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Submission + - Big Tech deserves its Big Tobacco moment (marketwatch.com) 1

Submitted by sinij
sinij writes:

Landmark verdicts shatter the Section 230 shield, turning ‘addictive’ product design into a legal thicket for Meta, Alphabet and others.

The fact that social media is designed to be addictive is now court-tested fact.

Submission + - Ads Are Popping Up on the Fridge and It Isn't Going Over Well (wsj.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Walking into his kitchen, Tim Yoder recoiled at a message on his refrigerator door: “Shop Samsung water filters.”

Yoder, a supply-chain manager in Chicago, owns a Samsung Electronics Family Hub fridge. He paid $1,400 for an appliance that came with a 32-inch screen on the door that allows him to control other Samsung gadgets, pull up recipes or stream music.

Submission + - Hijacking a global ocean supply chain network

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I'm the Captain now: Hijacking a global ocean supply chain network

“BLUVOYIX by Bluspark Global is an ocean logistics / supply chain platform used by hundreds of the world’s largest companies. The software is also used by several affiliated companies. Critical vulnerabilities were uncovered that enabled full platform takeover and access to all customer data/shipments. As of the date of publication, these issues are resolved.”

Submission + - Windows 12, Codenamed 'Hudson Valley': Everything We Know So Far (technobezz.com)

Submitted by meriksen
meriksen writes: Can Microsoft recover from the bad press that Windows 11 has received?
Can they turn the tide and prevent an exodus away from Windows?

Microsoft hasn't officially announced Windows 12, but mounting evidence from industry reporting suggests a major new version with deep AI integration and a modular "CorePC" architecture is in the works for 2026.

Rumors indicate it may require specialized NPU hardware and could introduce new AI feature tiers, though some speculation about a subscription-based OS has been debunked.

Here's everything we know so far about features, hardware requirements, and what to expect. Original story here: https://www.technobezz.com/new...

Submission + - United Airlines Can Now Remove Passengers Who Won't Put Headphones On (cbsnews.com) 1

Submitted by msmash
msmash writes: United Airlines has quietly updated its contract of carriage to require all passengers to wear headphones whenever they use a personal device that produces sound — covering music, videos and social media feeds alike. The airline now reserves the right to remove passengers who don't comply, and may refuse them transport on a permanent basis. United also noted on its website that it will provide a free pair of earbuds to passengers who forget theirs in some instances.

Submission + - UFO files reveal giant glowing sphere over military base hidden for 35 years (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Declassified documents from over three decades ago have revealed how an encounter with a suspected UFO at the south pole was covered up.

The records unsealed this year by Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs have confirmed an eyewitness account from 1991, when military personnel and civilian researchers in Antarctica detected and then saw a large flying saucer over their base.

Miguel Amaya, a retired Argentine Air Force non-commissioned officer, told UFO investigators in the early 2000s that he was stationed at General San Martín Base, a small scientific and military station on a tiny island in Antarctica in April of that year.

At the start of the polar night, when the sun stays down for months, an alarm went off on the station's riometer, a machine that measures changes in the upper atmosphere.

Despite the three needle pens measuring different heights of the ionosphere, the part of the atmosphere where solar radiation ionizes atoms, all of the needles began drawing the same pattern, which is scientifically impossible.

According to Amaya, outpost personnel claimed that the strange readings could only have been caused by something producing the same energy as a nuclear aircraft carrier or a large city floating over Antarctica.

Hours later, another base member was walking outside during a snowstorm when they allegedly saw 'a huge circle of light' moving slowly and silently right over the building.

The 1991 incident has finally come to light after Amaya claimed he and the other members at General San Martín Base were told never to talk about what they had seen by their superiors.

Comment Re:Riiight (Score 3, Informative) 107

I've been working for a couple decades in the manufacturing system space. For several years, multiple companies came to us "we want to work with you on 5G adoption in manufacturing".... They wanted us to come up with ideas of why manufacturers would deploy private 5G networks within factories. I couldn't come up with any good reason.

I typically work wit large enterprises, and when you're spending 100's of millions, if not billions of dollars on a factory, why would you use cheap IoT sensors, when you can hardwire industrial sensors you know will work for a very long time? and then you don't need to deal with all the EMF noise manufacturing hardware produces These other companies trying to push 5G would make suggestions, and I'd respond with "we've been doing that for years with wifi". The whole 5G IIoT (Industrial IoT) was a solution looking for a problem.

Submission + - For the first time, light mimics a Nobel Prize quantum effect (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Scientists have pulled off a feat long considered out of reach: getting light to mimic the famous quantum Hall effect. In their experiment, photons drift sideways in perfectly defined, quantized steps—just like electrons do in powerful magnetic fields. Because these steps depend only on nature’s fundamental constants, they could become a new gold standard for ultra-precise measurements. The discovery also hints at tougher, more reliable quantum photonic technologies.

Submission + - Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text (science.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: On a cloudy day in January, historian Ivan Malara sat in Italy’s National Central Library of Florence poring over seven 16th century printings of the ancient world’s most influential astronomy text. The pages belonged to The Almagest, in which second century polymath Claudius Ptolemy described his vision of an Earth-centered cosmos. As Malara flipped through the pages, he spotted something out of place. Someone had transcribed Psalm 145 on an otherwise blank page—in handwriting reminiscent of a very, very famous Tuscan astronomer.

That book, Malara came to realize, had been extensively annotated by none other than Galileo Galilei. Malara’s discovery, described in a paper now under review at the Journal for the History of Astronomy, promises new insights into one of the most famous ideological transitions in the history of science: the moment when Earth was thrust from the center of our universe.

Submission + - ATM "jackpotting" incidents rising across US, FBI says (kxan.com) 1

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: An analysis found that 700 incidents occurred in 2025 alone and accounted for over $20 million in losses. The FBI has identified about 1,900 jackpotting incidents across the country since 2020.

Jackpotting happens when individuals or groups use malware to infect ATMs and force them to dispense cash. The FBI’s bulletin says the “Ploutus” malware can force an ATM to dispense cash without using a bank card, customer account or bank authorization.

“The malware can be used across ATMs of different manufacturers with very little adjustment to the code as the Windows operating system is exploited during the compromise,” the bulletin said.

Submission + - "World's largest battery" soon at Google data center: 100-hour iron-air storage (interestingengineering.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The battery has a 30 GWh capacity and a 100-hour duration.

Form Energy’s batteries work very differently from most large batteries today. Instead of using lithium like the batteries in electric cars, they store electricity by making iron rust and then reversing the rusting process to release the energy when needed.

When oxygen from the air passes over small pieces of iron inside the battery, the iron rusts and produces electricity. To recharge the battery, an electric current removes the oxygen from the rust, turning it back into iron and releasing it again.

Form’s iron-air batteries are heavier and less efficient than their counterparts; they can only return about 50% to 70% of the energy used to charge them, while lithium-ion batteries return more than 90%.

However, Form’s batteries have one distinct advantage. They are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries, costing about $20 per kilowatt-hour of storage, which is almost three times as cheap.

Submission + - Cybercabs? But Tesla Still Doesn't Have a Self-Driving Car (etn.se)

Submitted by jantangring
jantangring writes: Nope, a car does not magically become autonomous just because you remove the steering wheel. Tesla has begun mass-producing a vehicle designed without one, aiming squarely at the robotaxi market. But the most critical component is still missing: the self-driving system itself.

The Tesla Cybercab has now entered series production. Yet the vehicles might just as well be shipped straight to the scrapyard. They do not work. Tesla’s CEO hopes they soon will — and that hope is precisely why he is building them.

How do we know Cybercab’s autonomy doesn’t work?

Because it relies on the exact same underlying system as every other Tesla, and that system does not deliver true self-driving capability.

Removing the wheel and pedals will not suddenly make the technology function. That is magical thinking, not engineering.

The Teslas currently operating in Tesla’s experimental taxi service in Austin are driving under supervision. There is no compelling reason to believe they possess the robustness required for fully unsupervised operation.

Submission + - Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon from the Post Office

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon from the Post Office, step by step

“Decommissioning and replacing an IT system that has caused irreparable harm to thousands of people is not the usual job description of an incoming chief technology officer (CTO), but that’s what Paul Anastassi signed up for when he took on the role at the Post Office.”

Submission + - Tesla "Robotaxi" service reports 5 more crashes in Austin

Submitted by cmseagle
cmseagle writes: Tesla has reported 5 crashes in Austin over the course of December and January. Most of these were minor collisions, but it implies that the taxis may be less safe than human drivers:

The irony is that Tesla’s own numbers condemn it. Tesla’s Vehicle Safety Report claims the average American driver experiences a minor collision every 229,000 miles and a major collision every 699,000 miles. By Tesla’s own benchmark, its “Robotaxi” fleet is crashing nearly 4 times more often than what the company says is normal for a regular human driver in a minor collision, and virtually every single one of these miles was driven with a trained safety monitor in the vehicle who could intervene at any moment, which means they likely prevented more crashes that Tesla’s system wouldn’t have avoided.

More concerningly, they've also upgraded an incident which took place in July from "property damage only" to "Minor w/ Hospitalization":

This means someone involved in a Tesla “Robotaxi” crash required hospital treatment. The original crash involved a right turn collision with an SUV at 2 mph. Tesla’s delayed admission of hospitalization, five months after the incident, raises more questions about its crash reporting, which is already heavily redacted.

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