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Lala Batters Hawaii
Fonte: NASA
The powerful storm delivered extreme rainfall and damaging winds to the state, passing the Island of Hawaiʻi as a category 1 hurricane.…
Giant underwater plume blasts into swirling cloud 'street' in the East China Sea — Earth from space
Fonte: Live Science
A recent satellite photo captured a series of clouds sculpted by von Kármán vortices from a volcano on South Korea's Jeju Island. A giant multicolor plume, ejec…
A beginner’s guide to observing the night sky with a manual telescope
Fonte: Space.com
The night sky is not an impenetrable “blanket of stars.” There is depth and detail that can be navigated and known, probed and plundered for rewards — and the b…
'They don't deserve this beauty and this breathtaking fragility': Former Antarctic tour guides told researchers why they quit the troubling industry
Sascha Pare · Live Science
Polar tourism researchers Zdenka Sokolickova and Liz Cooper talk about why a number of Antarctic tour guides have given up what they still consider to be their …
Hubble, James Webb Space Telescope team up to capture the 'Black Eye Galaxy' | Space photo of the day for Aug. 18, 2026
Chelsea Gohd · Space.com
The "Black Eye Galaxy" is captured in a gorgeous new composite image from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.…
Science Daily
Kratom poison center cases have surged 6,500% in the U.S.
Fonte: Science Daily
Kratom use and serious health problems linked to it have risen dramatically across the United States over the past decade. Poison center reports jumped from jus…
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On this day in space! Aug. 18, 1868: Total solar eclipse leads to discovery of helium
Fonte: Space.com
On Aug. 18, 1868, a French astronomer named Pierre Jules César Janssen discovered helium while observing a total solar eclipse in India.…
This Solo Dev Already Built a Popular Distro. Now He's Trying It Again
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
Atomic distros work differently from the Fedora or Ubuntu install you're probably used to. Instead of layering individual packages on top of each other, the ent…
It's harder to poop in space. Scientists may finally know why
Fonte: Space.com
Spaceflight can do strange things to the human body — including making it harder for astronauts to poop.…
[$] Fedora prepares for the end of AF_ALG
Fonte: LWN.net
The Linux kernel's user-space interface (AF_ALG) to the Crypto API has been linked to a number of recent high-profile security problems, including Copy Fail and…
See gorgeous views of the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse captured from space
Fonte: Space.com
Orbiting spacecraft captured incredible views of the moon's shadow darkening Earth during the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse.…
IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mappi…
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LLMs and Contextual Integrity
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
I have been thinking a lot about AI and integrity. Part of that is contextual integrity. I recently found two papers on the topic. “CIMemories: A Compositional …
The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
Founding members AMD, EPAM, and Renesas already put in the groundwork, and there's a new Premier Plus membership tier to go with it.…
Security updates for Tuesday
Fonte: LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, 389-ds:1.4, bind, haproxy, kernel, kernel-rt, libXfont2, nghttp2, and unbound), Debian (calibre, expat…
Framework Laptop 12 Updated For Intel Wildcat Lake, Shipping Starts In October
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Last year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as an upgrade-friendly and Linux-compatible 2-in-1 laptop. The Framework Laptop 12 was originally …
I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful
Pulkit Chandak · itsFOSS
Rewaita makes it easy to recolor GTK and Libadwaita apps with popular palettes, custom colors and a few extra visual effects.…
The CachyOS Performance vs. Other Linux Operating Systems On A $46k USD Workstation
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Recently I looked at the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 on the Intel Xeon 678X running within the HP Z4 G6i workstation. Linux performed admirab…
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Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submi…
Linux 7.3 Corrects Faulty Behavior Of FAT File-System Driver For Filenames Too Fat
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
It's not too often that the Linux FAT driver for FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 format support receives updates worth mentioning. For Linux 7.3 there is one patch though and…
Fedora x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages Pushed Back To At Least Fedora 46
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
There was a proposal under discussion the past few months on building x86-64-v3 packages for Fedora 45 while retaining x86-64-v1 packages. The hope was building…
Lenovo Lands New Watchdog Driver In Linux 7.3 For Their SE30G2 + SE60 Edge AI Computers
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
When it comes to the watchdog driver changes for Linux 7.3, standing out is the new Lenovo driver for their upcoming ThinkEdge AI edge computing systems...…
Intel Enables Buffer Compression For Better Gaming Performance With DXVK
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Merged today to Mesa 26.3-devel is a nice performance boost for Intel graphics with Valve's Steam Play when using DXVK for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over the Vul…
XFS Lands FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES For Efficiency Improvement In Linux 7.3
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3. For end-users the only notable change for this file-system on the new kernel is adding support …
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