canopic jug writes:Mac Bowley at the Raspberry Pi blog asks about ending hardware upgrades for the sake of upgrades as well as ending planned obsolescence. The softwre for the Raspberry Pi, he notes, still runs on the first models even if the newer models are faster. In fact the old models are still being produced and bought. Fully exploiting the natural life spans of hardware would have a lot of advantages, not the least of which would be reduction of the enviornmental impact.
RandomFactor writes:The recently discovered galaxy XMM-2599 is three times the size of any other galaxy ever imaged. And models indicate it should have continued forming stars for well over a paltry billion years, but according to new research the supermassive galaxy only did so for about 800 Million years.
DeathMonkey writes:[Note: The announcement of these records just occurred; the highs actually occurred in the years: 1982, 1989, and 2015. --martyb]Highest Recorded Temperatures In Antarctica Announced And They May Surprise You:
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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny:Oh ****... Sudo has a 'make anyone root' bug that needs to be patched – if you're unlucky enough to enable pwfeedback:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny:Sketchy behavior? Wacom tablet drivers phone home with names, times of every app opened on your computer:
An Anonymous Coward writes:Swiss federal government organisations and agencies will soon be free to share the source code of their software solutions as open source. In addition, software developers working for the federal government should be able to be part of open source communities. The government wants to anchor this in federal law, according to new Guidelines on Open Source in the Federal Government, made public last Friday.
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Newest solar telescope produces first images: Preeminent telescope to play critical role in better understanding sun, space weather:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Cowardly_Anonymizer:Neural Networks Upscale Film from 1896 to 4K, Make It Look Like It Was Shot on a Modern Smartphone: