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Solar orbiter detects ion sorting at the solar wind's magnetic boundary

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study of data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter gives the most detailed view of the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) to date.

This Star Orbits Our Galaxy's Heart at a Record-Breaking Speed—and Could Help Uncover Secrets About the Behemoth Black Hole There

The speedster travels at up to 56 million miles per hour, or about 8 percent the speed of light. It also gets very close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way

Serbia keeps EU, Russia in play ahead of key election

As Serbia heads toward an uncertain election, President Aleksandar Vucic is balancing ties with Russia and EU ambitions. But growing geopolitical tensions and pressure at home are narrowing his room to maneuver.

Serbia: Keeping EU, Russia in play ahead of key election

As Serbia heads towards an uncertain election, President Aleksandar Vucic is balancing ties with Russia and EU ambitions. But growing geopolitical tensions and pressure at home are narrowing his room to maneuver.

Telangana UCBs get RBI praise for response to Saksham

Saksham was launched to ensure urban cooperative banks and the people who lead them are equipped with the demands of present day banking.

Libyan who was cleared after Lockerbie bombing trial dies aged 70

A Facebook post by Libyan Airlines announced the death of Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah and expressed the company's condolences to his family.

Queen bees have a disturbing way to survive pesticides

Honeybee queens exposed to pesticides can shift some of the contamination into their eggs, revealing a previously unknown survival strategy. The process may protect the queen while putting developing offspring, and potentially the entire colony, at risk.

A museum-shelf mystery reveals 6,500-year-old human tooth pendant in Serbia

More than 6,500 years ago, someone carefully drilled a hole in a human tooth, strung it on a cord and likely used it as a necklace. Found during field surveys at the Vinča cultural site of Jablanica in Serbia, the human tooth was originally misidentified as an animal tooth bead u

Gas Turbine Prices Are on Track to Nearly Triple. These Stocks Are Cashing In

SpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing strategy cuts generator

Electricity supply in the U.S.

Day One at Vanderbilt’s New York Campus

Among the tech and finance kids, there are plenty of students drawn to Museum Studies and the Chelsea art scene.

“It’s Optimism for Futurism”: Ambush’s Yoon Ahn Gives Barbie Her Own Humanoid Twist

Prototype 001 isn’t like other Barbies—she’s a robo-babe with a blonde hime haircut, a pink headset, silver body armor, and a cyborg cat companion.

Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese radar satellite to orbit early on Sept. 1

Rocket Lab will launch a private Japanese radar satellite to orbit early Tuesday morning (Sept.

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gon

Crypto exchange Gemini not at fault for collapse of Earn lending program, arbitrator says

An arbitrator earlier this month said Gemini Space Station did not mislead users of its Earn program.

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

Article URL: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496918 Points: 230 # Comments: 90

More than 30 years on from Lockerbie bombing, first US trial faces delay

Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank — groups' issues with $19.4B facility range from i

The DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, has faced a slew of complaints from the community since construction began in 2025.

De Zerbi highlights biggest problem at Spurs as Carra slams 'worst start'

Roberto De Zerbi believes changing the mentality at Tottenham is his biggest challenge after Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher said their start to the season "couldn't have gone any worse" following defeat to Newcastle.

Elon Musk is about to launch an Nvidia data center into orbit — and he's betting everything on its chips

Serbian war criminal Mladic to be buried with 'state honours'

Convicted genocidaire Ratko Mladić has died at the age of 84 in a UN prison in The Hague, where he was serving a life sentence.

'Bomba!' De Zerbi delighted as Spurs transfers create 'great squad'

"Savio is 'bomba'. All players we brought, I think are 'bomba'!"

Hugging Face’s Microduck Feels Like a Harbinger of the Cute AI Robot Wave

It waddles… it roller-skates… it plays ball… it learns.

Powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches European weather satellite to orbit (video)

Europe's most powerful rocket flew again today (Aug.

Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic to be buried with 'state honours'

Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia" for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, will be given a funeral with “military and state honours”, Serbian Justice Minister Nenad Vujic said Friday.

How SpaceX and Reflect Orbital Satellites Are Erasing the Stars Over National Parks

As more and more satellites like Starlink launch, our night skies are getting crowded.

SpaceX sends Starlink satellites to orbit on predawn launch from California

SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug.

Redditors Are Skeptical of SpaceX’s Orbital Data Centers. Are They Right?

Private equity’s struggles may be harbinger of a bigger economic crash

Investors in private equity firms are in a bit of a bind. Maureen Farrell reported in The New York Times this month that they are sitting on 33,575 companies they have not been able to sell or list at prices their investors will accept. This is up from 32,451 at the end of last y

How the ‘backwoods Barbie’ Dolly Parton turned self-aware artifice into authentic artistry

Dolly Parton’s first hit was titled ‘Dumb Blonde’. The country music legend, who has died at 80, was anything but that.

Reggie Watts Dropped From Podcast Intro & Comedy Festivals After Report Alleging Disturbing Behavior in Romantic Relationships

A recent piece brought to light several claims of "reckless" drug use, psychological abuse & more.

Lockerbie bombing trial postponed days before it was due to start

The trial of a Libyan man is delayed for a third time, after new evidence on the 37-year-old case came to light three days ago.

Lockerbie bombing trial postponed days before it was due to start - BBC

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SpaceX plans to put Nvidia-powered AI satellites in orbit next year

Elon Musk’s company now plans to launch orbital data centers by the end of next year.

SpaceX sends 27 Starlink satellites to orbit on 100th Falcon rocket launch of the year (video, photos)

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites this morning (Aug. 22) on a milestone mission for the company's Falcon rocket family. A Falcon 9 carrying 27 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today at 3:25 a.m. EDT (072

Arbitrator orders Washington Post to reinstate fired columnist

An independent arbitrator ordered The Washington Post to rehire a columnist it fired last year over controversial social media posts following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. A judge ruled Karen Attiah, an opinion writer at the Post, had been wrongfully t

SpaceX fires up Starship ahead of megarocket’s 1st orbital flight (video)

SpaceX is picking up the pace of preparations for the next launch of its giant Starship rocket. On Wednesday night (Aug. 19), the company completed a single-engine static fire test with its Ship 41 vehicle, the upper stage that's in line to fly Starship 's upcoming Flight 14 miss

Lokesh to inaugurate Suzlon’s turbine blade manufacturing unit in Anantapur district on August 25

The plant has been set up at a cost of ₹10,000 crore for an output of 1,325 Megawatts, according to an official release

EU, Russian aircraft help Serbia battle wildfires

EU crews and a Russian aircraft help Serbia fight major wildfires as extreme heat fuels fires across the Balkans.

Ebola: Motorbike riders carrying the sick may hold key to response boost

From the frontlines of the deadliest-ever Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN World Health Organization (WHO) shared details on Tuesday of a massive push for community engagement, a day after yet another ambulance attack.

The Gas Turbine Shortage Just Became AI’s Biggest Constraint

Serbia requests international assistance to battle wildfires

Serbia requested assistance from the European Union and Russia to help bring intense wildfires under control.

Kerala HC allows breast cancer patient to be impleaded in case on 'exorbitant’ prices of medicines

The initial petition, filed by another patient diagnosed with HR Positive HER2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer, sought directives to the Centre to take over the medication’s patent and make it available at the lowest price possible. She died when the case was pending in court.

SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste

Elon Musk’s talk about maintaining a million-strong AI data center satellite megaconstellation may not exactly be practical or economical , but it might be unique. It’s about the closest we’ve come to confronting a scheme that would export a considerable amount of valuable materi

Looking for Earth 2.0 in binary systems

While astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets over the last few decades, the true prize continues to elude them—they have yet to find an Earth-mass, rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star.

What happens next with bird flu? An expert explains why monitoring matters

Understanding the true magnitude of the current H5N1 outbreak is key to curbing its spread.

Tidal tomography reveals a thermal anomaly beneath Mars’s crustal dichotomy

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10893-x Analysis of tracking data from Mars orbiters reveals time-variable gravity field behaviour reflecting the structure underlying the Martian crustal dichotomy and indicates the preservation of a 200–400 °C the

Bihar Congress leaders plan Delhi protest on Sept. 8 seeking removal of in-charge, State chief

In a letter dated August 15, the workers alleged “disorder” in the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) during the Assembly election and accused the party’s in-charge of acting arbitrarily in the distribution of tickets.

Astronomers discover hot watery exoplanet destined to be swallowed by its star

Astronomers have discovered a new ocean world outside the solar system that orbits extremely close to its parent star.

Massive space mirrors could be 40 times brighter than the full moon, astronomers warn. 'It will be worse than big cities like London'

Each of the sun-reflecting mirrors proposed by U.S.-based startup Reflect Orbital will appear 40 times brighter than the full moon to observers standing within its beam on Earth, a study has found.

With delight and schadenfreude, Ash Flanders’ Commentary skewers the male artistic genius

Commentary, the new play now on at State Theatre Company South Australia, is an acerbic flaying of public and private personas

A black hole's spin could finally be measured by a high-speed star

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02607-0 Star orbiting close to Sagittarius A* could reveal its spin — plus, how exoskeletons might change the way humans move.

Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the sun

Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust. Over the next few million years, this "solar nebula" underwent a huge transformation, flattening into a disk of matter that then condensed to form the central sun and orbiting planet

A 4-star system caught eclipsing itself in a way never seen before

Astronomers have found a four-star system doing something that has never been confirmed before. The system, TIC 433545934, has two close pairs of stars orbiting each other. While each pair eclipses its own two stars, as usual, only one pair eclipses the other. A paper outlining t

NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches

Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets.

The battle within the BJP in Bengal

Suvendu Adhikari who promised to dismantle Mamata Banerjee’s political system, is consolidating power by absorbing the very same system and networks

Trump keeps turning his fire on female reporters

President Trump and his team frequently tout the president as the most media-accessible in history — but female reporters in his orbit are often disparaged and belittled, an Axios analysis of his remarks shows.

NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

NASA's $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, equipped with a 300-megapixel camera sighted through a refurbished spy mirror, launched Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to reveal the mysterious forces driving the Universe.

India rejects Hague court order to restore Indus waters pact with Pakistan

New Delhi says the Permanent Court of Arbitration has no jurisdiction over its sovereign choice.

Treasury Department blocks certain journalists from covering G20 meeting

The New York Times said in a statement that denying American journalists access to an event in the U.S. is "not just another disturbing effort by the administration to undermine independent journalism, but a blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny."

Leavitt is leaving the White House. Don’t expect her to go far

Karoline Leavitt wrapped up her final day as White House press secretary on Thursday, but she is not expected to veer far from President Trump’s orbit as Republicans seek to defend their majorities on Capitol Hill.

Richarlison, Danso and Sarr ask to leave Spurs

Tottenham manager Roberto De Zerbi says that Richarlison, Kevin Danso and Pape Matar Sarr have asked to leave the club.

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

Article URL: https://www.orbify.eu/demo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477564 Points: 586 # Comments: 186

Lammonby helps Somerset build lead against Sussex

Opener Tom Lammonby returns to form to revive Somerset's County Championship title challenge with his highest score of the season on an absorbing second day against Sussex at Hove.

Trump tried to scrap NASA's Roman Space Telescope last year. Now it's ready to launch

The hours are counting down to the launch of NASA's newest flagship orbital observatory.

NASA just used satellites and debris to navigate without GPS

NASA has successfully tested a system that allows satellites to navigate without GPS by using other spacecraft and debris as landmarks in orbit. In just three days, FALCON also improved the known orbits of more than 200 space objects completely autonomously.

Timeline: Life of Ratko Mladic, general turned ‘Butcher of Bosnia’

Mladic died in prison in The Hague after failed requests by Serbian authorities to secure early release to home country.

Mirae Asset eyes $109 billion crypto empire after acquiring Digital X

Park Hyeon-joo, Mirae Asset Financial Group’s founder, outlined his ambitious stablecoin, RWAs, and STOs plan for Digital X, formerly known as Korbit, in an event for his employees.

Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord who oversaw atrocities, has died at 84

Ratko Mladic was one of the most notorious figures of a war that killed over 100,000 people in the 1990s. He commanded his troops to "scorch the brains" of the Bosnian Muslims and boasted of being a "Serbian God."

Milky Way's own gravity can mimic dark matter clues, stellar stream simulations suggest

Most of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy sit neatly on a flat plane. But the space around our galaxy is much more chaotic. Rogue bands of stars called "stellar streams" orbit the Milky Way much like planets in our solar system orbit the sun.

Jackson Hole is Warsh’s chance to win over his Fed colleagues — and investors

New Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has yet to earn the trust of his central-bank colleagues or financial-market participants who remain wary of his approach to curbing inflation and his ties to the White House.

Ocean antacid trials test plankton response in 8,000-liter seawater enclosures

All the forests in the world pale in comparison to the ocean when it comes to absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The ocean is the world's largest natural carbon sink, absorbing about a quarter of all CO2 emissions every year (and most of the excess heat trapped in Eart

On this day in space! Aug. 25, 1997: NASA launches Advanced Composition Explorer to track solar wind and so much more

On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles traveling through space. It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Delta II rocket and spent the next three and a half months making its way to its orbit

For families of Pan Am 103 victims, delayed trial prolongs nearly 4-decade wait for justice

The monumental collection of 76 statues in Suse Lowenstein's backyard captures the moment she and other women learned their loved ones were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

NASA’s Pandora Mission Begins Study of Exoplanets, Host Stars

Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission and the first satellite to launch through the agency’s Astrophysics Pioneers program, is now making unique observations of worlds beyond our solar system and the stars they orbit. The mission will determine the atmospheric make-up of at le

NASA Can't Rescue The Satellite That Was Going To Rescue Another Satellite After All

The plan was for the Link satellite to fly over to Swift, grab onto it, and haul it back up into a stable orbit. Unfortunately, that's not what happened.

Dolly Parton Died Following Brief Battle with Cancer

Parton, 80, passed away at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, surrounded by loved ones. Dolly Parton Died Following Brief Battle with Cancer Alex Young

Dolly Parton died following ‘brief battle with cancer’

A representative for Dolly Parton on Tuesday said the country singer died after a “brief battle” with cancer, although they did not disclose the specific type of cancer. “After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingr

NASA satellites ace world's 1st 'lost-in-space' GPS-free navigation experiment

No GPS available in space? A satellite experiment may have a solution for that. NASA's Starling mission — made up of a swarm of four cubesats in low Earth orbit (LEO) — is testing out navigation by using other satellites as moving landmarks. The hope is that this tech will allow

Reusable stencils create clean carbon nanotube patterns in single-stage process

Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from Harbin Institute of Technology in China and ITMO University in Russia have devised a way to deposit elaborate geometric patterns of carbon nanotubes without wasting material. Such patterns are used in advanced optical devices an