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An Anonymous Coward writes:Politico reports on a hack affecting Federal Courts in the USA:

upstart writes:Charged Drops Don't Splash:

upstart writes:3D printing just went there:

upstart writes:Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules:

Strange Kaisen Linux 3.0 Announcement Comes With Message of Distro Being DiscontinuedAn Anonymous Coward writes:https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12524

upstart writes:Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog:

hubie writes:Toothpaste made from your own hair may offer a sustainable and clinically effective way to protect and repair damaged teeth:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.osnews.com/story/143044/firefox-new-ai-features-cause-cpu-spikes-and-battery-drain/

turgid writes:An article in The Conversation discusses a scientific paper which looks at a "gravitational bounce" from the Quantum Exclusion Principle which may take place inside black holes. The speculation is that this may form new universes.The article states:

upstart writes:With platforms caving to pressure from payment processors, adult content creators are left to figure out what's next:

upstart writes:Air pollution filters help scientists produce first UK wildlife survey using eDNA:

janrinok writes:Physs.org is reporting on repurposing large electromagnets in research facilities:

upstart writes:Site director says 'a kind of camp, a favela' was founded in the ruins of city destroyed in AD79:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Bill Gates Declares the End of the Smartphone Era and Unveils Its Surprising Replacement

fliptop writes:'Learn to code' turned out to be one of the most misguided pieces of career advice, and college grads are bearing the brunt of it:

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-08-spacex-competitor-amazon-satellites.html

day of the dalek writes:Per Bloomberg (Alternate sources: CNBC and Reuters), the Trump Administration is weighing the US government potentially buying a stake in Intel. As CNBC reports:

hubie writes:Swapping foods like premade lasagna for hand-made spaghetti Bolognese made a difference:

upstart writes:Many countries banned from using PayPal for Steam games in latest payment processor drama:

evilcam writes:https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-08-adults-ai-views-technology-vary.html

canopic jug writes:Over six years, and after a lot of experimentation, Ben Holmen has worked out an awesome robotic mechanical pixel display:

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-08-culture-men-intimate-partner-violence.html

canopic jug writes:At the beginning of last year, Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, and Yanuo Zhou published a working paper on the Value of Open Source Software [PDF] for comment and discussion only.

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: