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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:

upstart writes:A surveillance vendor was caught exploiting a new SS7 attack to track people's phone locations:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/sharepoint-vulnerability-with-9-8-severity-rating-is-under-exploit-across-the-globe/

Conversations Between LLMs Could Automate the Creation of Exploits, Study Showsupstart writes:2025-07-conversations-llms-automate-creation-exploits:

an Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.osnews.com/story/142855/microsoft-wants-to-find-out-why-windows-11-is-so-slow/

upstart writes:The atomic bomb marker inside your body:

fliptop writes:Matson surprised customers this week with an announcement that, effective immediately, it would suspend transporting battery-powered electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles due to the hazardous material classification of their lithium-ion batteries. The ability to ship cars between the mainland of the United States, Hawaii, Guam, and Alaska was an important service both for individuals and car dealers:[Editor's Note: Matson, Inc. is a U.S. owned and operated transportation services company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. --JE]

upstart writes:11,000-year-old feast uncovered: Why hunters hauled wild boars across mountains:

upstart writes:Popular sugar substitute linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk:

The BBC has announced that Ozzy Osborne has died today.From the Guardian:

upstart writes:A strange fossil at the edge of the solar system just shook up Planet Nine theories:

upstart writes:Microsoft says it will no longer use engineers in China for Department of Defense work:

canopic jug writes:Rolling Stone has an article about a concert tape with an interesting back story. The album, Thelonious Monk: Live at Palo Alto eventually came out in September 2020. It was a recording of when the jazz legend played at a high school back in 1968. The school custodian recorded the show on reel to reel. When the tape resurfaced not too many years ago, it drew the ire of and some dirty tricks from a former record label.

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jelizondo writes:Phys.org reports on how weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago

An Anonymous Coward writes:A CarFax for Used PCs

upstart writes:Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you're willing to pay:

upstart writes:For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20030

An Anonymous Coward writes:Microsoft's Copilot finally comes into its own with new AI features like Recall

fliptop writes:Not much more to say than, damn.Most of the companies in the list don't ring a bell. I do remember moving dBase data into FoxPro for a company I worked for in the early 90's. And of course the Skype, Nokia and GitHub deals were big news.I suppose once Bill Gates completes his acquisition of all the farmland in the U.S. he can die happy?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Is Tor Trustworthy and Safe?:[Editor's Note: There is a suggestion that the reason this has surfaced (again) at this time is an attempt to attract more people to VPNs rather than relying on Tor. This is most evident from the later stages of this document. However, from our own experience we have noted that Tor is not a reliable way of maintaining true anonymity. --JR]

jelizondo writes:The Guardian has a long and very interesting article about pain and its psychology and physiology. Some gripping anecdotes like the soldier who picks his torn arm from the ground and walks to receive medical attention or the woman who worked and walked around for 10 hours with a burst cyst and a "a belly full of blood."Why some people can withstand high pain while others cry over a little knock in their knee?

An Anonymous Coward writes:FuguIta has been mentioned here recently.The creator has released a, "FuguIta desktop environment demo version" featuring:

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upstart writes:Brothers-in-law use construction knowledge to compete against Comcast in Michigan:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/radio-hobbyists-rejoice-good-news-lora-mesh

jelizondo writes:The Wall Street Journal published a look at new automation for farms, as reported by Mint

upstart writes:DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key:

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