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quietus writes:From late May to early June of this year, wildfires raged in Canada: the plumes crossed the Atlantic and were observed in Europe.In the night of 12-13 August, the first of a next generation of weather satellites for EUMETSAT was launched aboard an Ariane 6 missile.The satellite, named METOP-SGA1, carries a total of six atmospheric sounding and imaging instrument missions. The payload includes the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer - New Generation (IASI-NG), METimage (a visual and infrared imager), the Microwave Sounder (MWS), a Radio Occultation sounder, and the Multi-Viewing, Multi-Channel, Multi-Polarisation Imager (3MI) - the latter being an entirely new instrument designed to enhance the monitoring of aerosols -- as e.g. created by the Canadian wildfires -- and cloud properties.Metop-SGA1 also carries the European Union's Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission, which will supply detailed data on atmospheric composition and trace gases that affect air quality, helping health authorities to monitor air pollution.One aim of the satellite is to improve weather forecasts from 6 hours before (now-casting) to up to 10 days ahead. Another aim is to further improve climate models. A crucial instrument here is the Microwave Sounder, which will create temperature and humidity profiles across the atmosphere by measuring microwave brightness temperatures at different altitudes, in all weather.

SomeGuy writes:Tom's Hardware Reports:

An Anonymous Coward writes:New tests reveal Microsoft Recall still screenshots sensitive data:

fliptop writes:The communication platform cited suspicions that AI companies were using the archiving site for AI training:

upstart writes:Debian -- News -- Debian 13 "trixie" released:

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upstart writes:Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill:

upstart writes:Academic study suggests devices cannot differentiate between someone being overworked and being excited:

upstart writes:Small clouds out as VMware again changes partner program:

upstart writes:Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version's enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost:

upstart writes:Using a fan can make older adults hotter in a dry heat:

canopic jug writes:Damien Miller (djm@) just published a Post-Quantum Cryptography FAQ page to the OpenSSH web site. It describes OpenSSH's use of and approach to post-quantum cryptography. A big goal is to minimize the risk from hostiles saving SSH traffic now to then crack the encryption later as new technology allows.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/coding-error-blamed-after-parts-of-constitution-disappear-from-us-website/

upstart writes:Extra-Strong Bacterial Cellulose Sheets as a Biodegradable Alternative to Plastic:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/heres-how-deepfake-vishing-attacks-work-and-why-they-can-be-hard-to-detect/

jelizondo writes:IFL Science is reporting on a breakthrough in quantum superposition:

upstart writes:Asian hornet's unique buzz may hold secret to containing invasive species:

wirelessduck writes:Visionary tech pioneer and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley has died at the age of 91.The boundary-breaking entrepreneur arrived in London at the age of five, just weeks before the outbreak of World War Two, and went on to become a computer industry and women's rights pioneer in the 1950s and 1960s.She founded the software company Freelance Programmers in 1962, which shook up the tech industry by almost exclusively hiring women, and in later life donated almost 70m to help those with autism and to IT projects.She was very smart and truly formidable, even adopting the name "Steve" to help her in a male-dominated tech world.She died on 9 August, her family said in an Instagram post on Monday.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

An Anonymous Coward writes Some turbulence at CalyxOS:

fliptop writes:Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit's Chaotic UK Age Verification RolloutAge verification has officially arrived in the UK thanks to the Online Safety Act (OSA), a UK law requiring online platforms to check that all UK-based users are at least eighteen years old before allowing them to access broad categories of "harmful" content that go far beyond graphic sexual content. EFF has extensively criticized the OSA for eroding privacy, chilling speech, and undermining the safety of the children it aims to protect. Now that it's gone into effect, these countless problems have begun to reveal themselves, and the absurd, disastrous outcome illustrates why we must work to avoid this age-verified future at all costs:

mcgrew writes:James Lovell, one of the original Apollo astronauts in the infant NASA under President Eisenhower, died yesterday (August 9) at age 97. And here I thought outer space was supposed to be bad for you!He flew on Gemini 7 and 12. Lovell, along with Commander Frank Borman and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders, were the first people to ever orbit the moon. Commander Lovell was to return to the moon, slated to walk on it this time on Apollo 13, but an oxygen tank exploded. They were incredibly lucky to return alive. It was chronicled in Lovell's book Lost Moon (with co-writer Jeffery Kruger) and the "based on a true story" movie Apollo 13.The mishap happened a couple weeks after my eighteenth birthday. The news of the accident and their miraculous news outdid all other news, even the Vietnam war and the protests against it.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/winrar-zero-day-flaw-exploited-by-romcom-hackers-in-phishing-attacks/

jelizondo writes:The BBC is running a very interesting story about Perrier and other "natural" waters not being quite what they claim to be. While some might see it as only a technicality on what "natural" means, some aspects of it point to larger, and more frightening problems:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/after-using-chatgpt-man-swaps-his-salt-for-sodium-bromide-and-suffers-psychosis/

jelizondo writes:IFL Science has a funny report about a robotic crab confronted by real crabs:

upstart writes:Japanese Scientists Develop Artificial Blood:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1JUyYS

upstart writes:Personalized pricing has spread across many industries. Here's how consumers can avoid it:

upstart writes:YouTube to gauge US users' ages with AI after UK and Australia add age checks:

An Anonymous Coward writes:These are the conference events to keep an eye on. You can even stream a few:

upstart writes:An Ohio couple welcomes a baby boy from a nearly 31-year-old frozen embryo:

upstart writes:KubeSphere kills open source edition:

upstart writes:RFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the US:

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Hiding secret codes in light can protect against fake videos

fliptop writes:China's biggest solar firms shed nearly one-third of their workforces last year, company filings show, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses:

hubie writes:OpenAI's new open models can run on your hardware instead of in the cloud:

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canopic jug writes:Some billing changes caused AWS to delete the entirety of developer Seuros' account rather than roll back to the old billing account on record. He has written an annotated timeline and analysis of how AWS came to not just delete a 10-year old, paid up account without warning but also give him quite a run around.

looorg writes:Live from the bottom of the ocean. Underwater robot draws in millions of people watching it live as it explores the bottom of the sea.

upstart writes:Infrared contact lens helps people see in the dark, even with their eyes closed:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.nextron-systems.com/2025/08/01/plague-a-newly-discovered-pam-based-backdoor-for-linux/

upstart writes:Russian volcano erupts for first time in centuries:

upstart writes:Inspired by astronauts, researchers use high-tech pants to uncover heart issues on MRI:

upstart writes:Breakthrough collaboration between multiple telescopes reveals most unusual long-period radio transient ever found:

fliptop writes:Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most potent force multipliers the criminal underground has ever seen. Generative models that write immaculate prose, mimic voices, and chain exploits together have lowered the cost of sophisticated attacks to almost nothing:

hubie writes:Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors:

hubie writes:OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results:

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