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Trump Fires All 24 Members of America’s National Science Board

Today at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

America’s National Science Board (NSB) “was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation,” writes the Washington Post, “in an unusual structure within the federal government that echoes the setup of a company board in the private sector. It helps guide an agency that operates Antarctic research stations, telescopes, a fleet of research vessels and supports...

Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Isn’t Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds

Today at 01:09 AM, via Slashdot

After Australia banned social media for users younger than 16, teenagers “immediately worked to circumvent the restrictions,” reports Fortune:14-year-old in New South Wales, toldThe Washington Post in December 2025, justbefore the implementation of the ban, she planned to use her mother’sface ID to log in to Snapchatand .In a Reddit thread on ways to bypass the ban, one user suggestedusing a...

Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill

Yesterday at 23:26 PM, via Slashdot

Colorado’s “age-attestation” bill left the House committee with new exemptions for open-source operating systems, applications, code repositories, and containerized software distribution, reports the blog Linuxiac:[The bill] focuses on operating system providers and application stores. Its main requirement is that these providers supply an age-related signal via an interface, so applications...

Is the World Ready For a Car Without a Rear Window?

Yesterday at 22:19 PM, via Slashdot

There’s a glass roof — but no rear-view window. Instead the Polestar 4 replaces the rear-view mirror with a live feed from a wide-angle camera. Its high-resolution display (1480 x 320 pixels) promises “a panoramic view of the outside,” according to Polestar’s web site, showing more of what’s behind you. “Visibility in the dark and in rainy conditions is also vastly improved.” Besides the...

Open Source Developer Brings Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft released the “Windows Subsystem for Linux” in 2016, adding an optional Linux environment into every operating system since Windows 10. But now an open source developer has brought Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, reports the blog It’s FOSS, “with Linux kernel 6.19 running alongside the Windows 9x kernel, letting both operate on the same machine at the same time.”A...

Linux Drops ISDN Subsystem and Other Old Network Drivers

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers,” reads the pull request. And so Thursday Linus Torvald merged the pull request “to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem,” reports Phoronix, “and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters.” This was the code suggested for...

White House Pushed Out New AI Official After Just Four Days on the Job

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

It’s the U.S. government’s main link to the AI industry, reports The Washington Post, working to assess national security risks of new models like Anthropic’s “Mythos”. To run it they’d hired Collin Burns, who’d worked at OpenAI and then Anthropic. But Burns started work Monday at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation — and then “was pushed out Thursday by the White House, according to...

Free Software Foundation Says ‘Responsible AI’ Licenses Which Restrict Harmful Uses are Unethical and Nonfree

Yesterday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

The Free Software Foundation’s Licensing and Compliance Manager published a blog post this week to explicitly state that”Responsible AI” Licenses (RAIL) are nonfree and unethical. The licenses restrict AI and ML software “from being used in a specific list of harmful applications,” according to the license’s web site, “e.g. in surveillance and crime prediction.” (The license’s steering...

Intel’s Stock Soars 24% Friday, Its Biggest One-Day Gain Since 1987

Yesterday at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

Intel’s stock price soared 24% Friday. It’s the stock’s largest single-day spike since since October 1987, reports CNBC, “as investors cheered signs of renewed growth due to mounting artificial intelligence demand.”The stock closed at $82.57 and is now up 124% this year after jumping 84% in 2025. Friday’s rally topped a 23% gain for the stock on Sept. 18, when Nvidia agreed to invest $5 billion...

Physicists Revive 1990s Laser Concept To Propose a Next-Generation Atomic Clock

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

Physicists have proposed a new kind of atomic clock based on a revived superradiant laser concept that could produce an extraordinarily stable signal with a linewidth around 100 microhertz, potentially the narrowest ever for an optical laser. “The implications of this result could stretch well beyond timekeeping,” reports Phys.org. “A laser immune to environmental frequency shifts would be a...

Ace the Ping-Pong Robot Can Whup Your Ass

Yesterday at 11:30 AM, via Wired

Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players.

Criminalisation of climate protesters in UK is counterproductive, research finds

Yesterday at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

Study of 1,300 campaigners finds arrests, fines and jail terms increase determination of activists to take direct action

The criminalisation of direct action climate protests in the UK is counterproductive and increases the determination of activists to undertake disruptive demonstrations, according to a study of 1,300 campaigners.

New findings suggest arrests, fines and lengthy prison...

FDA Gives Green Light To the First Gene Therapy For Deafness

Yesterday at 09:00 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf. The decision, while only immediately affecting people born with a very rare form of genetic deafness, is being hailed as a milestone in the quest to treat hearing loss. “It’s the first time in history there’s a new drug for hearing...

Dyslexic thinking made me the scientist I am today. If we could harness its power, imagine what could be possible | Maggie Aderin

Yesterday at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Progress has always been made by people who think differently. Neurodiversity helps us think outside the box – and when we do, the sky’s the limit

One of my favourite pieces of scientific equipment is something called a retrospectroscope. I admit that it only exists in my imagination, but it has turned out to be a very useful bit of kit. It allows me to look back through the years of my life...

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