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- + NASA may alter Artemis III to have Starship and Orion dock in low-Earth orbit—Enlarge / This image taken by NASA's Orion spacecraft shows its view j...
- + Rocket Report: Starship could save Mars Sample Return; BE-4s for second Vulcan—Enlarge / A BE-4 engine is moved into position on ULA's second Vulcan ...
- + Boeing says it will cut SLS workforce “due to external factors”—Enlarge / The SLS rocket is seen on its launch pad at Kennedy Space Ce...
- + Amid schedule uncertainty, Boeing will shed workers on SLS rocket program—Enlarge / The SLS rocket is seen on its launch pad at Kennedy Space Ce...
- + Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X, study finds—Enlarge / Miami Beach, Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Cent...
- + Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’ travertine kitchen tile—Enlarge / Reddit user Kidipadeli75 spotted a fossilized hominin jawbon...
- + SpaceX and Northrop are working on a constellation of spy satellites—Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches a Starlink mission in January 202...
- + The largest marine reptile ever could match blue whales in size—Enlarge (credit: Sergey Krasovskiy) Blue whales have been con...
- + The hidden story behind one of SpaceX’s wettest and wildest launches—Enlarge / Is that sooty rocket lifting off with the CRS-3 mission in 2...
- + Life-threatening rat pee infections reach record levels in NYC—Enlarge / A rat looks for food while on a subway platform at the Colum...
- + Bodies found in Neolithic pit were likely victims of ritualistic murder—Enlarge / Three female skeletons found in a Neolithic storage pit in F...
- + Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°—Enlarge (credit: Frame Studio) Almost from the start, argumen...
- + A chunk of metal that tore through a Florida home definitely came from the ISS—NASA has confirmed that the object that fell into a Florida home last ...
- + Bogus Botox poisoning outbreak spreads to 9 states, CDC says—A package of counterfeit Botox. (credit: FDA) At least 19 wo...
- + Studies reveal new clues to how tardigrades can survive intense radiation—Enlarge / SEM Micrograph of a tardigrade, more commonly known as a "wa...
- + Second-biggest black hole in the Milky Way found—Enlarge / The star's orbit, shown here in light, is influenced by the ...
- + NASA says it needs better ideas on how to return samples from Mars—Enlarge / NASA's existing plan for Mars Sample Return involves a large...
- + How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun—Enlarge I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather ...
- + Song lyrics are getting more repetitive, angrier—Enlarge (credit: Henrik Sorensen) From ‘80s new wave to ‘90s ...
- + Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain—Enlarge (credit: OsakaWayne Studios) As if we didn’t have eno...
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- + Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track—Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for "VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Dr...
- + LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) On Thursday, Me...
- + LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Password-manager LastPass user...
- + OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022—Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt ...
- + Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections—Enlarge (credit: da-kuk/Getty) Kremlin-backed actors have ste...
- + Broadcom says “many” VMware perpetual licenses got support extensions—Enlarge (credit: Getty) Broadcom CEO Hock Tan this week publi...
- + Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap—Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinu...
- + Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts—Enlarge (credit: Matejmo | Getty Images) Cisco’s Talos securi...
- + New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, the UK government ...
- + UK targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes with new law—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, the UK government ...
- + Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem—Enlarge (credit: Joan Cros via Getty) When Microsoft revealed...
- + Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors indicted a...
- + Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them—Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) ...
- + Change Healthcare faces another ransomware threat—and it looks credible—Enlarge (credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus) For months, Chan...
- + “Highly capable” hackers root corporate networks by exploiting firewall 0-day—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Highly capable hackers are roo...
- + Words are flowing out like endless rain: Recapping a busy week of LLM news—Enlarge / An image of a boy amazed by flying letters. (credit: Getty I...
- + Intel’s “Gaudi 3” AI accelerator chip may give Nvidia’s H100 a run for its money—Enlarge / An Intel handout photo of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. (credi...
- + Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware that went undetected for 5 years won’t ever be fixed—Enlarge (credit: Intel) Hardware sold for years by the likes ...
- + AT&T: Data breach affects 73 million or 51 million customers. No, we won’t explain.—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) AT&T is notifying millions...
- + New AI music generator Udio synthesizes realistic music on demand—Enlarge / A screenshot of AI-generated songs listed on Udio on April 1...
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- + Report reveals Northern Ireland police put up to 18 journalists and lawyers under surveillance
- + International police operation infiltrates LabHost phishing website used by thousands of criminals
- + Security Think Tank: Approaches to ransomware need a course correction
- + Mandiant formally pins Sandworm cyber attacks on APT44 group
- + US provides assurances over extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
- + CISOs not yet convinced to invest in AI
- + 2024 election security: Confronting disinformation and deepfakes
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- + Hackaday Podcast Episode 267: Metal Casting, Plasma Cutting, and a Spicy 555—What were some of the best posts on Hackaday last week? Elliot William...
- + Ultra-Tiny Wii Uses Custom Parts And Looks Amazing—The Nintendo Wii was never a large console. Indeed, it was smaller tha...
- + This Week in Security: Putty Keys, Libarchive, and Palo Alto—It may be time to rotate some keys. The venerable PuTTY was updated to...
- + NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Transitions Into Stationary Testbed—On April 16th NASA announced the formal end to Ingenuitys days as the ...
- + Build Your Own RGB Fill Light For Photography—Photography is all about light, and capturing it for posterity. As any...
- + PC Watercooling Prototype is Pumpless—Watercooling is usually more efficient than air cooling for the same v...
- + Computing Via (Virtual) Dominos—Back in 2012, [Matt Parker] and a team built a computer out of dominos...
- + Remove Wall Plugs Fast With A Custom Tool—The best thing about buying your own home is that you can hang things ...
- + DIY Quad-Motor Go-Kart is a Thrilling Ride—[Peter Holderith] set out some time ago to build an electric go-kart. ...
- + Early CD Player Teardown—While CD players are nothing new today, they were the height of high-t...
- + LYFT: Standing Up for Better IKEA BEKANT Control—The IKEA BEKANT sit/stand desk is kind of a lifesaver even if you don...
- + MXM: Powerful, Misused, Hackable—Today, well look into yet another standard in the embedded space: MXM....
- + Unraveling The Secrets of Apple’s Mysterious Fisheye Format—Apple has developed a proprietary even mysterious fisheye projection...
- + Hacked Oscilloscope Plays Breakout, Hints at More—You know things are getting real when the Dremel is one of the first t...
- + Raspberry Pi Scanner Digitizes On the Cheap—Its pretty important in 2024 to be able digitize documents quickly and...
- + Source Code to the 1999 FPS Game Descent 3 Released—On April 16th of this year, [Kevin Bentley] released the source code t...
- + FLOSS Weekly Episode 779: Errata Prevention Specialist—This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch sit down with Andy Stewart to...
- + This Go-Kart Rides on a Pallet—Many beginner woodworkers, looking to offset the introductory costs of...
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- + Congressional Testimony On Section 230 Was So Wrong That It Should Be Struck From The Record—A few months ago, we wondered if Wired had fired its entire fact-check...
- + Apple Praised For Repair Reforms Only Made Possible By New Oregon Law It Tried To Kill—Last month Oregon state lawmakers passed a new right to repair law mak...
- + UK Prosecutors Apologize For Pursuing BS Charges Against A Photographer—Cops hate being watched, no matter where theyre located. In the United...
- + Palworld Creator Loves That Others Are Trying To Clone The Game—Weve had several posts on the video game sensation that is Palworld in...
- + Sextortion Is A Real & Serious Criminal Issue; Blaming Section 230 For It Is Not—Let’s say I told you a harrowing story about a crime. Criminals from h...
- + Cops Claim Body Cam Footage Of Wrong Address Raid Would Be ‘Dangerous’ To Release To General Public—Cops continue to wonder why people dont trust them. Go figure. At the...
- + Daily Deal: The Complete Cisco Training Bundle—The Complete Cisco Training Bundle has 6 courses to help you get ready...
- + No, TikTok Is Not ‘Programmable Fentanyl.’ Stop It—What do Fentanyl and TikTok have in common? Well, the real answer is a...
- + Biden’s New Net Neutrality Rules Don’t Prevent Anti-Competitive “Fast Lanes”—One of the key reasons the net neutrality fight even became a thing wa...
- + Senate Now Considering Section 702 Re-Up With A Dangerous Amendment Attached To It—For a little while, it looked as though Section 702 surveillance might...
- + Kansas Reflector Mostly Admits That Meta’s Blocking Of Their Site Wasn’t Deliberate—Not every bad mistake is evil. Not every poor decision is deliberate. ...
- + The Motion Picture Association Doesn’t Get To Decide Who The First Amendment Protects—Twelve years ago, internet users spoke up with one voice to ...
- + Chemtrail Legislation Is The New Normal In A Severely Abnormal America—Its enough to make you want to shoot yourself in the face in embarrass...
- + Daily Deal: The Complete MATLAB Programming Master Class—MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, im...
- + Will Elon Sue? NBC News Finds, Yet Again, That ExTwitter Has ‘Verified’ Neo-Nazi Accounts, With Ads Appearing Next To Their Content—Elon Musk does not seem to like it much when reports point out that Ex...
- + The GOP Is Blocking A Last Ditch Effort To Bring Cheap Broadband To Poor Americans—The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infr...
- + Bell Canada, After Nixxing Most Hardware DVR, Changes Cloud PVR Recording Retention—Weve written about Bell Canada plenty over the years and not typically...
- + Roku Eyes Patent That Would Inject Ads Into… Everything—When last we checked in with our friends at Roku, they had made the un...
- + Techdirt Podcast Episode 387: Abolishing Section 230 Would Abolish Wikipedia—Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee had a hearing all a...
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- + Beatbot AquaSense Pro: Just in Time for Summer, the Ultimate Robot Pool Cleaner—Mark Vena reviews the Beatbot AquaSense Pro, detailing its advanced fe...
- + Pundit Predicts Apple AI Will Be Bound to iPhone, Analysts React—Following a prediction that Apple’s AI features in iOS 18 will be proc...
- + How To Leverage Gen AI Without Losing the Corporate Shirt—As technologies like ChatGPT exemplify, generative AI is rapidly evolv...
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- + Global Connectivity Demands Fuel Rapid Growth of Satellite IoT Market to a US$4 Billion Frontier by 2030
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- + Man apparently sets self afire outside courthouse where Trump faces hush-money trial—A man was seen on fire outside the courthouse where former president D...
- + Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes warns Nasdaq about possible share price manipulation—Trump Media Friday disclosed that it has warned the Nasdaq stock excha...
- + House Democrats help push Ukraine, Israel aid bills toward finish line—The Republican-controlled House on Friday advanced legislation to send...
- + Israel says 276 aid trucks with food, medical aid entered Gaza—The Israeli military on Friday said that 276 trucks carrying aid enter...
- + Treasury sanctions groups that raised funds for extremists inciting West Bank violence—The U.S. Treasury on Friday announced new sanctions against "two viole...
- + EU President Ursula von der Leyen visits border to stand by Finland against Russian 'hybrid attacks'—European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Finland's b...
- + China forces Apple to drop What's App, Threads from App Store—Apple is removing the Meta-owned social media applications WhatsApp an...
- + Trump hush-money trial: Lawyers question potential jurors in search for alternates—The search for alternate jurors in Donald Trump's criminal hush-money ...
- + Russian missile attacks kill 8 in Ukraine, damage residential building and railway—Russian attacks in Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Synelnykove, Ukraine Friday ...
- + Ballot initiative seeks to enshrine abortion rights in Colorado constitution—A petition to guarantee abortion rights in Colorado's constitution has...
- + Reports: Israel attacks military base in central Iran—Explosions were reported early Friday near a military base in the cent...
- + Biden administration adopts stronger Title IX sex and gender discrimination rules—New Biden administration Title IX rules finalized Friday strengthen pr...
- + Two Polish men arrested over attack on Navalny aide Leonid Volkov—Two Polish men have been arrested in Poland on suspicion of carrying o...
- + India heads to the polls as Prime Minister Narendra Modi bids for third term—Hundreds of millions of voters in India, the world's largest democracy...
- + House Rules Committee advances Ukraine, Israel aid bills with help from Democrats—The Republican-majority House Rules Committee advanced long-stalled bi...
- + On This Day, April 19: Police arrest Boston Marathon bomber, brother killed—On April 19, 2013, one Boston Marathon bombing suspect was killed by p...
- + North Korea condemns U.N. envoy's 'aid-begging trip' to Asia—North Korea on Friday slammed a visit to Asia by the top U.S. envoy to...
- + Kenya's defense chief dies in helicopter crash—Kenya's Chief of Defense Gen. Francis Omondi Ogolla has been killed in...
- + Border agents seize 50 pounds of meth hidden under fish—U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized a vehicle attempting ...
- + U.S. vetoes Palestinian bid for U.N. membership—The United States blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution on Thursd...
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- + 10 Best Computer Monitors (2024): Budget, OLED, 4K, Ultrawide—The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writin...
- + The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK—The world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing ...
- + Bitcoin Miners Brace for the ‘Halving’—and Race to Cash In—The Bitcoin halving is imminent. Crypto mining companies are reaching ...
- + 20 Best Earth Day Deals (2024): Ebikes, Chargers, and Bags Made of Recycled Plastic—We've rounded up deals on WIRED-tested electric bikes, organic mattres...
- + 18 Best Keyboards for PC (2024): Gaming and Work—Whether you’re looking to boost your productivity or your Fortnite sta...
- + Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Over Faulty Accelerator Pedals—Its Worst Flaw Yet—Tesla has issued a voluntary recall for nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks becau...
- + Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Over Faulty Pedals—Its Worst Flaw Yet—Tesla has issued a voluntary recall for nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks becau...
- + Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Over Trapped Pedals—Its Worst Flaw Yet—Tesla has issued a voluntary recall for nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks becau...
- + Trek Fetch+ 2 Review: A Solid, Though Expensive, Cargo Ebike—This cargo ebike is a familiar stepping stone that will cut your local...
- + BYD Yangwang U8 2024: Price, Specs, Availability—Meet the tank-turning, 4-ton Yangwang U8 from BYD. It's the world’s mo...
- + The Taylor Swift Album Leak’s Big AI Problem—When The Tortured Poets Department leaked, some Taylor Swift fans swor...
- + A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings—An AI-powered wearable from startup Limitless promises to make meeting...
- + How to Stop ChatGPT’s Voice Feature From Interrupting You—ChatGPT’s conversation tools are fantastic—when the chatbot isn’t cons...
- + Kuhn Rikon Black Star Review: Perfectly Smooth Cast-Iron—You probably don’t need it, but Kuhn Rikon’s Swiss-made cast-iron pan ...
- + Audien Hearing Atom One Hearing Aid Review: Über-Cheap and Too Basic—These sub-$100 over-the-counter hearing aids are quite blunt, but they...
- + Nas’ 'Illmatic' Was the Beginning of the End of the Album—Nas’ critically revered Illmatic hit record store shelves 30 years ago...
- + Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse—An infection can upset your microbiome, and if certain gut fungi run r...
- + She Painted a Few Champagne Bottles. Then Came Meta’s Customer Support Hell—A fashion influencer’s struggles to unblock her Instagram account high...
- + Environmental Damage Could Cost You a Fifth of Your Income Over the Next 25 Years—The world is already committed to warming that will undercut the globa...
- + Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3—The open source Llama 3 AI model released by Meta today is just the st...
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- + Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse—An infection can upset your microbiome, and if certain gut fungi run r...
- + Environmental Damage Could Cost You a Fifth of Your Income Over the Next 25 Years—The world is already committed to warming that will undercut the globa...
- + NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From—Space law just got a little more complicated. [Category: Science, Scie...
- + We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening—After months of secrecy, Neuralink revealed that the partner site for ...
- + The Rise of the Carbon Farmer—Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultura...
- + The Atlas Robot Is Dead. Long Live the Atlas Robot—Before the dear old model could even power down, Boston Dynamics unlea...
- + No, Dubai’s Floods Weren’t Caused by Cloud Seeding—Heavy rain has triggered flash flooding in Dubai. But those who blame ...
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