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X Outage: Thousands Report Issues With Elon Musk's Platformupstart writes:X outage: Thousands report issues with Elon Musk's platform:

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:https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/infosec_in_brief/

upstart writes:US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies:

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

anubi writes:Just how tiny can something be made...and still have it work?https://www.earth.com/news/unexpected-find-inside-the-eye-of-a-tiny-wasp-megaphragma-viggianii/

fliptop writes:CISA has warned US federal agencies to secure their systems against attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Cisco and Windows systems:

upstart writes:Built by the Norwegian startup 1X, the Neo Gamma humanoid robot is designed to complete mundane household tasks:

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mrpg writes:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00554-w

fliptop writes:Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

upstart writes:Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon:

Amid a Growing Measles Outbreak, Doctors Worry RFK is Sending the Wrong Messageupstart writes:Amid a growing measles outbreak, doctors worry RFK is sending the wrong message:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/

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upstart writes:Hugging Face's chief science officer worries AI is becoming 'yes-men on servers':

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/users-report-emotional-bonds-with-startlingly-realistic-ai-voice-demo/

upstart writes:Apple appeal to Investigatory Powers Tribunal may be the first case of its type:

upstart writes:Tests reveal a lack of microbial diversity on board. That's been linked to health issues in other settings:

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fliptop writes:New research published in Chemosphere reveals an alarming reality: everyday kitchen utensils may quietly harm your well-being. The research reveals the extent to which some cooking tools, particularly black plastic ones, contaminate food with deadly toxins while we cook:

Freeman writes:https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/how-we-added-interlaced-video-to-raspberry-pi-5/

upstart writes:BP shuns renewables in return to oil and gas:

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mhajicek writes:https://newatlas.com/brain/cortical-bioengineered-intelligence/

hubie writes:"What kind of pissing contest is this?":

upstart writes:Ultra-high-power particle pulses could boost x-ray science and laboratory astrophysics:

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upstart writes:The number of interstellar objects coming from Alpha Centauri will increase over time:

upstart writes:Biohybrid technology helps machines sense and heal:

mrpg writes:Two US probes on their way to the Moon, one laden with a drill and a hopper looking for lunar water:

canopic jug writes:UEFI, or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, is a small, insecure, embedded operating system touted as a replacement for computer BIOS. OS hacker and small scale farmer Sami Tikkanen has a guest post over at Techrights debunking UEFI hype and Microsoft's lies, yet again. UEFI has a lot of baggage and controversy. Some here may remember the debates prior to its forced roll out.

upstart writes:Ancient Humans Evolved New Blood Types After Leaving Africa:

upstart writes:Man's brain turned to glass by Vesuvius volcano ash cloud:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2025/03/pentium-multiplier-adder-reverse-engineered.html

upstart writes:20,000-year-old evidence of ancient 'vehicles' discovered in New Mexico:

upstart writes:YR4 asteroid: The hits and near-misses you never hear about:

upstart writes:NASA Is Watching a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field:

upstart writes:The next chapter: Moving from Skype to Microsoft Teams:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Google didn't tell Android users much about Android System SafetyCore before it hit their phones, and people are unhappy. Fortunately, you're not stuck with it.

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taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-superelastic-alloy-functions-extreme-temperatures.html

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/02/the-surveillance-tech-waiting-for-workers-as-they-return-to-the-office/

upstart writes:The James Webb Space Telescope is watching two distant alien planets "spilling their guts into space" as they rapidly disintegrate:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:Millions of Americans who purchased antivirus software from Avast may be eligible for compensation due to a $16.5 million settlement by the company with the Federal Trade Commission:

JoeMerchant writes:https://unionrayo.com/en/quantum-teleportation-breakthrough/

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-02-flat-telescope-lens-capture-faraway.html