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The Sun is Producing Strong Solar Flares, Creating Blackouts. What to Knowupstart writes:The sun is producing strong solar flares, creating blackouts. What to know:

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hubie writes:Agent mode arrives, for better or worse:

slon writes:Positive proof-of-concept experiments may lead to the world's first treatment for celiac disease:

coolgopher writes:https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

upstart writes:Evidence for 'Planet Nine' lurking on the fringes of the Solar System is building. So why can't astronomers spot it? - ABC News:

hubie writes:The Roman massacre that never happened according to a new study of an iconic archaeological site:

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NotSanguine writes:A Caltech press release details research on the evolution of Jupiter.From the release:

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upstart writes:You are glowing - no, really:

fliptop writes:AI chatbot that pulled him into what she described as an emotionally and sexually abusive relationship that led to his suicide:

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Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-days exploited at hacking contestAn Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-fixes-firefox-zero-days-exploited-at-hacking-contest/

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slon writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-05-powerful-laser.html

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slon writes:Science X reports that UK farmers are praying for rain as Britain suffers its driest spring in well over a century, which has left the soil parched and crops stunted from lack of water. Not a drop of rain has fallen since March.

Tech Review is re-running this story from 2019 with a new introduction,

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liar writes:https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/laser-powered-fusion-experiment-more-than-doubles-its-power-output/

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upstart writes:Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.forbes.com/sites/saibala/2025/05/15/apple-is-developing-tech-so-users-can-control-devices-with-only-their-thoughts/

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Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet againAn Anonymous Coward writes:

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fliptop writes:Regeneron has agreed to buy 23andMe, the once buzzy genetic testing company, out of bankruptcy for $256 million under a court-supervised sale process:

canopic jug writes:The Verge, Space News, and The South China Morning Post are reporting that Red China has begun assembling a744 TOPS super computer in Earth's orbit. The advantages of an orbital super computer include better access to solar energy, easier radiation of waste heat, and, above all, shorter communications times with other satellites.

hubie writes:EU users have less than two weeks to opt out of Meta's AI training:

shrewdsheep writes:https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/nextcloud_play_store_complaint/

looorg writes:Scientists have re-calculate when the universe will end and it's a lot sooner than previously expected.

M&S Forces Customer Password Resets After Data Breachupstart writes:M&S forces customer password resets after data breach:

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owl writes:https://archive.is/hXGcp

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owl writes:https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/voyager_1_survives_with_thruster_fix/

hubie writes:White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans' sensitive data:

Mojibake Tengu writes:The TECHPOWERUP reports:https://www.techpowerup.com/336529/hygon-prepares-128-core-512-threaded-x86-cpu-with-four-way-smt-and-avx-512-support

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