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Bitcoin Traders Seek Deeper Perp Liquidity As On-Chain Volumes Hit New Highs

Sunday at 15:19 PM, via Tech Financials

After two years of complete dominance, it finally seems like the crypto industry is ready to move on from meme coins and the meme coin meta. Whether or not this divorce is voluntary is a different matter entirely, of course. From all indications, the split is merely down to economic reasons following the events of […]

Brookhaven Lab Shuts Down Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

Sunday at 14:34 PM, via Slashdot

2001: “Brookhaven Labs has produced for the first time collisions of gold nuclei at a center of mass energy of 200GeV/nucleon.” 2002: “There may be a new type of matter according to researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory.” 2010: The hottest man-made temperatures ever achived were a record 4 trillion degree plasma experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York… anointed the...

Have We Been Thinking About Exercise Wrong for Half a Century?

Sunday at 10:34 AM, via Slashdot

“After a half-century asking us to exercise more, doctors and physiologists say we have been thinking about it wrong,” writes Washington Post columnist Michael J. Coren. “U.S. and World Health Organization guidelines no longer specify a minimum duration of moderate or vigorous aerobic activity.”Movement-tracking studies show even tiny, regular bursts of effort — as short as 30 seconds — can...

The Rise of Virtual Items: How Digital Assets Became Valuable

Sunday at 07:44 AM, via Tech Financials

Virtual items existed as temporary extra features which developers created to provide visual effects for characters and to deliver short-term entertainment. Presently these items serve as the main component of a digital economy that keeps expanding. Players from different genres and platforms devote their resources and emotions to digital items which only exist in virtual […]

Are Big Tech’s Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors?

Sunday at 06:35 AM, via Slashdot

Fortune reports on “a watershed moment” in American’s nuclear power industry:In January, Meta partnered with Gates’ TerraPower and Sam Altman-backed Oklo to develop about 4 gigawatts of combined SMR projects — enough to power almost 3 million homes — for “clean, reliable energy” both for Meta’s planned Prometheus AI mega campus in Ohio and beyond. Analysts see Meta as the start of more Big...

A New Era for Security? Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 Found 500 High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Sunday at 04:34 AM, via Slashdot

Axios reports:Anthropic’s latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The advancement signals an inflection point for how AI tools can help cyber defenders, even as AI is also making attacks more dangerous… Anthropic debuted Claude Opus 4.6, the...

The World’s First Sodium-Ion Battery in Commercial EVs – Great at Low Temperatures

Sunday at 03:17 AM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis shared this report from InsideEVs:Chinese battery giant CATL and automaker Changan Automobile are preparing to put the world’s first passenger car powered by sodium-ion batteries on public roads by mid-2026. And if the launch is successful, it could usher in an era where electric vehicles present less of a fire risk and can better handle extreme...

Is the ‘Death of Reading’ Narrative Wrong?

Sunday at 01:12 AM, via Slashdot

Has the rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies really shattered our attention spans and driven books out of our culture? Maybe not, argues social psychologist Adam Mastroianni (author of the Substack Experimental History):As a psychologist, I used to study claims like these for a living, so I know that the mind is primed to believe narratives of decline. We have a much lower standard of...

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