Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro’s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to memory-safe versions. cp, mv and rm were held back on their GNU versions in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due to a crop of TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) issues that needed to be fixed in the uutils versions. Continue Reading
On Sept. 13, 2007, Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Formally known as SELENE, which is short for SELenological and ENgineering Explorer, it was Japan’s second moon mission. Kaguya launched from Tanegashima Space Center on a Japanese H-IIA rocket and looped around the Earth twice before heading to the moon.Continue Reading
(Main) Illustration of the small solar system body Chariklo (Inset) artist’s impression of the JWST (Image credit: L. Maquet, Observatoire de Paris/NASA/ESA) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that the ring system of a tiny solar system body is even more interesting than they knew. The object in question is CharikloContinue Reading
Whatever wasn’t already going poorly for Flock Safety is just going to keep getting worse. Data collected by privacy activist group Secure Justice pointed out what Flock already knows: it’s losing customers at an unprecedented rate. More than 214 cities and counties have dropped Flock since 2021. More than 90Continue Reading
DUBLIN (AP) — President Traitor 47 on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America’s edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help would address the risks from the advancing technology. While acknowledgingContinue Reading
AI researchers are sounding new alarms, and some lawmakers want Congress to cut its recess short to respond., AI researchers are sounding new alarms, and some lawmakers want Congress to cut its recess short to respond., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Electric vehicles are awesome, their ongoing costs are dramatically cheaper than ICE vehicles, but there’s one maintenance cost you can’t avoid.. tyres which are rarely cheap. Typically EVs weigh more than comparable-sized vehicles thanks to their high capacity battery packs, and combined with instantaneous torque from the electric motor(s…Continue Reading
The University at Buffalo, a New York State flagship university with 30,000 students, recently added eight new 40-foot battery-electric transit buses to its UB Stampede fleet, which serves some 16,000 passengers each day. The university undertook the project in collaboration with campus transportation provider WeDriveU and fleet electrification specialist Zenobē.Continue Reading
Ten-Nine Technologies is scaling up production of TENIX, a cathode additive designed to stop the chemical decomposition that saps a battery’s performance as it ages. The additive is blended into cathode material during manufacturing at 0.5–2% of the cathode’s weight. That works out to roughly 0.5–2 kg for every 100Continue Reading
BEIJING (AP) — Beijing is banning the possession of drones within city limits in new rules announced Sunday that further tighten its regulations on drones, which already include a May ban on sales of the devices. The ban on possession will come into effect in mid-November. Beijing has barred unauthorizedContinue Reading
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday urged his peers in the field to slow the pace of progress., Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday urged his peers in the field to slow the pace of progress., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
The top companies that most airline pilots want to work for in the United States are American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines. These are by far the largest carriers in the US, and they also pay more than any other airline in the US. In fact, they payContinue Reading
The European short-haul aviation landscape has been conquered by a blue-and-yellow paradox that defies conventional corporate logic. An airline that routinely strips away basic cabin amenities, charges for hand luggage, and leaves passengers standing on cold tarmacs should be facing terminal commercial decline. Yet, Ryanair stands as an absolute financialContinue Reading