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Something Weird Is Going on With the Sun, Scientists Find

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-18 16:05:55

The Sun — usually so predictable — is exhibiting some surprising behavior and that has scientists very intrigued. Astronomers had predicted that our host star was entering a period of relative quiet back in 2008, but NASA scientists have published a new study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that found that the Sun has instead defied expectations by becoming more active, with increased sunspots and solar flares. "All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged phase of low activi

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The Sun Is Entering a New and Unexpected Active Stage

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-22 01:35:48

When solar activity reached an all-time low in 2008, astronomers reasonably figured the Sun was entering into a period of historically low activity. They were wrong. New research published September 8 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests that 2008 marked the beginning of a steady increase in solar activity. To be clear, this “reversal” extends beyond the well-known 11-year cycles the Sun typically follows. Specifically, the researchers found a slow uptick in many of the Sun’s key “vita

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Spotify Premium subscribers get ‘Smart Filters’ for playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-04 13:19:38

Spotify subscribers in seven English-speaking regions are getting a new way to filter their content, based on activity, genre, or mood. Here are the details. According to the company’s blog, For the Record, Smart Filters began rolling out last week, and will be accessible via mobile and tablets to Premium subscribers in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK, and the US. With Smart Filters, users can sort their songs based on mood (e.g., Funky, Relaxing, Solitude), activ

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Surge in networks scans targeting Cisco ASA devices raise concerns

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-04 17:44:50

Large network scans have been targeting Cisco ASA devices, prompting warnings from cybersecurity researchers that it could indicate an upcoming flaw in the products. GreyNoise has recorded two significant scanning spikes in late August, with up to 25,000 unique IP addresses probing ASA login portals and also Cisco IOS Telnet/SSH. The second wave, logged on August 26, 2025, was largely (80%) driven by a Brazilian botnet, using roughly 17,000 IPs. In both cases, the threat actors used overlappi

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Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for violating user privacy

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-10 01:03:02

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A federal jury in California has ordered Google to pay $425 million for violating user privacy by collecting the data of millions of people even after they disabled tracking, as reported earlier by Reuters. The decision stems from a class action lawsuit filed i

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Google’s Play Games update will show people what you’re playing

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 13:45:49

Google is readying an update for its Play Games app that will introduce stats and milestones to your all-new profile. From September 23 (October 1 in the EU and UK), other players will be able to see which games you’ve played and for how long, as well as any achievements you’ve unlocked. Google says there will also be new "social features," but it’s not yet clear what they’ll be. It sounds a lot like Google’s take on Steam profiles (similar features are also available on PlayStation and Xbox) a

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Next Apple Watch activity challenge supports national parks

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-06 09:45:53

Apple Watch users can mark their calendars for the next activity challenge. The 2025 National Parks Challenge is set for this Sunday, August 24. Here’s the description for the upcoming Apple Watch activity challenge: On August 24, let’s celebrate the great outdoors and the world’s national parks. Earn this award by recording any workout of 20 minutes or more with any app that adds workouts to Health. This particular challenge supports any workout type, as long as the duration is at least 20 m

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Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

news.ycombinator.com Althoff 2025-11-06 21:02:35

Study design We conducted a countrywide, prospective, longitudinal physical activity study of US residents that evaluated their physical activity levels within the context of the walkability of their built environments before and after relocation (‘participants’). We leveraged the naturally occurring physical activity data that was captured by a health app on participants’ phones to compare each person’s physical activity levels before and after they relocated to a different area within the USA

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New Brain Interface Interprets Inner Monologues With Startling Accuracy

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-11-14 17:00:43

Scientists can now decipher brain activity related to the silent inner monologue in people’s heads with up to 74% accuracy, according to a new study. In new research published today in Cell, scientists from Stanford University decoded imagined words from four participants with severe paralysis due to ALS or brainstem stroke. Aside from being absolutely wild, the findings could help people who are unable to speak communicate more easily using brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), the researchers say

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Spike in Fortinet VPN brute-force attacks raises zero-day concerns

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-17 08:42:21

A massive spike in brute-force attacks targeted Fortinet SSL VPNs earlier this month, followed by a switch to FortiManager, marked a deliberate shift in targeting that has historically preceded new vulnerability disclosures. The campaign, detected by threat monitoring platform GreyNoise, manifested in two waves, on August 3 and August 5, with the second wave pivoting to FortiManager targeting with a different TCP signature. As GreyNoise previously reported, such spikes in deliberate scanning a

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Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-17 08:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is rolling out an update for Gemini that will allow the AI chatbot to “remember” your past conversations without prompting. With the setting turned on, Gemini will automatically recall your “key details and preferences” and use them to personalize its out

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Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-01 03:37:35

Underwhelming performance The task in this case is predicting how gene activity might change when genes are altered. When an individual gene is lost or activated, it's possible that the only messenger RNA that is altered is the one made by that gene. But some genes encode proteins that regulate a collection of other genes, in which case you might see changes in the activity of dozens of genes. In other cases, the loss or activation of a gene could affect a cell's metabolism, resulting in widesp

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Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-03 12:16:02

After months of beta testing, newsletter platform Ghost has shipped a new version of its software, Ghost 6, that allows its publishers to share their long-form content natively with the broader open social web. That means in addition to publishing their newsletters to the web, RSS, and sending them out via email, Ghost’s users can also natively connect with services like the decentralized X rival Mastodon; Meta’s Threads; Flipboard; WordPress sites that have integrated with ActivityPub, Surf, an

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Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 20:50:05

Sometimes kids need something they can do on their own — while you’re on a work call, cooking dinner, or just taking a breath. Here’s a list of solo activities you can try with your child, grouped by age. Some are linked to full activity guides on Offline.Kids, and others are simple ideas you can… View post

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Offline.kids – screen-free activities for kids

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 02:50:05

Sometimes kids need something they can do on their own — while you’re on a work call, cooking dinner, or just taking a breath. Here’s a list of solo activities you can try with your child, grouped by age. Some are linked to full activity guides on Offline.Kids, and others are simple ideas you can… View post

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Spikes in malicious activity precede new security flaws in 80% of cases

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-11 20:00:00

Researchers have found that in roughly 80% of cases, spikes in malicious activity like network reconnaissance, targeted scanning, and brute-forcing attempts targeting edge networking devices are a precursor to the disclosure of new security vulnerabilities (CVEs) within six weeks. This has been discovered by threat monitoring firm GreyNoise, which reports these occurrences are not random, but are rather characterized by repeatable and statistically significant patterns. GreyNoise bases this on

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Spikes in malicious activity precede new CVEs in 80% of cases

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-12 02:00:00

Researchers have found that in roughly 80% of cases, spikes in malicious activity like network reconnaissance, targeted scanning, and brute-forcing attempts targeting edge networking devices are a precursor to the disclosure of new security vulnerabilities (CVEs) within six weeks. This has been discovered by threat monitoring firm GreyNoise, which reports these occurrences are not random, but are rather characterized by repeatable and statistically significant patterns. GreyNoise bases this on

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Brain Scans Reveal Why Waking Up Is Sometimes Such a Difficult Experience

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-01-03 09:00:12

Want to wake up feeling great? The secret might not be so simple as a multi-step nighttime routine, early bedtime, or a no-device rule. A new study suggests that how we fall asleep and how we wake up the next day may not be so similar as we once thought. Neuroscientists tracked 20 people’s brain activity as they woke up from sleep—sometimes naturally, sometimes by setting off an alarm—recording more than 1,000 awakenings in total. They found a pattern of neural activity signaled waking, but tha

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NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-14 23:54:26

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NeuralOS: An Operating System Powered by Neural Networks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-15 11:54:26

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Google Contacts is making it easier to check when you last contacted someone (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-17 14:13:04

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Google Contacts could soon start displaying recent calls and texts on contact profiles. The feature will appear as a new “Recent activity” section on contact profiles, listing the last call and text with each contact. Update, July 14, 2025 (07:13 AM ET): Profile pages within the Contacts app now show Recent activity, with the feature rolling out with Google Contacts v4.58.27. Original article, April 30, 2025 (06:53 AM ET): Google Contacts‘ Single Contac

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Google Contacts just got two upgrades that’ll help you clean up your address book

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-18 03:17:41

Harley Maranan / Android Authority TL;DR Google Contacts has recently started rolling out a couple changes we spotted in development earlier this year. Contact pages are picking up a new “Recent activity” list, displaying message and call history. The app’s settings add a new toggle to control whether or not you see view-only contacts from other apps. Our phones are full of apps we don’t spend nearly enough time paying attention to, yet are critical for everything we do with them on a day-to

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Serenading Cells with Audible Sound Alters Gene Activity

news.ycombinator.com Simon Makin 2026-02-02 00:04:53

The cells in your ears aren’t the only ones listening: recent research suggests that crucial cells throughout the body may respond to audible sound. Experiments described in Communications Biology revealed more than 100 genes whose activity changed in response to these acoustic waves, pointing to possible medical applications. Extensive earlier research has shown that ultrasound—sound at frequencies higher than humans can hear—can affect biology in numerous ways; the new study expands this conc

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Scientists Uncover Exercise Lifehack: Go to Bed

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-02-06 22:00:38

As if you needed another reason to envy—or loathe—morning people. Research this week shows that people who go to bed early are more likely to be physically active than those who crave the night. Scientists at Monash University in Australia led the study, which objectively examined people’s sleeping and exercise habits. Compared to late-night and typical sleepers, people who went to bed early tended to perform more physical activity the following day, they found. The findings also suggest that t

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Gemini is getting ready to replace Google Assistant on Android

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-02-17 12:45:07

Android users will soon be able to let Gemini control device features and apps with fewer privacy concerns. In an email seen by Android Police, Google recently notified Gemini users that it will start rolling out an update on July 7th that allows the AI bot to “use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.” Disabling the Gemini Apps Activity setting stops conversations with the chatbot from being used to “provide, improve, develop, a

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The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-02-18 12:10:00

When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t know what all those 3 billion genetic letters actually do. Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model that predicts what effects small changes in DNA will have on an array of molecular processes, such as whether a gene’s activity will go up or down. It’s just the sort of ques

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Google clears the air about that Gemini email, says ‘this update is good for users’

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-18 15:25:08

Google has clarified what Gemini’s upcoming July 7 update for Android devices really means and how it’ll affect Android users. The company responded to an email query from Android Authority, confirming that Gemini will soon be able to help with everyday tasks like sending messages, making phone calls, and setting timers, even if Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. This initially sparked confusion after Google sent out a vague email to users, stating that Gemini would soon be able to “help you u

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Google clears the air on Gemini email, says ‘this update is good for users’

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-18 21:25:08

Google has clarified what Gemini’s upcoming July 7 update for Android devices really means and how it’ll affect Android users. The company responded to an email query from Android Authority, confirming that Gemini will soon be able to help with everyday tasks like sending messages, making phone calls, and setting timers, even if Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. This initially sparked confusion after Google sent out a vague email to users, stating that Gemini would soon be able to “help you u

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Cyborg Embryos Offer New Insights into Brain Growth

news.ycombinator.com Charles Q. Choi 2026-03-08 13:11:17

Scientists have created cyborg embryos by implanting electrode arrays into the developing brains of frogs, mice, and salamanders. Although the researchers reject implants in human embryos as unethical, they suggest their technology might one day help study and treat neurodevelopmental conditions in children. The stretchable technology at the core of the electrode arrays could record brain activity while remaining soft enough to accommodate the children’s growth. Recording the activity of neuron

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Gaming VC activity settles into a new normal in Q1 | Pitchbook

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-15 10:01:00

In the first quarter, gaming VC activity may have finally settled into a new normal — though it’s a leaner, more selective market, according to an analysis by PitchBook. Q1 funding dipped 3% QoQ to $1.2 billion across 134 deals, the lowest deal count since mid-2019. As early-stage investments continue to shrink, investors grow increasingly discerning, and the M&A and exit environment remain muted, there are still bright spots: investment surged into back-end gaming infrastructure and AI-powered

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Latest Tech News

Something Weird Is Going on With the Sun, Scientists Find

The Sun Is Entering a New and Unexpected Active Stage

Spotify Premium subscribers get ‘Smart Filters’ for playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts

Surge in networks scans targeting Cisco ASA devices raise concerns

Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for violating user privacy

Google’s Play Games update will show people what you’re playing

Next Apple Watch activity challenge supports national parks

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

New Brain Interface Interprets Inner Monologues With Startling Accuracy

Spike in Fortinet VPN brute-force attacks raises zero-day concerns

Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically

Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet

Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release

Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids

Offline.kids – screen-free activities for kids

Spikes in malicious activity precede new security flaws in 80% of cases

Spikes in malicious activity precede new CVEs in 80% of cases

Brain Scans Reveal Why Waking Up Is Sometimes Such a Difficult Experience

NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks

NeuralOS: An Operating System Powered by Neural Networks

Google Contacts is making it easier to check when you last contacted someone (Updated: Rolling out)

Google Contacts just got two upgrades that’ll help you clean up your address book

Serenading Cells with Audible Sound Alters Gene Activity

Scientists Uncover Exercise Lifehack: Go to Bed

Gemini is getting ready to replace Google Assistant on Android

The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid

Google clears the air about that Gemini email, says ‘this update is good for users’

Google clears the air on Gemini email, says ‘this update is good for users’

Cyborg Embryos Offer New Insights into Brain Growth

Gaming VC activity settles into a new normal in Q1 | Pitchbook

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