Another package went missing from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images, this time xxd , a CLI tool for viewing files as hexadecimals. It’s the second time this has happened, following the accidental removal of curl I reported on in August. Both packages vanished for the same reason. When CanonicalContinue Reading
The state of California has joined the growing number of governments and communities at all levels across the US taking proactive, even preemptive, measures to keep data center development under control. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed what he called the “most comprehensive data center laws in the nation” on Monday.Continue Reading
A Google Gemini AI agent broke into three companies in July, guessing the credentials for one and discovering the credentials for the second two in a public repository, Google confirmed on Monday. But the more interesting background to the story, which was broken by The Wall Street Journal on Friday,Continue Reading
During the mid-Cold War, the F-4 Phantom II formed the backbone of US airpower, not only with the United States Air Force, but also with the Marine Corps and the Navy. This is something that cannot be replicated today, due to a completely different operating environment and design philosophy. TheContinue Reading
Fuel planning is one of the most important aspects of international travel. An aircraft normally departs with enough fuel to reach its destination, account for contingencies, divert to an alternate airport if necessary, and still retain some reserve. But that formula becomes considerably more complicated when the destination is thousandsContinue Reading
Garuda Linux has started nudging its userbase toward Nix. The distro’s maintainers have just renamed the Garuda Nix Subsystem to Garuda Nix , and you will find that the move is more nuanced than something purely cosmetic. What used to be a side project for dual-booting NixOS is now alsoContinue Reading
Ubuntu 26.10 is changing what your machine kills when memory runs out. Applications are meant to go first, and the services that hold the session together now sit behind them. Thirty-nine of those services move to an OOM score of -500, with GNOME Shell and two D-Bus services among them.Continue Reading
Using images from the LROC instrument onboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scientists have discovered the biggest newly formed impact crater ever discovered in the Solar System. The post New Impact Crater Spotted on the Moon appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…Read MoreContinue Reading
Anbernic RG DS Plus now available for purchase with a limited time discount Nearly two weeks after giving us a first look at its new dual-screen handheld, Anbernic has finally begun selling the device. The new Anbernic RG DS Plus arrives as a larger Linux variant to the RG DSContinue Reading
Nvidia is buying a further $1.5B of SB Energy shares at 90% of the price of the data centre developer’s coming US listing, taking its total backing to $3B. SB Energy has 8.8 gigawatts in contract or under construction in Texas and Ohio, while its parent’s European capacity is not due before 2031…Continue Reading
Image: Chris McLoughlin / Getty Images What do you want to happen to your body when you die? Have you thought about the environmental implications? Do you care? On this episode of Ask Us Anything, Popular Science editors Sarah Durn and Laura Baisas discuss the most eco-friendly burial options. And, as it turns out, theContinue Reading
$50B Per Year SpaceX Deal is $75B More than Waiting for Data Centers in 1 Year. There is an AI gold rush which is why SpaceX and its customers will win. OpenAI signed the Oracle $300 billion five year deal because that is the plan B they can afford. Waiting for Compute Because They HaveContinue Reading
Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users’ location data, the bloc’s data privacy watchdog said Monday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said its investigation found Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users’ WebContinue Reading