People worry that the world will be destroyed by an AGI hell-bent on making paperclips, ignoring that it's already being destroyed by corporations hell-bent on making profit.
The story is that light of a certain wavelength can evaporate more water from hydrogel than equivalent heat energy would, by directly spalling off lumps of water molecules at the water-air interface.
They can't find some other app, that's the whole issue. Every app apart from the official Reddit app will be priced out of existence, and the official app is so crap that mods can't do what they need to do on it.
Quote from TFS: "It all started with a harmless, informative tweet. Tamitha Skov, a space weather forecaster and science communicator, just broke away from the main filament..."
Yeah, "a piece broke off of the sun" is actually more accurate than "a science writer broke off of the filament".