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- + Great white sharks are overheating—The sharks might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warmin...
- + Rocket Report: Starship V3 test-fired; ESA's tentative step toward crew launch—Blue Origin will soon launch the third flight of its New Glenn rocket,...
- + After a saga of broken promises, a European rover finally has a ride to Mars—Europe's first Mars rover mission is now on its fourth rocket: SpaceX'...
- + OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM—GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in clos...
- + Meet the Quantum Kid—Nine-year-old Kai Moskvitch's podcast explores how quantum technologie...
- + New 3D map of Universe could solve dark energy mystery—Latest data must still be analyzed but could help determine if dark en...
- + DESI completes its 3D map of Universe right on schedule—Latest data must still be analyzed but could help determine if dark en...
- + What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?—For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks to be a bl...
- + Physicists think they've resolved the proton size puzzle—"We believe this is the final nail in the coffin of the proton radius ...
- + NASA chose the right crew to launch a new era of human space exploration—"It’s a special thing to be human, and it’s a special thing to be on p...
- + To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain—LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instr...
- + Shock from Iran war has Trump's vision for US energy dominance flailing—Record domestic oil and gas production hasn't saved US drivers from pr...
- + Four astronauts are back home after a daring ride around the Moon—"I can't imagine a better crew that just completed a perfect mission r...
- + New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone—A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yell...
- + "Oobleck" still holds some surprises—Dense drops of oobleck with high shear rates spread out like a liquid ...
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- + US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states"—Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unf...
- + Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone—Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantu...
- + “Negative” views of Broadcom driving thousands of VMware migrations, rival says—Western Union exec says there were "challenges" working with Broadcom....
- + Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites—As the US and Israel's war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US indu...
- + Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia's military—End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries...
- + OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security—The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenti...
- + New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs—GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijac...
- + Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption—No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as exp...
- + Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought—Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly. [Ca...
- + Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines—Development houses: It's time to check your networks for infections. [...
- + Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack—Admins: Sorry to say, but it's likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of we...
- + Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program—Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market "realities." [Catego...
- + Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway—One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its...
- + Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturers—Internet-exposed devices that give BIOS-level access? What could possi...
- + Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories—Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until ...
- + The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker's Windows network—Company says it doesn't know how long it will take to restore its Micr...
- + 14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns—Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US. [Categ...
- + Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances—The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits. [...
- + Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems—Problems viewing products and checking out. [Category: Biz & IT, T...
- + Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation—With no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a diff...
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- + Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows—NIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs,...
- + North Korean social engineering campaign targets macOS users—A MacOS-focused social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Kore...
- + Oslo’s robots aren’t yet taking over, but are already punching above their weight—The Norwegian capital’s leading innovators have got the ecosystem up a...
- + Privacy, power, and encryption: why end-to-end security matters—Governments may continue to look for ways to restrict end-to-end encry...
- + UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups—The UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund announces first cohort of ...
- + CYBERUK ’26: UK lagging on legal protections for cyber pros—Ahead of next week's CYBERUK conference, the CyberUp Campaign for refo...
- + One year on from the M&S cyber attack: What did we learn?—A year on from the Marks & Spencer cyber attack, we look back at t...
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- + What Can You Run on a 1960s Univac? Anything You’re Willing To Wait For!—There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960...
- + Tool Embodiment and the Dead Trackball—There is a currently ongoing debate in the neuropsychology world about...
- + DJ Controller Modded For Better Scratching—[Jeremy Bell] loves scratching, but he had a problem. His Hercules DJ ...
- + Electric Wind-Up Plane Uses Supercapacitors For Free Flight Fun—Theres something to be said for a simple wind-up, free flight model ai...
- + Fixing a GameCube’s Dodgy Optical Drive With Fresh Capacitors—Generally when a game console with an optical drive stops reading disc...
- + FRED Comes to Hobby Operating Systems (and Linux)—Those who have worked on a hobby operating system for x86 will have in...
- + Making a Bronze Mirror From Scratch—Although modern-day silvered glass mirrors have pretty much destroyed ...
- + Cooking With Plasma (Not Fire)—Cooking food with fire is arguably the technology that propelled human...
- + 2026 Green Powered Challenge: SolMate Charges On the Move—Weve all had those times when your electrical device of choice is runn...
- + Hackaday Podcast Episode 366: DOOM on a Toaster, Music in LED Strips, and Old Drives in New Clothes—Its the evening before publication, and a pair of Hackaday writers con...
- + Wearable Circuit Sculpture Is One Smart Bracelet—Well, this might just be a Hackaday first. Certainly not the circuit s...
- + This Week in Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, and a Very Full Patch Tuesday—CVE-2026-34040 lets attackers bypass some Docker authentication plugin...
- + Microsoft Finally Ups FAT32 Size Limit—You probably dont spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anym...
- + Game Cube Hot Tub Animation Brought Into Real World—Unlike the current era where most consumer electronics are black recta...
- + Building a Big RC Mini Truck—Kei trucks are some of the smallest commercial vehicles out on the roa...
- + Comparing 12 VDC Air Fryers with Regular 240 VAC Ones—That boiling water is a contentious topic of discussion is clear, but ...
- + Do We Really Need Another Development Board?—Its fair to say that there are a lot of development board form factors...
- + FPGA Powers DIY USB Scope and Signal Generator—Oscilloscopes and to lesser extent signals generators are useful tools...
- + Desktop Digitizer Makes Note Capture a Breeze—While it might seem quaint these days, weve met many makers and hacker...
- + The Kentucky Cave Wars, and Going Viral in 1925—Floyd Collins, the unfortunate star of this post. (Public Domain) Info...
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- + AI Could Create A Massive Problem For Valve’s Steam—Two trends that Im very interested in are about to collide and its goi...
- + Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked—Back in January, we covered Trumps audacious lawsuit demanding $10 bil...
- + Inside Trump’s Effort To “Take Over” The Midterm Elections—This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a...
- + A First Amendment Legend Eviscerates Brendan Carr With Substance And Style—Weve been covering Brendan Carrs censorial ambitions for a long time n...
- + Daily Deal: Python Crash Course—The Python Crash Course is a guide on how to get started in Python, wh...
- + Trump Still Pretending The Most Dangerous Domestic Terrorists Are People Who Don’t Like Fascism—Just to be clear, when I refer to Trump in terms of his administration...
- + Brendan Carr Cooking Up New Sham Investigation Of Jimmy Kimmel—As the boss of the countrys media and telecom regulators, theres plent...
- + Rockstar On Latest Potential Hack & Information Leak: Meh, We Don’t Care—Several years ago, Rockstar Games suffered an intrusion into its corpo...
- + Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The Silence Of The LLMs—Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online sp...
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- + Pope Leo XIV flies to Angola, says he is not debating Trump—Pope Leo XIV said he has no interest in debating President Donald Trum...
- + Trump signs order to speed research on psychedelics for mental health—President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday to accelerat...
- + Iran blocks Strait of Hormuz, fires on commercial ships—A day after the Strait of Hormuz was declared open, Iran has blocked i...
- + Judge blocks Trump administration's pre-emptive lawsuit against Hawaii—A federal judge on Friday blocked a suit against the state of Hawaii t...
- + On This Day, April 18: Patriot Paul Revere begins midnight ride—On April 18, 1775, U.S. patriot Paul Revere began his famous ride thro...
- + Supreme Court rules for Chevron in Louisiana wetlands damage case—The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Chevron in a case rela...
- + Dubai police arrest alleged Irish organized crime boss—An Irish man accused of laundering money and trafficking drugs and fir...
- + Kang Chang-il calls for efforts to improve inter-Korean ties—Kang Chang-il, new senior vice chairman of S. Korea's Peaceful Unifica...
- + South Korea to aid war-hit businesses with emergency funds—S. Korea will provide 462.2 billion won ($308 million) in emergency su...
- + Corporate loan delinquencies rise faster than household debt—Corporate loan delinquency rates in S. Korea are rising three times fa...
- + Japan to create control system for defense exports—Japan is moving to strengthen a government-wide system to boost defens...
- + South Korea opposition leader delays return from U.S.—Jang Dong-hyuk, leader of S. Korea's main opposition People Power Part...
- + Naver showcases AI robots across ‘lab-like’ headquarters—S. Korean tech company Naver is expanding its AI capabilities with rob...
- + China posts 5.0% Q1 growth, defying war concerns—China's economy grew 5.0% in 1Q, exceeding expectations despite concer...
- + Nearly one-third of U.S. may see aurora borealis overnight—Nearly one-third of the U.S. could be among areas the National Oceanic...
- + British foreign office official fired for not disclosing ambassador failed security check—The most senior civil servant in Britain's Foreign Office has been fir...
- + Carnival Cruises ordered to pay $300,000 for overserving woman—Carnival Cruise Line must pay a California woman $300,000 in a lawsuit...
- + Analysis: Lebanon set for complex post-truce negotiations with Israel—The Israel-Hezbollah war, temporarily halted by a 10-day cease-fire, h...
- + French widow, 85, released from ICE custody and returned home—An 85-year-old woman from France whose late husband was a U.S. veteran...
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- + The Best Smart Home Accessories to Boost Your Curb Appeal (2026)—These locks, lights, and other smart home upgrades let you add automat...
- + How to Clean Your Vinyl Records (2026): Vacuum, Ultrasonic, Solution, Brush—Those clicks and pops aren't supposed to be there. Give your music a p...
- + Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2026) Review: GPU-Less Gaming Laptop—A gaming laptop without a discrete graphics card feels revolutionary, ...
- + Schematik Is ‘Cursor for Hardware.’ Anthropic Wants In—Schematik is a program that aims to help people vibe code for physical...
- + It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App—Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive...
- + Where to Shop for Vinyl Records Online (2026): Discogs, Bandcamp, Ebay—Don’t just load up an Amazon cart! Here are the better ways to find yo...
- + The Best Movies to Stream This Month (April 2026)—28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Crime 101, and Deathstalker are among...
- + The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple—Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. An...
- + OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company—The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is foldi...
- + Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder—Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person? [Category: Business, Busin...
- + AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body—AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of effi...
- + Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump's Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance—A post-midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to ...
- + MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged—Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramp...
- + Coolfly Aura Review: More Angles, Fewer Advantages—Coolfly’s Aura is colorful, clever, and flexible, but its signature fe...
- + Best Bluetooth Speakers (2026): JBL, Sonos, Bose, and More—These are our favorite portable speakers of all shapes and sizes, from...
- + The Best MagSafe Accessories (for Android, Too!): Chargers, Wallets, and More—MagSafe accessories make your phone feel uniquely yours. These are our...
- + How Can Astronauts Tell How Fast They’re Going?—Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Lucki...
- + Canyon Spectral:ON CF 8 Electric Mountain Bike: Beginner-Friendly, Under $5K—The Spectral:ON CF 8 is a do-it-all, full-carbon electric mountain bik...
- + The Influencers Normalizing Not Having Sex—From a celibate porn star to an asexual ex-Mormon, the internet is ful...
- + The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine—Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at h...
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