An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Constellation Energy is in talks with the Pennsylvania governor’s office and state lawmakers to help fund a possible restart of part of its Three Mile Island power facility, the site of a nuclear meltdown in the 1970s, three sources familiar with the discussions said on Tuesday. The
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Constellation Energy is in talks with the Pennsylvania governor’s office and state lawmakers to help fund a possible restart of part of its Three Mile Island power facility, the site of a nuclear meltdown in the 1970s, three sources familiar with the discussions said on Tuesday. The
Read MoreSometimes, a limb is damaged so badly that the only way to save the patient is to amputate it. Researchers have now found that humans aren’t the only species to perform life-saving amputations. [via Live Science] While some ants have a gland that secretes antimicrobial chemicals to treat wounds in their comrades, Florida carpenter ants
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Read MoreA 2023 red team exercise by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at an unnamed federal agency exposed critical security failings, including unpatched vulnerabilities, inadequate incident response, and weak credential management, leading to a full domain compromise. According to The Register’s Connor Jones, the agency failed to detect or remediate malicious activity for
Read MoreSouthwest Airlines has signed a deal with Archer Aviation to develop plans for an on-demand eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) service in California. The Verge reports: The service will operate using Archer’s battery-powered, four-passenger, tilt-rotor Midnight aircraft, which are designed to take off and land vertically from a landing strip like a helicopter. As
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: John Binns, a U.S. citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey, is linked to the massive data breach of metadata belonging to nearly all of AT&T’s customers that the telecommunications giant announced on Friday, three sources independently told 404 Media. […] As 404 Media reported in
Read MoreThe Google Pixel 9 family of smartphones has surfaced at the FCC, ahead of next month’s launch. At least some of that hardware will support Thread for Matter smart home devices — an Android first. Are you ready for the Pixel 9? Google’s been teasing its plans to launch the next wave of its own
Read MoreJowi Morales reports via Tom’s Hardware: There’s a vast difference between hardware and software developers, which opens up pitfalls for those trying to coordinate the two teams. Arm and x86 researchers encountered it years ago — and Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, fears RISC-V development may fall into the same chasm again. “Even when
Read MoreGoogle recently announced it was pulling the plugs on Lacros, an experimental browser launched for Chromebooks. The company began working on Lacros in 2020 and made it available for testing in 2023. Lacros’ discontinuation, however, does not affect Chromebook users. A recent announcement from Google indicated that Chrome OS would begin using more of the
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket was grounded by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday after one broke apart in space and doomed its payload of Starlink satellites, the first failure in more than seven years of a rocket relied upon by the global space industry.
Read MoreThe Assassin’s Creed Shadows appropriated battle-flag controversy will not die down. Although Ubisoft apologized ro a Japanese historical group for using it, images of the flag will remain in a digital art book, and the group now says it’s not happy with just an apology here. To recap, Ubisoft apologized on July 8, about a
Read MoreApple has renewed its legal drama “Presumed Innocent” starring Jake Gyllenhaal for a second season on Apple TV+. Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Presumed Innocent’ for Apple TV+ The first season of Presumed Innocent is still airing, with the eight-episode limited series set to conclude on July 24. It’s managed to enter the top 10 of streaming
Read MoreAmazon’s throwing in free smart bulbs with some Echo devices, including the latest Echo Show 8. | Image: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Amazon Prime Day may not officially kick off until July 16th, but that hasn’t stopped the retailer from dropping prices on a variety of items ahead of the two-day sale. We’ve
Read MoreMacworld Apple has planted its own flag in the streaming wars with Apple TV+, its in-house streaming service that focuses almost entirely on original programming rather than an extensive library of existing TV shows or movies. This guide will list all the Apple TV+ content you can watch today, divided into episodic shows or series
Read MoreCode within the Wear OS 5 Developer Preview suggests that the upcoming update will add support for toggling UWB on supported smartwatches. UWB support was initially added in Android 12, whereas Wear OS 5 will be based on Android 14. The reason UWB support is being added to Wear OS now is likely because the
Read MoreAfter three years of investigations, Indian regulators have concluded that Apple has been using antitrust behaviours by forcing App Store developers to use its in-app payment system. India says Apple has abused its dominant market share of iOS apps The Competition Commission of India (CCI) began investigating Apple in 2021, following a complaint by a
Read MoreIndonesia said it is beginning to recover data that had been encrypted in a major ransomware attack last month which affected more than 160 government agencies. From a report: The attackers identified as Brain Cipher asked for $8 million in ransom to unlock the data before later apologising and releasing the decryption key for free,
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge AT&T revealed Friday morning that a cybersecurity attack had exposed call records and texts from “nearly all” of the carrier’s cellular customers (including people on mobile virtual network operators, or MVNOs, that use AT&T’s network, like Cricket, Boost Mobile, and Consumer Cellular). The breach took place during the period between May 1st,
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Read MoreSamsung has taken the veil off of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7, but that wasn’t the only smartwatch announced at the company’s second Unpacked showcase of 2024. The brand new Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra has a vastly different look when compared to the Watch 7, as well as a few significant upgrades to the formula.
Read MoreA California federal court has ruled against a proposed class action suit accusing Apple of blocking iOS developers from using competing technology. Apple wins case against App Store restrictions As of January 2024, Apple has stopped requiring all iOS browsers to use its WebKit technology in the EU. In that same month, three California residents
Read MoreIn a live-streamed update on the tech company this week, Elon Musk revealed that Neuralink, of which he is CEO, plans to perform the second human implant trial sometime within “the next week or so.” The surgery was originally meant to take place in June but the intended trial participant experienced some health problems which
Read MoreApple has called the Vision Pro the ‘most advanced consumer electronics device ever created’, but a hefty price tag and a slow international roll-out may be stifling the product’s success. Read more: Apple Vision Pro won’t hit 500,000 sales this year, IDC claims
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