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hubie writes:NIST scientists have calculated that clocks on Mars will tick an average of 477 millionths of a second faster than clocks on Earth per day:

An Anonymous Coward writes:The new COSMIC desktop environment is written in the Rust programming language, designed and developed by System76 for all GNU/Linux distributions:

An Anonymous Coward writes:The Agentic AI Foundation launches to support MCP, AGENTS.md, and goose:

Calibre Now Lets You Chat About Your E-Books Using Local AIAn Anonymous Coward writes:You can ask questions about any book in your library and run AI models locally via LM Studio:

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ultra-thin-nanomembrane-device-soft.html

jelizondo writes:The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a report on the possible crash of the AI bubble:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service-without knowing almost anything about you:

janrinok writes:https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-finally-uncover-why-the-worlds-most-common-heart-drug-causes-muscle-pain/

upstart writes:Germany Might Have Just Saved Gas Engines From A European Ban:

hubie writes:NASA's 1969-71 design process offers a road map for today's breakthrough inventions, from rockets to new drugs:

An Anonymous Coward has submitted the following news:https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/us-politics-live/live-coverage/ae8338db24bcd7f86abbc6a1650db724The USA is kicking up border checks for foreigners with a plan to take a copy of the last five years worth of social media posts for prospective travellers.This is assuming people actually continue to visit the USA for a holiday. Anyone seeking to enter the United States may very well need to go back over their online social activity and review their publicly posted thoughts. No word on what the USA will do with this data. At this time it is only a plan to collect it.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

An Anonymous Coward writes:Michigan man received kidney transplant from donor who had fought off a skunk and was later found unresponsive:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5631826/iceblock-app-lawsuit-trump-bondi

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20106

janrinok writes:https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/porsche_bricked_russia/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://linuxiac.com/pebble-index-01-arrives-as-a-private-open-source-voice-capture-ring/

upstart writes:Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers:

janrinok writes:https://scitechdaily.com/er-doctors-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-a-fast-growing-cannabis-illness/

upstart writes:AI favors texts written by other AIs, even when they're worse than human ones:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.extremetech.com/computing/proton-launches-encrypted-sheets-as-a-privacy-first-alternative-to-google

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

hubie writes:Chattanooga's Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds:

janrinok writes:Planned orbital observatories would see satellites cross nearly all of their images:

upstart writes:Germany bets billions on nuclear fusion for energy future - DW - 10/29/2025:

janrinok writes:https://www.sciencenews.org/article/therapeutic-hpv-vaccine-cervical-cancer

hubie writes:Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons:

janrinok writes:https://scitechdaily.com/this-cellular-trick-helps-cancer-spread-but-could-also-stop-it/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/samsungs-first-tri-fold-phone-is-here-everything-you-need-to-know

janrinok writes:New research indicates that complex life began forming almost a billion years earlier than previously thought:

janrinok writes:https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/01/us-wants-laws-to-force-app-store-age-checks-despite-apples-existing-protections

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.phoronix.com/news/CDE-2.5.3-Desktop

JoeMerchant writes:Physicists have developed a "physics shortcut" that allows ordinary laptops to solve complex quantum dynamics problems, a feat previously reserved for supercomputers and AI models (Live Science). The breakthrough, from the University at Buffalo, is an extension of a decades-old method called the truncated Wigner approximation (TWA).TWA is a semiclassical approach that simplifies quantum math by retaining necessary quantum behavior while discarding less critical details. Historically, applying TWA required re-deriving complicated math for every new problem, making it inaccessible. The team transformed this into a user-friendly "conversion table" that translates a quantum problem into solvable equations, allowing physicists to get usable results on a consumer laptop within hours (University at Buffalo).This new, practical approach significantly lowers the computational cost and makes exploring certain quantum phenomena much easier. It's hoped that this will save supercomputing resources for the truly intractable quantum systems, while allowing more common quantum dynamics to be studied efficiently on accessible consumer-grade computers (ScienceDaily).Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/g-s1-100212/san-francisco-sues-manufacturers-ultraprocessed-foods

janrinok writes:A boycott is unlikely to work:

FunkyLich writes:A Debian developer gave out the news. Julian Andres Klode wrote in the mailing lists that APT (the package manager tool of Debian Linux) begin requiring a Rust compiler. It goes like:"I plan to introduce hard Rust dependencies and Rust code into APT, no earlier than May 2026. This extends at first to the Rust compiler and standard library, and the Sequoia ecosystem.

An Anonymous Coward writes:The Linux phone features 12GB RAM, up to 2TB storage, a 6.36-inch FullHD AMOLED display, and a user-replaceable 5,500mAh battery:

SomeGuy writes:In 1983, before the release of Microsoft Windows, Digital Research GEM, or Apple Macintosh, the office software giant VisiCorp released a graphical multitasking operating system for the IBM PC called Visi On.It was an "open system", so anyone could make programs for it. Well, if they owned an expensive VAX computer and were prepared to shell out $7,000 on the Software Development Kit.42 years later, although the mainframe based development environment has been lost to time, enthusiast Nina Kalinina has pulled apart Visi Corp Visi On to reveal some of the strange and curious internals.https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk/tree/main/note/index.mdIn this article, they document some of the internals, clear up some marketing misconceptions, discover some interesting Visi On quirks, and even provide a new application for it.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

janrinok writes:https://boingboing.net/2025/12/03/waymo-drives-straight-into-active-police-scene-ignores-chaos.html

upstart writes:New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed:

An Anonymous Coward writes:By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number - and why people are making the leap:

janrinok writes:https://www.geekwire.com/2025/uw-nobel-winners-lab-releases-most-powerful-protein-design-tool-yet/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.osnews.com/story/143942/freebsd-15-0-released-with-pkgbase/

janrinok writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ibm-ceo-warns-trillion-dollar-ai-boom-unsustainable-at-current-infrastructure-costs

upstart writes:OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets:

janrinok writes:https://www.extremetech.com/computing/new-ddr5-memory-overclocking-world-record-set-at-13530-mts

upstart writes:Let's Encrypt to Reduce Certificate Validity from 90 Days to 45 Days:

hubie writes:Micron cites AI data center demand as reason for killing DIY upgrade brand:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.extremetech.com/computing/raspberry-pi-launches-1gb-model-at-45-temporarily-raises-prices-on-higher

upstart writes:Supreme Court hears case that could trigger big crackdown on Internet piracy:

janrinok writes:https://www.techspot.com/news/110441-oracle-credit-risk-hits-three-year-high-ai.html