An Anonymous Coward writes:Published: March 13, 2025 5.53pm CETTobacco's hidden friendly side: how the controversial plant could be used for good of pharmaceutical production on Earth and beyond.
JoeMerchant writes:A new concept of quantum gravity arising from entropy may be useful not only in the ever-present need to explain dark energy and dark matter, but might also edge closer to a grand unified theory of everything that we observe, and infer from our observations.
BenFenner writes:For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and apologies issued with promises to do better:
VLM writes:From https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryptionNIST has chosen a new algorithm for post-quantum encryption called HQC, which will serve as a backup for ML-KEM, the main algorithm for general encryption.
Quaise Energy reaches back to push geothermal power forwardtaylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-energy-reaches-back-push-geothermal-power-forward/
canopic jug writes:Author, sysadmin, and Grumpy BSD Guy, Peter N M Hansteen, has written a post about Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and how they relate to all software, both proprietary and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Increasingly maintaining a machine-readable inventory of runtime and build dependencies in the form of an SBOM is becoming the cost of doing business, even for FOSS projects.
upstart writes:Advanced transmission technologies could sidestep permitting challenges and clear the bottleneck holding up hundreds of gigawatts' worth of renewable-energy projects:
upstart writes:Where will the 'Blood Moon' total lunar eclipse be visible in March 2025?A total lunar eclipse on March 13-14, 2025, will be visible across Earth's night side:
canopic jug writes:These days most ISPs allow self-hosting to some extent. Programmer Mira Welner has published a 15-step tutorial to getting a working static web site up and running on a Raspberry Pi:
A Paleoarchaean Impact Crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australiaupstart writes:A Paleoarchaean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia:
An Anonymous Coward writes:[Ed note: Most of the headlines for this story uses the security vendor's description of this is a "backdoor", which is getting called out as deliberate clickbait and hype given the physical access needed to load malicious code --hubie]Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices