21-year-old-polish-woman-fixed-a-20-year-old-linux-bug!

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Okay, not a Linux bug in the kernel, but one that has existed in the Enlightenment window manager E16 since 2006, when Kamila Szewczyk was barely a year old. Kamila, now a 21-year-old graduate student at Saarland University in Germany, daily drives a window manager that predates most of herContinue Reading

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Long before rising seas swallowed Doggerland beneath the North Sea, this lost landscape may have been a surprisingly lush and life-friendly haven. New DNA evidence reveals that forests of oak, elm, and hazel were already thriving there more than 16,000 years ago—thousands of years earlier than scientists thought possible. EvenContinue Reading

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a callous and wildly inaccurate response to a question about millions of Americans losing their health insurance at a congressional hearing Friday.  The secretary of health and human services was testifying before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and was asked by DemocraticContinue Reading

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Lebanon and Israel are holding first direct talks in decades., Inside Story Lebanon and Israel are holding first direct talks in decades. Israel agreed to the 10-day pause in attacks against Lebanon but has refused to withdraw its troops from the south. The ceasefire was announced after officials met inContinue Reading

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A grandfather was reunited with his son and grandchildren in Tyre, southern Lebanon., NewsFeed An 80-year-old grandfather was reunited with his son and grandchildren in Tyre, southern Lebanon, after a ceasefire with Israel came into effect. His family had been displaced by the Israeli army since March 2, among theContinue Reading

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Artistic rendering of the MDA Space CHORUS-C (right), RADARSAT-2 (centre), and CHORUS -X (left) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation constellation in orbit above Earth. NASA/CSDA NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) established the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program to explore the potential of commercial satellite data in advancing theContinue Reading

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Engineers from Katalyst Space Technologies unpack their LINK robotic servicing spacecraft at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on April 14, 2026. The satellite will undergo vibration and thermal testing at NASA Goddard ahead of launch later this year. Once in space, LINK will attempt to rendezvous withContinue Reading

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Emily Sylak-Glassman Deputy Associate Director for Earth Action in NASA’s Earth Science Division Dr. Emily Sylak-Glassman is the Deputy Associate Director for Earth Action in NASA’s Earth Science Division at Headquarters in Washington, D.C. In that role, she manages a portfolio of activities aimed at using NASA Earth science forContinue Reading

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CSDA Menu CSDA Commercial Data Commercial Datasets End User License Agreements Commercial Satellite Data Explorer Satellite Data Evaluation CSDA Vendors Airbus BlackSky Capella Space GeoOptics GHGSat ICEYE Vantor Planet PlanetiQ Polar Geospatial Center Satellogic Spire Teledyne Brown Engineering Tomorrow.io Umbra Program Activities Pilot Research Projects FAQs News CSDA End UserContinue Reading