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Astronomers have found a filament of hot gas, ten times as massive as our galaxy, that they reckon could explain where at least some of the universe's "missing" matter might be lurking.…

Cybersecurity experts have started a formal review into the UK cybersecurity market, at the government's request, to identify future growth opportunities as it looks to grow the industry that's core to the country's Industrial Strategy.…

SpaceX has made excellent progress with its Starship rocket. The stainless steel vehicle can now explode before even leaving the Earth.…

Murena's /e/ OS is arguably the most mainstream de-Googled Android OS, and the new version catches up with important features.…

America's aviation regulator has issued its first license for unmanned spacecraft to reenter the Earth's atmosphere to Varda, a startup that's trying to build a space-based manufacturing business.…

The European Commission has found Chinese e-tail giant AliExpress in breach of its obligation to assess and mitigate risks related to the dissemination of illegal products as required under the Digital Services Act (DSA).…

A sneaky malware campaign slithers through Cloudflare tunnel subdomains to execute in-memory malicious code and give unknown attackers long-term access to pwned machines.…

Microsoft has announced a preview of “Windows 365 Reserve”, a service that provides pre-configured cloud PCs it suggests as ideal when physical machines aren’t usable.…

The government of Iran appears to have shut down the internet within its borders, perhaps in response to Israel-linked cyberattacks.…

Datacenter operators’ desire for cheap and clean energy to power their facilities has led to renewed interest in nuclear energy and small modular reactors (SMRs) – a tech Nvidia has just decided is worthy of investment.…

Silicon Valley-backed weapons maker Anduril and German armaments biz Rheinmetall have signed a deal to see US-designed drones and missiles integrated into European military platforms.…

Using AI chatbots actually reduces activity in the brain versus accomplishing the same tasks unaided, and may lead to poorer fact retention, according to a new preprint study out of MIT.…

Trojanized Minecraft cheat tools hosted on GitHub have secretly installed stealers that siphon credentials, crypto wallets, and other sensitive data when executed by players.…

Asana has fixed a bug in its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that could have allowed users to view other organizations' data, and the experimental feature is back up and running after nearly two weeks of downtime to fix the issue.…

Exclusive Support for AMD's Instinct GPUs is coming to Voltron Data's accelerated SQL engine Theseus in the latest sign Nvidia's CUDA moat is getting shallower.…

A federal judge has temporarily blocked an attempt by the Department of Defense to cut funding for university research programs, perhaps inadvertently saving the DoD from an own-goal.…

The second of three KDE point releases planned for 2025 is here, with more tiling options, accessibility improvements, and much more.…

Less than a third of European consumers trade in or sell their old phones, limiting the supply of secondhand devices that might otherwise stimulate a more environmentally friendly alternative to buying brand new.…

Mastodon is the latest platform to push back against AI training, updating its terms and conditions to ban the use of user content for large language models (LLMs).…

Veeam Backup & Replication users are urged to apply the latest patches that fix another critical bug leading to remote code execution (RCE) on backup servers.…