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Rare, Widespread Snow in the Atacama Desert
Fonte: NASA
Back-to-back winter storms in August 2026 brought snowfall to northern Chile, from the Andes to near the Pacific coast.…
Glowing galaxy with anomalous extra arms | Space photo of the day for Aug. 27, 2026
Brett Tingley · Space.com
A trio of NASA space telescopes teamed up to capture a gorgeous new look at the glowing spiral galaxy NGC 4258 and its two anomalous extra arms.…
Science Daily
Smart nanoparticles light up brain cancer and destroy what surgery misses
Fonte: Science Daily
Scientists created smart nanoparticles that can both illuminate hidden glioblastoma cells during surgery and destroy microscopic cancer left behind afterward. I…
'Strange New Worlds' latest episode wastes a lot of time pretending to kill off major 'Star Trek' characters
Fonte: Space.com
Every so often, "Star Trek" likes to put its brave interstellar adventurers through hell. You know the drill — a bunch of one-off crew members will probably be …
Science Daily
Eating more ultra-processed foods may raise prostate cancer risk by 30%
Fonte: Science Daily
Ultra-processed foods make up a huge share of the American diet, and new research suggests they may carry another serious health risk for men. In a nationally r…
Powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches European weather satellite to orbit (video)
Mike Wall · Space.com
Europe's Ariane 6 rocket launched the sharp-eyed MTG-I2 weather satellite to orbit today (Aug. 27).…
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Science Daily
Scientists switch on a strange new form of magnetism in an ultrathin material
Fonte: Science Daily
Scientists have found a surprising way to potentially switch on an unusual form of magnetism in ruthenium dioxide, a material that normally appears nonmagnetic.…
An impressive partial lunar eclipse will turn the moon an eerie red for millions of people tonight
Daisy Dobrijevic · Space.com
Tonight's deep partial lunar eclipse will be the most impressive lunar eclipse until New Year's Eve 2028, so make sure you catch it if you can!…
Science Daily
NASA just used satellites and debris to navigate without GPS
Fonte: Science Daily
NASA has successfully tested a system that allows satellites to navigate without GPS by using other spacecraft and debris as landmarks in orbit. In just three d…
IETF 126 post-meeting survey: what we heard
Paige Mustafa, Akanksha Gohil · IETF Blog
Joe Clarke has been appointed as the new IETF NOC Lead and in this post Joe introduces himself and sets out his priorities for the IETF Network.…
Science Daily
Scientists may have finally caught “empty” space changing light
Fonte: Science Daily
A magnetar with an astonishingly powerful magnetic field may have revealed a quantum effect predicted by Werner Heisenberg nearly 90 years ago. Its light shows …
LibreOffice 26.8 Doubles Down on No AI, Right After Collabora Welcomed It
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
TDF and Collabora have been at odds since April, when TDF's Membership Committee kicked out every Collabora staffer and partner in one move, with more than 30 p…
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Science Daily
Scientists discover a brain “brake” that can shut down chronic pain
Fonte: Science Daily
Researchers discovered a brain-based “brake” that can shut down chronic nerve pain in mice by calming an overactive pain circuit. Targeting this system more pre…
[$] Using steal time to moderate CPU demands
Fonte: LWN.net
Virtualization can increase CPU utilization by allowing a large number of virtual CPUs to share a smaller number of physical CPUs. The amount of CPU time that i…
AMD Jumps From ROCm 7.14 To ROCm 10.0 With ROCm.AI
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Back in July ROCm 7.14 was announced as their new production release built atop TheRock build system and introducing Ryzen AI 400 series support. The versioning…
LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
OpenAI disrupted a social engineering group from Cambodia that used ChatGPT. Its scope is impressive: The network simultaneously conducted multiple types of sca…
Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia
BrianKrebs · Krebs on Security
Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the lon…
FOSS Weekly #26.35: Performance Boost in Kernel 7.3, Omarchy Rising, Kernel, Root Demystifed, and More
Abhishek Prakash · itsFOSS
Linux 7.3's merge window is still open, but what's already confirmed looks like the foundation for one of the more performance-heavy releases in a while. Btrfs …
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Eight stable kernels for Thursday
Fonte: LWN.net
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.1, 7.1.11, 6.18.47, 6.12.106, 6.6.154, 6.1.185, 5.15.218, and 5.10.267 stable kernels. Each of these has…
Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Earlier this week I showed off some of the very nice Btrfs performance gains on Linux 7.3. For those wondering what kernel optimizations may have carried over t…
You Should Keep an Eye Out on Chromium's Flatpak Experiment
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
There's no guarantee it leads to an official release, but it would give Linux users another way to run Chromium or Chrome.…
Security updates for Thursday
Fonte: LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (assertj-core, attr, firefox, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, gstreamer1-plugins-good, httpd, kernel, mingw-op…
Linux 7.3 Adds RWF_DONTCACHE Support For Block Devices
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
With the never-ending quest for greater I/O performance in the HPC space and the demands all the more relentless in the AI era, the Linux kernel block subsystem…
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2026
Fonte: LWN.net
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: AGPL violations; OpenMDW license; quantum computing and encryption; 7.3 merge window; Remind; Quickshell. Brie…
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