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Country diary: The magic of knowing a meteorite fell here, of all places | Amy-Jane Beer

Tuesday at 07:30 AM, via The Guardian

Wold Newton, East Yorkshire: On a dreary day in a nondescript field, I visit the site where a 4.56 billion-year-old bit of space rock came to Earth

On a low rise, beyond a screen of trees, behind a small holiday park in the Yorkshire Wolds, a brick obelisk stands incongruously at the edge of an otherwise nondescript field. It bears a plaque inscribed as follows: “Here, on this spot, Decr....

The truth about fat, and its complex role in our health – podcast

Tuesday at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

For a long time fat was seen simply as an inert yellow substance wrapping around our bodies, but now that’s changing. Scientists are beginning to understand that our fat is actually intricate and dynamic, constantly in conversation with the rest of the body. It’s now even considered by some to be an organ in its own right. To find out more about the complex role fat plays in our health, Ian...

Lion Blue Pty Ltd Positions Clients at the Forefront of the Expanding Space Economy

Tuesday at 06:20 AM, via Tech Financials

Australia  — Lion Blue Pty Ltd, an Australian financial services firm specialising in private equity investments, is taking a bold step into one of the fastest-growing sectors in the global economy: commercial space exploration. As investor demand intensifies for exposure to next-generation aerospace ventures, the firm has secured a strategic position in a highly recognisable […]

US Farmers Are Rejecting Multimillion-Dollar Datacenter Bids For Their Land

Tuesday at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: When two men knocked on Ida Huddleston’s door last May, they carried a contract worth more than $33m in exchange for the Kentucky farm that had fed her family for centuries. According to Huddleston, the men’s client, an unnamed “Fortune 100 company,” sought her 650 acres (260 hectares) in Mason county for an unspecified industrial...

New Microsoft Gaming CEO Has ‘No Tolerance For Bad AI’

Tuesday at 04:02 AM, via Slashdot

In her first major interview as Microsoft’s new gaming chief, Asha Sharma said that “great games” must deliver emotional resonance and a distinct creative voice, while making clear that she has “no tolerance for bad AI.” Stepping in after Phil Spencer’s retirement, she’s pledging consistency, community trust, and a human-first approach to storytelling as Xbox enters a new era. Variety reports:...

Microsoft Says Bug In Classic Outlook Hides the Mouse Pointer

Tuesday at 03:25 AM, via Slashdot

joshuark quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft is investigating a known issue that causes the mouse pointer to disappear in the classic Outlook desktop email client for some users. This bug has been acknowledged almost two months after the first reports started surfacing online, with users saying that Outlook became unusable after the mouse pointer vanished while using the app. […]...

Drugs, denial and stigma: the babies and children swept up in Fiji’s HIV nightmare

Tuesday at 03:00 AM, via The Guardian

Vulnerable young people, partners of drug users and victims of sexual violence also among those afflicted in world’s fastest growing HIV epidemic

The night her baby’s heart stopped, Clare* blamed herself. Had she taken her out in the cold too much? Had she damaged her lungs by drinking iced water when she was pregnant? She fixated on Andi’s tiny chest, willing it to suck in air, rushing...

Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street’s Deep Anxiety About AI Future

Tuesday at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

A 7,000-word “doomsday” thought experiment from Citrini Research helped trigger an 800-point drop in the Dow, “painting a dark portrait of a future in which technological change inspires a race to the bottom in white-collar knowledge work,” reports the Wall Street Journal. From the report: Concerns of hyperscalers overspending are out. Worries of software-industry disruption don’t go far...

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Explores Stablecoin For Gaza

Tuesday at 02:02 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Officials working with Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” are exploring setting up a stablecoin for Gaza as part of efforts to reshape the devastated Palestinian enclave’s economy, according to five people familiar with the discussions. The talks around introducing a stablecoin — a type of cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to a...

OpenAI Calls In the Consultants For Its Enterprise Push

Tuesday at 01:20 AM, via Slashdot

OpenAI has formed a multi-year “Frontier Alliance” with four consulting heavyweights to accelerate enterprise adoption of its no-code AI agent platform, OpenAI Frontier. TechCrunch reports: The alliance includes multi-year partnerships between OpenAI and four major consulting firms, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey, Accenture and Capgemini, to sell its enterprise products. OpenAI’s...

Panasonic Will No Longer Make Its Own TVs

Tuesday at 00:40 AM, via Slashdot

Panasonic is handing over the manufacturing, marketing, and sales of its TVs to Shenzhen-based Skyworth, effectively exiting in-house TV production. Ars Technica reports: Skyworth is a Shenzhen-headquartered TV brand. The company claims to be “a top three global provider of the Android TV platform.” In July, research firm Omdia reported that Skyworth was one of the top-five TV brands by sales...

ASML Unveils EUV Light Source Advance That Could Yield 50% More Chips By 2030

Monday at 23:57 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Researchers at ASML Holding say they have found a way to boost the power of the light source in a key chip making machine to turn out up to 50% more chips by decade’s end, to help retain the Dutch company’s edge over emerging U.S. and Chinese rivals. ASML is the world’s only maker of commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines, a...

IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization

Monday at 23:10 PM, via Slashdot

IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an estimated 95% of ATM transactions in the United States and runs on the kind of mainframe systems IBM has sold for generations. Anthropic said...

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