Saturday Citations: A big old black hole, polar bears in bad decline, building a jail for electrons
This week, we covered developments about a record-breaking black hole, the continued plight of polar bears, ChatGPT trying to learn intuition and more. Don't worry if you missed those stories. We've got you covered here......»»
Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen—and named them Porphyrion
The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe. This pair of particle beams launched by a supermassive black hole is over a hundred times larger than our galaxy, the Milky Way......»»
Woman sues Florida sheriff after mistaken arrest lands her in jail on Christmas
Woman sues Florida sheriff after mistaken arrest lands her in jail on Christmas.....»»
Frostpunk 2 preload guide: release date, file size, and preorder
Frostpunk 2 is on the way and promises a chillingly difficult city-building survival experience just like the first. Here's how you can get ready for release......»»
Hands-on with black titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2
Apple has added the one missing feature to the this year: a black titanium option. Here’s how the black titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2 looks in the wild. more….....»»
Strivacity AI Assist optimizes digital identity management
Strivacity released Strivacity AI Assist, a new “smart assistant” powered by GenAI that makes it easier to manage and secure digital identities across business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) use cases. Building on Strivacity’s.....»»
Vast France building project sunk by sea level rise fears
An ambitious housing project in the northwestern French city of Caen has run aground over worries that rising waters driven by climate change could make the area unlivable within the century......»»
Data disposal and cyber hygiene: Building a culture of security within your organization
Data breach episodes have been constantly rising with the number of data breach victims crossing 1 billion in the first half of 2024. A recent Data Breach Report 2023 by Verizon confirms that 74% of data breaches are due to human errors. Although cyb.....»»
Cal Poly student who shot guns on campus sentenced to jail. ‘Let this serve as a lesson’
Cal Poly student who shot guns on campus sentenced to jail. ‘Let this serve as a lesson’.....»»
Sean "Diddy" Combs back in court to request bail, complains of "horrific" New York City jail conditions
Sean "Diddy" Combs back in court to request bail, complains of "horrific" New York City jail conditions.....»»
Researchers spot largest black hole jets ever discovered
The jets are 140 times larger than the Milky Way. Enlarge / Artist's conception of a dark matter filament containing a galaxy with large jets. (Caltech noted that some details of this image were created using AI.) (credit: Martij.....»»
This iOS 18 feature can save you time and frustration with Home accessories
iOS 18 is a big release with a ton of new features. Some enhancements to the Home app, like support for robot vacuum cleaners, aren’t coming until later. But there’s one update available now that could save you time and frustration. Building your.....»»
Racial and gender bias in US crime victim compensation programs highlighted in report
Significant racial and gender disparities exist in U.S. crime victim compensation programs, revealing Black and Indigenous people as well as survivors of gender-based violence face unique challenges in obtaining financial support, according to a new.....»»
How job-hopping managers undermine corporate culture
As most successful companies will know, building effective corporate culture is very rewarding, but also challenging. It requires senior managers to create shared values and embed those values in their decisions and interactions with staff......»»
Walking the trees: Researchers trace how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees
For millennia, Indigenous knowledge holders have passed down lore to the next generation. Much lore describes the relationships between people and Country, including custodial responsibilities to care for other species as kin......»»
How to prepare for a stormy "supercharged" September
The effects of climate change have become an ominous presence in our lives, and the dramatic media monikers that accompany them—bomb cyclones, atmospheric rivers, thundersnow, black swan events, heat domes, polar vortexes—sound almost biblical......»»
The Next President Should End NASA’s Space Launch System Rocket
Rather than building an obsolescent, obscenely-over-budget jumbo rocket, NASA should turn to building truly innovative space technologies and plan a realistic lunar landing program.....»»
Why Early Prostate Cancer Screening Matters for Black Men
According to the American Cancer Society, Black men are about 70 percent more likely than white men to develop prostate cancer in their lifetime and twice as likely to die from the disease......»»
Three ways the Apple Watch Ultra 2 just got better
There’s no Apple Watch Ultra 3 yet, with the gorgeous satin black finish the only hardware change to the Ultra 2. But Apple’s upgrading its Ultra line through software, with three new Apple Watch Ultra 2 features in watchOS 11. Here’s how the U.....»»
Nuclear theorists turn to supercomputers to map out matter"s building blocks in 3D
Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks of the atom's nucleus—particles called hadrons that a high school student would recognize as protons and neutrons—are made.....»»
Low-noise amplifiers aboard the Arctic Weather Satellite
The Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS) of the European Space Agency (ESA) was sent on its journey to a polar orbit 600 km above the Earth on August 16, 2024. On board: four low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State.....»»