The tech giant wants to build into its own AI tools which do complex things with minimal interaction.

Iran has launched a trio of new satellites into space with the help of a Russian rocket, the country's state media reported Sunday (Dec. 28).

The season of giving doesn’t have to be giving plastic disaster. Here are 5 ways to beat those consumption blues.

It’s been two years since Jehan Trazi last celebrated Christmas

Scale vector storage and querying to new heights with S3 Vectors' general availability—now supporting up to 1 billion vectors per index, 100ms query latencies, and expanded regional availability, while reducing costs up to 90% compared to specialized databases.

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.

A deep dive into the creation of eight buildings from the 1700s to the 1900s tells some very human storiesHistory used to be about wars and dates, but to the architecture writer and TV presenter Dan Cruickshank, it’s more about floors and grates. In his new book, he takes a keen-eyed tour of eight E…

Official inquiry ordered into ‘serious information failures’ following historic comments by Alaa Abdel Fattah

Vitamin C doesn’t just belong in skincare products—it works even better when you eat it. Scientists discovered that vitamin C from food travels through the bloodstream into every layer of the skin, boosting collagen and skin renewal. People who ate two vitamin C–packed kiwifruit daily showed thicker…

Almost two decades ago, some scientists predicted that Arctic summer sea ice would ‘soon’ disappear. These predictions were mentioned by Al Gore and got a lot of press. However, they did not gain wide acceptance in the scientific community, and were swiftly disproven. Unsurprisingly, this still come…

Researchers at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a new way to significantly enhance upconversion luminescence in oxide perovskites, a class of materials known for their thermal and chemical stability but limited optical efficiency.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., operator of China’s largest semiconductor fabrication facility, is going to get even bigger after announcing plans to buy the remaining 49% stake of a smaller foundry it already controls. SMIC said it will acquire the rest of Semiconductor Manufacturi…

Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.

PORTLAND, Maine—Onstage, Zak and Lena Kendall sing in steady harmony about the flood that left their hometown under 8 feet of water. It’s the sixth track on their new album, “All the Light in Autumn,” and, like much of their work, pairs folk riffs with stories of climate disruption. “After a few wee…

Plants have an extraordinary ability to sense tissue damage and quickly rebuild their protective outer layers, a process vital for survival amid environmental stresses. The periderm—a specialized protective tissue found in many woody plants—serves as a crucial barrier against water loss, pathogens, …

Scientists have built the most detailed 3D models yet of temperatures deep beneath Greenland. The results reveal uneven heat hidden below the ice, shaped by Greenland’s ancient path over a volcanic hotspot. This underground warmth affects how the ice sheet moves and melts today. Understanding it cou…

For more than 50 years, scientists have sought alternatives to silicon for building molecular electronics. The vision was elegant; the reality proved far more complex. Within a device, molecules behave not as orderly textbook entities but as densely interacting systems where electrons flow, ions red…

The world’s top three container operators said they fear instability in Gaza and broader regional tensions mean continued danger.

Deaths of despair were climbing before opioids, and the decline of churchgoing may have helped set the stage. A new study suggests that falling involvement in organized religion among middle-aged white Americans with less education may have contributed to the rise in what are known as “deaths of des…

Ancient Forest Alliance photographer TJ Watt travelled to Haida Gwaii this fall as part of his work as a National Geographic Explorer, supported by the Trebek Initiative. There, he had a chance to explore some of the spectacular old-growth forests along the Yakoun River, one of the most productive r…

Local elections next May are expected to reflect major shifts in party allegiances

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains why world number one Luke Littler has been booed at the PDC World Darts Championship.

The alliance mounted its first coordinated response to a suspected sabotage campaign against critical infrastructure after another cable was severed in the Baltic Sea.

Century Waste Services is challenging the agency’s decision, alleging it didn’t adequately assess pricing proposals from a competitor. This marks the first known legal challenge to one of the city’s commercial waste zone contracts.

Of all the cars we've driven and reviewed this year, these are our picks.

Recent industry developments, such as Amazon’s announcement of the new EKS capabilities, highlight a trend toward supporting platforms with managed GitOps, cloud resource operators, and composition tooling. In particular, the involvement of Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro)—a...

It’s time to recap the key Kubernetes security highlights from 2025 and outline features likely to graduate to stable in early 2026. From a DevSecOps perspective, 2025 brought several meaningful security improvements that directly influenced day-2...

It’s undeniable that AI is a breakthrough technology that no one wants to be left behind on. However, as AI accelerates innovation in the cloud-native world, environmental sustainability often gets sidelined, perceived as something that could...

From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick.

Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM.

Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Krissy Barrett said during a news conference that the two alleged Bondi attackers “acted alone” and were "not part of a broader terrorist cell." Barrett went on to say that there had been speculation around the alleged shooters’ visit to the Philippines,…

As Ukraine expressed willingness to withdraw troops from some occupied regions, Russia gave no indication it was ready to pull back from territory it has seized.

A new report out today from artificial intelligence security startup Cyata Security Ltd. details a recently uncovered critical vulnerability on langchain-core, the foundational library behind LangChain-based agents used widely in artificial intelligence production environments. The vulnerability, tr…

A Texas power developer is proposing to use repurposed retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines to supply continuous power to large-scale artificial intelligence data centers. The proposal comes from HGP Intelligent Energy LLC, which, according to filings with the U.S…

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Russia on Monday promised to retaliate against Ukraine after it said nearly 100 drones had targeted one of President Vladimir Putin's residences, likely throwing a wrench into President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the nearly four-year war."Such reckless actions will not go unanswered.

A leaked technical review prepared for a group of First Nations claims British Columbia is greatly overestimating how much timber it can sustainably harvest in a push for short-term economic gains. 
The post Times Colonist: Leaked report claims B.C. timber harvest is vastly overestimated appeared fi…

Scientists have discovered that wildfires emit far more air-polluting gases than earlier estimates suggested. These hidden emissions can form fine particles that worsen air quality, especially in regions already burdened by human pollution. As fires move across forests, grasslands, and peatlands, th…

The night sky is the Christmas gift that just keeps giving.

Debutant continues stunning run to reach quarter-finals‘I’m not used to it. I usually get hate messages. It’s mad’The underdog Justin Hood reeled off a record 11 consecutive doubles en route to a stunning 4-0 win over Josh Rock in the last 16 of the PDC World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace.T…

Scientists have discovered that breast cancer can disturb the brain’s daily stress hormone rhythms early in disease development. “The brain is an exquisite sensor of what’s going on in your body,” says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger. “But it requires balance. Neuro…

“Can someone who has not been found legally incompetent, but who has a history of delusions, make decisions regarding property?”

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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:


Front: 2025 retrospective; Dirk and Linus talk; successful open-source documentation projects; verifier-state pruning in BPF; Linux 32-bit timeline; BPF state visualizer; systemd v259.
Briefs: linux-next maintainer; 2025 TAB;…

Scrambling with my team to close Audubon’s March-April 2008 issue, we hit a wall. In the dusk of publishing’s golden age, advertising was so strong that we had depleted our entire inventory of...

This February, the first-ever metal part 3D-printed in space landed on Earth. Produced in the European Space Agency’s Metal 3D Printer Technology Demonstrator on the International Space Station, it is now in the hands of ESA’s engineers at ESTEC, the agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands, who…

Engineers are using a satellite link between two European Space Agency facilities to advance teleoperated robotics systems that could enable future lunar explorers to study the Moon from afar.

In a few days, ESA’s fourth European Service Module will leave the integration halls of Airbus in Bremen, Germany, setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the next step of its journey. The module will propel NASA’s Orion spacecraft towards the Moon during Artemis IV, supplying the crew with water,…

A new study explains how pancreatic tumors use a sugar coating to hide from the immune system and shows that a newly developed antibody can restore immune responses in mice. Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most difficult cancers to treat and frequently does not respond to even the latest immuno…

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a one-dimensional “quantum wire” using a gas of ultracold atoms. In this system, both mass and energy can move freely without friction or energy loss. In everyday physics, transport refers to the movement of something from one place to another. This can include …

The price relationship between silver and oil has entered uncharted territory after the precious metal’s massive surge, says DataTrek Research.

Similar to AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs where there was product overlap between the Radeon and AMDGPU kernel drivers (and now using AMDGPU by default for those aging Radeon GPUs with Linux 6.19), the Intel Arc A-Series "Alchenist" graphics cards are in a similar boat. By default the Alchemist and Meteor Lak…

Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell. Fish 4.0 released at the beginning of this year in porting the codebase from C++ to Rust and now before closing out 2025 they have out Fish 4.3...

When Mark Benedict and his wife, Mary Shaw, moved in 2017 to Salmon Prairie, Montana, a remote enclave about two hours north of Missoula, they felt like they had won the retirement lottery. Their...

The tiny backpack you see fitted on this American Oystercatcher is a solar-powered GPS/GSM transmitter. It weighs around 10 grams (less than 3% of this bird’s total body weight) and is fitted to...

ADHD stimulants appear to work less by sharpening focus and more by waking up the brain. Brain scans revealed that these medications activate reward and alertness systems, helping children stay interested in tasks they would normally avoid. The drugs even reversed brain patterns linked to sleep depr…

One of the more interesting announcements over the holiday period thus far is that moving into 2026, CachyOS is looking to develop a server edition for their Arch Linux based operating system. CachyOS has garnered quite a following among Linux enthusiasts and gamers for its competitive out-of-the-bo…

Open-source developer Derek J. Clark continues leading the efforts on improving the Lenovo Legion Go series hardware support under Linux. Posted today was the second iteration of the HID driver work for the Legion Go and Legion Go S for configuration support with the built-in controller HID interfac…