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Ubuntu’s developers have been given the green light to make Dracut default in Ubuntu 25.10, a foundational change to the way Ubuntu boots planned for this development cycle, but which missed the all-important feature freeze deadline. While the early stages of Ubuntu’s boot process aren’t super interesting (to most ofContinue Reading

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Megha Mohan BBC World Service gender and identity correspondent Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Melinda French Gates has pledged a total of $1bn for women’s care Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said women’s health is chronically underfunded, as she committed $50m to researching the issue. This is part of her pledgeContinue Reading

Astronomers Find Elusive Cloud-Forming Chemical on 10-Billion-Year-Old Brown Dwarf

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Using data gathered by NSF’s Gemini South telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected signatures of methane (CH4), water (H2O) and silane (SiH4) gas on the cold brown dwarf WISEA J153429.75-104303.3 (W1534 for short). Although silane is expected to serve as a key reservoir for the cloud-forming element silicon in gasContinue Reading

Webb Searches for Atmosphere on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e

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Astronomers are working their way through the TRAPPIST-1 system with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, demonstrating its unprecedented ability to capture detailed information about exoplanet atmospheres and learning to work with that data. The first results are now in from Webb’s observations of TRAPPIST-1e. While the initial four observations by Webb are not enoughContinue Reading

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These are 2024-25 releases. For older titles, click here. With Love & Mischief by Derek Milman We Are Villains by Kacen Callender  Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin  The Girl You Know by Elle Gonzalez Rose The Tournament by Rebecca Barrow Bonus: These are all prose novels, but for a graphic novel,Continue Reading

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Instead of ‘teachers,’ students at Alpha School Austin are supervised by ‘guides,’ who help lead them through their abbreviated coursework., AUSTIN (Nexstar) — U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon toured an Austin private school on Tuesday, which claims it helps students “Learn 2x in 2 Hours.” Alpha School Austin isContinue Reading