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A chance to spot rare and mysterious noctilucent clouds

Monday at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

At this time of year in the northern hemisphere, just after the sun sets, these mysterious clouds can appear in the west

It’s time to watch for the beautiful cloud formations known as noctilucent clouds. Latin for “night shining”, noctilucent clouds are seasonal and become visible in the northern hemisphere from late spring/early summer.

Although unpredictable, when they do appear they will be...

New Moderate Linux Flaw Allows Password Hash Theft Via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora

Monday at 06:34 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hacker News:Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to...

‘Doctor Who’ Regenerates in Surprise Season Finale. But Will the Show Return?

Monday at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

“The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor!” writes Space.com. (Spoilers ahead…)”The era of Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor came to a surprise end on Saturday night, as the Time Lord regenerated at the end of “Doctor Who” season 2 finale… [T]he Doctor gradually realises that not everything is back to normal. Poppy, his daughter with Belinda Chandra in the “Wish World” fantasy, has been erased...

Six More Humans Successfully Carried to the Edge of Space by Blue Origin

Monday at 00:38 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Space.com:Three world travelers, two Space Camp alums and an aerospace executive whose last name aptly matched their shared adventure traveled into space and back Saturday, becoming the latest six people to fly with Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos. Mark Rocket joined Jaime Alemán, Jesse Williams, Paul Jeris,...

Amid Turmoil, Stack Overflow Asks About AI, Salary, Remote Work in 15th Annual Developer Survey

Monday at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

Stack Overflow remains in the midst of big changes to counter an AI-fueled drop in engagement. So “We’re wondering what kind of online communities Stack Overflow users continue to support in the age of AI,” writes their senior analyst, “and whether AI is becoming a closer companion than ever before.” For their 15th year of their annual reader survey, this means “we’re not just collecting data;...

UK is no better prepared: key takeaways from Covid inquiry’s test, trace and isolation module

01 June at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

While a test was quickly developed, weaknesses in the early pandemic response included no plan for nationwide testing and ineffective contact tracing

The Covid inquiry has spent the past three weeks on the UK’s attempts to control the pandemic through test, trace and isolation. Here we look at the key findings from the module and experts’ recommendations for future pandemic preparedness.

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We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?

01 June at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

AI may soon be able decode whalespeak, among other forms of communication – but what nature has to say may not be a surprise

Charles Darwin suggested that humans learned to speak by mimicking birdsong: our ancestors’ first words may have been a kind of interspecies exchange. Perhaps it won’t be long before we join the conversation once again.

The race to translate what animals are saying is...

Exercise ‘better than drugs’ to stop cancer returning after treatment, trial finds

01 June at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

First clear evidence that structured exercise regime reduces risk of dying by a third, can stop tumours coming back or a new cancer developing

‘Now I do weight training’: how exercise helped one patient stay free of cancer

Exercise can reduce the risk of cancer patients dying by a third, stop tumours coming back and is even more effective than drugs, according to the results of a landmark trial...

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