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Science/Tech

‘IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn’t Taken Over the World, But Don’t Call It a Failure’

Today at 20:40 PM, via Slashdot

Three decades after RFC 1883 promised to future-proof the internet by expanding the available pool of IP addresses from around 4.3 billion to over 340 undecillion, IPv6 has yet to achieve the dominance its creators envisioned. Data from Google, APNIC and Cloudflare analyzed by The Register shows less than half of all internet users rely on IPv6 today. “IPv6 was an extremely conservative...

DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm US Citizenship

Today at 20:11 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn’t even work as a national ID. But that’s what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now considers unreliable, even though getting one requires providing proof of citizenship or lawful...

The Guardian view on mRNA vaccines: they are the future – with or without Donald Trump | Editorial

Today at 19:30 PM, via The Guardian

Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we examine how the White House’s war on vaccines has left the future of a key technology uncertain and up for grabs

The late scientist and thinker Donald Braben argued that 20th-century breakthroughs arose from scientists being free to pursue bold ideas without pressure for quick results or rigid...

Public Domain Day 2026 Brings Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and ‘I Got Rhythm’ Into the Commons

Today at 19:12 PM, via Slashdot

As the calendar flips to January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 are entering the US public domain alongside sound recordings from 1925, making them free to copy, share, remix and build upon without permission or licensing fees. The literary haul includes William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Dashiell Hammett’s full novel The Maltese Falcon, Agatha Christie’s first Miss Marple...

The reason for Italy’s ‘demographic winter’ | Letters

Today at 19:07 PM, via The Guardian

Peter Foreshaw Brookes says worry about falling sperm counts is misplaced

The Italian “demographic winter” has a number of causes, but rising male biological infertility is not one (A child is born: Italians celebrate village’s first baby in 30 years, 26 December).

A lot of worry about falling sperm counts has been generated by some studies, but a more recent meta‑analysis found, through...

European Space Agency Acknowledges Another Breach as Criminals Claim 200 GB Data Haul

Today at 18:01 PM, via Slashdot

The European Space Agency has acknowledged yet another security incident after a cybercriminal posted an offer on BreachForums the day after Christmas claiming to have stolen over 20GB of data including source code, confidential documents, API tokens and credentials. The attacker claims they gained access to ESA-linked external servers on December 18 and remained connected for about a week,...

The Man Taking Over the Large Hadron Collider

Today at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, takes over as CERN’s director general this week, and one of his first major decisions during his five-year tenure will be shutting down the Large Hadron Collider for an extended upgrade. The shutdown starts in June to make way for the high-luminosity LHC — a major overhaul involving powerful new...

Call for routine high blood pressure testing of UK children as cases almost double

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Identifying teenagers at risk could help prevent organ damage, strokes and heart attacks in early adulthood, doctors say

Leading doctors have called for a national UK programme to monitor schoolchildren for high blood pressure amid concerns that rising rates in adolescents will increase cases of organ damage, strokes and heart attacks.

Rates of high blood pressure have nearly doubled...

You Can’t Trust Your Eyes To Tell You What’s Real Anymore, Says Instagram Head

Today at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

Instagram head Adam Mosseri closed out 2025 by acknowledging what many have long suspected: the era of trusting photographs as accurate records of reality is over, and the platform he runs will need to fundamentally adapt to an age of “infinite synthetic content.” In a slideshow posted to Instagram, Mosseri wrote that for most of his life he could safely assume photographs or videos were...

Waymos Are Now Coming For Your Coveted San Francisco Parking Spots

Today at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: A long stretch of curb in San Francisco’s Mission District might contain a whole menagerie of parked vehicles: hatchbacks, SUVs, dusty pick-ups, chic Teslas. And recently, Waymo robotaxis. That’s what Kyle Grochmal saw walking through the northeast Mission District on Monday afternoon. Cutting down York Street, he glimpsed a...

AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business

Today at 13:00 PM, via Wired

After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives easier, 2025 was the year erotic chatbots defined AI’s narrative.

UK Company Sends Factory With 1,000C Furnace Into Space

Today at 12:00 PM, via Slashdot

A UK-based company has successfully powered up a microwave-sized space factory in orbit, proving it can run a 1,000C furnace to manufacture ultra-pure semiconductor materials in microgravity. “The work that we’re doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors up to 4,000 times purer in space than we can currently make here today,” says Josh Western, CEO of Space Forge. “This sort of...

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