“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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...