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Personal Info on 17.5 Million Users May Have Leaked to Dark Web After 2024 Instagram Breach

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget:If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you’re not alone. As reported by Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, there was a data breach revealing the “sensitive information” of 17.5 million Instagram users. Malwarebytes added that the leak included Instagram usernames, physical addresses, phone...

China Tests a Supercritical CO2 Generator in Commercial Operation

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

“China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation,” writes CleanTechnica, “and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough.”The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a steel plant in Guizhou province in mountainous southwest China and is designed to recover industrial waste heat and convert it into electricity....

That Bell Labs ‘Unix’ Tape from 1974: From a Closet to Computing History

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

Remember that re-discovered computer tape with one of the earliest versions of Unix from the early 1970s? This week several local news outlets in Utah reported on the find, with KSL creating a video report with shots of the tape arriving at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum, the closet where it was found, and even its handwritten label. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the closet where...

Cory Doctorow: Legalising Reverse Engineering Could End ‘Enshittification’

Today at 14:34 PM, via Slashdot

Scifi author/tech activist Cory Doctorow has decried the “enshittification” of our technologies to extract more profit. But Saturday he also described what could be “the beginning of the end for enshittification” in a new article for the Guardian — “our chance to make tech good again”.There is only one reason the world isn’t bursting with wildly profitable products and projects that...

‘Lots of people don’t want to do it’: Paul Nurse on his controversial second term as Royal Society president

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

The Nobel prize winner discusses claims of a ‘boys’ club’, Elon Musk’s fellowship and rightwing attacks on science

Paul Nurse is a turn up for the books. A Nobel prize-winning geneticist, former director of the Francis Crick Institute and erstwhile head of Rockefeller University in the US, his CV marks him out as one of this generation’s most eminent scientific figures.

But his presidency of...

C# (and C) Grew in Popularity in 2025, Says TIOBE

Today at 10:34 AM, via Slashdot

For a quarter century, the TIOBE Index has attempted to rank the popularity of programming languages by the number of search engine results they bring up — and this week they had an announcement. Over the last year the language showing the largest increase in its share of TIOBE’s results was C#. TIOBE founder/CEO Paul Jansen looks back at how C++ evolved:From a language-design perspective, C#...

Calls for SMA screening ignored before Jesy Nelson campaign, say families

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

For those who have spent years trying to raise awareness, Wes Streeting’s intervention is ‘bittersweet’

When former Little Mix star Jesy Nelson announced her twins had been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SMA1), a rare genetic condition that causes muscle wastage, the news quickly made front page news.

The call for SMA to be added to newborn screening sprang to national attention...

Best Crypto Coins Right Now: APEMARS vs SOL vs SUI – Presale Opportunity

Today at 08:59 AM, via Tech Financials

Crypto markets are accelerating rapidly, and capital is rotating with precision. Solana’s ecosystem continues to expand, with total value locked climbing to $11.8 billion, millions of daily active users, and strong decentralized exchange activity reinforcing its role as a high-performance Layer-1. Sui is also gaining traction through its object-centric architecture, pushing network usage and...

Elon Musk: X’s New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days

Today at 07:34 AM, via Slashdot

“We will make the new ð algorithm…open source in 7 days,” Elon Musk posted Saturday on X.com. Musk says this is “including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users,” and “This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed.” Some context from Engadget:Musk has been making promises of...

Best Crypto to Buy 2026: Why Retail is Choosing Digitap ($TAP) Over Institutional ETH

Today at 07:00 AM, via Tech Financials

Ethereum is entering 2026 with renewed confidence from institutions, but that confidence is coming from a very specific corner of the market. While large players double down on ETH as infrastructure, retail investors are increasingly asking a different question: where does everyday adoption and growth come from next? In this regard, attention is shifting to […]

Nature-Inspired Computers Are Shockingly Good At Math

Today at 04:34 AM, via Slashdot

An R&D lab under America’s Energy Department annnounced this week that “Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex mathematical problems that underpin scientific and engineering challenges.” Phys.org publishes the announcement from Sandia National Lab:In a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, Sandia...

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