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Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain

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As if we didn’t have enough reasons to get at least eight hours of sleep, there...
As if we didn’t have enough reasons to get at least eight hours of sleep, there is now one more. Neurons are still active during sleep. We may not realize it, but the brain takes advantage of this recharging period to get rid of junk that was accumulating during waking hours. Sleep is something like a soft reboot. W...
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Report details how Russia obtains Starlink terminals for war in Ukraine

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Enlarge / A Starlink terminal at the Everything Electric London conference on March 28, 2024 in...
Enlarge / A Starlink terminal at the Everything Electric London conference on March 28, 2024 in England. A report published today describes how Russia obtained Starlink terminals for its war in Ukraine despite US sanctions and SpaceX's insistence that Russia hasn't bought the terminals either directly or indirectly....
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Google kills "One" VPN service

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Another day, another dead Google product. The Google One VPN service we complained about last week...
Another day, another dead Google product. The Google One VPN service we complained about last week is headed to the chopping block. Google's support documents haven't been updated yet, but Android Authority reported on an email going out to Google One users informing them of the shutdown. 9to5Google also got confirm...
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The Space Force is planning what could be the first military exercise in orbit

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Enlarge / Artist's illustration of two satellites performing rendezvous and proximity operations in low-Earth orbit. The...
Enlarge / Artist's illustration of two satellites performing rendezvous and proximity operations in low-Earth orbit. The US Space Force announced Thursday it is partnering with two companies, Rocket Lab and True Anomaly, for a first-of-its-kind mission to demonstrate how the military might counter "on-orbit aggressi...
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"Highly capable" hackers root corporate networks by exploiting firewall 0-day

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Highly capable hackers are rooting multiple corporate networks by exploiting a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in a...
Highly capable hackers are rooting multiple corporate networks by exploiting a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in a firewall product from Palo Alto Networks, researchers said Friday. The vulnerability, which has been under active exploitation for at least two weeks now, allows the hackers with no authenticat...
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X to stop hiding blue checks after widely handing them out to top users

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X will soon stop allowing users to hide their blue checkmarks, and some users are not...
X will soon stop allowing users to hide their blue checkmarks, and some users are not happy. Previously, a blue tick on Twitter was a mark of a notable account, providing some assurance to followers of the account's authenticity. But then Elon Musk decided to start charging for the blue tick instead, and mayhem ensu...
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Researchers find a new organelle evolving

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Enlarge / A photo of Braarudosphaera bigelowii with the nitroplast indicated by an arrowhead. The complex...
Enlarge / A photo of Braarudosphaera bigelowii with the nitroplast indicated by an arrowhead. The complex cells that underlie animals and plants have a large collection of what are called organelles—compartments surrounded by membranes that perform specialized functions. Two of these were formed through a process ca...
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Intel's "Gaudi 3" AI accelerator chip may give Nvidia's H100 a run for its money

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Enlarge / An Intel handout photo of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. On Tuesday, Intel revealed...
Enlarge / An Intel handout photo of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. On Tuesday, Intel revealed a new AI accelerator chip called Gaudi 3 at its Vision 2024 event in Phoenix. With strong claimed performance while running large language models (like those that power ChatGPT), the company has positioned Gaudi 3 as an altern...
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Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens

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Enlarge / The 4th-gen Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker. Alexa hasn't worked out the way Amazon...
Enlarge / The 4th-gen Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker. Alexa hasn't worked out the way Amazon originally planned. There was a time when it thought that Alexa would yield a robust ecosystem of apps, or Alexa Skills, that would make the voice assistant an integral part of users' lives. Amazon envisioned tens of thousand...
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Elon Musk's X botched an attempt to replace "twitter.com" links with "x.com"

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Enlarge / An X sign at company headquarters in San Francisco. Elon Musk's clumsy brand shift...
Enlarge / An X sign at company headquarters in San Francisco. Elon Musk's clumsy brand shift from Twitter to X caused a potentially big problem this week when the social network started automatically changing "twitter.com" to "x.com" in links. The automatic text replacement reportedly applied to any URL ending in "t...
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Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware went undetected for 5 years

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Hardware sold for years by the likes of Intel and Lenovo contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability...
Hardware sold for years by the likes of Intel and Lenovo contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that will never be fixed. The cause: a supply chain snafu involving an open source software package and hardware from multiple manufacturers that directly or indirectly incorporated it into their products. Research...
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Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

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How to cheat at Super Mario Maker and get away with it for years

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The Frankenstein's monster of a GamePad hack responsible for the creation of Trimming the Herbs. A...
The Frankenstein's monster of a GamePad hack responsible for the creation of Trimming the Herbs. A cardboard box provides the inelegant case for Ahoyo's Arduino-and-breadboard TAS solution. Close-up of the Arduino connections necessary to control the Wii U GamePad. Ribbon cables feed into holes cut through the back ...
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AT&T: Data breach affects 73M or 51M customers. No, we won't explain

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AT&T is notifying millions of current or former customers that their account data has been compromised...
AT&T is notifying millions of current or former customers that their account data has been compromised and published last month on the dark web. Just how many millions, the company isn't saying. In a mandatory filing with the Maine Attorney General’s office, the telecommunications company said 51.2 million account h...
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Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data caps

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Enlarge / A sample consumer label for home Internet service. Starting today, home Internet and mobile...
Enlarge / A sample consumer label for home Internet service. Starting today, home Internet and mobile broadband providers in the US are required to display consumer labels with information on prices, speeds, and data allowances. "Today's nationwide launch of the Broadband Consumer Labels means internet service provi...
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Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness

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Enlarge / Avi Wigderton of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton is the recipient of...
Enlarge / Avi Wigderton of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton is the recipient of the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton University has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. The prize, which is given annually by ...
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Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

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Enlarge / Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin speaks onstage during CinemaCon, a convention of the...
Enlarge / Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin speaks onstage during CinemaCon, a convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, at Caesars Palace on April 9, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin yesterday said his group plans a major push to impose a site-blo...
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Fairbuds are Fairphone's proof that we could make better tiny gadgets

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Enlarge / The Fairbuds and their replaceable components, including the notably hand-friendly, non-soldered batteries. Fairphone has...
Enlarge / The Fairbuds and their replaceable components, including the notably hand-friendly, non-soldered batteries. Fairphone has spent years showing us that it could do what major phone manufacturers suggest is impossible: make a modern-looking phone, make it brazenly easy to open up, design it so battery swaps a...
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People are bailing on Safari after DMA makes changing defaults easier

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Smaller web browsers are gaining traction in the European Union after the Digital Markets Act (DMA)...
Smaller web browsers are gaining traction in the European Union after the Digital Markets Act (DMA) started requiring designated gatekeepers like Google and Apple to make it easier to switch default web browsers on devices. Previously, tech giants were able to lock users into setting their own browsers as defaults—o...
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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030

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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the city's Muni Metro light rail, claims...
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the city's Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt floppy disks. But today, the SFMTA is eager to abandon its reliance on 5¼-inch floppy disks—just give it about six more years and a few hundred more million dollars. Membe...
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RIP Peter Higgs, who laid foundation for the Higgs boson in the 1960s

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Enlarge / A visibly emotional Peter Higgs was present when CERN announced Higgs boson discovery in...
Enlarge / A visibly emotional Peter Higgs was present when CERN announced Higgs boson discovery in July 2012. Peter Higgs, the shy, somewhat reclusive physicist who won a Nobel Prize for his theoretical work on how the Higgs boson gives elementary particles their mass, has died at the age of 94. According to a state...
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Patches released for as many as 91,000 hackable LG TVs exposed to the Internet

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As many as 91,000 LG TVs face the risk of being commandeered unless they receive a...
As many as 91,000 LG TVs face the risk of being commandeered unless they receive a just-released security update patching four critical vulnerabilities discovered late last year. The vulnerabilities are found in four LG TV models that collectively comprise slightly more than 88,000 units around the world, according ...
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A frozen lake and several Lamborghinis provide lessons on traction control

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Enlarge / You can learn a lot about traction when there's very little of it around....
Enlarge / You can learn a lot about traction when there's very little of it around. From the passenger seat of my Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato, 24 Hours of Daytona winner Corey Lewis gives me a "slow down" hand gesture, urging me to avoid an Urus high-centered on a snow bank. I resist the childish impulse to blast b...
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FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband

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The Federal Communications Commission chair decided not to impose Universal Service fees on Internet service, rejecting...
The Federal Communications Commission chair decided not to impose Universal Service fees on Internet service, rejecting arguments for new assessments to shore up an FCC fund that subsidizes broadband network expansions and provides discounts to low-income consumers. The $8 billion-a-year Universal Service Fund (USF)...
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