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CISA Leaves Open Door for HackersPiMuNu and Arthur T Knackerbracket write:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/in-stunning-display-of-stupid-secret-cisa-credentials-found-in-public-github-repo/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:At 25, Kurt Godel proved there can never be a mathematical "theory of everything." Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Got an older Kindle? Don't throw it away or rush to upgrade:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Data centers are skewing the power supply market, resulting in higher prices for everyone:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:New X-rays and CT scans showed small case with locking mechanism containing metal instruments:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Older Intel 7-based processors are locked up for servers and industrial use, leaving OEMs with little choice:

liar writes:https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5822366/musk-altman-openai-jury-verdict-claims-dismissed

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-its-first-server-linux-distribution-azure-linux-4-0/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Iran's claim over subsea chokepoint pushes US tech companies to overland fiber:

PiMuNu writes:Mysteries by their very nature don't invite consensus. Without a clear answer, people's opinions tend to diverge over what the most likely solution is. Physics mysteries are no different, as evidenced by the results of a survey APS conducted last summer.Building on an earlier survey, the American Physical Society's "Physics" Magazine ran a ten-question survey that covered some of the biggest controversies in cosmology, particle physics, and general relativity. More than 1600 people took the time to share their opinions with us, making this, to our knowledge, the largest survey to date focused on physicists' views of open questions in physicshttps://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/34

An Anonymous Coward writes:The retail bookseller plans to open 60 more stores in the US this year:

Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e24z2q7xqo

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/casimir-force-co-opted-to-generate-free-energy-midichlorians-not-included/

fliptop writes:On Reddit, Hacker News and other places where people in software development talk to each other [...] Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well as they used to [paywalled]:

"Fnord666" writes:Ollama Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Allows Remote Process Memory Leak:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.engadget.com/2174433/nasa-psyche-spacecraft-got-an-assist-from-mars-on-way-to-asteroid/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/texas-county-passes-data-center-moratorium-for-a-year-follows-other-local-governments-pausing-similar-projects-but-state-senator-says-counties-cannot-impose-these-bans

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/cell-phones-users-cant-stop-incriminating-themselves/

hubie writes:Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme injury, according to new research:

canopic jug writes:El Pais has a short interview with Vint Cerf about his thoughts on the Internet and speculation about the future. He has been there since the beginning when, among other things, he and Robert Kahn developed TCP/IP.

ted-ious writes:65% of U.S. doctors reportedly use OpenEvidence, which is supported in part by pharmaceutical ads:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Tiny molecules in the blood can strongly predict short-term survival in older adults:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Fortunately, it happened early in the morning, so nobody was around:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:America's aging electric grid is struggling to meet modern demands-especially amid the AI boom. Overhauling it will be no small feat:

Bloomberg reports on a recent court decision in China.

"Fnord666" writes:Subquadratic has launched a new AI architecture featuring a 12-million-token context window that outperforms GPT-5.5 on retrieval benchmarks:

hubie writes:SteamOS scared Microsoft into making Windows less like Windows:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-may-have-discovered-how-parkinsons-disease-spreads-through-the-brain/

hubie writes:Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid:

An Anonymous Coward writes:YellowKey exploit bypasses BitLocker full volume encryption via USB stick and WinRE

fliptop writes:As a metric of just how much damage the push to "electrify" everything on wheels has caused [Ed's Comment: In the USA] , it's hard to surpass Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe's announcement the other day that Honda - Honda! - suffered its first-ever money-losing year last year:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2166169/why-european-cars-cant-use-american-engine-oil/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-discovers-cve-2026-42511-a-21-year-old-freebsd-remote-command-execution-vulnerability

An Anonymous Coward writes:It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://scitechdaily.com/1300-year-old-secret-lost-medieval-manuscript-finally-found-hiding-in-plain-sight/

hubie writes:If you're one of millions using element-data, it's time to check for compromise:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nasa-pushes-mars-helicopter-rotors-past-the-speed-of-sound-for-the-first-time-ever-next-gen-skyfall-aircrafts-rotors-hit-3-750-rpm-ten-times-faster-than-normal-helicopters

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ted-ious writes:A Wikipedia Clone Built on AI Hallucinations Is Here to Hasten Along the Death of the Internet:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there:

An Anonymous Coward writes:The Great Zombification

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-new-wild-west-of-ai-kids-toys/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Scientists have finally cracked the hidden geometry behind how humans perceive color:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.engadget.com/2169135/gm-agrees-to-pay-12-75-million-to-settle-california-lawsuit-over-misuse-of-customers-driving-data/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Furores are fermenting in the forums:

fliptop writes:The findings make clear that the race to use AI to find network vulnerabilities has "already begun"

"Fnord666" writes:A team at the University of Hong Kong has developed a new "super steel" that can survive the harsh conditions needed to make green hydrogen from seawater:

owl writes:https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/05/12/ups-exploration