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Chinese Astronauts Return From Their Space Station After Delay Blamed on Space Debris Damage

Today at 04:06 AM, via Slashdot

“Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation’s space station Friday,” reports the Associated Press, “after more than a week’s delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being hit by space debris.”The team left their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft in orbit and came back using the recently arrived Shenzhou-21, which had ferried a three-person replacement...

Rust in Android: More Memory Safety, Fewer Revisions, Fewer Rollbacks, Shorter Reviews

Today at 03:06 AM, via Slashdot

Android’s security team published a blog post this week about their experience using Rust. Its title? “Move fast and fix things.”Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we look at how this approach isn’t just fixing things, but helping us move faster. The 2025 data...

Some Americans Are Trying to Heat Their Homes With Bitcoin Mining

Today at 01:41 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:[T]he computing power of crypto mining generates a lot ofheat, most which just ends up vented into the air. According todigital assets brokerage, K33, the bitcoin mining industry generates about 100 TWh of heat annually — enough to heat all ofFinland.This energy waste within a very energy-intenseindustry is leading entrepreneurs to look for...

Apple Speeds Planning for Replacing CEO Tim Cook Next Year

Today at 00:10 AM, via Slashdot

From the Business Standard:Apple has accelerated its succession plans as the company prepares for Chief Executive Tim Cook to potentially step down as early as next year, Financial Times reported. Apple’s board and senior leaders have recently increased their focus on a smooth leadership transition after Cook’s more than 14 years at the helm of the $4 trillion tech giant, the news report said....

From R3 billion to R70 billion in 10 years

Yesterday at 21:31 PM, via MyBroadband

Purple Group and EasyEquities chief executive Charles Savage said they are extremely optimistic about the company’s growth and future.

The Internet Archive Now Captures AI-Generated Content (Including Google’s AI Overviews)

Yesterday at 20:55 PM, via Slashdot

CNN profiled the non-profit Internet Archive today — and included this tidbit about how they archive parts of the internet that are now “tucked in conversations with AI chatbots.”The rise of artificial intelligence and AI chatbots means the Internet Archive is changing how it records the history of the internet. In addition to web pages, the Internet Archive now captures AI-generated content,...

Could Firefox Be the Browser That Protects the Privacy of AI Users?

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Tech entrepreneur/blogger Anil Dash has been critical of AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas. (He’s written that Atlas “substitutes its own AI-generated content for the web, but it looks like it’s showing you the web,” while its prompt-based/command-line interface resembles a clunky text adventure, and it’s true purpose seems to be ingesting more training data.) And at the Mozilla Festival in Spain,...

Are Data Centers Raising America’s Electricity Prices?

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

Residential utility bills in America “rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period in the previous year,” reports CNBC, citing statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration:The reasons for price increases are often complex and vary by region. But in at least three states with high concentrations of data centers, electric bills climbed much faster than the...

Security Researchers Spot 150,000 Function-less npm Packages in Automated ‘Token Farming’ Scheme

Yesterday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from The Register:Yet another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as “one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history” — but with a twist. Instead of injecting credential-stealing code or ransomware into the packages, this one is a token farming campaign. Amazon Inspector security...

Transnet in court to cancel R1.5-billion IT contract

Yesterday at 15:56 PM, via MyBroadband

Gijima’s contract with Transnet came to an end on 30 November 2024, but it has refused to hand over control of the systems to Transnet’s internal staff due to concerns over service continuity.

Solar and Wind are Covering ALl New Power Demand in 2025

Yesterday at 14:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:Solar and wind are growing fast enough to meet all new electricity demand worldwide for the first three quarters of 2025, according to new data from energy think tank Ember. The group now expects fossil power to stay flat for the full year, marking the first time since the pandemic that fossil generation won’t increase. Solar and wind aren’t...

Everything I wish I’d known before I decided to freeze my eggs at 36

Yesterday at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

More and more people are turning to egg freezing to increase their chances of becoming a parent. Here’s what you need to know if you’re considering it – from the hidden costs to the chances of success

When I first told my mother I was freezing my eggs, she asked: “So my grandchildren are going to be stored next to some Häagen-Dazs?” (Very funny, Mum.) I’m one of an increasing number of...

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