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Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landed

Patches of the moon are destined to become spacecraft graveyards where dead lunar satellites and other defunct hardware can be crashed into the ground, far away from sites of cultural and scientific importance, researchers say.

The number of satellites circling the moon is set to soar in the...

Spotify Says ‘Anti-Copyright Extremists’ Scraped Its Library

Today at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

A group of activists has scraped Spotify’s entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna’s Archive, a search engine for “shadow libraries” that previously focused on books. Spotify described the activists as “anti-copyright extremists who’ve previously pirated content from YouTube...

Is Xbox Betting on Cross-Platform Gaming?

Today at 14:34 PM, via Slashdot

A “slew of layoffs, price hikes and studio closures” for Microsoft’s Xbox “have led many to declare — not for the first time — that the Xbox is dead,” reports CNBC. Or is it just changing its business model?The company’s overall gaming revenue decreased 2% year-over-year, with a 29% dip in Xbox hardware sales, according to Microsoft’s first-quarter earnings for fiscal 2026. The broader...

Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate

Today at 14:05 PM, via The Guardian

Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions

Yangang Xing had never heard of organ-tuning books, but his colleague Andrew Knight often played the pipe organ at churches as a teenager.

When the pair, who are researchers at Nottingham Trent University, set out to study how environmental conditions in churches had changed over time, Knight...

Five big global health wins in 2025 that will save millions of lives

Today at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

From HIV to TB, scientists and doctors made breakthroughs in treatment and prevention of some of the world’s deadliest diseases

With humanitarian funding slashed by the US and other countries, including the UK, this year’s global health headlines have made grim reading. But good things have still been happening in vaccine research and the development of new and improved treatments for some of...

Say goodbye to the SA Post Office as you know it

Today at 13:05 PM, via MyBroadband

The South African Post Office’s bid to have private couriers fined for delivering small parcels — and keeping the proceeds for itself — has been dealt a death blow.

Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry

The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin would no doubt have understood and even appreciated the latest attack by the Trump administration on climate researchers and their work.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, is to be dismantled after more than 50...

Politics Is Fandom; Fascism Is Fanfic

Today at 13:00 PM, via Wired

From Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to the US government’s Halo memes, fandom has become the defining language of US politics.

How Elon Musk Won His No Good, Very Bad Year

Today at 13:00 PM, via Wired

The billionaire’s involvement with the Trump administration and DOGE had deep impacts on Tesla’s bottom line. But Elon Musk was still able to turn his attention to SpaceX.

Apple Developer’s Account Restored After Compromised Gift Card Incident

Today at 12:34 PM, via Slashdot

“It’s all fixed,” says that Apple developer who was locked out of his Apple Account after redeeming a compromised Apple Gift Card.”A lovely man from Singapore, working for Apple Executive Relations, who has been calling me every so often for a couple of days, has let me know it’s all fixed. It looks like the gift card I tried to redeem, which did not work for me, and did not credit my account,...

She Fell in Love With ChatGPT. Then She Ghosted It.

Today at 12:00 PM, via New York Times

The 29-year-old woman who created the “MyBoyfriendIsAI” community on Reddit isn’t dating (or sexting) her A.I. boyfriend anymore. She found something more fulfilling.

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