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Tropical Storms Routinely Shredded Baby Pterosaurs, Fossil Evidence Suggests

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-08 21:15:24

The Solnhofen Limestone, a fossil hotspot in southern Germany, hosts a particularly rich array of baby pterosaur bones. That led paleontologists to believe that the animals flourished here—until an autopsy unveiled the broken, storm-tossed wings of two baby pterosaurs, painting a darker picture of how the bones got there. In a Current Biology paper published September 5, paleontologists at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom describe the tragic tale of Lucky and Lucky II, two baby

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I finally found an Arch-based Linux distro even newbies can run

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-18 13:54:26

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways StormOS makes Arch Linux more user-friendly and accessible. Preloaded apps and Zen kernel boost performance out of the box. Minor drawbacks: RustDesk clutter and Xfce complexity for newbies. Arch Linux tends to get a bad rap for being too hard to use for anyone who's not spent months or years using Linux. If you've never touched Linux, that rap is pretty spot on, because A

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Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale

news.ycombinator.com Sascha Pare 2025-10-20 19:53:39

Hurricane Florence made landfall in South Carolina in September 2018. It was a Category 1 hurricane, but the devastating flooding that followed killed 55 people. A new hurricane categorization system could help people better prepare for storms by incorporating risks from storm surges and rainfall into the categories, a study published this month reveals. Storm surges — elevated seawater levels near coasts — and rainfall cause almost 80% of hurricane deaths, yet they are not accounted for in th

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Forecasters Warn of 100-Foot Waves as Hurricane Erin Brushes the East Coast

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-11 04:45:06

The National Hurricane Center expects Hurricane Erin to grow in size as it creeps up the Eastern Seaboard this week, hammering coastal communities with potentially deadly storm surge and rip currents. Erin, one of the fastest rapidly intensifying Atlantic storms on record, is a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (175 kilometers per hour) as of 8:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, August 19, according to the NHC. Forecasters don’t expect Erin to make landfall in the U.S.

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An Aurora Is Hitting Monday Night Only and Will Be Visible in Over a Dozen States

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-12 08:45:12

As the sun continues the tumultuous peak of its 11-year cycle, more instances of aurora borealis have been expected. The most recent instance was earlier in August when auroras lit up the skies in 18 states. It seems the Earth is in for another battering of solar material as another aurora has been forecast for Monday night, and it should be a pretty decent one for states in the northern US. According to NOAA, the Earth will experience a geomagnetic storm with a Kp 5 rating. For the uninitiated

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How Hurricane Erin Made History Without Even Making Landfall

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-13 14:55:17

The Atlantic’s first hurricane of 2025 wasted no time making history. Hurricane Erin will be remembered as one of the fastest-strengthening Atlantic hurricanes on record, with perhaps the fastest intensification rate for any storm earlier than September 1, CNN reports. At 11 a.m. ET on Friday, August 15, Erin was a Category 1 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. Over the next 24 hours, this storm strengthened significantly. By 11 a.m. ET on Saturday, the NHC declared Erin a “c

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Atlantic’s First Major Hurricane May Be Just Hours Away

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-18 12:45:44

Tropical Storm Erin is on track to reach the Caribbean this weekend, with current forecasts predicting it will curve north of the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico without making landfall. Still, Caribbean nations are bracing for severe storm impacts as Erin moves into warmer waters, increasing the risk of rapid intensification. A National Hurricane Center update issued at 5 a.m. AST Thursday, August 14, stated that Erin should gradually strengthen over the next day or so. After that, the storm w

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What You Need to Know About This Week’s Looming Hurricane

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-26 22:19:42

Hurricane trackers are keeping a close eye on a storm with a 90% chance of developing into a hurricane this week. If it does, it would be the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. Tropical Storm Erin, the fifth named storm of the 2025 season, formed off the coast of West Africa on Monday, August 11, according to the National Hurricane Center. As Erin treks westward across the Atlantic, NHC forecasters expect it to strengthen significantly, reaching major hurricane status northeast of Puerto R

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Tribit Stormbox Mini+ Review: A Great Cheap Portable Speaker

wired.com Simon Cohen 2025-11-27 06:00:00

If you’re shopping for a portable Bluetooth speaker, it’s a given that you want good sound. With a budget of $75-$150, there is no shortage of great options, including WIRED favorites like the JBL Flip 7, Beats Pill, and Tribit StormBox 2. If your travel ambitions have already soaked up most of your cash, you have fewer choices. Spending less always involves a tradeoff, but Tribit’s StormBox Mini+ ($40) involves far fewer compromises than you might think, and it even throws in a few features th

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The Atlantic Hurricane Season Is About to Get Real

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-29 03:40:04

After an unusually slow start to hurricane season, it’s looking like storm activity is about to ramp up. Meteorologists are keeping a watchful eye on the Atlantic Basin as ocean surface temperatures rise to record levels. So far, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has produced four tropical storms and no hurricanes. As of Friday, August 8, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was monitoring two areas of interest for storm development—one off the southeastern U.S. and the other in the Central Atl

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Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case

wired.com Joel Khalili 2025-12-03 18:27:55

Roman Storm, one of the developers of crypto anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, has been found guilty of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business by a jury in a court in New York. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison. In 2023, the US Department of Justice charged Storm with three violations: conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to violate sanctions, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. On Wednesday, at the e

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20 years after Katrina, New Orleans remembers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 23:36:30

Next month marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history: Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm that made landfall on August 29, 2005. The storm itself was bad enough, but the resulting surge of water caused havoc for New Orleans in particular when the city's protective levees failed, flooding much of New Orleans and killing 1,392 people. National Geographic is marking the occasion with a new documentary series: Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time. T

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The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-23 12:49:31

Our atmosphere is like one big electrical circuit: Thunderstorms are the batteries that charge it up, and lightning is the current flowing through it. On the ground we see evidence of this circuit when lightning cracks and strikes the ground, or when it lights up deep inside a thundercloud, but high above the clouds lies a secret electrical zoo full of sprites, elves, and jets. These fantastical terms refer to light displays called transient luminous events or TLEs that occur in Earth’s upper a

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Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

wired.com Molly Taft 2026-02-03 12:01:29

At least 27 people, including nine children, are dead in central Texas after flash floods struck suddenly on the morning of the Fourth of July holiday. After a storm in which a month’s worth of rain fell in some regions in just a few hours, officials say they rescued more than 850 people from the floods over Friday and Saturday. A number of people were still missing as of Saturday afternoon, including 27 young campers from a Christian girls’ camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River. Some local

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The Unseen Fury of Solar Storms

news.ycombinator.com Henry Wismayer 2026-02-06 08:33:55

Credits Henry Wismayer is a writer based in London. I EXETER, United Kingdom — It was an overcast morning in southwest England, but Kirk Waite was staring at the sun. In the open-plan forecasting room of the Met Office, the U.K.’s national meteorological agency, the country’s senior weather-watchers were monitoring low-pressure systems sweeping in from the Atlantic and across the British Isles. Waite was studying weather of a very different sort. He sat at a crescent-shaped desk arrayed with

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Forecasters to Lose Hurricane Satellite Data at the Worst Possible Time

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-02-16 03:25:10

In one month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its National Hurricane Center (NHC) will lose access to critical satellite data that lets meteorologists see inside the eye of a storm. This marks the latest blow to the agency’s forecasting abilities as hurricane season gets underway. In an abrupt move that blindsided meteorologists and public officials on Wednesday, June 25, the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) announced it was shutt

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It’s a family affair in final Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-24 03:52:38

The Fantastic Four: First Steps opens next month. Marvel Studios has been ramping up its marketing efforts for The Fantastic Four: First Steps in recent weeks, culminating with the release of one last trailer before the film premieres next month. While prior efforts have focused on the (very cool) 1950s/Tomorrowland kitschy vibe of the film, this newest trailer emphasizes the family angle is chock-full of lots of good old-fashioned superhero action, as the quartet takes on a world-devouring cos

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Federal Forecasters Lose Access to Critical Tool as Hurricane Season Begins

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-03-13 23:20:15

As Atlantic hurricane season surges to life, federal forecasters must say goodbye to one of their most valuable tools—Saildrones. These uncrewed ships sail into the hearts of tropical storms to collect real-time data that scientists use to predict their strength and path. For the past four years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has deployed Saildrones to improve the accuracy of its hurricane forecasts and warnings. The small drone ships have played an especially impor

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Latest Tech News

Tropical Storms Routinely Shredded Baby Pterosaurs, Fossil Evidence Suggests

I finally found an Arch-based Linux distro even newbies can run

Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale

Forecasters Warn of 100-Foot Waves as Hurricane Erin Brushes the East Coast

An Aurora Is Hitting Monday Night Only and Will Be Visible in Over a Dozen States

How Hurricane Erin Made History Without Even Making Landfall

Atlantic’s First Major Hurricane May Be Just Hours Away

What You Need to Know About This Week’s Looming Hurricane

Tribit Stormbox Mini+ Review: A Great Cheap Portable Speaker

The Atlantic Hurricane Season Is About to Get Real

Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case

20 years after Katrina, New Orleans remembers

The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

The Unseen Fury of Solar Storms

Forecasters to Lose Hurricane Satellite Data at the Worst Possible Time

It’s a family affair in final Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer

Federal Forecasters Lose Access to Critical Tool as Hurricane Season Begins

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