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Swimming and spinning aquatic spiders use slick survival strategies
28 April 2024 @ 11:11 am
Some make nests inside seashells, others tote bubbles of air on their backs.
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back
27 April 2024 @ 11:27 am
The past year has seen record renewable power production nationwide.
There’s never been a better time to get into Fallout 76
27 April 2024 @ 11:00 am
Fallout 76 is good now. Actually, it’s always been good.
NASA still doesn’t understand root cause of Orion heat shield issue
27 April 2024 @ 12:22 am
“When we stitch it all together, we’ll either have flight rationale or we won’t."
Putting Microsoft’s cratering Xbox console sales in context
26 April 2024 @ 9:31 pm
Why declining quarterly numbers might not be awful news for Microsoft's gaming business.
Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
26 April 2024 @ 9:10 pm
New York obtains significant win for states' ability to regulate broadband.
Android TV has access to your entire account—but Google is changing that
26 April 2024 @ 7:35 pm
Should sideloading Chrome on an old smart TV really compromise your entire account?
Hackers try to exploit WordPress plugin vulnerability that’s as severe as it gets
26 April 2024 @ 7:07 pm
WP Automatic plugin patched, but release notes don't mention the critical fix.
US’s power grid continues to lower emissions—everything else, not so much
26 April 2024 @ 6:51 pm
Excluding one pandemic year, emissions are lower than they've been since the 1980s.
Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
26 April 2024 @ 6:06 pm
Bot-driven service was also connected to targeted harassment site Kiwi Farms.