NASA topples towers used to test Saturn rockets, space shuttle
Two historic NASA test facilities used in the development of the Saturn V and space shuttle launch vehicles have been demolished after towering over the Marshall...
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Minimal Ubuntu Pro: lean images backed by enterprise-grade security
Deploy Minimal Ubuntu Pro across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud The security landscape is growing continually in complexity. Whatever industry you work in, your organization has...
Read moreCells Use ‘Bioelectricity’ To Coordinate and Make Group Decisions
We’re used to thinking of the brain as an electric organ. The rest of the body? Not so much. But it would be a mistake to...
Read moreDirk Eddelbuettel: RcppAnnoy 0.0.23 on CRAN: Several Updates
A new release, now at version 0.0.22, of RcppAnnoy has arrived on CRAN, just a little short of two years since the previous release. RcppAnnoy is...
Read morePostcard From Web Directions Dev Summit, 2025
Author’s Note: There are already wonderful recaps of the Web Directions Developer Summit I spoke at in November 2025. So, rather than offering another one, I...
Read moreFirefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support
Firefox 147.0 release binaries have hit the Mozilla servers today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser. Firefox 147 is exciting for Linux...
Read moreIntel Releases Open3D 0.19 With Experimental Cross-Platform GPU Support Using SYCL
Not to be confused with the Open 3D game engine, Intel’s Intelligent Systems Lab Organization released Open3D 0.19 as the latest iteration of this open-source library...
Read moreSecurity updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and sogo), Fedora (chromium, foomuuri, libpng, libsodium, mariadb10.11, musescore, nginx, python-pdfminer, python-urllib3, python3.12, seamonkey, wasmedge, and wget2), Mageia...
Read moreNew Mobile SDK Brings Low-Code Development to On-Device AI
One of the big AI development trends of last year was the shift to on-device inference, in many cases using so-called small language models (SLMs). Google...
Read moreResearchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane
On a blustery November day, a Cessna turboprop flew over Pennsylvania at 5,000 meters, in crosswinds of up to 70 knots—nearly as fast as the little...
Read moreMitigating emissions from air freight: Unlocking the potential of SAF with book and claim
Emissions from air freight have increased by 25% since 2019, according to a 2024 analysis by environmental advocacy organization Stand.Earth. The researchers found that the expansion...
Read morePython’s deque: Implement Efficient Queues and Stacks
You can use Python’s deque for efficient appends and pops at both ends of a sequence-like data type. These capabilities are critical when you need to...
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