On this day in space! Aug. 12, 2005: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched
Fonte: Space.com
On Aug. 12, 2005, NASA launched its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission.…
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APOD: 12 de Agosto de 2026 – Perseidas sobre um Pequeno Planeta
Fonte: NASA
APOD Ciência APOD: 12 de agosto de 2026 – ... Hoje no APOD Arquivos Índice de Submissões Calendário RSS Educação Sobre Discutir APOD (Imagem do Dia da Astronomi…
Diagnostic dilemma: Doctors performed surgery to remove a mass in a woman's gut — and a bug-like creature immediately jumped out
Fonte: Live Science
In a strange case, doctors removed a mass from a woman's digestive tract and encountered a live organism they didn't expect.…
Green comet caught soaring over Namibia | Space photo of the day for Aug. 12, 2026
Chelsea Gohd · Space.com
A shot so spectacular it will leave other astrophotographers green with envy.…
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Relatório de Avaliação de Qualidade avalia produtos de elevação EarthDEM do Centro Geospacial Polar
Fonte: NASA
Os relatórios de avaliação do CSDA ajudam a informar a comunidade de usuários sobre a qualidade dos Modelos de Elevação Digital (DEMs) comerciais.…
Perseid meteor shower peaks under perfect skies tonight — here's what to expect
Daisy Dobrijevic · Space.com
The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most prolific and impressive meteor showers of the year, peaks tonight!…
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Scientists discover a hidden brain rhythm that could improve Parkinson’s treatment
Fonte: Science Daily
Scientists have pinpointed a brain network—and its distinctive electrical rhythm—that appears to drive the benefits of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s di…
SpaceX wraps Starlink double header day with the launch of 24 Starlink satellites from California
Josh Dinner · Space.com
SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink global internet satellite constellation to orbit from California on Aug. 11, wrapping the second Starlink launch of the …
Science Daily
3,500-year-old skeletons challenge what scientists thought they knew about syphilis
Fonte: Science Daily
Ancient remains from Vietnam suggest diseases like yaws may have been passed from mother to child thousands of years ago, a form of transmission often assumed t…
SimpleX Chat Wants Its 400K+ Users to Become Investors Too
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
The world is in a messed-up state where surveillance and eroding people's rights are rewarded, and those who oppose are labeled unpatriotic, anti-national, radi…
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Ozempic may have revealed the brain’s hidden “craving center”
Fonte: Science Daily
Ozempic-like drugs appear to weaken more than hunger—they may also reduce cravings for alcohol and other addictive substances. Scientists are increasingly traci…
[$] A look at CrossPoint e-reader firmware
Fonte: LWN.net
There are a number of small, inexpensive, low-powered e-reader or e-paper devices that have promise as ebook readers with one minor problem: the firmware they s…
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Intel AMX Performance With The Xeon 678X Workstation CPU
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
One of the most compelling features for Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids alongside MRDIMMs is Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for helping accelerate AI workloads an…
Prompt Injections for Defense
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
This seems to work: Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secret…
QEMU 11.1 released
Fonte: LWN.net
Version 11.1 of the QEMU emulator has been released. The release contains more than 3,200 commits from 285 authors and includes a long list of improvements; see…
Linux Finally Seeing Patches For Better Hybrid Graphics On 2018~2019 Era MacBook Pros
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provide support for Apple GMUX hybrid graphics support on 2018~2019 Apple MacBook Pros. This allows for be…
Security updates for Wednesday
Fonte: LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents, firefox, frr10, gstreamer1-plugins-good, iscsi-initiator-utils, isns-utils, kernel, kernel-rt, per…
Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on Vulkan Video support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux with the ANV driver. Merged now for Mesa 26.3-devel is enabl…
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Rising Prevent referrals and the runaway train of mass surveillance
Sarah Lasoye · Open Rights Group
Over 10,000 people were referred to the Prevent programme between October 2024 to September 2025, according to the government’s latest figures. This is an alarm…
Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy. The in…
Hardware
Bebida gelada no quarto, na varanda e no escritório: Frigobar Brastemp Retrô no precinho!
Larissa Ximenes · Hardware
Frigobar Brastemp Retrô 76L Classic Black com 25% off: design vintage, freezer, compartimentos modulares e até 21% de economia de energia.…
Mold 2.42 Delivering Greater Performance For This High Speed Linker
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
It's been quiet since the Mold 2.41 release back in April while today it's now been succeeded by Mold 2.42 for deliver even greater performance out of this high…
Intel LLM-Scaler Ready With Muse Glimmer Support, Other LLMs & Features
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Intel's LLM-Scaler project that was born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative aims to make it easier to run generative AI on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics…
LACT 0.10 Released With New NVIDIA Overclocking Controls, Blackwell Hotspot Sensor
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
LACT is one of the popular third-party Linux GPU configuration and monitoring utilities that works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics. This GUI provides GPU…
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