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How Did the CIA Lose a Nuclear Device?

Monday at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

Sixty years after a team of American and Indian climbers abandoned a plutonium-powered generator on the slopes of Nanda Devi, one of the world’s most forbidding Himalayan peaks, the U.S. government still refuses to acknowledge that the mission ever happened. The device, a SNAP-19C portable generator containing plutonium isotopes including Pu-239 — the same material used in the Nagasaki bomb —...

Electricity Is Now Holding Back Growth Across the Global Economy

Monday at 17:21 PM, via Slashdot

Grid constraints that were once a hallmark of developing economies are now plaguing the world’s richest nations, and new research from Bloomberg Economics finds that rising electricity system stress is directly hurting investment. The analysis examined all G20 countries and found that a one-standard-deviation increase in grid stress relative to a country’s historical average lowers the...

LG’s Software Update Forces Microsoft Copilot Onto Smart TVs

Monday at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

LG smart TV owners discovered over the weekend that a recent webOS software update had quietly installed Microsoft Copilot on their devices, and the app cannot be uninstalled. Affected users report the feature appears automatically after installing the latest webOS update on certain models, sitting alongside streaming apps like Netflix and YouTube. LG’s support documentation confirms that...

What Is Forex and How Does the Market Work?

Monday at 16:37 PM, via Tech Financials

We often hear that money makes the world go round. While the stock market gets all the glory, there is a much quieter, yet significantly larger giant operating in the shadows. This is the Foreign Exchange, or FX, market. It is the place where national economies are constantly weighed against each other. It goes far […]

Security Researcher Found Critical Kindle Vulnerabilities That Allowed Hijacking Amazon Accounts

Monday at 16:01 PM, via Slashdot

The Black Hat Europe hacker conference in London included a session titled “Don’t Judge an Audiobook by Its Cover” about a two critical (and now fixed) flaws in Amazon’s Kindle. The Times reports both flaws were discovered by engineering analyst Valentino Ricotta (from the cybersecurity research division of Thales), who was awarded a “bug bounty” of $20,000 (£15,000 ).He said: “What especially...

Don’t call it a ‘super flu’ – but the NHS is right to be worried this winter | Devi Sridhar

Monday at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

An early flu season, a new variant and poor takeup of vaccines leave the already vulnerable health service in a dangerous position

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

You might be feeling stressed out seeing the headlines about “super flu” and comparing the current winter health challenges with 2020 and Covid. Amid all the noise, it’s...

Tell us: have you ever had an allergic reaction caused by your clothes?

Monday at 13:41 PM, via The Guardian

Synthetic fabrics, particularly from fast fashion retailers, can be treated with a range of hazardous chemicals which can cause an allergic reaction. If you think this is happened to you, we’d like to hear from you

Have you suffered any personal health repercussions you suspect may have been caused by your fashion purchases?

Research has shown that synthetic fabrics, particularly from fast...

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