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Global Heating Will Hit At Least 1.8C, UN Warns, and There Are 'No Good Outcomes'
Slashdot - 3 Sep 2026 03:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns ever...
Microsoft, Famous for Culty Jargon, Is Naming Half Its Organization Agents and Infra
Gizmodo - 3 Sep 2026 01:38
The other half will be called Devices and Consumer.
Can we really reverse global warming after overshooting 1.5C?
New Scientist - 2 Sep 2026 04:00
A UN report says its possible to get global temperatures back down to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, but many researchers regard this scenario as highly unlikely
Map Apps Are Handling Trumps Renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America Differently
The New York Times - 2 Sep 2026 00:40
Navigation companies face a new dilemma after President Trump ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed Lake America.
Watch 2 astronauts take 6th-ever all-female spacewalk today
SPACE.com - 1 Sep 2026 04:05
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and France's Sophie Adenot will conduct the sixth all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Sept. 1), and you can watch it live.
Apple shares shocking evidence against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI
TechCrunch - 1 Sep 2026 00:13
Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.
Healthcare cyberattacks hit pacemakers and millions of patient records
The Register - 1 Sep 2026 00:10Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese radar satellite to orbit early Aug. 31
SPACE.com - 31 Aug 2026 04:05
Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit early Monday morning (Aug. 31), and you can watch the action live.
The $5.5 Billion Perk SoftBanks Data-Center Venture Offered to Land OpenAI
Wall Street Journal - 31 Aug 2026 03:55SpaceX and Rivals Dodge Traffic as Satellites, Debris Crowd Low-Earth Orbit
Wall Street Journal - 30 Aug 2026 00:00Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage?
Slashdot - 29 Aug 2026 03:30
alternative_right shares a report from Axios: Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night. The X Safet...
Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City's State Network
The Hacker News - 29 Aug 2026 03:00
Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' d...
NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for August 29, 2026
Mashable - 29 Aug 2026 02:00
Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle.
Judge rules that the Pentagon's Anthropic ban was 'illegal and baseless'
Engadget - 28 Aug 2026 04:43
'The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics.'
Astronaut Microbes Might Survive at Moon's Pole, NASA Warns
Universe Today - 28 Aug 2026 01:51
One of the primary objectives of space exploration that often gets overlooked is the intense effort that goes into ensuring Earth microbes dont contaminate planetary objects, also called forward contamination. This is do...
Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom
Wall Street Journal - 28 Aug 2026 01:16'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda
The Register - 3 Sep 2026 14:00Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
TechCrunch - 3 Sep 2026 12:42
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
Perplexity Will Open Source Its Faster Lily AI Engine For Apple Silicon
Slashdot - 3 Sep 2026 11:00
BrianFagioli writes: Perplexity has built a local artificial intelligence engine designed specifically for Apple silicon and the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model. Called Lily, the engine uses a Rust runtime and custom Metal kernels...
CISA Adds Seven Exploited Flaws as Attackers Deploy Reverse Shells and Crypto Miners
The Hacker News - 3 Sep 2026 10:49
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after they landed in attackers' crosshairs. The vulnerabil...