canonical-to-shut-ubuntu-pastebin-after-18-years-of-service

Canonical will decommission its long-running text-hosting service Ubuntu Pastebin on May 31. The company is pulling the plug as part of a broader “infrastructure modernization and migration project”, according to Canonical Community Engineer Aaron Prisk. Ubuntu Pastebin works similarly to GitHub’s Gist, albeit without the revision history. It’s been availableContinue Reading

france’s-terrible-copyright-law,-hadopi,-is-not-quite-dead

One of the best demonstrations that an obsession with protecting copyright’s intellectual monopoly drives politicians insane is the French law known as Hadopi, an acronym for ‘Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des oeuvres et la protection des droits sur internet’ (High Authority for the Dissemination of Works and the Protection ofContinue Reading

qantas’-project-sunrise-delayed-again-as-“supply-chain-issues”-plague-airbus-a350-1000ulrs

The highly anticipated ultra-long-range (ULR) Airbus A350-1000 in development to join Qantas’ fleet is facing another delay due to undisclosed “supply chain issues,” according to Airbus. Bloomberg News reported early Monday that the first A350-1000ULR is expected to arrive in early 2027, slipping past the original delivery targetat the endContinue Reading

cinnamon-desktop-is-getting-its-own,-native-screenshot-tool

Linux Mint developers are building a new screenshot utility for the Cinnamon desktop, ahead of its next major release. The home-grown tool will give users more options when taking screenshots and will “accommodate the differences between CSD (Client Side Decoration) and SSD (Server Side Decoration) windows” to provide ‘cleaner’ lookingContinue Reading

cinnamon’s-new-screenshot-tool-fixes-app-window-shadow-quirks

Linux Mint developers are building a new screenshot utility for the Cinnamon desktop, ahead of its next major release. The home-grown tool will give users more options when taking screenshots and will “accommodate the differences between CSD (Client Side Decoration) and SSD (Server Side Decoration) windows” to provide ‘cleaner’ lookingContinue Reading

China launches ‘human artificial embryos’ to space in bid to see whether reproduction is possible off-world

China has become the first nation to send “human artificial embryos” to space in a bid to better understand how microgravity and cosmic radiation may affect human reproduction. The results could have big implications for our ability to set up self-sustaining colonies on the moon and Mars . The embryo-like structures, made from living humanContinue Reading

NASA spacecraft beams back blue images of Mars on its way to a metal asteroid — Space photo of the week

Jamie Carter is a Cardiff, U.K.-based freelance science journalist and a regular contributor to Live Science. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners and co-author of The Eclipse Effect, and leads international stargazing and eclipse-chasing tours. His work appears regularly in Space.com, Forbes, New Scientist, BBC Sky at Night, Sky & Telescope, and other majorContinue Reading