Spacewalk and Japanese Cargo Craft Departure Preps Kick Off Week
The new HTV-X1 cargo spacecraft from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), carrying over 12,000 pounds of science, supplies, and hardware, approaches the International Space Station for a robotic capture on Oct. 29, 2025. NASA The Expedition 74 crew kicked off the work week readying a spacesuit and studying procedures forContinue Reading
Collaborating Through Data: Inside the PSI Users Group
3 min read Collaborating Through Data: Inside the PSI Users Group About the PSI Users Group The Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) Users Group is a recurring Webex forum that brings together researchers, open-science practitioners, and collaborators from across the physical sciences community. Designed to foster collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and data-driven discovery,Continue Reading
Age Verification: Protection Tool or Surveillance in Disguise?
As more governments push age checks into our apps and operating systems, the dystopian future doesn’t feel so far off anymore., Read More From It’s FOSSContinue Reading
Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld
Two years of work now sits on a shelf because AI needs the RAM more., Read More From It’s FOSSContinue Reading
Oil prices jump after Iran strikes, Saudi refinery hit; Gas prices could rise
Oil prices surged more than 10% Sunday night after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and retaliatory attacks targeting shipping and energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf. Brent crude pushed toward $80 a barrel, an $8 jump within hours of trading resuming. If those gains hold, drivers could see higher gas pricesContinue Reading
US-Israeli strike kills 175 at Iran girls’ school, draws UN condemnation
At least 175 people were killed in Saturday’s strike that hit a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran during the opening wave of U.S.-Israeli attacks. Iranian officials say most of the dead were schoolgirls, and U.N. officials have since condemned the attack as a violation of international humanitarian law, thoughContinue Reading
The Traitor says the attack on Iran ‘was our last, best chance to strike’
With no sign of the conflict abating anytime soon, President Traitor 47 says that the military operations are likely to last four to five weeks but that he was prepared “to go far longer than that.” He said Iran “posed a very clear, colossal threat.” Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.comContinue Reading
Russia wants Odesa to control entire Black Sea and reach Moldova — but every arm it extends gets cut off
Recently, Russia has been actively using rhetoric about capturing Odesa, calling it in propaganda “a Russian city.” For the Kremlin, control over Odesa would mean full control over the Black Sea, port infrastructure, and key logistics, Glavred reports. Odesa is a strategic logistics hub: a significant flow of cargo passesContinue Reading
Oleksandrivka direction sees breakthrough—Russia loses coordination as Ukrainian paratroopers exploit chaos
At the junction of Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, Ukrainian forces continue to press Russian troops intensively. According to the General Staff, citing the Air Assault Command, Kyiv soldiers liberated nine settlements on the Oleksandrivka direction in the past week alone. After Starlink cut off the connection to Russia, forContinue Reading
Dow Asks Texas to Legalize Plastic Pollution From Its Seadrift Complex
Facing multiple lawsuits, Dow requests an “unprecedented” permit amendment to authorize its discharge of polyethylene pellets into coastal waters. By Dylan Baddour Two weeks ago, when Texas sued a massive Dow petrochemical plant over water pollution, state environmental regulators were already considering a novel proposal from the company that wouldContinue Reading
How the US hit Iran with a banned AI
Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen explains the dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic over how AI should be used in warfare., A day before the US attacked Iran, it had blacklisted the AI company Anthropic. Turns out, it reportedly used Anthropic’s technology anyway in its military operation in Iran. Al Jazeera’sContinue Reading
Protests across India against Khamenei’s killing
Protests erupt across India after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in US-Israeli air strikes on Iran., Protests have erupted in several parts of India following the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a United States-Israeli air assault on Iran on Saturday. Thousands of people took to theContinue Reading
Artificial intelligence contributes to spread of misinformation amid Mexican cartel violence
In the digital age, much of the violence was seen by millions around the world on social media, but not all of it was real., In the digital age, much of the violence was seen by millions around the world on social media, but not all of it was real.,Continue Reading