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Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found

10 February at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: In 1966, a beach-ball-size robot bounced across the moon. Once it rolled to a stop, its four petal-like covers opened, exposing a camera that sent back the first picture taken on the surface of another world. This was Luna 9, the Soviet lander that was the earliest spacecraft to safely touchdown on the moon. While it paved the way toward interplanetary...

Google’s Personal Data Removal Tool Now Covers Government IDs

10 February at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

Google on Tuesday expanded its “Results about you” tool to let users request the removal of Search results containing government-issued ID numbers — including driver’s licenses, passports and Social Security numbers — adding to the tool’s existing ability to flag results that surface phone numbers, email addresses, and home addresses. The update, announced on Safer Internet Day, is rolling out...

The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline

10 February at 21:01 PM, via Slashdot

The U.S., whose population the Census Bureau did not expect to start shrinking until 2081, may record its first-ever decline as early as this year because of the Trump administration’s accelerating immigration crackdown. Census data released in late January showed US population growth slowed to just 0.5% in the year prior to July 2025 — the lowest rate since the pandemic — as net migration fell...

Microsoft Begins the First-Ever Secure Boot Certificate Swap Across Windows Ecosystem

10 February at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft has begun automatically replacing the original Secure Boot security certificates on Windows devices through regular monthly updates, a necessary move given that the 15-year-old certificates first issued in 2011 are set to expire between late June and October 2026. Secure Boot, which verifies that only trusted and digitally signed software runs before Windows loads, became a hardware...

ZKP Presale Steals Attention With 9,000% Talk as Bitcoin Cash and HYPE Stall

10 February at 19:42 PM, via Tech Financials

Global equity markets are under pressure, setting off broad liquidations that have pushed the crypto market to hover near the $2 trillion mark. As a result, older assets are struggling to move higher. The Bitcoin Cash price remains stuck below $850, while the Hyperliquid price has dropped around 10% from recent peaks. This slowdown in […]

A Bitcoin Blunder for the Ages: $40 Billion Accidentally Given Away

10 February at 19:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: The hundreds of prize payouts were mostly just a few bucks each, part of a promotional campaign by a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange. The total reward pot: 620,000 Korean won, or about $425. Then came a colossal mistake. A staffer for Bithumb, South Korea’s No. 2 crypto exchange, didn’t distribute 620,000 Korean won. Rather, the prizes, due to an input...

Sentech is in dire straits

10 February at 18:46 PM, via TechCentral

National treasury has stepped in to rescue state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech.

A.I. Personalizes the Internet but Takes Away Control

10 February at 18:45 PM, via New York Times

The relentless addition of artificial intelligence in popular apps raises questions about what’s at stake. The answer: the future of the internet and its lifeblood, digital advertising.

Fibre cancellations and downgrade penalties in South Africa

10 February at 17:00 PM, via MyBroadband

South Africa’s top fibre network operators (FNOs) have widely differing policies for cancellations and downgrades, with some not charging a cent while others claw back well over R2,000 in certain cases.

The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going To Capital, Not Labor

10 February at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

The American economy’s most valuable companies are now worth trillions of dollars more than their predecessors were a generation ago, yet they employ a fraction of the workers — and a new analysis by the Wall Street Journal argues that this widening gap between capital and labor is the defining economic story of our time. Labor received 58% of gross domestic income in 1980; by the third quarter...

NYC Private School Tuition Breaks $70,000 Milestone for Fall

10 February at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

The top private schools in New York City plan to charge more than $70,000 this year for tuition, an amount exceeding that of many elite colleges, as they pass on the costs of soaring expenses including teacher salaries. From a report: Spence School, Dalton School and Nightingale-Bamford School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side are among at least seven schools where the fees now exceed that...

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