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Google’s September 2026 Pixel Update Bulletin contains patches beyond what’s in that month’s regular Android Security Bulletin. According to GrapheneOS, some of those extra patches touch standard Android platform code, the kind that runs on non-Pixel devices, not just Pixel-branded hardware. None of that platform-level code has reached the regularContinue Reading

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Yeah, Valve has not bothered putting out a proper announcement for this. I got to know about this thanks to Liam Squires-Hand, who covered it briefly yesterday. The gaming giant has open-sourced the Android compatibility layer it built for the recently launched Steam Frame. Lepton lets users play games exclusiveContinue Reading

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A newly discovered snake from New Guinea has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, who has loved reptiles since childhood. Genetic testing and physical differences confirmed that the reddish-brown groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, is a species scientists had never formally recognized before. The nonvenomous snake may use large rearContinue Reading

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On Friday, a coalition of 15 civil-society and press-freedom organizations demanded that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release renowned Miami-based journalist Luis Galeano. The letter’s signers include Free Press, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, PEN America, ReportersContinue Reading

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Millions of people are choosing a new lower house of Parliament., Millions of people are choosing a new lower house of parliament. Critics say the outcome of the elections in Russia is a foregone conclusion. Millions of people are eligible to choose a new State Duma, or lower house ofContinue Reading

“hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers”:-rhiannon-giddens-on-new-album,-ai,-ed-sheeran,-macklemore-&-the-traitor

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“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for. … We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.” Giddens has had a wide-spanningContinue Reading

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5 min read NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’ Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s outflow, called a stellar wind, being captured by its compact companion and providing the power source for strong X-ray flares.Continue Reading

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Chicago, Illinois (bottom center), appears prominently in this nighttime view of the United States—dotted with city lights including Detroit, Michigan; Cincinnati, Ohio; and New York City–taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above Earth. NASA/Jessica Meir Expedition 75 wrapped up its week completing a lead-free solderingContinue Reading