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Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year': the Architects of AI
Trump Ban on Wind Energy Permits 'Unlawful', Court Rules
New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI-Generated Code
Is the R Programming Language Surging in Popularity?
System76 Launches First Stable Release of COSMIC Desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS
'Free Software Awards' Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory
Applets Are Officially Going, But Java In the Browser Is Better Than Ever
Startup Successfully Uses AI to Find New Geothermal Energy Reservoirs
Firefox Survey Finds Only 16% Feel In Control of Their Privacy Choices Online
The World's Electric Car Sales Have Spiked 21% So Far in 2025
How a 23-Year-Old in 1975 Built the World's First Handheld Digital Camera
More of America's Coal-Fired Power Plants Cease Operations
Rust in Linux's Kernel 'is No Longer Experimental'
Germany Covers Nearly 56 Percent of 2025 Electricity Use With Renewables
Chinese Whistleblower Living In US Is Being Hunted By Beijing With US Tech
 
SoylentNews:
Calibre Now Integrated With AI
Ultra-Thin Nanomembrane Device Forms Soft, Seamless Interface With Living Tissue
When It All Comes Crashing Down: The Aftermath of the AI Boom
A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Scientists Finally Uncover Why the World’s Most Common Heart Drug Causes Muscle Pain
Germany Might Have Just Saved Gas Engines From a European Ban
Space Shuttle Lessons: Backtracks Can Create Breakthroughs
USA Wants Your Social Media History If You Visit
Man Dies of Rabies After Kidney Transplant From Donor Who Saved Kitten From Skunk
ICEBlock App Sues Trump Administration for Censorship and 'Unlawful Threats'
Ubuntu to Offer AMD ROCm Packages for AI Processing
Porsche Panic in Russia as Pricey Status Symbols Forget How to Car
Pebble Index 01 Arrives as a Private Open Source Voice Capture Ring
Russia Says It Might Build its Own Linux Community After Removal of Several Kernel Maintainers
ER Doctors Are Sounding the Alarm on a Fast-Growing Cannabis Illness
AI Favors Texts Written by Other AIs, Even When They're Worse Than Human Ones
Proton Launches Encrypted Sheets as a Privacy-First Alternative to Google, Microsoft Excel
This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Chattanooga's Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits
Planned Satellite Constellations May Swamp Future Orbiting Telescopes
 
Hacker News:
AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2
Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away
Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras
Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments
Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux
Compiler Engineering in Practice
Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
Efficient Basic Coding for the ZX Spectrum
Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's
The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?
Cat Gap
I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
Baumol's Cost Disease
Show HN: Cargo-rail: graph-aware monorepo tooling for Rust; 11 deps
Lean theorem prover mathlib
An Implementation of J (1992)
 
SciTechDaily:
A Simple Pill Could Replace Injections for Treating Gonorrhea
Scientists Solve a Decade-Old Mystery Behind Cancer’s Most Violent DNA Chaos
Young Blood Shows Powerful Protective Effects Against Alzheimer’s
An Old Jeweler’s Trick Could Unlock the Next Generation of Nuclear Clocks
Quantum Computing Breakthrough Shrinks Key Device to 100x Smaller Than a Human Hair
CERN Scientists Solve Decades-Old Particle Physics Mystery
This Shape-Shifting Polymer Lantern Moves Like It’s Alive
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal a Shifting Dark Energy
New Findings Suggest Uranus and Neptune Are Not What They Seem
A Tiny Enzyme Flaw May Explain How Dementia Begins
Why Your Gut Microbes Could Be Controlling Your Sleep
New High-Resolution Imaging Reveals How the Flu Virus Invades Cells
Your Brain Has a Learning Shortcut AI Can’t Copy
Breakthrough Shows How Cells Detect Stress Before Damage Spreads
This 3.4 Million-Year-Old Foot Changes the Story of Human Origins
This Antibody Can Slip Into Kidney Cysts and Shut Them Down
Scientists Find the Protein That Lets Alcohol Wreck Your Liver
A Natural Molecule Shows Surprising Power Against Alzheimer’s
A Tiny Fossil From Australia Reveals a Giant Twist in Evolution’s Story
The Oldest Leech Ever Found Is Nothing Like Today’s Bloodsuckers
 
ScienceDaily:
The brain switch that could rewrite how we treat mental illness
Ozempic may offer a surprising bonus benefit for brain health
Kids’ anxiety and depression dropped fast after COVID school reopenings
New ghost marsupial related to the kangaroo found in Australia
A long-nosed chameleon hid its true identity for 150 years
New quantum antenna reveals a hidden terahertz world
Tea may strengthen bones in older women while heavy coffee weakens them
A clear new material could make windows super efficient
Webb finds a hidden atmosphere on a molten super-Earth
AI finds a surprising monkeypox weak spot that could rewrite vaccines
New discovery offers real hope for rare genetic disease
Ghost particles slip through Earth and spark a hidden atomic reaction
Scientists find dark chocolate ingredient that slows aging
New fossils in Qatar reveal a tiny sea cow hidden for 21 million years
Scientists find hidden rainfall pattern that could reshape farming
Scientists find a massive hidden CO2 sponge beneath the ocean floor
NAD+ supplement shows early promise for long COVID fatigue and brain fog
Daily multivitamins quietly lower blood pressure in some older adults
A nearby Earth-size planet just got much more mysterious
Nerve injuries can trigger hidden immune changes throughout the entire body
 
PhysOrg news:
Predictive framework for 2D materials puts low-cost, printable electronics on the horizon
Seven in ten women in public life report online violence; increase in offline harm experienced by women journalists
Exotic animal cafes: Cute trend or welfare crisis?
Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment
More loons are filling Maine's lakes with their ghostlike calls
Yuletide kissers, smooch without guilt: Research suggests your mistletoe didn't harm its tree host
Zero lasing modes are not always topological
England's synthetic phonics approach is not working for children who struggle to read
Freezing salty water reveals dynamic brine migration and evolving ice patterns
Misinformation is an inevitable biological reality across nature, researchers argue
California extends red abalone fishing ban for another 10 years
Saturday Citations: Nice people are happier; Uranus may not be icy; SIM farm reporting
Why SpaceX IPO plan is generating so much buzz
Old rules do not work for reindeer husbandry, argue experts
Florida leads nation in cuts to environmental protection jobs, report says
A partner's death can hit harder when finances are unstable
Comet 3I/ATLAS displays greenish hue in new Gemini North telescope images
German adults outperform international peers in complex problem-solving tasks, study finds
Unique bond identified as key to viral infection speed
DNA origami lattices on silicon open new possibilities for large-scale nanofabrication