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Can Life Exist on an Icy Moon? NASA’s Europa Clipper Aims to Find Out

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6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The puzzling surface...

Chinese Hack of US ISPs Show Why Apple Is Right About Backdoors

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Alypius shares a report from 9to5Mac: It was revealed this weekend that Chinese hackers managed to a...

Internet Archive Suffers 'Catastrophic' Breach Impacting 31 Million Users

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BleepingComputer's Lawrence Abrams: Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data bre...

Númenor Margaritaville

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I see white shores, and beyond it, a far green country under a tequila sunrise.

Thousands of Linux systems infected by "perfctl" malware since 2021

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submitted by SuperFola to linux102 points | 9 commentshttps://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/persi...

Studios are apparently consulting with superfans before the movie pisses anyone off

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If you need further evidence that online fan culture has gotten out of control, look no further than...

AI Agent Promotes Itself To Sysadmin, Trashes Boot Sequence

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The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that exp...

What happens when solar panels die?

by Daniel Cooper in Published articles
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By the end of 2024, the world will have nearly 2,000 Gigawatts of solar generation capacity in servi...

Perfctl: A Stealthy Malware Targeting Linux Servers

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California will force companies to admit you don't own digital content

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submitted by dantheclamman to technology399 points | 22 commentshttps://www.androidpolice.com/califo...

Hacking the “Bike Angels” System for Moving Bikeshares

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I always like a good hack. And this story delivers. Basically, the New York City bikeshare progra...

Street-legal aluminum bullet motorcycle gives off alien vibes

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Bandit9’s EVE Odyssey V2 looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. With a top speed of 68...

TIL of the Great Auk, a northern hemisphere species similar to penguins that was hunt to extinction. Penguins are named after them.

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submitted by someguy3 to til197 points | 14 commentshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk The gr...

Researcher Wins Award For Debunking Longer Life Expectancies in 'Blue Zones'

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Slashdot first covered Saul Justin Newman's work in 2019. Now a senior research fellow at the Cent...

The New U.S. House Version of KOSA Doesn’t Fix Its Biggest Problems

by Jason Kelley, Aaron Mackey in Published articles
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An amended version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) that is being considered this week in the U....

USPS' Long-Awaited Mail Truck Makes Its Debut To Rave Reviews From Carriers

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Postal Service's new delivery veh...

I fixed the strawberry problem because OpenAI couldn't

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Recently OpenAI announced their model codenamed "strawberry" as OpenAI o1. One of...

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TIL Black Americans were developing the Afro-Futurism/Black Sci-Fi genre of literature as early as the mid-19th century.

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submitted by boredsquirrel to solarpunk90 points | 7 commentshttps://lemmy.world/post/19489459

CitizenDJ – Make music using free audio and video from the Library of Congress

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