“It is with great relief that I welcome you home!” SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell posted on X. “This mission was even more extraordinary than I anticipated.” “SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is home,” reports CNN, “capping off a five-day mission to orbit — which included the world’s first commercial spacewalk — by splashing down in the… Read More »
An anonymous reader shared this report from DecClass: A report from developer-focused analyst Redmonk finds “there does not seem to be a clear link between moving from an open source to proprietary license and increasing the company’s value.” Senior analyst Rachel Stevens studied the question of whether the companies that changed from open source to… Read More »
In 1980 a 23-year-old woman was shot multiple times by an unknown assailant in a small county in central Kansas. 44 years later, the county sheriff made a Facebook post… Over the years, dozens of law enforcement officers looked at the case to no avail. In mid-2022 I was approached by Detective Sgt. Adam Hales… Read More »
It was one year ago that “an odd seismic signal appeared at scientific stations around the globe,” reports the Washington Post. “A day passed, and the slow tremor still reverberated. When it continued for a third day, scientists worldwide began assembling…” Some initially thought the seismic instruments recording the signal were broken, but that was… Read More »
“For 75 years Cosm built planetariums,” reports a Texas news station, “and then a few years ago realized this technology could take you from the night sky to anywhere under the sun.” So now Los Angeles and Dallas have massive 9,600-square-foot, 8K-resolution screens that one reviewer for SFGate calls “an absolute game-changer” for sports fans.… Read More »
“New malicious software packages tied to the North Korean Lazarus Group were observed posing as a Python coding skills test for developers seeking a new job at Capital One, but were tracked to GitHub projects with embedded malware,” reports SC magazine: Researchers at ReversingLabs explained in a September 10 blog post that the scheme was… Read More »
Google’s describes their new Gemini-powered foldable phone as “an epic display of Google AI” (also calling it “unfoldgettable”). The Android Authority blog says the phone is “impressive,” “incredibly thin” — and, at $1,800, expensive. But long-time Slashdot reader mprindle notes some complaints from the YouTube channel JerryRigEverything (“known for in-depth testing of phones and other… Read More »
Police in Italy “smashed” a videogame trafficking ring, reports the BBC. They seized fake vintage Nintendo, Sega and Atari consoles that didn’t meet strict safety standards, as well as counterfeit games — including Mario Bros., Street Fighter and Star Wars — that together were worth almost €50m ($55.5m) Around 12,000 consoles holding over 47 million… Read More »
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: NASA is 66 years old and feeling its age. Brilliant engineers are retiring. Others have fled to higher-paying jobs in the private space industry. The buildings are old, their maintenance deferred. The Apollo era, with its huge taxpayer investment, is a distant memory. The agency… Read More »
The Rust foundation is making “considerable progress” on a complete security audit of the Rust ecosystem, according to the coding news site I Programmer, citing a newly-released report from the nonprofit Rust foundation: The foundation is investigating the development of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) model for the Rust language, including the design and implementation… Read More »