Hubble Space Telescope Captures New Image of NGC 6951

NASA has released a beautiful close-up shot of NGC 6951, a barred spiral galaxy captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This Hubble image shows NGC 6951, a barred spiral galaxy some 70 million light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and near-infraredContinue Reading

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Flux Marine, which develops electric outboard motors and battery systems for recreational and commercial watercraft, has signed aluminum rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) manufacturer Highfield Boats as its first rigging partner. Highfield Boats has been a hull partner of Flux Marine since 2022. The brands have since collaborated to launch theContinue Reading

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If you’re using the GIMP 3.0 stable series and loving the new features it added, you’ll be pleased to hear that a new in-series update is out with even more improvements. GIMP 3.0.6 is the third maintenance update (or “micro release”, as GIMP’s development team refer to them). It seesContinue Reading

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The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat Control, which EFF has strongly opposed since it was first introduced in 2022, keeps being mildly tweaked and pushed by one Council presidency after another. ChatContinue Reading

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Ubuntu has announced the codename of its next release, 26.04 LTS, as “Resolute Raccoon”. The codename was chosen by former Debian and Ubuntu release manager (and long-time Canonical employee) Steve Langasek, who passed away at the start of 2025. All Ubuntu releases get a distinctive codename pairing an adjective with anContinue Reading

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Altman promises copyright holders a cut of video revenue, if he ever figures out how to make some. analysis  OpenAI’s new Sora 2 video generator has become the most popular free app in Apple’s App Store since launching last week. It has also drawn ire from Hollywood studios and anyoneContinue Reading