I'm not an astronomer, but I recognize a hack when I see one. Dark matter was a hack. Dark energy was a hack on a hack. Now they're hacking the hack to the hack

The article is about Dark Energy, not Dark Matter ...
However ...

Dark matter is not a hack.

It is just like viruses.
When they were discovered (1890s?), they were yet to be seen for decades.
The basic story is that a solution from infected tobacco leaves caused mottling on healthy tobacco leaves. Bacteria were suspected, but the scientists used very fine filters that excluded bacteria, and the leaves were still infected!
They called it virus from the Latin word for poison.
It was not seen, because they were smaller than the wavelength of visible light, and that was what optical microscopes use.
It was only in the 1930s when they were actually seen by electron microscopes.

So Dark Matter says we observe effects of something unseen through its gravity.
It may turn out to be a particle, or primordial black hole, or something else.

Except he will brain fart and require KFC apps.

Thanks for pointing this out.

It will do, but it also lacks any community input ("Oh, I have this problem but solved it by ...", or "Works for me ...", and so on ...

I emailed them, and got an autoreponse.

And it seems the RSS just started working again.

Hey Slashdot,

The RSS feeds are not working again.

Right now, the feed looks like this.

There are 6 more stories on the front page, newer than the SoftBank and OpenAI story.
The oldest that is not in the RSS feed is from last 23:30 on July 21st, and now it is 9:15am.

I reported this a few days ago, and was marked 'Troll', and 'OffTopic'.
For those who are hasty with moderation points, how else can someone report a site issue, when Slashdot has no place for it?

This attitude of tweaking things, reducing configurability, reducing stability, pushed me away from KDE.

Switched from Kubuntu to Xubuntu, and never looked back.

Hey Slashdot ...

The RSS feed stopped working on the 17th of July.

Check the feed out yourselves ...
Or the alternate feed, same problem.

Unless you don't care about traffic from the feed then ...

You don't have to go to a stuffy old stockbroker. You can buy these babies in the alley from the same dude who sells you meth.

Here are some anecdotal data from my backyard weather station (Southern Ontario, Canada).
Absolute values are irrelevant, but it is the comparative values that matter.
Same sensor, same placement ...

2022: highest was 33.9C in June, with 17 days above 30C (2 in May, 6 in June, 6 in July, 2 in August, and 1 in September.

2023: highest was 33.4C in September, and 11 days above 30C (2 in May, 2 in June, 4 in July, none in August, and 3 in September.

2024: highest was 35.2C in June, and 21 days above 30C.

2025: already got 36.4C in June, and 6 days above 30C, with at least 2.5 months left in A/C season.

El Nino did end in early summer of 2024.

If records continue to be broken, then my guess is that we have already started on the runaway warming phase ...

I hope I am wrong about that ...

Sounds like we need a new streaming service which only streams songs which are in the public domain.

In 2013, the CO2 average hit 400 ppm
In 2025, it crossed the 430 ppm mark.

That is ~ 7.5% over a mere 12 years.

This is frightening for anyone who takes science and observations seriously.

I'm torn on this. I believe nuclear is an import part of clean energy and should be used. At the same time, I know in the US energy companies are generally private companies, meaning they care about profits more than anything else. Nuclear power plants can be run safely, but I have no faith the an American company WILL run them safely. When the choice is saving some money or raising risk by 1%, most companies will take the small amount of risk to save the money. With a nuclear plant, that should never happen.

It is because while they hate Jews, they love Israel. The biggest reason is the evangelicals think Israel has to take back all the land before the rapture can happen. So they are big Israel supporters. Mind you when the rapture happens, all the jews die and go to hell, and they are 100% OK with that.

This is what it has come to? We will scan for antisemitic activity, but nothing else? So if you post about supporting killing all Muslims, that is not a red flag they are looking for? I can understand wanting to look for anti-american sentiment (not agree with it, but at least understand it). But looking for anti-Israel sentiment and nothing else just says that Israel is running things for the US. How about any type of violence related activity toward anyone?

You make it sound like "certain viruses can cause cancer" is hidden knowledge that is being actively suppressed by 'the establishment' for some nefarious reason.

The first virus found to cause cancer was Rous Sarcoma virus in 1911, in chicken. Since then, several cancer inducing viruses (oncoviruses) have been discovered.

They are all covered in virology textbooks. If you have the time, watch the Virology course of Dr. Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University. It is well covered there.

Viruses like Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) causes cervical cancer in women. Others like Hepatitis B and C cause liver cancer. Other common ones are Kaposi sarcoma, HIV, and Epstein-Barr.

All in all, viruses cause around 12% of cancer cases. So they are just one factor, not THE only factor.

There is no conspiracy here.