Watch SpaceX launch its 100th mission of the year tonight
Mike Wall · Space.com
SpaceX will launch its 100th mission of the year tonight (Aug. 18), and you can watch the action live.…
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Scientists may have finally proved that “empty” space isn’t really empty
Fonte: Science Daily
A magnetar’s colossal magnetic field may have revealed a quantum effect predicted by Werner Heisenberg nearly 90 years ago, in which seemingly empty space alter…
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APOD: 2026 August 18 – Perseids from Perseus
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APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 August 18 –…Today’s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the …
Archaeologists discover Etruscan well that was ritually opened with offerings for a goddess — and 'closed' with human bodies
Fonte: Live Science
Archaeologists in Italy have discovered stunning bronze statuettes and a unique plate at the bottom of a ritual well associated with an ancient Etruscan goddess…
Hydrogen-powered 'rocket car' tops 400 mph in record-breaking test (video)
Chelsea Gohd · Space.com
The JCB Hydromax vehicle averaged more than 400 mph during two runs in Utah last week, becoming the fastest hydrogen-powered car in history.…
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A therapy that “rewrites” childhood memories can ease fear of failure
Fonte: Science Daily
Childhood criticism can leave people carrying a fear of failure long into adulthood, but new research suggests those emotional patterns may be surprisingly flex…
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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.…
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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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