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Meet FLEX: The satellite that sees photosynthesis
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Crocodiles are famous for finding their way home. These ones didn’t
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Captive-raised saltwater crocodiles released into Bangladesh’s Sundarbans surprised scientists by settling into the wild rather than trying to return to their b…
Is there a hidden 'Planet 9' in our solar system?
Micah Hanks · Space.com
For more than a century, astronomers have been captivated by the idea that an undiscovered planet could be lurking in the furthest reaches of our solar system.…
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How do you change a vacuum cleaner bag in space? 🧹
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Pre-order the Unistellar Envision AR binoculars and learn about the night sky in real-time
Harry Bennett · Space.com
Unistellar's long awaited augmented reality Envision smart binoculars are available to pre-order for $1499, with guaranteed delivery before Christmas.…
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MTM's selfie footage of BepiColombo's eight-year journey
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Popular sweetener byproduct damages DNA in human cells
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Sucralose, the artificial sweetener used in Splenda, came under scrutiny after a study found that a related chemical damaged DNA and weakened the gut barrier in…
James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble discover 27 puzzling new objects orbiting the sun far beyond Neptune
Keith Cooper · Space.com
The Hubble and James Webb space telescopes discovered some surprising things about 27 new tiny objects far beyond the orbit of Neptune.…
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BepiColombo says goodbye to its transfer module
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Tiny cell “antennas” may help explain why some babies are born with heart defects
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A newly discovered communication system in the microscopic “antennae” of cells may help explain how some congenital heart defects develop. When genetic mutation…
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What role does Europe want to play in the next era of space exploration?
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Scientists find how “zombie” cells fuel inflammation as we age
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Scientists discovered that aging cells can use malfunctioning mitochondria to unlock inflammatory genes and keep the immune system stuck in a prolonged state of…
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Isar Aerospace achieves first launch to orbit from continental Europe
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[$] Lessons learned as the Debian Project Leader
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What is it like to be a Debian Project Leader (DPL), or a former one? According to Andreas Tille, who stepped down this year after two consecutive terms as DPL,…
AMD Preparing Linux For Enhanced SMT Protection "ESMTP" For EPYC VMs
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
AMD engineers today sent out patches on the Linux kernel mailing list for beginning to enable Enhanced SMT Protection "ESMTP" for better security with virtual m…
openEuler and the Race to Build Asia's AI Infrastructure
Edmar Pereira · itsFOSS
openEuler is an open-source project incubated and operated by the OpenAtom Foundation. The community is expanding international collaboration through local user…
Emacs arbitrary code execution flaw
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Sean Whitton has announced that the original fix for an arbitrary code execution flaw in Emacs (CVE-2024-53920) was incomplete. Bas Alberts discovered that view…
GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released With Performance Optimizations, New uname Option
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
GNU Coreutils 9.12 released today with a mix of fixes, some new options, and various performance improvements to these widely-used set of core system utilities.…
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Paperweight: An Open Source App to Clean Up Your Inbox and Digital Footprint
Pulkit Chandak · itsFOSS
Paperweight scans your inbox locally to find mailing lists, forgotten accounts and breach risks, with bulk unsubscribe and GDPR request tools.…
Security updates for Monday
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, apr-util, coreutils, freerdp, git-lfs, glib2, gstreamer1-plugins-base, kernel, libkcapi, nginx, nod…
Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Valve just announced their long-awaited Steam Frame headset is now available...…
More than 9,000 patches total in the seven stable kernels for Monday
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.2.6, 6.18.52, 6.12.110, 6.6.157, 6.1.188, 5.15.221, 5.10.270 stable kernels. According to Kroah-Hartman, this batch may s…
Rustls 0.23.45 Released To Fix Two Year Old Security Issue
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
While the Rustls modern TLS library is written in the Rust programming language with a focus on memory safety, as we've seen out of other Rust project re-implem…
Reminder: subscription price change coming
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Just a reminder that prices for LWN subscriptions will increase after September 15. Until then, the older rate still applies. See this article for details on th…
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