Slashdot:
US Agencies Back Banning Top-Selling Home Routers on Security Grounds
Mother Describes the Dark Side of Apple's Family Sharing
Alphabet Tops $100 Billion Quarterly Revenue For First Time
Alien Worlds May Be Able To Make Their Own Water
Ex-Intel CEO's Mission To Build a Christian AI
New China Law Fines Influencers If They Discuss 'Serious' Topics Without a Degree
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 Becomes First Enterprise Linux With Built-In Agentic AI
US Startup Substrate Announces Chipmaking Tool That It Says Will Rival ASML
Nvidia Takes $1 Billion Stake In Nokia
Grammarly Rebrands To 'Superhuman,' Launches a New AI Assistant
Character.AI To Bar Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots
FCC's Gomez Slams Move To Revise Broadband Labels as 'Anti-Consumer'
Windows is the Problem With Windows Handhelds
US Needs 'Finesse' to Stay Ahead of China, Nvidia Boss Says
Google Chrome Will Finally Default To Secure HTTPS Connections Starting in April
 
SoylentNews:
Trial of Journal Flagging - Analysis and Actions
Westinghouse is Claiming a Nuclear Deal Would See $80B of New Reactors
Senators Move to Keep Big Tech's Creepy Companion Bots Away From Kids
Windows 11 Adds Dark Mode Dialogs for Run and Folder Options
25 years [...]: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station
ASML Launches Revolutionary Lithography Scanner for Advanced 3D Chip Packaging
An Autonomous Car for Consumers? Lucid Says It's Happening.
Australia Denies Exception for AI Data Hoovering in Copyright Review
OpenAI Aims for Deep MacOS Integration With Acquisition of Software Applications Incorporated
Nvidia's US Chip Production Remains Constrained by Packaging
China's Salt Typhoon Exploited SharePoint to Hit Govts
Similarities Between How Humans and LLMs Represent Language
Trump Eyes Government Control of Quantum Computing Firms With Intel-Like Deals
ESA Astronauts Take to Helicopters for Moon Landing Training
Google Has a Useful Quantum Algorithm That Outperforms a Supercomputer
The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards
The Glaring Security Risks With AI Browser Agents
December Microsoft Teams Update to Automatically Report User Location
Alibaba Cloud Says It Cut Nvidia AI GPU Use by 82% With New Pooling System
Beginner’s Guide to Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering
 
Hacker News:
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Estimating the Perceived 'Claustrophobia' of New York City's Streets (2024)
Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest
Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles
NaN, the not-a-number number that isn't NaN
The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology
Language models are injective and hence invertible
Typst's Math Mode Problem
Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid Easy
Tell HN: Azure outage
Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops
Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
3D solar tower increases capacity factor 50%, triples solar surface area
How ancient people saw themselves
US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet
Hello-World iOS App in Assembly
Dithering – Part 1
Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
 
SciTechDaily:
Missing Brain Molecule May Hold the Secret to Improving Cognition in Down Syndrome
Meditation Has Potentially Dangerous Side Effects. Here’s What Scientists Say You Should Know
Scientists “Completely Eliminate” Leukemia in Preclinical Model
The Sun’s Fiery Secret Waves Discovered After 80 Years of Searching
How AI Saved NASA’s $10 Billion Webb Telescope From Blurry Vision
Researchers Discover Lost 3,000-Year-Old Babylonian Hymn
Scientists Discover Ocean Bacteria That Feast on Plastic
This Wonder Material Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy
“Natural Experiment” Reveals Lifelong Cardiac Benefits of Early Sugar Limits
Groundbreaking New Compound Could Treat the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease
“Mystery Molecules” Found in Dogs Could Help Humans Live Longer, Healthier Lives
Jupiter’s Gravity May Explain a 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Mystery
Scientists Unlock Secrets of the Building Blocks of the Universe
What If Einstein Was Only Half Right? NASA’s New Test for Dark Energy
Scientists Solve Decades-Old Puzzle of Electron Emission
This Chip Computes With Light, Breaking the 10 GHz Barrier for AI
“Dead” Idea From the 1800s Could Finally Reveal Why the Universe Exists
Why “Walking with Purpose” Could Be the Secret to Better Health
Ancient Pill Matches Modern Antidepressant in Depression Trial
Researchers Solve 25-Year Crohn’s Disease Mystery
 
ScienceDaily:
Your pumpkin might be hiding a toxic secret
It sounds creepy, but these scientific breakthroughs could save lives
Scientists turn common semiconductor into a superconductor
Electricity reprograms immune cells to speed up recovery
Scientists discover a way simulate the Universe on a laptop
Scientists discover a stunning new golden-tongued lizard in China
“Immortal” flatworm rewrites the science of healing
Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice with groundbreaking nanotech
Humans evolved faster than any other ape
Webb reveals the Universe’s first galaxies were a chaotic mess
Gum disease may quietly damage the brain, scientists warn
Hidden clues in ghostly particles could explain why we exist
Twin black hole collisions put Einstein’s general relativity to its most extreme test
New quantum network could finally reveal dark matter
Earth has hit its first climate tipping point, scientists warn
Scientists just found a way to grow diamonds without heat or pressure
Omega-3 benefits may vanish quickly after you stop
Your IQ may determine how well you hear in a crowd
Physicists capture trillion degree heat from the Big Bang’s primordial plasma
Online brain training reverses 10 years of aging in memory and learning
 
PhysOrg news:
How has talking about politics changed in the last quarter-century?
Why so many children in the youth justice system have special educational needs
In 2024, the climate crisis worsened in all ways. But we can still limit warming with bold action
A new dimension for spin qubits in diamond
Ancient ochre crayons from Crimea reveal Neanderthals engaged in symbolic behaviors
Expert explains how nuclear-powered missiles work—and what Russia's claimed test means for global strategic stability
When collapse wasn't inevitable: How some societies turned crisis into renewal
Mapping the missing green: An AI framework boosts urban greening in Tokyo
Spectral shaper sculpts 10,000 laser comb lines for exoplanet detection and beyond
Isoscapes show how rivers, floods, and snowmelt recharge groundwater
Research confirms Meissner effect in high-pressure nickelate superconductor
Why Weakly Interacting Massive Particles became the toughest particles in physics
Africa acacias 'go for broke' to grow and use up water to survive drought
What will it take to stop Antarctic ice shelves from collapsing?
Synthetic biology to supercharge photosynthesis in crops
Nova Scorpii 2023 shows months-long X-ray variability after stellar outburst
Tricky treats: Why pumpkins accumulate pollutants
Extra iron helps stressed out wheat grow up big and strong
Three wolf pups sought in California's Sierra Valley after parents euthanized
Plan to kill 450,000 owls creates odd political bedfellows—loggers and environmentalists