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The journey of Sophie Adenot's bonus food: from France to space
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AI found a weakness in one of the world's most studied encryption systems — is your data under threat?
Fonte: Live Science
No, AI hasn't cracked the encryption protecting your bank account. But experts say Anthropic's latest research could change how tomorrow's cryptography is teste…
NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will wear tiny capes
Chelsea Gohd · Space.com
Picture it: A swarm of tiny robot helicopters descends through a reddish-brown sky, landing gracefully on the Martian surface. What are they wearing? Tiny capes…
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Wearable ultrasound patch boosts REM sleep without drugs or surgery
Fonte: Science Daily
A new wearable patch may help people reach REM sleep faster and remain there longer without medication or surgery. In a study of 28 participants, the device sho…
Engineers race to save stricken LINK rescue spacecraft before it's too late
Mike Wall · Space.com
The private LINK spacecraft, which launched last month to save a NASA space telescope, now needs saving, too —and teams are making progress on that front.…
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Scientists discover a hidden brain shift that begins around age 50
Fonte: Science Daily
Beginning around age 50, the brain’s memory center appears to lose many of its longtime immune cells and replace them with more inflammatory ones. This surprisi…
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Chinese company Landspace targets Aug. 10 for historic rocket launch and landing attempt
Andrew Jones · Space.com
The Chinese commercial launch company Landspace is set for its second attempt to catch an orbital rocket. Liftoff, and landing, are targeted for next Monday (Au…
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New autism therapy shows surprising benefits even in adult mice
Fonte: Science Daily
Blocking the glycine transporter SLC6A20 restored important brain signaling and improved social, communication, and repetitive behaviors in autism-related mouse…
On this day in space! Aug. 7, 1980: NASA's Viking 1 Mars orbiter shuts down 4 years into a 90-day mission
Tariq Malik · Space.com
On Aug. 7, 1980, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft orbiting Mars ended its epic and historic mission to the Red Planet. Here's why it mattered.…
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UCLA scientists discover how to guide heat like light at room temperature
Fonte: Science Daily
Scientists have demonstrated that heat can move through a crystal in focused, wave-like rays at room temperature instead of spreading randomly. The breakthrough…
Cosmic treasure chest explodes with baby stars | Space photo of the day for Aug. 7, 2026
Chelsea Gohd · Space.com
The Carina Nebula is truly something to behold in this new snapshot.…
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The key to colonizing Mars may be hidden inside asteroids
Fonte: Science Daily
Metal-rich asteroids could one day become hardware stores for Mars, supplying the materials needed to build and repair a growing colony. A new analysis shows th…
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The UK is about to witness its most spectacular solar eclipse in 11 years. Here's what you need to know
Fonte: Space.com
The Aug. 12 eclipse won't bring totality to Britain, but up to 98% of the sun will disappear in one of the U.K.'s most dramatic partial eclipses in decades.…
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Scientists rediscover lost Megalodon fossils—and reveal a 79-foot giant
Fonte: Science Daily
Several enormous Megalodon vertebrae thought to have been destroyed in 1989 were found sitting unnoticed on a museum shelf. Their analysis strengthens evidence …
Why you don't need a perfectly clear sky to enjoy the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12
Fonte: Space.com
Millions will see a deep partial or total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, but there's no need to fixate on completely clear skies.…
Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.…
[$] Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features
Fonte: LWN.net
The shadow-utils project provides the tools that handle /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, and other related databases; in general, manages users and groups on many Linu…
Initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra Support Being Upstreamed For Linux 7.3
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was the Device Tree (DT) support for booting the mainline Linux kernel on the base Apple M3 SoC. Though it's not yet useful …
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ICE Is Buying Access to Credit Card Records
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
Through data brokers, ICE is buying the information you provided to open a credit card.…
Proxmox Virtual Environment Officially Runs on ARM64, But Your Raspberry Pi Isn't Supported Yet
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
Virtualization is basically load-bearing infrastructure for any serious data center in 2026. Enterprises lean on it to run more workloads on less hardware, isol…
The Software Stewardship Lab launches
Fonte: LWN.net
The Software Stewardship Lab, a nonprofit organization based in Scotland, has announced its existence. Our current research focuses are: Software supply chain s…
Intel QATlib 26.08 Released With Gen6 Device Support, 2MB Hugepages
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Intel today released an updated version of their QuickAssist Technology library (QATlib) as the user-space component for making use of QuickAssist accelerators …
Nobody Touched This Linux Driver for Years, Until AI Started Poking Around and It Got Removed
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
Moxa confirmed the Intellio hardware was discontinued back in 2021, but the driver only left the kernel recently after AI agents started poking at the dead code…
LightDM lives: version 1.33.0 released
Fonte: LWN.net
Version 1.33.0 of the LightDM display manager has been released. This is the first release in four years: the project had been sponsored by Canonical but was ef…
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