fairphone 6 Plus is a refreshed version of the 6, with more RAM and a faster chipset:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/hackers-tricked-a-major-retailers-ai-shopping-bot-to-do-something-it-was-never-supposed-to/

canopic jug writes:Hackaday has an overview of why poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is so brittle, yet used all the time in 3D printing.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/17/an-ai-broke-snowflakes-code-then-another-ai-agent-exploited-it/5288666

canopic jug writes:The film Aliens was released to theaters in 1986, that is to say 40 years ago. Many new technologies were featured in the film and some have come to be in real life. The Conversation looks at the film and at the then fictional technologies and reviews which did and did not come to pass.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/inside-defcon-the-conference-that-made-cybersecurity-noob-friendly/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/sabotage-experts-lawmakers-blast-rfk-jr-for-destroying-healthcare-research/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-6-ai-free-linux-distros/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/19/nasa-estimates-the-size-of-the-hole-spacex-made-in-the-moon/5289425

An Anonymous Coward writes:Rob, the Administrator over at Linux.org has announced:

"mrcoolbp" writes:It seems like Nvidia's not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:After only two years in business, too:

Anonymous Coward writes:It's like Windows Recall, but without all the creepy screenshots. (But it's still kind of creepy.):

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The CMP 170HX has quickly gone from crypto trash to AI treasure:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:They're so full of errors that Congressional lawyers are spending a lot of time trying to fix them:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The custom build from Microsoft's Chinese joint venture was scheduled to retire in February 2027:

Atlassian, a software company, is planning on building a new tower in Sydney called Atlassian Central at a cost of $1.4 billion and standing tall at 180 metres. With Australia in the grip of a WFH age of enlightenment this construction is truly an outlier.

One of the great hopes for BEV development has been solid-state / Lithium-metal batteries. No goo in the electrolyte, ~double the energy density of Li-ion batteries and faster charging to finally end the BEV range discussion. Looks like this is still in the future. MotorTrend has a summary of current development activity at a variety of battery and car companies. Here's a sampling, many more at the link: https://www.motortrend.com/features/solid-state-batteries-future-cars

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link:

canopic jug writes:Developer Bradley Taunt has written up an overview Raphael Sadowski's recent changes to OpenBSD's HTTP daemon aka httpd(8):

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/tim-king-amigados-royalty-dies-aged-70/5289101

owl writes:https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html

hubie writes:A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cxmt-overtakes-tencent-to-become-chinas-most-valuable-company-17-days-after-its-ipo

hubie writes:Scientists are increasingly relying on powerful data sources and tools that they often cannot fully understand, inspect or verify, according to a new study:

fleg writes:https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/08/13/claude-just-broke-a-math-record-that-stood-for-37-years/"Number theorists spent 37 years moving one number by less than a single percentage point. The number is the proven share of the Riemann zeta function's zeros that sit on the critical line, the place where one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics says all of them belong. Decades of human refinement had carried it to 41.6%. On August 10, Anthropic published a result from an unreleased research version of Claude that moved it to 67.2% in roughly a day and a half.The Riemann hypothesis has been open since 1859. It predicts the hidden structure behind how prime numbers are distributed, and it carries a million-dollar Clay Institute bounty. The hypothesis itself remains open. What Claude established is that at least two-thirds of the zeros behave the way it predicts, the largest single advance in the record's history."Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:"Always finish your antibiotics" is no longer considered medical best practice for all conditions:

hubie writes:The mashup of a black hole and an enormous star has never been seen before and could explain the mysterious little red dots often found in deep-space images:

"fab23" writes:If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-desktop-use-surged-on-one-workday-cloudflare-data-shows/

hubie writes:When it comes to recording, tracking, and storing data, the concept of "permanence" can be a lot trickier than you'd expect:

owl writes:https://ludens.cl/photo/spectra/spectra.html

hubie writes:Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it's open source:

looorg writes:Owners of Petlibro pet feeders have "service issue" that prevents feeding of the pets. If you can't even bother to feed your own pet? Why do you have them? Also if we can't even depend on the machines to feed pets how are we depending on them to do other more important things. But why do you need cloud access to set a schedule to feed a pet? Or that is to say to open a tray so the pet in question can access the food. As it was when it was not opening it was mocking or taunting the pet with food it could not access.Pets should now be on their normal feeding schedule again ... Perhaps the service issue was just there to put some of the furries on a diet.