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Uplift Promo Codes: $570 Off

Today at 07:00 AM, via Wired

Upgrade your home office with the best Uplift Desk discount codes. Save on standing desks, ergonomic chairs, and accessories during the Spring Setup Sale.

Story of dinosaur-killer meteorite impact told in vivid detail

Today at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Two scientists have described the bright fireball, crackling noise and sonic boom of the impact 66m years ago

What would it have been like to have lived through the meteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66m years ago? Writing in the Conversation, Michael Benton, of the University of Bristol, and Monica Grady, of the Open University, describe in vivid detail how it might have felt.

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Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien

Today at 01:19 AM, via Wired

The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.

Women’s faces rated more attractive even by other women, study finds

Today at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

‘Gender attractiveness gap’ appears across cultures and over centuries but difference fades away with age

Women’s faces are rated as more attractive than men’s, even by other women, but the perceived gap declines with age and all but vanishes by the time people reach their 80s, researchers have said.

The work appears to confirm the existence of a “gender attractiveness gap”, an observation...

Windows’ Classic 3D Space Cadet Pinball Is Getting a Physical Re-Creation

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

Hobbyist CNCDan is trying to build a real-world version of Windows’ classic 3D Pinball for Windows — Space Cadet, using 3D-printed flippers, bumpers, LEDs, slingshots, and a raised playfield modeled after the original virtual table. But in bringing the digital table into the real world, CNCDan has already run into several physical challenges the software never had to contend with… Ars Technica...

Climate crisis is accelerating antibiotic resistance across world, study says

Today at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

Experts say climate change linked to 10% rise in salmonella antibiotic resistance genes between 1940 and 2023

The climate crisis is accelerating a global increase in antibiotic resistance that poses a serious threat to human health, experts have said as figures show a rise in salmonella antibiotic resistant genes.

Antibiotic resistance is one of the fastest-growing threats to global health. It...

Mythos Detected 23,000 Vulnerabilities Across 1,000 OSS Projects

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Anthropic says its Claude Mythos model discovered thousands of severe vulnerabilities across more than 1,000 open source software (OSS) projects. According to the AI giant, Mythos Preview has identified more than 23,000 potential vulnerabilities. Of these, 1,900 have been reviewed by external security firms, and 1,726 have been confirmed, including...

Nasa selects Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions

Yesterday at 22:14 PM, via The Guardian

Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base

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Nasa announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a $20bn moon base, and said it had chosen Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to conduct...

Spain Blocks Polymarket and Kalshi

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

Spain has temporarily blocked Polymarket and Kalshi while it investigates whether the prediction-market platforms are violating gambling laws by operating without a license. Engadget reports: The country’s ministry in charge of consumer affairs said it blocked the websites as a precautionary measure pending an official investigation. This investigation will determine if the platforms violate...

Uber, Lyft Drivers In Massachusetts Form First US Ride-Share Union

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Ride-share drivers for app-based companies such as Uber and Lyft have unionized in Massachusetts, forming what state officials and labor leaders said was the first officially recognized organization in the U.S. to represent such gig workers. The newly formed App Drivers Union received certification from the Massachusetts Department of Labor...

BlockchainFX & Pepenode Have Fallen Flat But BlockDAG Turbo at $0.0005 Could be the Next Moonshot

Yesterday at 20:16 PM, via Tech Financials

The crypto presale landscape in 2026 keeps producing the same lesson, entry price and utility depth determine everything. BlockchainFX crypto presale is closing at $0.035, nearly at its $15M hard cap with days remaining. Pepenode crypto presale wrapped in January 2026 at $0.0012, raised $2.4 million, and offers modest projected multiples with no live ecosystem […]

Netherlands Blocks US Takeover of Vital Digital Supplier

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

“Following months of public debate and protests against American IT giant Kyndryl’s proposed acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider that hosts the Netherlands’ online identity platform, the Dutch government has decided to block the acquisition,” writes longtime Slashdot reader rastakid. “The deal triggered fears that it would mean that ‘DigiD’ data would fall under foreign control,...

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