- + Arc Technica Science: Americans misunderstand their contribution to deteriorating environment—Enlarge / Power lines are cast in silhouette as the Creek Fire creeps up on on the Shaver Springs community off of Tollhouse Road on Tuesday, Sept. 8,...
- + Arc Technica Science: Leaving behind its crew, Starliner departs space station and returns to Earth—Enlarge / Boeing's Starliner spacecraft after landing Friday night at White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico. (credit: Boeing) Boeing's Starli...
- + Arc Technica Science: Is accidentally stumbling across the unknown a key part of science?—Enlarge / The First Combat of Gav and Talhand', Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), ca. 1330–40, Attributed to Iran, probably Isfahan, Ink, opaque ...
- + Arc Technica Science: Person in Missouri caught H5 bird flu without animal contact—Enlarge / The influenza virus from an image produced with transmission electron microscopy. Viral diameter ranges from around 80 to 120 nm. (credit: G...
- + Arc Technica Science: NASA wants Starliner to make a quick getaway from the space station—Enlarge / Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is set to undock from the International Space Station on Friday evening. (credit: NASA) Boeing's Star...
- + Arc Technica Science: Faced with a tight deadline, NASA and Blue Origin agree to delay New Glenn debut—Enlarge / The second stage of the New Glenn rocket rolled to the launch site this week. (credit: Blue Origin) NASA and Blue Origin announced...
- + Arc Technica Science: ADHD med shortages push DEA to up drug allotment by 23.5%—Enlarge (credit: Getty | George Frey) While supplies of Adderall and its generic versions are finally recovering after a yearslong shortage, ...
- + Arc Technica Science: With NASA’s plan faltering, China knows it can be first with Mars sample return—Enlarge / A "selfie" photo of China's Zhurong rover and the Tianwen-1 landing platform on Mars in 2021. (credit: China National Space Administration) ...
- + Arc Technica Science: Rocket Report: Falcon 9 lifts its 7,000th Starlink; ABL cuts deep—Enlarge / The second stage of the New Glenn rocket rolls to the launch pad on Tuesday. (credit: Blue Origin) Welcome to Edition 7.10 of the R...
- + Arc Technica Science: After another Boeing letdown, NASA isn’t ready to buy more Starliner missions—Enlarge / Boeing's Starliner spacecraft sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket before liftoff in June to begin the Crew Flight Test. (credi...
- + Arc Technica Science: Study: Playing Dungeons & Dragons helps autistic players in social interactions—Enlarge / Researchers say that Dungeons & Dragons can give autistic players a way to engage in low-risk social interactions. (credit: Nicole Hill/...
- + Arc Technica Science: The Moon had volcanic activity much more recently than we knew—Enlarge / The eruptions that produced the dark mare on the lunar surface ended billions of years ago. (credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University) ...
- + Ars Technica Software: Found: 280 Android apps that use OCR to steal cryptocurrency credentials—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered more than 280 malicious apps for Android that use optical character recognition to...
- + Ars Technica Software: Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US—Enlarge (credit: VGG | Getty Images) The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in Chin...
- + Ars Technica Software: WaveCore runs right through a concrete wall with gigabit-speed network signal—Enlarge / "Hmm, no signal here. I'm trying to figure it out, but nothing comes to mind …" (credit: Getty Images) One issue in getting office ...
- + Ars Technica Software: US charges Russian military officers for unleashing wiper malware on Ukraine—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging six Russian nationals with conspiracy to hack ...
- + Ars Technica Software: AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support—Enlarge AT&T filed a lawsuit against Broadcom on August 29 accusing it of seeking to “retroactively change existing VMware contracts to ...
- + Ars Technica Software: FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist—Enlarge (credit: anilyanik via Getty Images) On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with defrauding streaming se...
- + Ars Technica Software: Generative AI backlash hits annual writing event, prompting resignations—Enlarge (credit: Jorg Greuel via Getty Images) Over the weekend, the nonprofit National Novel Writing Month organization (NaNoWriMo) publishe...
- + Ars Technica Software: Zyxel warns of vulnerabilities in a wide range of its products—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Networking hardware-maker Zyxel is warning of nearly a dozen vulnerabilities in a wide array of its products. ...
- + Ars Technica Software: Sutskever strikes AI gold with billion-dollar backing for superintelligent AI—Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI Chief Scientist, speaks at Tel Aviv University on June 5, 2023. (credit: JACK GUEZ via Getty Images) On Wedn...
- + Ars Technica Software: Oprah’s upcoming AI television special sparks outrage among tech critics—Enlarge / An ABC handout promotional image for "AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special." (credit: ABC) On Thursday, ABC announced ...
- + Ars Technica Software: Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”—Enlarge / Rust never sleeps. But Rust, the programming language, can be held at bay if enough kernel programmers aren't interested in seeing it implem...
- + Ars Technica Software: YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel—Enlarge (credit: Yubico) The YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token for two-factor authentication based on the FIDO standard, contain...
- + Ars Technica Software: City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A judge in Ohio has issued a temporary restraining order against a security researcher who presented evidence ...
- + Ars Technica Software: ChatGPT hits 200 million active weekly users, but how many will admit using it?—Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Thursday, OpenAI said that ChatGPT has attracted over 200 million weekly active users, accor...
- + Ars Technica Software: Commercial spyware vendor exploits used by Kremlin-backed hackers, Google says—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Critics of spyware and exploit sellers have long warned that the advanced hacking sold by commercial surveilla...
- + Ars Technica Software: Unpatchable 0-day in surveillance cam is being exploited to install Mirai—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malicious hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in a widely used security camera to spread Mirai, a ...
- + Ars Technica Software: A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project—Enlarge / Does Mono fit between the Chilean cab sav and Argentinian malbec, or is it more of an orange, maybe? (credit: Getty Images) Microso...
- + Ars Technica Software: New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv University unveiled GameNGen, a new AI model ...
- + Ars Technica Software: “Exploitative” IT firm has been delaying 2,000 recruits’ onboarding for years—Enlarge (credit: Getty) Indian IT firm Infosys has been accused of being “exploitative” after allegedly sending job offers to thousands of en...
- + Ars Technica Software: Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition—Enlarge / A man peers over a glass partition, seeking transparency. (credit: Image Source via Getty Images) The Open Source Initiative (OSI) ...
- + Hack a Day: Rendering Skin Transparent Using the Food Dye Tartrazine—Although we generally assume that opacity is the normal look for animals like us humans, this factoid is only correct for as long as you maintain the ...
- + Hack a Day: Get Thee to Git—While version control used to be reserved for big corporate projects, it is very mainstream these days. You can attribute much of that to Git, the sof...
- + Hack a Day: Should You Run Servo Horns Or Direct Couplings In Your RC Planes?—Whenever you buy a servo, it usually comes with a little baggie full of various plastic horns. Most of us pick our favorite and use it in our projects...
- + Hack a Day: Fun and Failure—My sister is a beekeeper, or maybe a meta-beekeper. She ends up making more money by breeding and selling new queen bees to other beekeepers than she ...
- + Hack a Day: Glowing Egg Is a One-Oeuf Solution for Tracking Cycles—Look, if something happened to you every three weeks or so to basically turn you into a different person and factored heavily into whether any new hum...
- + Hack a Day: Large Language Models on Small Computers—As technology progresses, we generally expect processing capabilities to scale up. Every year, we get more processor power, faster speeds, greater mem...
- + Hack a Day: Getting Started With Polypropylene (PP) 3D Printing—Polypropylene (PP) is a thermoplastic that has a number of properties that sets it apart from other thermoplastics which see common use with 3D printi...
- + Hack a Day: Bluetooth Version 6.0 Core Specification Released—The Bluetooth SIG recently released the core specification for version 6.0 of Bluetooth. Compared to 5.x, it contains a number of changes and some new...
- + Hack a Day: Hot Water Heater Hacked To Run On Solar Juice—Its 2024, and theres no getting around it. Grid energy is expensive. [Darrell] realized that a lot of his money was going on water heating, and he cam...
- + Hack a Day: An Automatic Cat Feeder Built With A 4060 Binary Counter—Weve seen a great many cat feeders over the years. Some rely on the Internet of Things, and some rely on fancy microcontrollers. [Larry Cook], on the ...
- + Hack a Day: How Much Resolution Does Film Really Have?—Have you ever scanned old negatives or print photographs? Then youve probably wondered about the resolution of your scanner, versus the resolution of ...
- + Hack a Day: Ask Hackaday, What’s Next?—Writing for Hackaday involves drinking from the firehose of tech news, and seeing the latest and greatest of new projects and happenings in the world ...
- + Hack a Day: Hackaday Podcast Episode 287: Raspberry Pi Woes, Blacker than Black, and Printing with Klipper—Elliot Williams is back from vacation, and he and Al Williams got together to talk about the best Hackaday posts from the last week. Of course, the Ra...
- + Hack a Day: An Electric Skateboard for the Dogs—Whats a dog to do if they want to do some accessible skateboarding? [Simone Giertz]s three-legged pup, [Scraps], got the chance to try a LEGO Technic ...
- + Hack a Day: This Week in Security: EUCLEAK, Revival Hijack, and More—[Thomas Roche] of NinjaLab is out with EUCLEAK, (pdf) a physical attack against Infineon security microcontrollers, and the security tokens that conta...
- + Hack a Day: 3D Print Yourself These Mini Workshop Tools—Kitting out a full workshop can be expensive, but if youre only working on small things, it can also be overkill. Indeed, if your machining tends towa...
- + Hack a Day: Jump Cacti With an LDR and a Pico—By now, probably everyone is familiar with the Youre Offline dinosaur that stars in Googles T. Rex game. You know jump cacti, avoid pterodactyls. Rep...
- + Hack a Day: Build Yourself A Beautiful Interactive Light Toy—Sometimes, we build things with LEDs as indicator lamps or to illuminate something important. Sometimes, we build things with LEDs purely to glow and ...
- + Tech Dirt: This Week In Techdirt History: September 1st – 7th—Five Years Ago This week in 2019, Apple bowed to some pressure from the right to repair movement, while Sony was continuing to battle with Vita tinker...
- + Tech Dirt: Ravinia Festival, Ravinia Brewing Settle Trademark Suit With A Name Change—I absolutely hate it when I have to write yet another trademark bullying works post. For the better part of a decade now, we have been writing about d...
- + Tech Dirt: Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Judge, Jury And Moderator—Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderations Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe n...
- + Tech Dirt: Elon’s Eager Twitter Funders Are Losing Faith, As Stakes Are Effectively Worthless—Elon Musks Twitter takeover was supposed to be a slam dunk. It was famously revealed during his legal fight to get out of the deal that Elon was getti...
- + Tech Dirt: The FBI’s Child Sexual Abuse Efforts Are As Half-Assed As Its Counterterrorism Efforts—The FBI keeps telling anyone who will listen that it wants more responsibilities. Despite having failed to end organized crime or to even slightly dim...
- + Tech Dirt: Daily Deal: The Six Sigma Green And Yellow Belt Training Bundle—The Six Sigma Green and Yellow Belt Training Bundle has 2 courses to help you learn the ins and outs of Six Sigma. Six Sigma is a detail-orientated cr...
- + Tech Dirt: Judge Rejects Yet Another Attempt By Texas To Police Online Speech—Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the legislature’s willingness to pass laws that clearly violate the First Amendment rights of websites. In the...
- + Tech Dirt: Press Happily Parrots Verizon’s Claim That Its $20 Billion Purchase Of Frontier Will Be A Huge Boon To Consumers—Tell me if youve heard this one before: a major U.S. regional telecom monopoly is looking to buy another major U.S. regional telecom monopoly in a mas...
- + Tech Dirt: Want Access To Every NFL Game? It’ll Cost You, Thanks To Fractured Streaming Deals—As weve covered the era of cord-cutting from traditional cable television packages and the rise of streaming platforms, one of the areas I have focuse...
- + Tech Dirt: The AI Copyright Hype: Legal Claims That Didn’t Hold Up—Over the past year, two dozen AI-related lawsuits and their myriad infringement claims have been winding their way through the court system. None have...
- + Tech Dirt: Gannett’s ‘AI’ Scandals Result In Closure Of Wirecutter-esque Review Website, Layoffs—You might recall how Gannett, which owns USAToday (and probably the half-assed remains of whatevers left of your towns local newspaper), spent much of...
- + Tech Dirt: Second Circuit Says Libraries Disincentivize Authors To Write Books By Lending Them For Free—What would you think if an author told you they would have written a book, but they wouldn’t bother because it would be available to be borrowed for f...
- + Tech Dirt: Florida The Latest State To Be Sued By Big Name Publishers Over Unconstitutional Book Bans—Far too many states have decided to engage in censorship, urged on by an alarmingly large voting bloc that truly appears to be on the side of fascism,...
- + Tech Dirt: Daily Deal: The 2024 Mobile App Development Bundle—The 2024 Mobile App Development Bundle can help you bring your app to life. It has 19 courses on Android Studio, Flutter Dart, Jetpack Compose, Ract N...
- + Tech Dirt: Elon Musk Wins An Actual First Amendment Fight, Blocks Bad California Transparency Law—We’ve explored multiple times now why Elon Musk is no friend to free speech. He has regularly threatened and sued others for their free speech, and in...
- + TMC: Aerospacelab Opens Satellite Manufacturing Facility in the U.S.
- + UFO Sightings: UAP Crash Retrievals and Military Secrecy: Uncovering Hidden UFO Encounters—Learn about UAP crash retrievals, alien bodies, and secret military projects in this insightful discussion with Michael Schratt and Richard Dolan. The...
- + UPI Science: Evacuations ordered as Line Fire explodes to 7K acres near San Bernardino—Residents of hundreds of homes near the San Bernardino National Forest in southern California were ordered to evacuate Saturday as the Line Fire grew ...
- + UPI Science: France's New Popular Front protests prime minister appointment—French trade unions and leftist organizations are protesting President Emmanuel Macron's recent appointment of conservative Prime Minister Michel Barn...
- + UPI Science: Newsom vetoes Calif. bill allowing undocumented immigrants to get home loan assistance—California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have extended home loans to undocumented immigrants under a program designed to increase hom...
- + UPI Science: Software problem spurs recall of 1.2M Ram pickups in the U.S.—A software problem that affects the electronic stability control system on Ram 1500 pickups force automaker Stellantis to recall more than 1.2 million...
- + UPI Science: Voluntary recall of apple juice with high levels of arsenic expands—A voluntary recall of apple juice products containing elevated levels of poisonous arsenic has been expanded after an initial recall was issued last m...
- + UPI Science: Pope calls for greater care of indigenous populations in Papua New Guinea—Pope Francis said the world needs to address climate change while visiting the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea, which is partly endangered b...
- + UPI Science: Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam after devastating southern China—Typhoon Yagi made landfall in northern Vietnam Saturday, after leaving a trail of destruction in southern China with sustained winds blowing up to 156...
- + UPI Science: Ukraine shoots down 58 of 67 Russian attack drones—Russia launched 67 Shahed drones at various targets in Ukraine Saturday, but Ukrainian officials on Saturday said they destroyed 58 of them while seve...
- + UPI Science: United Nations, family call for inquiry into U.S. woman's West Bank shooting death—The United Nations is now calling for a "full investigation" into the death of a 26-year-old American woman who was shot by Israeli forces during a de...
- + UPI Science: Dick Cheney says he’s voting for Harris, doesn’t trust Trump—Former Vice President Dick Cheney intends to vote for current Vice President Kamala Harris over Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump.
- + UPI Science: After Israeli troops fire into West Bank crowd, American-Turkish activist, 26, killed—An American activist has died after being shot in the head on the West Bank, officials confirmed on Friday.
- + Wired: 15 Best Wireless Earbuds, Tested and Reviewed (2024)—Ready to cut the cord? These are our favorite buds that will never, ever get tangled. [Category: Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear / Products / Headpho...
- + Wired: HHKB Studio Review: The Programmer's Mechanical Keyboard—Large changes bring this classic programmer's mechanical keyboard into modernity without sacrificing its soul. [Category: Gear, Gear / Products / Acce...
- + Wired: The Easiest Ways to Swap Contact Info Using Your Phone—Use these tools in iOS and Android to exchange contact details and never fumble with business cards again. [Category: Gear, Gear / How To and Advice]
- + Wired: The Best Pixel 9 Cases, Tested and Reviewed (2024)—Whether you went big with the Pixel 9 Pro XL or even bigger with the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, we’ve got a selection of cases, including MagSafe, to kit out y...