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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:ASML denies it has ever shipped an EUV scanner to China:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/22/cloudflare-teams-up-with-big-browsers-to-help-websites-tell-welcome-from-unwelcome-visitors/5259782

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://github.com/Rompass/openc6-biosOpenC6 BIOS is a fully open-source, high-performance modular platform (BIOS) for the ESP32-C6 (RISC-V) microcontroller. It completely changes the traditional embedded development paradigm by decoupling hardware initialization from application logic-bringing a PC/Server-like architecture to a $2 microcontroller.Instead of monolithic firmwares, OpenC6 acts as a host platform. It initializes the hardware, provides out-of-band management via an independent LP-Core coprocessor, and exposes a standardized System Call Interface (ABI). This allows you to hot-swap, download, and execute tiny, lightning-fast bare-metal Payloads directly into RAM or Execute-In-Place (XIP) Flash.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

jelizondo writes:I found a very interesting article published by The Guardian about the physical characteristics of the new FIFA ball and how it is surprising goalkeepers:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/22/the-memory-crisis-is-getting-so-bad-that-even-retro-ram-prices-are-going-to-the-moon/5259627

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owl writes:https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The Hidden Cost of Cyber Risk report found that businesses are most impacted by everyday cyber disruption, rather than large-scale one-off breaches:

"Fnord666" writes:Automakers Could Stop Selling Cars In California Rather Than Comply With Tracking Laws:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Taiwan's drone spending plans for defense could also boost business overseas:

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JoeMerchant writes:NASA's Perseverance rover has made its most robust discovery yet by detecting complex macromolecular organic carbon sitting directly on the natural rock surfaces of Mars. According to a newly published study in Science Advances, the rover's SHERLOC ultraviolet laser spectrometer mapped hundreds of organic signatures within 3.5-billion-year-old mudstones at the "Bright Angel" outcrop inside Jezero crater.Reporters at Space.com note that this marks the first time intact macromolecular carbon has been found completely exposed on an unprepared martian rock surface, suggesting these compounds are either surprisingly resistant to radiation or were very recently uncovered by wind erosion. While scientists emphasize that these organic molecules can form through both biological and geological processes, Science News reports that the find significantly expands our understanding of martian habitability.Crucially, as highlighted by The Guardian, this discovery means rovers have now found organic-bearing mudstones more than 2,000 miles apart on the planet, adding to the Curiosity rover's earlier findings at Gale crater. Experts writing for Eos.org state that the widespread nature of these ingredients indicates ancient Mars may have routinely possessed the conditions necessary for microbial life.As covered by Interesting Engineering, the discovery includes data from the infamous "Cheyava Falls" rock, which previously made headlines for its intriguing "leopard spots." Ultimately, confirming whether these structures are biological or purely geochemical will require analyzing the cached samples in highly sensitive laboratories back on Earth, making a compelling case for a future Mars Sample Return mission.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

canopic jug writes:Jacobin has an interview with Cory Doctorow about the pending implosion of the AI bubble:Worrying about whether AI can do your job is a blind alley, Cory Doctorow argues. The real danger is AI's bubble: a speculative fantasy built on convincing bosses to replace workers with systems that can't actually do what their salesmen promise.

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2020/05/die-analysis-of-8087-math-coprocessors.html

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.iflscience.com/its-official-voyager-1-will-cross-the-1-light-day-threshold-on-november-18-2026-82733

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/microsoft-spots-new-self-propagating-malware-for-stealing-cryptocurrency/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-and-amds-new-ace-cpu-extensions-bring-an-efficient-ai-oriented-instruction-set-to-x86-a-new-design-makes-matrix-multiplication-more-power-and-density-efficient

fliptop writes:General Motors has delivered a stark lesson in modern American manufacturing: when government-pushed electric vehicle mandates meet market reality, it is the American worker who pays the price:

jelizondo writes:..... but Many Celebrated Figures did Their Best Thinking in Just Four or Five Hours a Day - and That Deliberate Rest May Have Been KeySilicon Canals has a very interesting opinion piece about working hours:

hubie writes:AI Economics for Dummies:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/leaked-financial-docs-show-openai-is-losing-billions-of-dollars-a-year/

hubie writes:People underestimate how enjoyable everyday conversations really are, study says:

owl writes:https://www.sciencealert.com/ozempic-literally-came-from-a-monster-and-its-not-alone

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Demand for AI systems plus the shortage of DRAM and NAND are shaping the global market:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:"I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this." :

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:25X More Than The Drive's Endurance Rating:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:I'm sorry, Dave. I can't install that repo that will totally hose your system:

hubie writes:'Popa' Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/semianalysis-opens-its-own-chip-teardown-lab

An Anonymous Coward writes:Bruce Schneier wrote an opinion piece in response to the ban on the latest Anthropic AI models Fable and Mythos (with a lot of links for further reading). In it, he argues that banning particular models really does not help the problem, and provides some interesting analogies about how they work. Schneier's thoughts are that the best option forward is to create a public AI model.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/06/16/nhs-palantir-claims-face-scrutiny-after-data-suggests-uneven-results/5256198

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/17/cyberattack-sees-crops-kept-in-the-ground/5256321

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/15/red-hat-gives-ubuntu-a-bootc-up-the-backside-at-canonical-shindig/5255608

owl writes:https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:SearchLeak exploit shows why the industry's approach to LLM security fails over and over:

pTamok writes:Typesetting, or the craft of mechanically or algorithmically placing characters on a page so they are pleasing to the beholder, is an interesting craft. It is related to calligraphy, which is the art or craft of manually (handwriting) placing characters on a page so they are pleasing to the beholder.Typesetting Arabic script has its own peculiar challenges: the script is written from right to left; it is only cursive; some letter-forms vary according to whether they start a word, are in its body, or terminate the word; and justification is achieved by varying the width of portions of the letters in words, not by varying the spaces between words.Modern operating systems, are in general, very bad at rendering Arabic script well.This blog goes into a deep dive of the history of Arabic typesetting, and modern challenges.Vita Nouva: An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/06/15/nasa-management-wants-a-word-and-wont-say-why/5255702

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/the-fbi-built-its-own-replica-small-town-to-simulate-real-world-cyberattacks/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The rocket's breakup likely generated 100 to 150 new pieces of space junk:

Linux 7.1 is Here to End the Intel 486 CPU Era - and Do Some Serious Legacy Clean UpArthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.zdnet.com/article/say-goodbye-to-486-processors-linux-7-1-lands/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Prosecutors Claim Ship Had Eight More Targets Before It Was Stopped By Coast Guardhttps://www.tomshardware.com/networking/finland-charges-russian-captain-and-crew-member-of-ship-suspected-of-damaging-undersea-cables-prosecutors-claim-ship-had-eight-more-targets-before-it-was-stopped-by-coast-guard

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/covid-vaccines-still-protect-against-heart-problems-large-study-finds/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://hackaday.com/2026/06/14/why-not-yserver-its-xserver-but-rust-y/