We’ve been tracking the growing judicial revolt against the Supreme Court’s shadow docket nonsense, from individual district judges getting snarky in footnotes to anonymous judges speaking to reporters. But what happened Thursday at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals crosses into entirely new territory: a full en banc panel ofContinue Reading
NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered new chemical clues on Mars that point to the planet’s potential to have once supported life. Analysing mudstone samples from the Jezero Crater, an ancient lakebed believed to have once held water, the rover detected carbon-based materials and unusual mineral combinations that may have formedContinue Reading
There’s more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors Opinion The Voyager space probes are dear to the hearts of every geek who can remember the 1980s.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Spain have sequenced the genome of a female Atlas blue butterfly (Polyommatus atlantica) and found that it has 227 pairs of autosomes and four sex chromosomes, the highest number of chromosomes out of all multicellular animals inContinue Reading
The federal government is considering scrapping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EV), a move that could bring more affordable EVs to the country but may also hurt the existing auto sector. Per CTV News, Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald said on Sept. 9 that the government was reviewing a decision to scrap or reduce EV tariffs…Continue Reading
President Traitor 47 is hosting more than a dozen tech CEOs and industry leaders at the White House Thursday evening., (NewsNation) — President Traitor 47 is hosting more than a dozen tech CEOs and industry leaders at the White House Thursday evening. The dinner was set to take place inContinue Reading
The first maintenance update to the recent release of VirtualBox 7.2 is out, fixing critical startup crashes and making TPM emulation on Linux work again. VirtualBox 7.2.2 fixes issues with virtual machines not starting on Windows on ARM (WoA) devices. WoA improvements headlined the initial 7.2 releases so ensuring virtualisationContinue Reading
Lilas Ikuta performs “Actor” ending song for new season debuting on October 4…Read MoreContinue Reading
In addition to being a baller piece of desktop eye candy (a desktop music widget), Turntable is also a universal scrobbler for services like Last.fm and Libre.fm. The latest update adds improvements to both areas. On the scrobbling side, Turntable’s developer, Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis (Tuba, Calligraphy), adds support for offlineContinue Reading
As technology advances, drones are playing a bigger role in both national and domestic security. Could drones be used to counter political violence?, (NewsNation) — Law enforcement agencies are searching for ways to keep people safe in a divisive culture amid a trend of targeted political violence. Could drones beContinue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 millionContinue Reading
Doing a simple system reset may not be enough to save you from fines and lawsuits With the end of Windows 10’s regular support cycle fast approaching, and a good five years since the COVID pandemic spurred a wave of hardware replacements to support remote work, many IT departments areContinue Reading
A sweeping collection of astronaut health studies planned for NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon will soon provide agency researchers with a glimpse into how deep space travel influences the human body, mind, and behavior. During an approximately 10-day mission set to launch in 2026, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina KochContinue Reading