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date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
2024 Year in Review – Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley by Tiffany Blake As NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley enters its 85th year since its founding, join us as we take a look back at some of our highlights of science, engineering, research, and innovation from 2024. Ames Arc Jets Play Key […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-ames-astrogram-december-2024/
date: 2024-12-20, from: OS News
The working principle of APPEND is not complicated. It primarily serves as a bridge between old DOS applications which have no or poor support for directories, and users who really, really want to organize files and programs in multiple directories and possibly across multiple drive letters. Of course the actual APPEND implementation is anything but straightforward. ↫ Michal Necasek Another gem of an article by Michal Necasek, detailing a command I’ve known about almost all my life but never once knew what it was supposed to be for. The gist is that APPEND allows for files to be opened not only in the current working directory, but also up to two levels deeper. This gives you a rudimentary way of working with directories, even when using programs or commands that have no clue what directories even are. since DOS 1.x doesn’t support directories, but DOS 2.x does, having a tool like this to create a bridge between the pre and post-directory worlds can be quite useful. I’ve basically learned more about DOS from Necasek’s work in the past few years than I learned about DOS when I was actively using it in the early ’90s.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141396/what-does-append-do-in-dos/
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, is helping the Artemis Generation learn how to power space dreams with an interactive exhibit at INFINITY Science Center. The engine test simulator exhibit at the official visitor center of NASA Stennis provides the chance to experience the thrill of being a NASA test engineer by […]
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/exhibit-puts-visitors-in-test-conductor-seat/
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
NASA has selected multiple companies to expand the agency’s Near Space Network’s commercial direct-to-Earth capabilities services, which is a mission-critical communication capability that allows spacecraft to transmit data directly to ground stations on Earth. The work will be awarded under new Near Space Network services contracts that are firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts. Project timelines span from […]
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
Deep Space Station 23’s 133-ton reflector dish was recently installed, marking a key step in strengthening NASA’s Deep Space Network. NASA’s Deep Space Network, an array of giant radio antennas, allows agency missions to track, send commands to, and receive scientific data from spacecraft venturing to the Moon and beyond. NASA is adding a new […]
date: 2024-12-20, from: OS News
With more and more Linux distributions – as well as the kernel itself – dropping support for more exotic, often dead architectures, it’s a blessing T2 Linux exists. This unique, source-based Linux distribution focuses on making it as easy as possible to build a Linux installation tailored to your needs, and supports an absolutely insane amount of architectures and platforms. In fact, calling T2 a “distribution” does it a bit of a disservice, since it’s much more than that. You may have noticed the banner at the top of OSNews, and if we somehow – unlikely! -manage to reach that goal before the two remaining new-in-box HP c8000 PA-RISC workstations on eBay are sold, my plan is indeed to run HP-UX as my only operating system for a week, because I like inflicting pain on myself. However, I also intend to use that machine to see just how far T2 Linux on PA-RISC can take me, and if it can make a machine like the c8000, which is plenty powerful with its two dual-core 1.0Ghz PA-RISC processors, properly useful in 2024. T2 Linux 24.12 has just been released, and it brings with it the latest versions of the Linux kernel, gcc, LLVM/Clang, and so on. With T2 Linux, which describes itself as a System Development Environment, it’s very easy to spin up a heavily customised Linux installation fit for your purpose, targeting anything from absolutely resource-starved embedded systems to big hunks of, I don’t know, SPARC or POWER metal. If you’ve got hardware with a processor in it, you can most likely build T2 for it. The project also provides a large number of pre-built ISOs for a whole slew of supported architectures, sometimes further divided into glibc or musl, so you can quickly get started even without having to build something yourself. It’s an utterly unique project that deserves more attention than it’s getting, especially since it seems to be one of the last Linux “distributions” that takes supporting weird platforms out-of-the-box seriously. Think of it as the NetBSD of the Linux world, and I know for a fact that there’s a very particular type of person to whom that really appeals.
date: 2024-12-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Five years after the first sighting in Washington state, intense efforts have eradicated the bee-killing hornets from the nation
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
Liechtenstein signed the Artemis Accords Friday during a ceremony hosted by NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, becoming the 52nd nation to commit to the responsible exploration of space for all humanity. “Today, as Liechtenstein signs the Artemis Accords, we take another step forward together, united by the promise of […]
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-welcomes-liechtenstein-as-newest-artemis-accords-signatory/
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley pre-dates a lot of things. The center existed before NASA – the very space and aeronautics agency it’s a critical part of today. And of all the marvelous advancements in science and technology that have fundamentally changed our lives over the last 85 years since its founding, one aspect […]
date: 2024-12-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Veterans and dignitaries gathered in Belgium and Luxembourg this month to reflect on the deadly World War II conflict that paved the way for a full Nazi defeat
date: 2024-12-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
This week, Browns Canyon National Monument, a 21,586-acre protected natural area in central Colorado, achieved International Dark Sky Park certification
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse was visible from parts of Europe, and a partial solar eclipse from northern Africa and northern Asia. NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Arctic Ocean on March 20 at 10:45 UTC (6:45 a.m. EDT) and captured the eclipse’s shadow over the clouds in the […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-terra-satellite-captures-2015-eclipse-shadow/
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
A method for evaluating thermophysical properties of metal alloys Simulation of the solidification of metal alloys, a key step in certain industrial processes, requires reliable data on their thermophysical properties such as surface tension and viscosity. Researchers propose comparing predictive models with experimental outcomes as a method to assess these data. Scientists use data on […]
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/station-science-top-news-dec-20-2024/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
A collection of ten digital portraits of famous thespians—including Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter—are on view at the Red Eight Gallery in London
date: 2024-12-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Though experts say more work is needed to understand the findings, this line of study might offer a way to monitor age-related cognitive disorders and target treatment
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is preparing today for tomorrow’s mission. Supersonic flight, next generation aircraft, advanced air mobility, climate changes, human exploration of space, and the next innovation are just some of the topics our researchers, engineers, and mission support teams focused on in 2024. NASA Armstrong began 2024 with the […]
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed. A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge repurposed Webb’s observations of a distant star to reveal a population of small asteroids — smaller than astronomers had ever detected orbiting the Sun in the main […]
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Press freedom advocates are urging Apple to ditch an "immature" generative AI system that incorrectly summarized a BBC news notification that incorrectly related that suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione had killed himself.…
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date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
It's not just you, there is indeed an activation problem in Microsoft 365 Office triggered by administrators making changes at the licensing level.…
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date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet’s northern hemisphere goes through an active — even explosive — spring thaw. While New Year’s Eve is around the corner here on Earth, Mars scientists are ahead of the game: The Red Planet completed a trip around the Sun on Nov. 12, 2024, prompting a few researchers […]
date: 2024-12-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program has announced its fourth and final group of honorees from throughout American history
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
NASA completed the first maximum afterburner engine run test on its X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Dec. 12. The ground test, conducted at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, marks a significant milestone as the X-59 team progresses toward flight. An afterburner is a component of some jet engines that generates additional […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-runs-x-59-engine-with-maximum-afterburner-for-first-time/
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
The Moon may look like barren rock, but it’s actually covered in a layer of gravel, pebbles, and dust collectively known as “lunar regolith.” During the Apollo Moon missions, astronauts learned firsthand that the fine, powdery dust – electromagnetically charged due to constant bombardment by solar and cosmic particles – is extremely abrasive and clings […]
date: 2024-12-20, from: OS News
Remember x86S, Intel’s initiative to create a 64bit-only x86 instruction set, with the goal of removing some of the bloat that the venerable architecture accumulated over the decades? Well, this initiative is now dead, and more or less replaced with the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, a collection of companies with a stake in keeping x86 going. Most notably, this includes Intel and AMD, but also other tech giants like Google. In the first sign of changes to come after the formation of a new industry group, Intel has confirmed to Tom’s Hardware that it is no longer working on the x86S specification. The decision comes after Intel announced the formation of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, which brings together Intel, AMD, Google, and numerous other industry stalwarts to define the future of the x86 instruction set. Intel originally announced its intentions to de-bloat the x86 instruction set by developing a simplified 64-bit mode-only x86S version, publishing a draft specification in May 2023, and then updating it to a 1.2 revision in June of this year. Now, the company says it has officially ended that initiative. ↫ Paul Alcorn This seems like an acknowledgement of the reality that Intel is no longer in the position it once was when it comes to steering the direction of x86. It’s AMD that’s doing most of the heavy-lifting for the architecture at the moment, and it’s been doing that for a while now, with little signs that’s going to chance. I doubt Intel had enough clout left to push something as relatively drastic as x86S, and now has to rely on building concensus with other companies invested in x86. It may seem like a small thing, and I doubt many larger tech outlets will care, but this story is definitely the biggest sign yet that Intel is in a lot more trouble than people already seem to think based on Intel’s products and market performance. What we have here is a full admission by Intel that they no longer control the direction of x86, and have to rely on the rest of the industry to help them. That’s absolutely wild.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141392/intel-admits-it-no-longer-controls-the-direction-of-x86/
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Beta 6 of Adélie Linux is arriving, just over six years after Beta 1 – but they do say that good things come to those who wait.…
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date: 2024-12-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The familiar rodents, known for eating nuts and seeds, have been spotted hunting and decapitating voles in a gruesome dietary adaptation. Scientists say it might signal resiliency in face of future environmental pressures
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
“Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake.” James B. Odom, Hubble Program Manager 1983-1990. The third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, placed in orbit in 1990, occurred during the STS-103 mission in December 1999. During the mission, originally planned for June […]
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Opinion I am so sick of this. I've been a happy WordPress user since it rolled out the door in 2003, and I kissed Vignette (since acquired by OpenText) goodbye. WordPress was just so much easier to use than the alternatives; it was open source; and it was free. It was such a win!…
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date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
High school students in Indiana are contributing to NASA’s groundbreaking research to develop quieter, more fuel-efficient aircraft engines. Their learning experience is a collaboration between aircraft noise researchers from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and educators from the University of Notre Dame’s Turbomachinery Laboratory. The collaboration aims to encourage students’ interest in science, technology, […]
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
It’s the holiday season — which means many are taking to the skies to join their loved ones. If you’ve ever used an app to navigate on a road trip, you’ve probably noticed how it finds you the most efficient route to your destination, even before you depart. To that end, NASA has been working […]
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/nasa-flight-tool-curbs-delays-emissions/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
From a total solar eclipse that captivated our continent to record temperatures that scorched the planet, these were the biggest moments of the year
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the constellation Puppis. A prominent bar of stars stretches across the center of this galaxy, and spiral arms emerge from each end of the bar. Because NGC 2566 appears tilted from our perspective, its disk takes […]
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-spies-a-cosmic-eye/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Although it was just a byproduct of developing a new type of reactor, the generation of electricity from nuclear energy signaled a bright future ahead
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The Fedora 41 version of Asahi Linux is out – the go-to Linux distro for Apple Silicon Macs.…
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date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024 It’s almost holiday time, and preparations are going ahead on Earth and Mars! For myself that means having a packed suitcase sitting behind me to go on my holiday travels tomorrow morning. For Curiosity that means looking forward to a long semi-rest, as we will not do our […]
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4398-4401-holidays-ahead-rocks-under-the-wheels/
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
On Call Digital technology remains frighteningly finickity, which is why good tech support people are always in demand – and also the reason The Register never tires of telling your support stories each Friday in On Call, the column your generosity makes possible.…
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date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Chinese scientists think it's time to rewrite the Moon's history after analyzing samples returned to Earth by the Chang'e 6 mission.…
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date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
CANALYS FORUMS APAC Generative AI is being enthusiastically adopted in almost every field, but infosec experts are divided on whether it is truly helpful for red team raiders who test enterprise systems.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/20/gen_ai_red_teaming/
date: 2024-12-20, from: NASA breaking news
Say cheese again, Moon. We’re coming in for another close-up. For the second time in less than a year, a NASA technology designed to collect data on the interaction between a Moon lander’s rocket plume and the lunar surface is set to make the long journey to Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor for the benefit of […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-cameras-to-capture-interaction-between-blue-ghost-moons-surface/
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft has logged some new known issues with Windows 11 24H2 and thrown up more safeguard holds until the problems are resolved.…
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date: 2024-12-19, from: NASA breaking news
I have always loved the mountains. Growing up on the flat plains of Midwestern USA, every summer I looked forward to spending a few days on alpine trails while on vacation. Climbing upward from the trailhead, the views changed constantly. After climbing a short distance, the best views were often had by looking back down […]
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/perseverance-blasts-past-the-top-of-jezero-crater-rim/
date: 2024-12-19, from: OS News
NetBSD 10.1 has been released. As the version number indicates, this isn’t supposed to be a major, groundbreaking release, but it still contains a ton of changes, fixes, and improvements. It’s got the usual set of new and improved drivers, kernel improvements – like the ability to hotplug spares and components in a RAID – and improvements for various specific architectures, and much more. If you’re using NetBSD you already know how to upgrade, and if you’re not yet using NetBSD, here’s the download page for the various supported architectures. There are a lot of them.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141389/netbsd-10-1-released/
date: 2024-12-19, from: OS News
What’s the European Commission to do when one of the largest corporations in the world has not only been breaking its laws continually, but also absolutely refuses to comply, uses poison pills in its malicious compliance, badmouths you in the press through both official – and unofficial – employees? Well, you start telling that corporation exactly what it needs to do to comply, down to the most minute implementation details, and in the process take away any form of wiggle room. Steven Troughton-Smith, an absolute wizard when it comes to the inner workings of Apple’s various platforms and allround awesome person, dove into the European Commission’s proposed next steps when it comes to dealing with Apple’s refusal to comply with EU law – the Digital Markets Act, in particular – and it’s crystal-clear that the EC is taking absolutely no prisoners. They’re not only telling Apple exactly what kind of interoperability measures it must take, down to the API level, but they’re also explicitly prohibiting Apple from playing games through complex contracts and nebulous terms to try and make interoperability a massive burden. As an example of just how detailed the EC is getting with Apple, here’s what the company needs to do to make AirDrop interoperable: Apple shall provide a protocol specification that gives third parties all information required to integrate, access, and control the AirDrop protocol within an application or service (including as part of the operating system) running on a third-party connected physical device in order to allow these applications and services to send files to, and receive files from, an iOS device. ↫ European Commission In addition, Apple must make any new features or changes to AirDrop available to third parties at the same time as it releases them: For future functionalities of or updates to the AirDrop feature, Apple shall make them available to third parties no later than at the time they are made available to any Apple connected physical device. ↫ European Commission These specific quotes only cover AirDrop, but similar demands are made about things like AirPlay, the easy pairing process currently reserved for Apple’s own accessories, and so on. I highly suggest reading the source document, or at the very least the excellent summary thread by Steven, to get an even better idea of what the EC is demanding here. The changes must be made in the next major version of iOS, or at the very latest before the end of 2025. The EC really goes into excruciating detail about how Apple is supposed to implement these interoperability features, and leaves very little to no wiggle room for Apple shenanigans. The EC is also clearly fed up with Apple’s malicious compliance and other tactics to violate the spirit of the DMA: Apple shall not impose any restrictions on the type or use case of the software application and connected physical device that can access or makeuse of the features listed in this Document. Apple shall not undermine effective interoperability with the 11 features set out in this Document by behaviour of a technical nature. In particular, Apple shall actively take all the necessary actions to allow effective interoperability with these features. Apple shall not impose any contractual or commercial restrictions that would be opaque, unfair, unreasonable, or discriminatory towards third parties or otherwise defeat the purpose of enabling effective interoperability. In particular, Apple shall not restrict business users, directly or indirectly, to make use of any interoperability solution in their existing apps via an automatic update. ↫ European Commission What I find most interesting about all of this is that it could have been so easily avoided by Apple. Had Apple approached the EU and the DMA with the same kind of respect, grace, and love Apple and Tim Cook clearly reserve for totalitarian dictatorships like China, Apple could’ve enabled interoperability in such a way that it would still align with most of Apple’s interests. They would’ve avoided the endless stream of negative press this fruitless “fight” with the EU is generating, and it would’ve barely impacted Apple’s bottom line. Put it on one of those Apple microsites that capture your scrolling, boast about how amazing Apple is and how much they love interoperability, and it most likely would’ve been a massive PR win. Instead, under the mistaken impression that this is a business negotiation, Apple tried to cry, whine, throw tamper tantrums, and just generally act like horrible spoiled brats just because someone far, far more powerful than they are told them “no” for once. Now they’ve effectively been placed under guardianship, and have to do exactly as the European Commission tells them to, down to the API level, without any freedom to make their own choices. The good thing is that the EC’s journey to make iOS a better and more capable operating system continues. We all benefit. Well, us EU citizens, anyway.
date: 2024-12-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The 16th-century artifacts were found during excavations in Arizona. Researchers say they may be the oldest firearms ever discovered in the continental United States
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Axiom Space has shuffled the assembly sequence of its space station to remove any dependence it would have on the International Space Station (ISS) by as soon as 2028.…
date: 2024-12-19, from: NASA breaking news
A maze of cables and sensors snakes through a major piece of Gateway, humanity’s first space station around the Moon, during a key testing phase earlier this year to ensure the lunar-orbiting science lab can withstand the harsh conditions of deep space. HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) is one of four Gateway modules where international […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/gateway-wired-for-deep-space/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The new discovery is the first of its kind in New York state for at least 11 years and appeared in a county rich with mastodon remains
date: 2024-12-19, from: NASA breaking news
NASA published a new report Thursday highlighting 17 agency mechanisms that have directly and indirectly supported the development and growth of the U.S. commercial space sector for the benefit of humanity. The report, titled Enabling America on the Space Frontier: The Evolution of NASA’s Commercial Space Development Toolkit, is available on the agency’s website. “This […]
date: 2024-12-19, from: NASA breaking news
NASA has taken a big step forward in how engineers will assemble and stack future SLS (Space Launch System) rockets for Artemis Moon missions inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The VAB’s High Bay 2 has been outfitted with new tooling to facilitate the vertical integration of […]
date: 2024-12-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
In 2018, fewer than 100 Sombrero ground lizards remained on Sombrero Island—but now, more than 1,600 of the critically endangered reptiles are scampering around the limestone landscape
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
After 10 months of work, the bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in the US house of Congress has unveiled its report, outlining recommendations for federal AI policy.…
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date: 2024-12-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Robert Smithson constructed the famous 1,500-foot-long land artwork on the shore of the Great Salt Lake in 1970
date: 2024-12-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
While the distinctive coloration is thought to be a warning to predators, it also has intriguing implications for designing man-made materials
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Comment Next year will see some truly monstrous compute projects get underway as the AI boom enters its third year. Among the largest disclosed so far is xAI's plan to expand its Colossus AI supercomputer from an already impressive 100,000 GPUs to a cool million.…
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date: 2024-12-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Discovered in central Germany, the 1,800-year-old silver artifact held a tiny scroll, which researchers have now deciphered using high-resolution scans
date: 2024-12-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers found that ancient Mesopotamians associated body parts with emotions, just as we do—but they discovered some hilarious differences
date: 2024-12-19, from: Quanta Magazine
Researchers got a better look at the thoughts of chatbots, amateurs learned exactly how complicated simple systems can be, and quantum computers passed an essential milestone.The post The Year in Computer Science first appeared on Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-computer-science-20241219/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Quanta Magazine
The first planet beyond our solar system was identified just 30 years ago. Since then, thousands have been found and characterized. As we look for more, exoplanet experts are also probing for signs of alien biospheres hundreds of light-years away. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin speaks with astrophysicist and astrobiologist Lisa Kaltenegger about how we’ll know we’re not alone in the cosmos.The post How Will We Know We’re Not Alone? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-will-we-know-were-not-alone-20241219/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Perkins was America’s first female cabinet secretary and the longest-serving Secretary of Labor
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Two astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station aboard Boeing's problem-plagued Starliner are facing another extended delay. …
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date: 2024-12-19, from: NASA breaking news
As 1969, an historic year that saw not just one but two successful human lunar landings, drew to a close, NASA continued preparations for its planned third Moon landing mission, Apollo 13, then scheduled for launch on March 12, 1970. The Apollo 13 prime crew of Commander James A. Lovell, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Thomas […]
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The European Commission (EC) has continued pushing Apple to open up more of iOS to third parties, and Apple has pushed back, warning that doing so risks user privacy.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/apple_meta_interoperability/
date: 2024-12-19, from: NASA breaking news
In coordination with NASA, Axiom Space modified its planned assembly sequence to accelerate its ability to operate as a viable free-flying space station and reduce International Space Station reliance during assembly. NASA awarded Axiom Space a firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract in January 2020, as the agency continues to open the space station for commercial […]
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has slapped IT Career Change Ltd on the wrist over a September 2024 ad promoting a career in Health & Safety.…
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date: 2024-12-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Published on this day in 1843, at a time when Christmas was undergoing great transformation, Charles Dickens’ novel centered the virtues of kindness, charity and reform
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Exclusive Asda decided not to go ahead with planned cut-over dates to introduce new systems at some smaller stores earlier this month as part of its technical divorce from Walmart, the previous owner of the UK's third-largest supermarket.…
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date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Feature The first telephone call in 1876 was marked by Alexander Graham Bell's request to his assistant, Thomas, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you."…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/humanoid_robots_remote_contral/
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Unknown criminals went on a phishing expedition that targeted about 20,000 users across the automotive, chemical and industrial compound manufacturing sectors in Europe, and tried to steal account credentials and then hijack the victims' Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/docusign_lure_azure_account_takeover/
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The automotive industry has been shaken this week by news that giant Japanese carmakers Nissan and Honda are contemplating a merger, with Mitsubishi Motors apparently keen to become part of the mix.…
date: 2024-12-19, from: OS News
We’re grateful for our weekly sponsor, OpenSource Science B.V., an educational institution focused on Open Source software. OS-SCi is training the next generation FOSS engineers, by using Open Source technologies and philosophy in a project learning environment. One final reminder: OS-SCi is offering OSNews readers a free / gratis online masterclass by Prof. Ir. Erik Mols on how the proprietary ecosystem is killing itself. This is a live event, on January 9, 2025 at 17:00 PM CET. Sign up here.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141124/os-sci-this-weeks-sponsor/
date: 2024-12-19, from: OS News
The Redox team has received a grant from NLnet to develop Redox OS Unix-style Signals, moving the bulk of signal management to userspace, and making signals more consistent with the POSIX concepts of signaling for processes and threads. It also includes Process Lifecycle and Process Management aspects. As a part of that project, we are developing tests to verify that the new functionality is in reasonable compliance with the POSIX.1-2024 standard. This report describes the state of POSIX conformance testing, specifically in the context of Signals. ↫ Ron Williams This is the kind of dry, but important matter a select few of you will fawn over. Consider it my Christmas present for you. There’s also a shorter update on the dynamic linker in Redox, which also goes into some considerable detail about how it works, and what progress has been made.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141377/posix-conformance-testing-for-the-redox-signals-project/
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The US Supreme Court has decided to consider made-in-China social network TikTok's appeal against the law that requires it to shift to local ownership, or close, by January 19.…
date: 2024-12-18, from: NASA breaking news
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Maurice Valdez, Niki Parenteau, Dori Myer, and Judy Alfter. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond. Space Science and Astrobiology Star: Maurice Valdez Maurice Valdez is […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-ames-stars-of-the-month-january-2025/
date: 2024-12-18, from: OS News
What if you have an Android phone, but consider the Apple Watch superior to other smartwatches? Well, you could switch to iOS, or, you know, you could hack your way into making an Apple Watch work with Android, like Abishek Muthian did. So I decided to make Apple Watch work with my Android phone using open-source applications, interoperable protocols and 3rd party services. If you just want to use my code and techniques and not read my commentary on it then feel free to checkout my GitHub for sources. ↫ Abishek Muthian Getting notifications to work, so that notifications from the Android phone would show up on the Apple Watch, was the hardest part. Muthian had to write a Python script to read the notifications on the Android device using Termux, and then use Pushover to send them to the Apple Watch. For things like contacts and calendar, he relied on *DAV, which isn’t exactly difficult to set up, so pretty much anyone who’s reading this can do that. Sadly, initial setup of the watch did require the use of an iPhone, using the same SIM as is in the Android phone. This way, it’s possible to set up mobile data as well as calling, and with the SIM back in the Android phone, a call will show up on both the Apple Watch and the Android device. Of course, this initial setup makes the process a bit more cumbersome than just buying a used Apple Watch off eBay or whatever, but I’m honestly surprised everything’s working as well as it does. This goes to show that the Apple Watch is not nearly as “deeply integrated” with the iPhone as Apple so loves to claim, and making the Apple Watch work with Android in a more official manner certainly doesn’t look to be as impossible as Apple makes it out to be when dealing with antitrust regulators. Of course, any official support would be much more involved, especially in the testing department, but it would be absolute peanuts, financially, for a company with Apple’s disgusting level of wealth. Anyway, if you want to setup an Apple Watch with Android, Muthian has put the code on GitHub.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141374/how-to-make-an-apple-watch-work-with-android/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Beleaguered chipmaker Intel has been sued yet again by shareholders over its foundry business, this time in a derivative lawsuit targeting executives and board members.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/intel_sued_foundry_business/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
This year’s list includes a diverse set of American films celebrating various genres and storytellers
date: 2024-12-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Massive roosts of crows in Rochester leave streets covered in feces, but some “corvid fanatics” aren’t pleased about certain methods for dealing with the birds
date: 2024-12-18, from: NASA breaking news
NASA continues to advance its campaign to explore more of the Moon than ever before, awarding Firefly Aerospace $179 million to deliver six experiments to the lunar surface. This fourth task order for Firefly will target landing in the Gruithuisen Domes on the near side of the Moon in 2028. As part of the agency’s […]
date: 2024-12-18, from: OS News
Most of us are aware that IBM’s OS/2 has excellent compatibility with DOS and Windows 3.x programs, to the point where OS/2 just ships with an entire installation of Windows 3.x built-in that you can run multiple instances of. In fact, to this day, ArcaOS, the current incarnation of the maintained and slightly modernised OS/2 codebase, still comes with an entire copy of Windows 3.x, making ArcaOS one of the very best ways to run DOS and Windows 3.x programs on a modern machine, without resorting to VMware or VirtualBox. Peter Hofmann took a look at one of the earlier versions of OS/2 – version 2.1 from 1993 – to see how its DOS compatibility actually works, or more specifically, the feature “DOS from drive A:”. You can insert a bootable DOS floppy and then run that DOS in a new window. Since this is called “DOS from drive A:”, surely this is something DOS-specific, right? Maybe only supports MS-DOS or even only PC DOS? Far from it, apparently. ↫ Peter Hofmann Hofmann wrote a little test program using nothing but BIOS system calls, meaning it doesn’t use any DOS system calls. This “real mode BIOS program” can run from the bootsector, if you wanted to, so after combining his test program with a floppy disk boot record, you end up with a bootable floppy that runs the test program, for instance in QEMU. After a bit of work, the test program on the bootable floppy will work just fine using OS/2’s “DOS from drive A:” feature, even though it shouldn’t. What this seems to imply is that this functionality in OS/2 2.1 looks a lot like a hypervisor, or as Hofmann puts it, “basically a builtin QEMU that anybody with a 386 could use”. That’s pretty advanced for the time, and raises a whole bunch of questions about just how much you can do with this.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141369/__trashed-4/
date: 2024-12-18, from: NASA breaking news
Earth’s nearest neighboring body in the solar system is its Moon, yet to date humans have physically explored just 5% of its surface. It wasn’t until 2023 – building on Apollo-era data and more detailed studies made in 2011-2012 by NASA’s automated GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) mission – that researchers conclusively determined that […]
date: 2024-12-18, from: NASA breaking news
This article is for students grades 5-8. The Sun is the star of our solar system. Its gravity holds Earth and our planetary neighbors in its orbit. At 865,000 miles (1.4 million km) in diameter, it’s the largest object in our solar system. On Earth, its influence is felt in our weather, seasons, climate, and […]
https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/for-kids-and-students/how-does-the-sun-behave-grades-5-8/
date: 2024-12-18, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Columbia University in New York, New York, enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement to advance research and education opportunities during a signing ceremony Monday, Dec. 16, at Goddard. Presiding over the ceremony were Dr. Christa Peters-Lidard, director of Goddard’s Sciences and Exploration directorate, and Dr Jeannette […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-cu-enact-collaborative-space-act-agreement/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
updated The Feds may ban the sale of TP-Link routers in the US over ongoing national security concerns about Chinese-made devices being used in cyberattacks.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/us_govt_probes_tplink_routers/
date: 2024-12-18, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, shares highlights from the office in 2024, including key accomplishments and collaborations that support the NASA mission. Read the full report, NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy: A Year in Review 2024
https://www.nasa.gov/organizations/otps/otps-releases-its-2024-annual-report/
date: 2024-12-18, from: NASA breaking news
OTPS shares an annual letter from the Agency Chief Technologist (ACT), updates on various studies in the technology domain within OTPS, overviews of the center chief technologists, and vignettes of various technology projects across the agency. Read the full report, A Year in Review 2024 from NASA’s Agency Chief Technologist.
date: 2024-12-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were supposed to stay at the ISS for a little over a week. It’s now been more than six months, and the end date has been pushed again
date: 2024-12-18, from: NASA breaking news
With more than 25 years of operations, the International Space Station continues to symbolize discovery and cooperation for the benefit of humanity. Since 2012, observers have interacted with the space station through NASA’s Spot the Station website, a web browser-based tool that includes interactive maps for users to track the station and find viewpoints closest […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasas-spot-the-station-app-developed-by-and-for-the-people/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing a license authorization for the next test flight of SpaceX's Starship.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/faa_issues_a_license_for/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
On November 25, 53-year-old Towana Looney became just the third living person to receive a pig kidney in an experimental procedure
date: 2024-12-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The 35,000-year-old rock was found in Manot Cave, which was inhabited by both prehistoric humans and Neanderthals
date: 2024-12-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The 35,000-year-old rock was found in Manot Cave, which was inhabited by both prehistoric humans and Neanderthals
date: 2024-12-18, from: NASA breaking news
This new image of star cluster NGC 602, released on Dec. 17, 2024, combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with a previously released image from the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb data provide the ring-like outline of the “wreath,” while X-rays from Chandra (red) show young, massive stars that are illuminating the wreath, sending high-energy light into interstellar […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/chandra-and-webb-spy-a-cosmic-wreath/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft last week lauded the success of its efforts to convince customers to use passkeys instead of passwords, without actually quantifying that success.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/microsoft_passkey_push/
date: 2024-12-18, from: NASA breaking news
Science in Space December 2024 As NASA plans missions to the Moon and Mars, one challenge is figuring out how to provide crew members with enough healthy food. Bringing along a supply for months or even years in space is impractical, and stored food can lose taste and nutritional value. Growing plants in space is […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/space-gardens/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Computer scientists from North Carolina State University have devised a way to copy AI models running on Google Edge Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), as used in Google Pixel phones and third-party machine learning accelerators.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/ai_model_reveal_itself/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Quanta Magazine
Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA.The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-biology-20241218/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
This year’s top titles range from an alphabet book of quirky tunes to an authentic portrait of our nation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-ten-best-childrens-books-of-2024-180985681/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Comment The new version of the longest-established Linux desktop is here, and at last, it's possible to use Wayland – although not everything works yet.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/xfce_420_is_out/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Fujitsu has said it continually told the Post Office about problems with Horizon, the computer system at the center of one of the UK's widest miscarriages of justice, as its client prosecuted branch managers for accounting discrepancies.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/we_told_post_office_about/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Even at the time, the now-notorious decision provoked strong dissent from three justices worried about sliding into the “ugly abyss of racism”
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Pour a cup of cocoa and settle down for another episode of Microsoft Storytime. Why do codenames sometimes linger on in the implementation of products?…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/when_old_microsoft_codenames_crop/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Column On a Christmas Eve when nothing felt right, I lapsed into a deep yet disturbed sleep.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/a_christmas_technicarol/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Keeping track of the amount of cloudy resources an org uses, and the cost of doing so, is notoriously tricky – so tricky, indeed, that even Netflix isn't on top of it.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/netflix_aws_management_tools/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Taiwan has started talks with Amazon regarding access to its Kuiper satellite broadband service.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/taiwan_amazon_kuiper_broadband_talks/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Criminals are spoofing Google Calendar emails in a financially motivated phishing expedition that has already affected about 300 organizations with more than 4,000 emails sent over four weeks, according to Check Point researchers.…
date: 2024-12-18, from: OS News
Fedora is proposing to stop building their Atomic desktop versions for PPC64LE. PopwerPC 64 LE basically comes down to IBM’s POWER architecture, and as far as desktop use goes, that exclusively means the POWER9 machines from Raptor Computing Systems. I reviewed their small single-socket Blackbird machine in 2021, and I also have their dual-socket Talos II workstation. I can tell you from experience that nobody who owns one of these is opting for an immutable Fedora variant, and on top of that, these machines are getting long in the tooth. Raptor passed on POWER10 because it required proprietary firmware, so we’ve been without new machines for years now. As such, it makes sense for Fedora to stop building Atomic desktops for this architecture. We will stop building the Fedora Atomic Desktops for the PowerPC 64 LE architecture. According to the count me statistics, we don’t have any Atomic Desktops users on PPC64LE. Users of Atomic Desktops on PPC64LE will have to either switch back to a Fedora package mode installation or build their own images using Bootable Containers which are available for PPC64LE. ↫ Timothée Ravier I’ve never written much about the Talos II, surmising that most of my Blackbird review applies to the Talos II, as well. If there’s interest, I can check to see what the current state of Fedora and/or other distributions on POWER9 is, and write a short review about the experience. I honestly don’t know if there’s much interest at this point in POWER9, but if there is, here’s your chance to get your questions answered.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141366/fedora-proposes-dropping-atomic-desktops-for-ppc64le/
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
Earth planning date: Monday, Dec. 16, 2024 Over the weekend Curiosity continued her trek around the northern end of Texoli butte, taking in the beautiful views in all directions. Steep buttes reveal cross-sections through ancient sedimentary strata, while the blocks in our workspace contain nice layers and veins — a detailed record of past surface […]
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4396-4397-roving-in-a-martian-wonderland/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Interpol wants to put an end to the online scam known as "pig butchering" – through linguistic policing, rather than law enforcement.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/interpol_stop_saying_pig_butchering/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A critical security hole in Apache Struts 2 – patched last week – is currently being exploited using publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) code.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/critical_rce_apache_struts/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Smithsonian Magazine
After spending months stuck in a swirling ocean vortex, iceberg A23a is once again drifting through the Southern Ocean, offering scientists a glimpse into how it might affect waters in new regions
date: 2024-12-17, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Joe Rosenthal is famous for his Pulitzer Prize-winning image. But he spent most of his career photographing San Francisco, where he lived for many years
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
2024 intro: As NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley enters its 85th year since its founding, join us as we take a look back at some of our highlights of science, engineering, research, and innovation from 2024. Ames Arc Jets Play Key Role in Artemis I Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield Findings Researchers at […]
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
NASA leadership participated in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Microgravity Science Summit (OSTP) on Dec.16 focused on sharing information with leaders across the U.S. federal government about the benefits of microgravity research. During the summit, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, OSTP leadership, and others highlighted the importance of the government coming […]
date: 2024-12-17, from: Smithsonian Magazine
From an “awkward” smiling frog to embarrassing owl parents, this year’s winners of the entertaining annual competition won’t let you down
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
Data from the U.S.-European Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission gives researchers a detailed look at lakes and reservoirs in a U.S. watershed. The Ohio River Basin stretches from Pennsylvania to Illinois and contains a system of reservoirs, lakes, and rivers that drains an area almost as large as France. Researchers with the SWOT (Surface […]
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
The Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP) enables safe, sustainable, and efficient aviation transportation operations to benefit the flying public and ensure the global competitiveness of the U.S. aviation industry. We are transforming the future of aviation into a digital, federated, and service-oriented architecture that fosters the growth of safe airspace for all users. By […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/airspace-operations-and-safety-program-aosp/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Nvidia is bringing the AI hype home for the holidays with the launch of a tiny new dev board called the Jetson Orin Nano Super.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/nvidia_jetson_orin/
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 19. NASA’s live coverage begins at 9:45 a.m. EST, Thursday on NASA+. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately […]
date: 2024-12-17, from: Smithsonian Magazine
An estimated 28 probable graves were identified at the seventh American president’s former property, called the Hermitage
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Two years after NASA retired the InSight lander, scientists are continuing to use the vehicle to learn more about Mars.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/silent_nasa_lander_gives_scientists/
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, is celebrating 85 years of cutting-edge research and development in space, life sciences, supercomputing, aeronautics, and more for the benefit of humanity. Ames was founded as an aeronautical laboratory in December 1939, and has since contributed to many of NASA’s flagship missions from Apollo to Artemis. NASA […]
date: 2024-12-17, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Many residents of Bend love the illicit adornments, which they say are sparking joy and driving engagement with public art
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Analysis Nvidia is facing its stiffest competition in years with new accelerators from Intel and AMD that challenge its best chips on memory capacity, performance, and price.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/nvidia_cuda_moat/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Smithsonian Magazine
“Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books” spotlights more than 100 texts written (or invented) by the likes of Shakespeare, Byron and Hemingway
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
Since antiquity, wreaths have symbolized the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. It is fitting then that one of the best places for astronomers to learn more about the stellar lifecycle resembles a giant holiday wreath itself. The star cluster NGC 602 lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is one of the closest […]
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
Jumping Jupiter! The results are in, storm chasers! Thanks to your help over the last two years the Jovian Vortex Hunter project has published a catalog of 7222 vortices, which you can download here. Each vortex is an enormous swirling windstorm in Jupiter’s atmosphere–terrifying yet beautiful to behold. The vortices are labeled by color (“white” […]
https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/jovian-vortex-hunters-spun-up-over-new-paper/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Quanta Magazine
Physicists discovered strange supersolids, constructed new kinds of superconductors, and continued to make the case that the cosmos is far weirder than anyone suspected.The post The Year in Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20241217/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
It's been six years since miscreants abused some sloppy Facebook code to steal access tokens belonging to 30 million users, and the slow-turning wheels of Irish justice have finally caught up with a €251 million ($264 million) fine for the social media biz. …
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/ireland_fines_meta_for_2018/
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s Digital Engineering is paving the way for exciting new possibilities. Their latest Space Act Agreement with Northrop Grumman promises to accelerate progress in space exploration through innovative collaboration. Under NASA’s HQ Office of the Chief Engineer, Terry Hill the Digital Engineering Program Manager, recently signed a Space Act Agreement with Northrop Grumman Space Sector […]
https://www.nasa.gov/organizations/ocio/dt/nasa-northrupgrumman-digitalengineering/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Analysis Mystery drone fever continues to grip the US East Coast – and appears to be moving inland – as elected officials beg the federal government to do something. Meanwhile the feds reiterate what they've been saying all along: We don't know what's going on, but you all need to calm the hell down. …
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/mystery_drone_sightings/
date: 2024-12-17, from: NASA breaking news
Making the voyage 1.4 million miles around the Moon and back — the farthest a spacecraft built for humans has ever gone — the Orion spacecraft has faced a battery of tests over the years. Though Orion successfully proved its capabilities in the harsh environment of space during the Artemis I mission, Orion’s evaluation did […]
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A fresh release of the minimalist and very lightweight Alpine Linux is here, with support for Chinese LoongArch64 CPUs.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/alpine_linux_321/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Things are not entirely going to plan for Apple's generative AI system, after the recently introduced service attracted the ire of the British Broadcasting Corporation.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/apple_intelligence_bbc_complaint/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The magazine’s most-read articles of the year included a close-up look at the adorable yet venomous pygmy slow loris, a profile of a little-known 20th-century street photographer and a majestic journey with divers into Mexico’s underwater caves
date: 2024-12-17, from: Smithsonian Magazine
An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The UK's largest police force is scoping the market for business outsourcing, an ERP upgrade and support in a tender that could be worth £1 billion ($1.27 billion) if other organizations join.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/met_police_seeks_business_services/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Amazon Web Services usually stays schtum about the exact disposition of the servers it rents in its Elastic Compute Cloud, but made an exception on Tuesday with the announcement it is offering instances based on a single HPE server: the Compute Scale-up Server 3200.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/aws_hpe_server_instances/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
BlackBerry's ambition to mix infosec and the Internet of Things has been squeezed, after the Canadian firm announced it is offloading Cylance's endpoint security products.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/blackberry_cylance_sale_arctic_wolf/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Australia's chief cyber security agency has decided local orgs should stop using the tech that forms the current cryptographic foundation of the internet by the year 2030 – years before other nations plan to do so – over fears that advances in quantum computing could render it insecure.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/australia_dropping_crypto_keys/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son revealed plans to invest $100 billion in the US and create a minimum of 100,000 jobs in the next four years.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/softbank_100bn_us_investment_pledge/
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Supply chain integration vendor Cleo has urged its customers to upgrade three of its products after an October security update was circumvented, leading to widespread ransomware attacks that Russia-linked gang Cl0p has claimed are its evil work.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/ransomware_attacks_exploit_cleo_bug/
date: 2024-12-16, from: OS News
Microsoft’s Recall feature recently made its way back to Windows Insiders after having been pulled from test builds back in June, due to security and privacy concerns. The new version of Recall encrypts the screens it captures and, by default, it has a “Filter sensitive information,” setting enabled, which is supposed to prevent it from recording any app or website that is showing credit card numbers, social security numbers, or other important financial / personal info. In my tests, however, this filter only worked in some situations (on two e-commerce sites), leaving a gaping hole in the protection it promises. ↫ Avram Piltch at Tom’s Hardware Recall might be one of the biggest own goals I have seen in recent technology history. In fact, it’s more of a series of own goals that just keep on coming, and I honestly have no idea why Microsoft keeps making them, other than the fact that they’re so high on their own “AI” supply that they just lost all touch with reality at this point. There’s some serious Longhorn-esque tunnel vision here, a project during which the company also kind of forgot the outside world existed beyond the walls of Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters. It’s clear by now that just like many other tech companies, Microsoft is so utterly convinced it needs to shove “AI” into every corner of its products, that it no longer seems to be asking the most important question during product development: do people actually want this? The response to Windows Recall has been particularly negative, yet Microsoft keep pushing and pushing it, making all the mistakes along the way everybody has warned them about. It’s astonishing just how dedicated they are to a feature nobody seem to want, and everybody seems to warn them about. It’s like we’re all Kassandra. The issue in question here is exactly as dumb as you expect it to be. The “Filter sensitive information” setting is so absurdly basic and dumb it basically only seems to work on shopping sites, not anywhere else where credit card or other sensitive information might be shown. This shortcoming is obvious to anyone who think about what Recall does for more than one nanosecond, but Microsoft clearly didn’t take a few moments to think about this, because their response is to let them know through the Feedback Hub any time Recall fails to detect and sensitive information. They’re basically asking you, the consumer, to be the filter. Unpaid, of course. After the damage has already been done. Wild. If you can ditch Windows, you should. Windows is not a place of honour.
date: 2024-12-16, from: NASA breaking news
In this image from Dec. 11, 2024, the 212-foot-tall SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is lowered into High Bay 2 at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With the move to High Bay 2, NASA and Boeing technicians now have 360-degree access to the core stage both internally and […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/artemis-ii-core-stage-moves-to-high-bay-2/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Smithsonian Magazine
An exhibition in Brooklyn examines gold’s ubiquitous appeal across thousands of years through art, artifacts, paintings, sculptures and fashion
date: 2024-12-16, from: NASA breaking news
Benchmarks for solidifying metal alloys Researchers report benchmark data for modeling the growth of specific types of microstructures that form during solidification of metal alloys under different conditions. These microstructures affect the properties of materials and products such as refrigeration devices and solar cells. The ESA (European Space Agency) Columnar-to-Equiaxed Transition in Solidification Processing (CETSOL) […]
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/station-science-top-news-dec-13-2024/
date: 2024-12-16, from: NASA breaking news
A NASA-funded commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed four key developmental milestones, marking substantial progress in the station’s design and operational readiness.The four milestones are part of a NASA Space Act Agreement awarded in 2021 and focused on reviews of the habitat structural test article preliminary design, systems integration, integrated operations, and a habitat structural […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-sees-progress-on-starlab-commercial-space-station-development/
date: 2024-12-16, from: NASA breaking news
As part of the agency’s efforts to enable broader use of space, NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low Earth orbit, defining the long-term approach toward advancing microgravity science, technology, and exploration for the benefit of all. Developed with input from a wide range of stakeholders, NASA’s Low Earth Orbit Microgravity Strategy […]
date: 2024-12-16, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Only seven spade-toothed whales have ever been identified, and the species has never been seen alive. After one washed ashore last summer, researchers have made new discoveries—including that the animal had nine stomach chambers and vestigial teeth
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The battle between British chip designer Arm Holdings and Qualcomm kicked off today in Delaware District Court.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/arm_qualcomm_trial/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The torso of the bronze sculpture depicting Septimius Severus was repatriated last year, and a Copenhagen museum has now agreed to return the head
date: 2024-12-16, from: Smithsonian Magazine
New research indicates early humans and canines were interacting in the Americas 2,000 years earlier than previously thought
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
President-elect Donald Trump's team wants to go on the offensive against America's cyber adversaries, though it isn't clear how the incoming administration plans to achieve this. …
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/trump_administration_china_offensive/
date: 2024-12-16, from: NASA breaking news
Earth planning date: Friday, Dec. 13, 2024 Curiosity continues to make great progress over the Mount Sharp bedrock and will spend the weekend investigating the northern base of the “Texoli” butte. The science team back on Earth enjoyed taking in the beautiful views of nearby “Wilkerson” butte and “Gould Mesa” while digging into the workspace […]
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4393-4395-weekend-work-at-the-base-of-texoli-butte/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections could cause serious damage to telecommunications systems, satellites and power grids here on Earth
date: 2024-12-16, from: NASA breaking news
Following a signing ceremony Monday in Thailand’s capital city, Bangkok, NASA congratulates Thailand as the 51st nation to commit to the safe and responsible exploration of space that benefits humanity. “Thailand’s commitment to the Artemis Accords will enhance the country’s engagement with NASA and the international community,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “By signing the accords, Thailand builds upon […]
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-welcomes-thailand-as-newest-artemis-accords-signatory/
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A cyberattack on a Deloitte-managed government system in Rhode Island carries a "high probability" of sensitive data theft, the state says.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/deloitte_rhode_island_attack/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Quanta Magazine
Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-math-20241216/
date: 2024-12-16, from: NASA breaking news
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Elaine P. Ho will serve as the next associate administrator of NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM), where she will lead the agency’s efforts to inspire Artemis Generation students and educators in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The role, based out of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, is […]
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-names-new-leader-of-stem-engagement/
date: 2024-12-16, from: NASA breaking news
New images taken from space show how dust on and around InSight is changing over time — information that can help scientists learn more about the Red Planet. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency’s retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft’s solar panels. In the […]
date: 2024-12-16, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The iconic brand’s mobile phones were pop culture mainstays. Soon, a new online archive will bring together thousands of documents, early models and design concepts
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A competitor for Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband constellation is on the way after Eurocrats signed the concession contract for the Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS²).…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/europe_iris2_broadband_deal/
date: 2024-12-16, from: OS News
As Michel Lind mentioned back in August, we wanted to form a Special Interest Group to further the development and adoption of Btrfs in Fedora. As of yesterday, the SIG is now formed. ↫ Neal Gompa Since I’ve been using Fedora on all my machines for a while now, I’ve also been using Btrfs as my one and only file system for just as much time, without ever experiencing any issues. In fact, I recently ordered four used 4TB enterprise hard drives (used, yes, but zero SMART issues) to set up a storage pool whereto I can download my favourite YouTube playlists so I don’t have to rely on internet connectivity and YouTube not being shit. I combined the four drives into a single 16TB Btrfs volume, and it’s working flawlessly. Of course, not having any redundancy is a terrible idea, but I didn’t care much since it’s just downloaded YouTube videos. However, it’s all working so flawlessly, and the four drives were so cheap, I’m going to order another four drives and turn the whole thing into a 16TB Btrfs volume using one of the Btrfs RAID profiles for proper redundancy, even if it “costs” me half of the 32TB of total storage. This way, I can also use it as an additional backup for more sensitive data, which is never a bad thing. The one big downside here is that all of this has to be set up and configured using the command line. While that makes sense in a server environment and I had no issues doing so, I think a product that calls itself Fedora Workstation (or, in my case, Fedora KDE, but the point stands) should have proper graphical tools for managing the file system it uses. Fedora should come with a graphical utility to set up, manage, and maintain Btrfs volumes, so you don’t have to memorise a bunch of arcane commands. I know a lot of people get very upset when you even suggest someting like this, but that’s just elitist nonsense. Btrfs has various incredibly useful features that should be exposed to users of all kinds, not just sysadmins and weird nerds – and graphical tools are a great way to do this. I don’t know exactly what the long-term plans of the new Btrrfs SIG are going to be, but I think making the useful features of Btrfs more accessible should definitely be on the list. You shouldn’t need to be a CLI expert to set up resilient, redundant local storage on your machine, especially now that the interest in digital self-sufficiency is increasing.
date: 2024-12-16, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago. In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a massive planet around a very old star, almost as old as the universe. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavier elements […]
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Opinion Perplexity offers several advantages over Google as a search engine, making it a compelling alternative for many.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/opinion_column_perplexity_vs_google/
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated A left-of-center think tank along with other non-profits are urging the European Commission to "fully investigate" Nvidia's purchase of workload management startup Run:ai amid worries its will help to tighten the GPU titan's grip on the AI industry.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/probe_nvidias_buy_of_runai/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Smithsonian Magazine
From the realization that paleontologists still haven’t found the biggest dinosaurs to the unearthing of a small burrowing dino, the year has been marked by awe-inspiring finds
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-top-ten-dinosaur-discoveries-of-2024-180985656/
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Comment The maker of Moxie, an "AI"-powered educational robot for kids, is going out of business – and the $800 bots will die with it.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/moxie_cloud_services_lessons/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Mount Fuji’s last eruption, which happened on this day in 1707, was also its largest, spewing ash and debris over cities and farms, causing famines, respiratory problems and untold death
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Opinion The Raspberry Pi is a moral hazard because it's been far too good to us. For the past 12 years, the Pi series has bombarded the world with extremely affordable, extremely useful computers designed purely to promote education, innovation and the democratization of digital skills.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/opinion_column_future_raspberry_pi/
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Who, Me? Welcome once again to Who, Me? The Register's Monday morning feature in which we share tales of technological messes your fellow readers made, and escaped, to give you hope in case you err during the coming week.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/who_me/
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Exclusive Tech distribution behemoth Ingram Micro will stop doing business with Broadcom and its VMware range in many territories next year.…
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
China's Electronics Video Industry Association last week signed off on a standard for a universal remote control – a gadget Beijing thinks locals need because they're struggling with multiple remotes, but which is also a little more significant in other ways.…
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Asia In Brief Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has once again argued for Indian workers to spend 70 hours a week in paid employment.…
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date: 2024-12-15, updated: 2024-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Infosec in brief There's a problem of titanic proportions brewing for users of the Prometheus open source monitoring toolkit: hundreds of thousands of servers and exporters are exposed to the internet, creating significant security risks and leaving organizations vulnerable to attack.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/prometheus_servers_exporters_exposed/
date: 2024-12-15, from: OS News
EMWM is a fork of the Motif Window Manager with fixes and enhancements. The idea behind this is to provide compatibility with current xorg extensions and applications, without changing the way the window manager looks and behaves. This includes support for multi-monitor setups through Xinerama/Xrandr, UFT-8 support with Xft fonts, and overall better compatibility with software that requires Extended Window Manager Hints. Additionally a couple of goodies are available in the separate utilities package: XmToolbox, a toolchest like application launcher, which reads it’s multi-level menu structure from a simple plain-text file ~/.toolboxrc, and XmSm, a simple session manager that provides session configuration, locking and shutdown/suspend options. ↫ EMWM homepage I had never heard of EMWM, but I immediately like it. This same developer, Alexander Pampuchin, also develops XFile, a file manager for X11 which presents the file system as it actually is, instead of using a bunch of “imaginary” locations to hide the truth, if you will. On top of that, they also develop XImaging, a comprehensive image viewer for X11. All of these use the Motif widget toolkit, focus on plain X11, and run on most Linux distributions and BSDs. They need to be compiled by the user, most likely. I am convinced that there is a small but sustainable audience for a modern, up-to-date Linux distribution (although a BSD would work just as well), that instead of offering GNOME, KDE, Xfce, or whatever, focuses instead of delivering a traditional, yet modernised and maintained, desktop environment and applications using not much more than X11 and Motif, eschewing more complex stuff like GTK, Qt, systemd, Wayland, and so on. I would use the hell out of a system that gives me a version of the Motif-based desktops like CDE from the ’90s, but with some modern amenities, current hardware support, support for high-resolution displays, and so on. You can certainly grab bits and bobs left and right from the web and build something like this from scratch, but not everyone has the skills and time to do so, yet I think there’s enough people out there who are craving for something like this. There’s tons of maintained X11/Motif software out there – it’s just all spread out, disorganised, and difficult to assemble because it almost always means compiling it all from scratch, and most people simply don’t have the time and energy for that. Package this up on a solid Debian, Fedora, or FreeBSD base, and I think you’ve got quite some users lining up.
date: 2024-12-15, updated: 2024-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Hands on When it comes to AI inferencing, the faster you can generate a response, the better – and over the past few weeks, we've seen a number of announcements from chip upstarts claiming mind-bogglingly high numbers.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/speculative_decoding/
date: 2024-12-15, updated: 2024-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Red Rabbit Robotics made an appearance at the Humanoids Summit this week – a conference for builders making machines resembling people and selling autonomous labor as a service.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/red_rabbit_robotics/
date: 2024-12-15, from: OS News
After two years of intense development, the third major Linux desktop environment has released a new version: Xfce 4.20 is here. The major focus of this release cycle was getting Xfce ready for Wayland, and they’ve achieved quite a bit of that goal, but support for it is still experimental. Thanks to Brian and Gaël almost all Xfce components are able to run on Wayland windowing, while still keeping support for X11 windowing. This major effort was achieved by abstracting away any X11/Wayland windowing specific calls and making use of Wayland/Wlroots protocols. A whole new Xfce library, “libxfce4windowing” was introduced during that process. XWayland will not be required to run any of the ported Xfce components. ↫ Xfce development team A major gap in Xfce’s Wayland support is the fact that Xfwm4 has not been ported to Wayland yet, so the team suggests using Labwc or Wayfire instead if you want to dive into using Xfce on Wayland. While there are plans to port Xfwm4 over to Wayland, this requires a major restructuring and they’re not going to set any timelines or expectations for when this will be completed. Regardless, this is an excellent achievement and solid progress for Xfce on Wayland, which is pretty much a requirement for Xfce (and other desktop environments) te remain relevant going forward. Of course, while Wayland is a major focus this release, there’s a lot more here, too – and that’s not doing the Xfce developers justice. Xfce 4.20 comes packed with so many new features, enchancements, and bug fixes across the board that I have no idea where to start. I like the large number of changes to Thunar, like the ability to use symoblic icons in the sidebar, optimising it for small window sizes, automatically opening folders when dragging and dropping, and so much more. They’ve also done another pass to update any remaining icons not working well on HiDPI displays, removing any instances where you’d encounter fuzzy icons. I can’t wait to give Xfce 4.20 a go once it lands in Fedora Xfce.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141355/xfce-4-20-with-experimental-wayland-support-released/
date: 2024-12-15, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Because of his alleged involvement with the Ghost Dance movement, the Lakota leader, who died on this day in 1890, was seen as a threat to the U.S. government’s efforts to subdue Indigenous Americans
date: 2024-12-14, updated: 2024-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Systems Approach A few weeks ago I stumbled onto an article titled "Traceroute isn’t real," which was reasonably entertaining while also not quite right in places.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/14/mpls_traceroute_history/
date: 2024-12-14, updated: 2024-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The Microsoft axman just claimed another victim. Less than three years after it appeared in the Windows Insider Dev Channel, the Suggested Actions feature is being deprecated.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/14/windows_11_suggested_actions/
date: 2024-12-14, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The enfranchisement of property-owning women over 30 on this day in 1918 came at a time of great strife within political parties in post-World War I Britain