China’s MingYang Smart Energy has announced an offshore wind turbine even bigger than GE’s monstrous Haliade-X. From a report: The MySE 16.0-242 is a 16-megawatt, 242-meter-tall (794-ft) behemoth capable of powering 20,000 homes per unit over a 25-year…
The Fierce Legal Battle at the Heart of the Fight Over Reclining Airline Seats
An excerpt from Slate’s interview with law professor Michael Heller, who has co-written a book called ‘Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives’: Heller: Just to give you a concrete example, there’s a guy named James Beach who was fly…
WHO Seeks ‘Best Minds’ To Probe New Pathogens That Jump from Animals To Humans
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday it was looking for the greatest scientific minds to advise on investigations into new high-threat pathogens that jump from animals to humans and could spark the next pandemic. From a report: Launching …
New Linux Syscall Enables Secret Memory Even the Kernel Can’t Read
RoccamOccam writes: After many months of development, the memfd_secret() system call was finally merged for the upcoming 5.14 release of Linux. There have been many changes during this feature’s development, but its core purpose remains the same: allow…
Larger Minority in US Says Some UFOs Are Alien Spacecraft
Gallup: More Americans are taking UFOs seriously than just two years ago. When asked which of two theories better explains UFO sightings, 41% of adults now believe some UFOs involve alien spacecraft from other planets, up eight points from 33% in 2019….
The New WikiLeaks
How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed Julian Assange. From a report: Whereas WikiLeaks cultivated an anti-imperialist mystique centered on the cultish figure of Assange, DDoSecrets professes something more modest: an unvarnished commitmen…
Apple’s Double Agent
For more than a year, an active member of a community that traded in illicitly obtained internal Apple documents and devices was also acting as an informant for the company. An anonymous reader shares a report: On Twitter and in Discord channels for th…
Cloudflare Says It Mitigated a Record-Breaking 17.2 Million HTTP RPS DDoS Attack
Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare disclosed today that it mitigated the largest volumetric distributed denial of service attack that was recorded to date. From a report: The attack, which took place last month, targeted one of Cloudflare’s cus…
The World’s Largest Computer Chip
silverjacket writes: A feature article at The New Yorker: ‘A typical computer chip is the size of a fingernail. Cerebras’s is the size of a dinner plate. It is the largest computer chip in the world.’ An excerpt from the story: Even competitors find th…
Rain Falls at the Summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for First Time on Record
Greenland just experienced another massive melt event this year. But this time, something unusual happened. It also rained at the summit of the ice sheet, [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source] nearly two miles above sea level. …