A New Report Finds Boeing’s Rockets Are Built With an Unqualified Work Force

NASA declines to penalize Boeing for the deficiencies.

Cannibal AIs Could Risk Digital ‘Mad Cow Disease’ Without Fresh Data

New research looks at the dangers of “heavily processed sources of digital nourishment” for generative AI.

== opinion piece
Are Fake Plastic Lawns Environmentally Irresponsible?

Let’s start with some common sense: Covering the Earth with plastic carpet is a terrible idea.

Scientists Mount Cameras On Endangered Sea Lions To Map Australia’s Ocean Floor

Eight females from two seal colonies have filmed almost 90 hours across more than 500km, helping scientists map 5,000 sq km of habitat.

China’s Long March 6A Rocket Is Making a Mess In Low-Earth Orbit.

After nearly every flight, the upper stage of this rocket breaks apart in orbit.

DARPA Wants To Bypass the Thermal Middleman In Nuclear Power Systems

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is exploring the possibility of directly converting radiation from nuclear reactors into electricity using radiovoltaics.

Japan Issues First Ever ‘Megaquake’ Warning

After a 7.1 tremor struck southwestern Japan on Thursday, the country’s meteorological agency issued its first-ever alert for a possible “megaquake.”

== yjc, never had one, seems like something to try
With Acadians coming to N.S. by the thousands, rappie pie is a hot commodity

World Acadian Congress kicks off Saturday in southwestern Nova Scotia.

These 17 cancers are on the rise in younger generations

Some cancers increasing in millennials, Gen-Xers, U.S. study suggests, with over half linked to obesity.

== yjc, I can recall some psychedelic meditation in the 70s and 80s
Newfoundlanders already love him. Now, a documentary will introduce this psychedelic superhero to the world

Documentary about Geoffrey Stirling, who created Captain Newfoundland and co-founded NTV, gets Telefilm funding.

== yjc
Fisherman lands first-ever ’lost’ Lego shark

A freak wave in a severe gale swept 62 shipping containers into the sea, one of which held 4,756,940 pieces of Lego, much of it sea-themed.

Down into the ocean’s ’twilight zone’ with Boaty McBoatface

Boaty McBoatface spent 55 days at sea before coming ashore in Scotland.

Oxford scientists’ new light-absorbing material can turn everyday objects into solar panels

The multi-junction approach to stacking thin-film perovskite captures more of the light spectrum, increasing the amount of solar electricity that can be generated.

== expect this true for most of the “developed” world
US Landfills Are Major Source of Toxic PFAS Pollution, Study Finds

New research shows toxic ‘forever chemicals’ gas may escape landfills and threaten the environment

== all my currently active pcs have an amd cpu
Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades

It requires deep access to exploit, but is concerning nonetheless.

Don’t Look a Brain Coral in the Mouth

A single coral can comprise thousands of polyps—repeating units, each with its own digestive system.

Computer Crash Reports Are an Untapped Hacker Gold Mine

One hacker solved the CrowdStrike outage mystery with simple crash reports, illustrating the wealth of detail about potential bugs and vulnerabilities those key documents hold.

Quantum Cryptography Has Everyone Scrambling

China, India, the EU, and the US are all pursuing divergent approaches

== paywall?
This futuristic space habitat is designed to self-assemble in orbit

The structure can be carried into space compactly, potentially lowering launch costs.

== opinion piece
Signal Developer Explains Why Early Encrypted Messaging Tools Flopped

‘The intuition was to take the complexity and push it onto the user,’ Moxie Marlinspike says at Black Hat. ‘We were just wrong.’

CRISPR Gene-Editing Being Offered To British Blood Disorder Patients

It will be used as a potential cure for the blood disorder beta thalassaemia.

== you’d think they’d have protected agains a sql injection attack, one of key tools of hackers
USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation

The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally.

Cloud Growth Puts Hyperscalers On Track To 60% of Data Capacity By 2029

Enterprises used to spend more on own kit than cloud infra services… now it’s the other way around.

== we have baby trillium in the back yard that we may never get to see bloom
Can urban parks protect biodiversity as they welcome more visitors?

Parks like Mount Royal in Montreal are taking steps to protect vulnerable plant life.

== yjc, stuff I didn’t know
What does science tell us about boxing’s gender row?

Science is shedding increasing light on our different chromosomal make-ups and what advantages they may bring to sport.

China’s Drivers Fret as Robotaxis Pick Up Pace and Passengers

At least 19 Chinese cities are running robotaxi and robobus tests. Seven have approved tests without human-driver monitors by at least five industry leaders.

Common Low-Calorie Sweetener May Be Riskier For the Heart Than Sugar, Study Suggests

A small trial from the Cleveland Clinic is the first head-to-head analysis of how erythritol affects cardiovascular risks compared with sugar.

World’s Largest 3D-Printed Neighborhood Nears Completion in Texas

There was one other thing the 3D-printed walls seemed to protect against, however: a solid wireless internet connection.

Home Security Giant ADT Says It Was Hacked

ADT said it has “no reason to believe” that customer home security systems were compromised during the incident, but ADT did not say how it reached that conclusion.