0. Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil (space.com)
716 points · 408 comments · by bookmtn
German startup Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit from Norway’s Andøya Space Center, becoming the first rocket to do so from Western European soil and successfully deploying five cubesats and a scientific experiment. [src]
1. Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns (codeberg.org)
714 points · 388 comments · by Cider9986
A Codeberg wiki lists 12 working Nitter instances, three redirectors, eight active but rate-limited instances, and six formerly active or taken-down services. [src]
2. The revolt of the reader (bcantrill.dtrace.org)
573 points · 281 comments · by chmaynard
The author argues that readers increasingly reject LLM-authored writing as inauthentic, citing survey data and improved AI-detection tools while urging writers and organizations to use LLMs for editing rather than public authorship. [src]
3. AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (sylvainkalache.com)
409 points · 340 comments · by sylvainkalache
AI-driven incident response may reduce routine outages’ resolution times, but the author warns it could leave engineers unprepared for complex failures, making regular hands-on practice, simulations, and chaos exercises essential to prevent skills and system understanding from decaying. [src]
4. The Real Luxuries In Life (feld.com)
505 points · 241 comments · by tosh
Reflecting on turning 61, the author shares a list framing time, health, peace, rest, relationships, and everyday moments as life’s true luxuries. [src]
5. Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says (pbs.org)
336 points · 383 comments · by ijidak
A U.N. report says global warming will exceed the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit within years, urging countries to minimize the overshoot, adapt to worsening impacts, end fossil fuel use and eventually remove carbon dioxide to bring temperatures back below the threshold. [src]
6. Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)
578 points · 113 comments · by ExMachina73
A Chrome 152 bug on macOS appears to preserve Google Search’s cookies, Local Storage, and Session Storage despite a setting to delete site data when windows close, even when users are signed out and use another default search engine. [src]
7. Netherlands pulls gold out of the US (abc.net.au)
375 points · 263 comments · by daniel_iversen
The Netherlands moved 86 tonnes of gold from the US and Canada to London and the Netherlands to improve crisis readiness amid rising geopolitical tensions and concerns about reliance on traditional allies. [src]
8. LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (arxiv.org)
385 points · 248 comments · by canjobear
Researchers model LLM adoption as a “cognitive virus,” finding that social reinforcement could trigger rapid dependence and losses in cognitive competence, while reduced transmission and reversible use may promote cognitive resilience. [src]
9. Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop (reason.com)
374 points · 201 comments · by bbatsell
A federal lawsuit alleges Waukesha County sheriff’s deputies searched Flock license-plate-reader data more than 100 times to track Navy veteran Napoleon Jones after unlawfully arresting him for recording a traffic stop, retaliating against his First Amendment rights. [src]
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