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Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram.

Meta faces pressure to protect No Kings Instagram on election day.

Ars Technica · EN

UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?

UEFI bootkit BlackX exploits Microsoft's lack of clarity around Secure Boot protections.

Ars Technica · EN

This space company is betting its future on a propellant available everywhere

Is that water in your spacecraft, or are you just happy to see the delta-V?

Ars Technica · EN

Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes

Google has cut ties with the company behind the botnet campaign.

Ars Technica · EN

Another child dies of measles as CDC reportedly holds up health alert

NY gov. pointed to Kennedy's long-standing anti-vaccine work as spurring outbreaks.

Ars Technica · EN

Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too

Google will offer schools AI tools that purportedly don't give away the answers.

Ars Technica · EN

Buttons are back and storage is king when it comes to car interiors

We talk with Nissan designer Hiren Patel about how vehicle interior designs are changing.

Ars Technica · EN

NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms

Lawsuit calls Brave "supplier, dealer, and distributor" of stolen news content.

Ars Technica · EN

ToothPaste Goes Where Your Password Manager Doesn’t

One of the easiest ways of improving security and privacy when using the Internet, and computers in general, is to use strong passwords unique to each site or service. A …read more

Hackaday · EN

2026 Hackaday Supercon: Bruce Potter’s Keynote Explores the Hacker Mind

What is hacking? Many, especially in the mainstream, view it through the lens of computer security. Others consider it synonymous with making or creating. Even for those of us immersed …read more

Hackaday · EN

Detecting an Eight Magnetic Pole State using Chiral Phonons

The idea that magnetism doesn’t necessarily always have a dipolar configuration is not a new one, but it’s not an easy theory to find evidence for. Most recently a team …read more

Hackaday · EN

Bill Maher on “Halloween safetyism”

Although Halloween is over, Maher is kvetching on Real Time about “safetyism” rules, including curfews that end trick-or-treating at 7 pm or even 5 pm! But then he reminisces about Halloween when he was a kid and the joys of running around on your own. Now, of course, kids rarely go trick-or-treating unaccompanied by parents, even … Continue reading Bill Maher on “Halloween safetyism”

Why Evolution Is True · EN

Action needed to tackle 'biodiversity crisis'

The issue is part of wider concerns the government is not focused enough on the environment.

BBC Science · EN

MOS: Selected Works / The Art of Zootopia

Issue No. 142

Cool Tools · EN

Nasa telescope launched in 2004 to plunge back to Earth after failed rescue mission

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday, burning up in the process Nasa’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has spent two decades studying the most powerful explosions in the cosmos, is expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, burning up in the process. The satellite, which was designed to operate with its three telescopes for just two years, is no longer able to steer or observe, and its re-entry is uncontrolled. Continue reading...

Guardian Science · EN

House Republicans Accuse Top Psychology Group of Antisemitism

A monthslong G.O.P. effort culminated in a scathing report about emails and other exchanges within the American Psychological Association.

NYT Science · EN

The Election Day Edition

In the 2022 midterms, Democrats made global warming an issue. Things have changed.

NYT Science · EN

A NASA Telescope Is Predicted to Crash Back to Earth Within Hours

The space agency estimates that there is a one-in-2,100 chance that debris from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory could injure someone on the ground.

NYT Science · EN

Muurhuizen (Wall Houses) in Amersfoort, Netherlands

If you want to feel a medieval vibe while walking only a few minutes from the city center? Take a stroll through the Muurhuizen street. This is unlike other places in the Netherlands, it's a really quiet street, almost without cars. Do keep in mind it's a residential place, and people still live here. A little bit of history: Around 1380, a booming economy forced Amersfoort to expand and construct a new outer city wall. The original wall was dismantles, and from 1500, residents began building houses directly themselves along its old foundation, using the salvaged stone and brick. Because these

Atlas Obscura · EN

The Street Shrines of Victoria in Victoria, Malta

Look up as you walk the old lanes of Victoria, Gozo's capital, and you'll start seeing them: small religious shrines — niċeċ in Maltese — set into house walls and above doorways. Some are elaborate stone niches holding carved saints under Baroque canopies; others are simple painted figures behind glass, with a vase of plastic flowers and a lamp someone still lights at night. There are more than fifty surviving in the town, some over three hundred years old. They were built by householders, not the Church — a family's way of putting its patron saint or the Virgin on public view and asking for p

Atlas Obscura · EN

What Was Going to the Doctor Like 100 Years Ago?

Let's just say medicine, medical technology, and doctor's visits have come a long way since 1926!

Mental Floss · EN

After Observing the Sky for 22 Years, a Beloved NASA Space Telescope Is Expected to Meet a Fiery Death This Week

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory launched in 2004 and detected thousands of astrophysical phenomena, leading to some huge discoveries. Earlier this year, experts attempted a first-of-its-kind rescue mission to save the falling telescope, but it failed

Smithsonian Magazine · EN

A 'Poor Man’s Rembrandt' for a Few Hundred Bucks? At Amsterdam's Rembrandt House Museum, a Pop-Up Tattoo Studio Is Inking 17th-Century Masterpieces on Human Canvases

Visitors can choose from dozens of designs pulled from Rembrandt's works, including lions, windmills and even his self-portraits. One participant was selected for a full-back tattoo of "The Descent from the Cross"

Smithsonian Magazine · EN

Native Hawaiians Descend From a Group of 'Ultravoyagers' Who Sailed About 4,400 Miles From Easter Island, Genetic Study Suggests

Researchers studied DNA from more than 1,000 modern-day Polynesians and found that Native Hawaiians and Easter Islanders were most closely related. The findings help trace the epic settlement of the Polynesian islands while also revealing genetic vulnerabilities among their communities

Smithsonian Magazine · EN