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fliptop writes:This week, an app for women called "Tea" became the #1 downloaded app on the Apple App Store. Unfortunately for the women, the app also required them to give the developer a picture of their ID and location details for verification. Today, someone hacked it and put nearly 60 gigabytes of private data on 4chan:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-07-modern-tattooers-ancient-ice-mummies.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-developers-account-without-warning-rejects-appeal/

cereal_burpist writes:Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/scientists-use-peacock-feathers-to-make-frickin-laser-beams/

looorg writes:Microsoft tries to predict all the jobs where humans are doomed by the AI-overlords. It's a bit odd. They are basically predicting that everything that requires some kind of creativity or artistic endeavors will be replaced by AI. But all the hard manual labor will not. So sort of the exact opposite of what we wanted? We wanted machines to do all the boring hard work so we, the humans, could do the artistic and creative things. Now we are just going to be slaves to the machines then? Servants refilling their coolant and washing the server room floors.Jobs least at risk are the once that require a body. Interacting with something else, another body or a large heavy machine. That is until the robot-ai-overlords come along and take those to. Then it's the Matrix farm for us all ...https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-reveals-40-jobs-about-to-be-destroyed-by-and-safe-from-aihttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/working-with-ai-measuring-the-occupational-implications-of-generative-ai/?msockid=3e17f0da45306c3d2926e6e2445b6d7dOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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upstart writes:Trump caving on Nvidia H20 export curbs may disrupt his bigger trade war:

jelizondo writes:TechCrunch has an interesting article about an engineer who is challenging the Defense Behemoths.

upstart writes:A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology:

upstart writes:Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users:

upstart writes:Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training:

jelizondo writes:The Guardian posted a very thoughtful article about manipulation on the Web:

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canopic jug writes:Blogger Manuel "Manu" Moreale, based in Italy, reflects on interviewing people weekly about their blogs for a few years now.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.osnews.com/story/142871/freebsd-15-0s-installer-to-gain-option-to-install-a-full-kde-plasma-desktop-environment/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/

upstart writes:NASA's Webb Finds Possible 'Direct Collapse' Black Hole:

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upstart writes:Discovery Alert: Flaring Star, Toasted Planet - NASA Science:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Chinese hackers breached National Guard to steal network configurations

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/07/inventor-claims-bleach-injections-will-destroy-cancer-tumors/

jelizondo writes:TechCrunch has an interesting report on an initiative to rehabilitate inmates in Maine:

fliptop writes:Google has filed a lawsuit against the Badbox 2.0 botnet operators, after identifying over 10 million infected Android devices:

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fliptop writes:From the Crystal Palace at London 1851, the telephone at Philadelphia 1876 to the escalator at Paris 1900, the World Expo has always showcased innovations and cutting-edge technologies of the time. At the ongoing Expo 2025 Osaka, host country Japan is promoting its latest technology at an unlikely spot; the bus terminal outside the main venue:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Remember when a hard drive making a repeated grinding sound meant that it was time to backup the data, hope you get it all copied out in time, and prepare to send the hard drive to the great recycling factory in the sky? Fear not, Western Digital is on a mission to help you relive your click-of-death PSTD data loss nightmares with its latest invention: Preventive Wear Leveling aka PWL. The idea of PWL is simple, but the implementation can be a nightmare. It is supposed to move the hard drive mechanics every so often to prevent hard drive failure due to repeated limited motions. The catch is that on some drives the PWL kicks in every five seconds making an audible click that can be felt up to a meter away. This has been asked about on forums and as of July 2025 is still an issue in latest generation Western Digital hard drives that is driving people crazy with the grind and vibration occuring every five seconds. The click of death is now a feature.Soylentils, do you have one of these drives? What is your experience with the WD five second click of death?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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looorg writes:Perhaps not a surprise. But working less, for the same pay, makes workers feel better and more relaxed.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/07/msg00003.html

Our own anonymous AC has found the following story:MotorTrend reviews the recent Tesla earnings call, where Musk ended by saying that the new lower cost Tesla will be a stripped version of the Model Y SUV -- rear drive only, spartan interior, smaller (and/or lower cost chemistry) battery, etc.Sales and earnings haven't looked good this year, I wonder if this will be enough to bring people back to Tesla stores after Elon's time in Washington DC?While not mentioned in the article, I also wonder how current Model Y owners will feel about their neighbors' ability to get a car that looks the same, without paying the Tesla luxury car price?The story ends with other Tesla news:

upstart writes:NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse - NASA:

upstart writes:Doctors used music instead of medication:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Official page: https://debconf25.debconf.org/Meeting videos downloads: https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/

Freeman writes:https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-destroyed-months-of-your-work-in-seconds-says-ai-coding-tool-after-deleting-a-devs-entire-database-during-a-code-freeze-i-panicked-instead-of-thinking/

upstart writes:The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it Enterprise - here's how Star Trek fans persuaded him:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.osnews.com/story/142853/mwm-an-x11-window-manager-in-20-lines-of-code/

upstart writes:Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt:

Over recent weeks we have been experiencing connections from a large number of bots, spiders and scrapers. Some are the expected ones (Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc) and these tend to rate limit their requests and cause us little problem.Others appear to be AI driven scrapers and they can result in tying up a large percentage of the site's resources. For the most part they ignore robots.txt or when we return code 429. While they are individually only an annoyance their activity can affect the speed at which the site can respond to members attempts to view a page or leave a comment. They have contributed to some of the 404 or 503 (Backend Fetch Failed) that you might have experienced recently. A small number of bots isn't a problem, but if many bots are querying the site at the same time then they can affect the speed at which the site can respond to your comment or request.Software has been developed to block such abusive sites for a short period. In the majority of cases this will be invisible to you as users other than to hopefully improve the responsiveness of the site.However, it is possible that sometimes there might be a false positive and you may encounter difficulties in connecting to the site. If you do experience connection problems please inform us immediately either by email or on IRC. Neither of those apply filters to connections; the short temporary blocks only apply to the site itself. We will have to contact you by email to ascertain your IP address so that we can lift any block that may have been incorrectly applied. Please do not publish an IP address in either a comment or on IRC.If you are using a VPN or Tor it might be advisable to try another routing to circumvent any temporary block that might be affecting your connection.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Some critics of the new policy say the cap could hinder researchers in need of funding: