On this day in space! Aug. 17, 1877: Asaph Hall Discovers the Martian moon Phobos
Fonte: Space.com
On this day in space, Aug. 17, 1877: American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars's moon Phobos.…
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Caltech breakthrough brings fiber-optic performance to silicon chips
Fonte: Science Daily
Caltech scientists have created ultra-low-loss optical pathways on silicon chips that approach the efficiency of fiber optics and dramatically outperform existi…
A 'river' of cosmic gas 1 trillion miles long sent planets in the Orion constellation into tilted orbits
Fonte: Space.com
A rare planet-forming disk around a young triple-star system in the Orion constellation has been tipped over by a river of gas over 1 trillion miles (1.6 trilli…
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A little-known protein may be fueling Alzheimer’s — and scientists found a way to block it
Fonte: Science Daily
An experimental Alzheimer’s compound prevented damaging protein clumps from forming in the brains of mice, helping nerve cells survive longer and reducing amylo…
Blue Origin adding second pad to Cape Canaveral launch complex amid rocket explosion repairs
Josh Dinner · Space.com
As Blue Origin continues to repair its New Glenn launch pad following the rocket's explosion in May, the company has announced plans to build a second pad at th…
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Scientists uncover the hidden nerve network fueling breast cancer
Fonte: Science Daily
Researchers have uncovered a surprising way triple-negative breast cancer may turn the body against itself. Tumors appear to recruit macrophages—immune cells no…
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'This is unprecedented': Why the Pentagon's recent UFO file releases are so important
Fonte: Space.com
The Pentagon's recent spate of UFO releases represent a big shift and are of great benefit to the country, according to disclosure advocate Mike Gold.…
Ubuntu is Growing Faster on Windows Than on Linux
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
Back in April, Jon Seager, Canonical's VP of Engineering, spoke with The Pragmatic Engineer (paywalled), telling them that Ubuntu inside Windows Subsystem for L…
[$] Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel
Fonte: LWN.net
Linus Torvalds released the 7.2 kernel on August 17, after noting that the number of fixes coming in was still "bigger than I would have wished for". In fact, 7…
ARCTIC Fan Controller: The Best Fan Controller For Linux Desktops, Less Than $10 USD
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Back in March were patches posted by ARCTIC Cooling for an ARCTIC fan controller driver for Linux. Typically we aren't used to seeing desktop/enthusiast focused…
Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
Criminals are hacking into public Wi-Fi devices—at hotels, conference centers, and so on—around the world and changing their DNS settings. The goal is to redire…
Looking Beyond Tmux and Screen: 8 Terminal Multiplexers Worth Trying
Sreenath · itsFOSS
Whether you're a developer, system administrator, or simply someone who spends a lot of time in the terminal, juggling multiple terminal sessions can be messy a…
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[$] Bootstrappable builds: how and why
Fonte: LWN.net
This year's edition of the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, better known as "FOSSY", moved north to the beautiful (and enormous) campus of the U…
AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU...…
Linux 7.2 Arrives With Cache Aware Scheduling After More Than a Year of Work
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
The newest point release for Linux is here a few months after the last one, and the time in-between was not spent idly. Scheduler work that took over a year fin…
GNU poke 5.0 released
Fonte: LWN.net
Version 5.0 of GNU Poke, a binary-data editor, has been released. This release includes a number of improvements to the Poke compiler, additions to the Poke lan…
Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Among the pull requests sent out today now that the Linux 7.3 merge window is open are the SMP improvements for this next kernel version. Standing out among the…
Mark J. Wielaard receives Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom
Fonte: LWN.net
The Software Freedom Conservancy has announced that Mark J. Wielaard has been honored with the second annual Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom for…
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Firefox 154 Now Available With "Manage AI" Quick Action
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Firefox 154 is now available as the newest monthly update bringing a few new features, enhancements, and other alterations to this open-source web browser...…
Security updates for Monday
Fonte: LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, dracut, freerdp, gnome-remote-desktop, kernel, and nghttp2), Debian (apr-util, docker.…
Intel & AMD Power Management Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 7.3
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
In advance of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening, Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel submitted all the power management, ACPI, …
The 7.2 kernel has been released
Fonte: LWN.net
The 7.2 kernel has been released. Linus said: Well, this last week of the release was - once again - bigger than I would have wished for, but hey, with the whol…
KTransformers 0.7 Expands AVX-512 Support To Benefit AMD EPYC Servers
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
KTransformers as the framework for heterogeneous LLM inference and fine-tune optimizations is out today with its v0.7 feature release...…
Con Kolivas Revives "-ck" Patches & MuQSS To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Huge surprise this morning! Longtime Linux users may recall the out-of-tree work done years ago by open-source developer Con Kolivas... And as part of that his …
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