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Starwatch: Watch the crescent moon pass Saturn as dusk gathers

Yesterday at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Earth’s satellite will be visible in conjunction with the ringed planet as twilight gives way to darkness

A slender crescent moon slides past Saturn this week, offering a rewarding conjunction. It will be the perfect way to start your evening, a little quiet contemplation of the night sky as the evening twilight gives way to full darkness.

The chart shows the view looking south-west from London...

Say goodbye to spam calls in South Africa

Yesterday at 07:59 AM, via MyBroadband

The Information Regulator says several unsolicited direct marketing matters have been escalated to its Enforcement Committee for consideration.

Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?

Yesterday at 07:45 AM, via Slashdot

This week Noema magazine published a 7,000-word exploration of our modern “Mythology Of Conscious AI” written by a neuroscience professor who directs the University of Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science:The very idea of conscious AI rests on the assumption that consciousness is a matter of computation. More specifically, that implementing the right kind of computation, or information...

IPO Genie ($IPO) vs. Digitap ($TAP): Crypto Presale Report January 2026 

Yesterday at 07:04 AM, via Tech Financials

The 2026 crypto presale season is heating up, and investors are on the lookout for early-stage tokens that can outperform a choppy market. While Bitcoin and top altcoins like ETH, SOL, and XRP struggle to hold momentum, attention is shifting fast toward low-cap opportunities with clearer upside. As volatility squeezes large caps, crypto presales are […]

EHT Astronomers Will Film Swirling of a Supermassive Black Hole for the First Time

Yesterday at 05:05 AM, via Slashdot

“Astronomers are preparing to capture a movie of a supermassive black hole in action for the first time,” reports the Guardian:The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will track the colossal black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy throughout March and April with the aim of capturing footage of the swirling disc that traces out the edge of the event horizon, the point beyond which no light or...

15 years after Fukushima, Japan prepares to restart the world’s biggest nuclear plant

Yesterday at 03:46 AM, via The Guardian

A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster, residents’ fears about tsunamis, earthquakes and evacuation plans remain

The activity around the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is reaching its peak: workers remove earth to expand the width of a main road, while lorries arrive at its heavily guarded entrance. A long perimeter...

Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe Last Year than Pure Gas-Powered Models

Yesterday at 03:04 AM, via Slashdot

Porsche made an announcement Friday. In Europe they sold more electrified Porsches last year than pure combustion-engined models, reports Electrek:in Europe, a majority (57.9%) of Porsche’s deliveries were plug-ins, with 1/3 of its European sales being fully electric. For models that have no fully electric version but do have a PHEV (Cayenne and Panamera), the plug-in hybrid version dominated...

Young US College Graduates Suddenly Aren’t Finding Jobs Faster Than Non-College Graduates

Yesterday at 02:04 AM, via Slashdot

U.S. college graduates “have historically found jobs more quickly than people with only a high school degree,” writes Bloomberg. “But that advantage is becoming a thing of the past, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.””Recently, the job-finding rate for young college-educated workers has declined to be roughly in line with the rate for young...

SpaceX Launches New NASA Telescope to Help JWST Study Exoplanets

Yesterday at 00:29 AM, via Slashdot

Last week a University of Arizona astronomy professor “watched anxiously…as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.” In 2018 NASA had approached Daniel Apai to help build the telescope, which he says will “shatter a barrier — to understand and remove a source of noise in the data — that limits our ability to study small exoplanets...

Hundreds Answer Europe’s ‘Public Call for Evidence’ on an Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy

Sunday at 22:57 PM, via Slashdot

The European Commission “has opened a public call for evidence on European open digital ecosystems,” writes Help Net Security, part of preparations for an upcoming Communication “that will examine the role of open source in EU’s digital infrastructure.”The consultation runs from January 6 to February 3, 2026. Submissions will be used to shape a Commission Communication addressed to the European...

Microsoft Forced to Issue Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Update

Sunday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

The senior editor at the blog Windows Central decries two serious Windows issues “that were not spotted by Microsoft during testing, and are so severe that the company has now issued an emergency fix to address the problems.”Microsoft’s first update for Windows 11 in 2026 has already caused two major issues that saw users unable to fully shutdown their PCs or sign-in into a device when using...

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