Orbiting Intelsat 33e Fragments, Knocking Out Communications Links
The operator declared the Boeing-built spacecraft lost as military trackers catalogued about 20 pieces and customers faced disruptions across multiple continents.
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French museum 3D scans dispute reaches new pressure point as public access battle intensifies
A campaign over access to digitised cultural heritage has escalated in France, with campaigners alleging public institutions are withholding 3D scans of public-domain works from the people who funded them.
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Brain research is sharpening the case that language and thought are separate systems
New interviews and research summaries are strengthening a long-running argument in cognitive science: the brain can carry out many forms of thinking without words.
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FTC adopts click-to-cancel rule for recurring subscriptions
The US regulator’s final rule set common disclosure, consent and cancellation requirements for most negative-option programs, with most provisions due to take effect after publication.
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BUSY Bar turns focus time into a physical status display
The device combines a bright LED sign, timers, automation triggers and smart-home integrations to show when you are busy, on a call or deep in work.
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NASA launches Europa Clipper on mission to Jupiter's icy moon
The spacecraft began a 1.8-billion-mile journey to assess whether Europa has conditions capable of supporting life.
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SpaceX catches Starship booster at launch tower in fifth test flight
The October 13, 2024 mission returned the Super Heavy booster directly to its Texas launch tower while the Starship spacecraft completed a planned Indian Ocean splashdown.
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Teen bug hunter says a Zendesk spoofing flaw exposed support tickets
In a detailed write-up, Daniel says a simple email spoofing weakness in Zendesk could let an attacker join ticket conversations and read their full history.
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GIMPS confirms largest known prime with more than 41 million digits
Luke Durant found the 52nd known Mersenne prime using cloud-based graphics processors, ending a six-year gap since the previous discovery.
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Chrome’s Manifest V2 purge reaches stable users as extension migration deadline tightens
Google has started disabling installed Chrome extensions that still rely on Manifest V2, marking a major step in the browser’s move to Manifest V3.
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University of Granada DNA work says Columbus’s remains are in Seville Cathedral
A Spanish forensic team says new genetic analysis reinforces the conclusion that the bones in Seville Cathedral belong to Christopher Columbus, though questions remain about whether some remains may also be in the Dominican Republic.
Read report »Community wiki teams are quietly carving out alternatives to Fandom’s dominance
A new hosting move for the League of Legends Wiki is being framed as part of a broader effort to give communities more control over their own knowledge bases.
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Internet Archive Confirms Breach as DDoS Attack Disrupts Core Services
The Internet Archive said a defacement and a separate data breach hit the site as ongoing DDoS attacks pushed services offline.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 Honors Computational Protein Breakthroughs
The Nobel Committee has recognized three scientists for their revolutionary work in protein design and structure prediction, opening new frontiers in medicine and biotechnology.
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Hopfield and Hinton receive 2024 physics Nobel for neural-network research
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honoured foundational methods that enabled machine learning with artificial neural networks.
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Nobel medicine prize goes to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for microRNA discovery
The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine went to the two US biologists for work on microRNA, a molecule the Nobel committee said helps govern how cells function.
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SpaceX launches ESA's Hera asteroid-investigation mission
The spacecraft began its journey to Didymos and Dimorphos, where it will examine the effects of NASA's deliberate DART impact and refine planetary-defence models.
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John Carmack Reopens an Old Argument for Inline Code as a Reliability Tool
A resurfaced essay from John Carmack frames code inlining not as a speed trick but as a way to expose state changes, control flow, and hidden complexity.
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SpaceX Launch Schedules Face Weather and Regulatory Hurdles
SpaceX faces a complex operational landscape as Hurricane Milton nears Florida and the FAA continues its investigation into Falcon 9 safety protocols.
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Jazz Pitches a Local-First Database That Treats Sync as the Default
Jazz is presenting itself as a relational database that stretches from frontend to backend and cloud while hiding much of the usual networking and collaboration plumbing.
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Cloudflare Says Patent Fight With Sable Ended in a Public-Domain Patent Surrender
Cloudflare says its long-running litigation with Sable has ended with payment to Cloudflare and a dedication of Sable’s patents to the public.
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Practical Engineering Pushes Back on the Simplistic Idea That the World Is Just Running Out of Sand
A new explainer argues that the sand problem is real but often misstated, with geography, mining impacts, and manufactured alternatives mattering more than headline scarcity alone.
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Goodhart’s law gets a software-age update in a warning about over-optimising systems
A research note on overfitting argues that making a system too efficient can make it worse at the thing it is supposed to do.
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A long-simmering backlash against AI is now part of everyday software work
A developer blog says the AI boom has become impossible to ignore, and not everyone is thrilled about that.
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