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Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars - but no giant space bees
The Register - 30 Jul 2026 05:38Qualcomm wont be a big datacenter player anytime soon
The Register - 30 Jul 2026 04:43Microsoft Will Soon Release an AI Super App
Gizmodo - 30 Jul 2026 03:18
The Copilot super app will span both consumer and enterprise use cases.
Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages
The Register - 30 Jul 2026 17:28Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Centralization of A.I. Power
The New York Times - 30 Jul 2026 14:08
In an interview with The Times, Metas chief executive took aim at Anthropic and OpenAI, which have pushed to tightly control A.I. development, and said he supported more openness.
On this day in space! July 30, 1610: Galileo sees Saturn's rings for the 1st time
SPACE.com - 30 Jul 2026 14:00
On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet Saturn. Here's why it matters centuries later.
Russian Hackers Exploit Microsoft OWA Flaw to Keep Mailbox Access After Credential Rotation
The Hacker News - 30 Jul 2026 13:10
The Russian threat actors recently linked to the exploitation of a now-patched vulnerability in Zimbra have been observed exploiting another vulnerability, this time in Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA), to target U.S. ...
FCC Blocks New Foreign-Produced Robots and Power Inverters Over Cyber Risks
The Hacker News - 30 Jul 2026 12:58
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced mobile robots and networked power inverters to its Covered List on July 28. The move generally prevents new models from receiving the equipment authoriza...
The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time
The Register - 30 Jul 2026 12:00What if the brain does not create consciousness?
Science Daily - 30 Jul 2026 09:23
Christof Koch is taking on one of sciences deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all. He argues that materialism has yet to solve this hard problem and will explore pu...
Alien Signals May Hide in Unexplored High Radio Frequencies
Universe Today - 30 Jul 2026 05:12
Confirming the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence via radio signals, also called technosignatures, is the cornerstone of radio astronomy. While humanity has been asking since time immemorial whether or not were a...
AI Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters By the Thousands
Slashdot - 30 Jul 2026 03:30
An anonymous reader quotes a New York Times report on how AI companies are pouring money into training and recruiting electricians, carpenters, and other skilled tradespeople to build data centers: There is no parallel i...
Why Are 'R' Series OnePlus Phones So Much Cheaper?
BGR - 30 Jul 2026 03:17
OnePlus R series phones are significantly cheaper than their standard counterparts, but what exactly do you give up to save that extra money?
Meta Struggles With Limited Returns on Its AI Spending, Social Media Legal Woes
Gizmodo - 30 Jul 2026 01:31
Meta's free cash flow dropped almost $8 billion in a year due to AI.
EU Will Reportedly Label ChatGPT and Roblox Very Large Online Platforms (Derogatory)
Gizmodo - 30 Jul 2026 01:21
The designation exposes companies to tougher regulations and transparency requirements.
This new alloy is up to 10 times stronger than steel and surprisingly flexible
Science Daily - 30 Jul 2026 23:55
Engineers have transformed a notoriously brittle cobalt-aluminum compound into a material that is both extremely strong and capable of bending without breaking. Their nanoscale design produced a yield strength about six ...
Apple says App Store regulatory changes are beginning to affect Services growth
9 to 5 Mac - 30 Jul 2026 23:50
During todays earnings call, Apple CFO Kevan Parekh said the company is beginning to feel the impact of regulatory changes to the App Store business model in the US and abroad. Here are the details.
DPRK-Linked macOS Malvertising Uses Fake Updates to Deliver Crypto-Stealing Malware
The Hacker News - 30 Jul 2026 23:48
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence to delive...
The Samurai and the Prisoner Fits a War Epic Into an Elegant Puzzle Box
The New Yorker - 30 Jul 2026 23:31
In Kiyoshi Kurosawas historical drama, a series of puzzling crimes at a besieged fortress yields even more confounding questions about faith, war, and leadership.
A strange quantum rule caps electrical resistance
Science Daily - 30 Jul 2026 23:30
Physicists have uncovered a surprising limit to electrical resistance caused by particles colliding. Using ultracold potassium atoms trapped in a grid of light, researchers created a highly controlled stand-in for electr...
Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for significant supply constraints
TechCrunch - 30 Jul 2026 23:28
Apple is worried enough about supply shortages that it reported about $11.1 billion in inventory, which is almost double the $5.7 billion it reported last September.
AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares
TechCrunch - 30 Jul 2026 23:25
The former OpenAI researchers fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.