At the end of their lives, most satellites fall to their death. Many of the smaller ones, including most of those going up as part of the "mega-constellations" currently under construction, are intended to burn up in the atmosphere. This Design for Demise (D4D) principle has unintended consequences,…

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket suffered an issue with its second stage late Sunday resulting in the loss of the Michibiki 5 (QZS-5) navigation satellite.
The post Japan’s H3 suffers second-stage anomaly, QZS-5 satellite lost appeared first on SpaceNews.

President Trump said after his Sunday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ukraine and Russia are "closer than ever" to a peace deal and that 95% of the issues have been settled. Why it matters: The meeting comes at the height of Trump's diplomatic push to reach a peace agreement…

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arXiv:2512.21354v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Contemporary large language model (LLM) agents are remarkably capable, but they still lack reliable safety controls and can produce unconstrained, unpredictable, and even actively harmful outputs. To address this, we introduce Reflection-Driven Contro…

Wintering Well boxes to counter effects of low light on mental health are ‘super popular’, says island librarian“Boxes of light” are being used to help people who struggle with low winter mood while living in one of Scotland’s darkest communities as part of a wider research initiative to support the…

CSAIL researchers find even “untrainable” neural nets can learn effectively when guided by another network’s built-in biases using their guidance method.

Back in November, Sony started selling PS5 consoles at a $100 discount as part of a Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotion. The deal officially sunsets at 3AM ET, so now is a good time to bite the bullet on a gaming console given that prices aren't likely to go down anytime soon.
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Some comeback! The past 12 months were supposed to turn things around for struggling cinemas. But instead of heralding a dramatic return to moviegoing, 2025 is running neck-and-neck with the middling 2024 box office, and will fall far short of the $9 billion in domestic ticket sales that most analys…

James Riordan’s new book will help readers wrap their heads around this mysterious, fundamental force of nature.

Activist was entitled to UK passport but for a rising number of voters Britishness is something you are born with What does it mean to be British? That question is increasingly at the heart of our national political debate. And it has become a more urgent one this week as the Conservatives and Refor…

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Days after a bombing at a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area, members of the religious minority in Syria demonstrated for better protections.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with President Trump at the latter’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Sunday, as negotiations to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine continue. During their meeting, Zelensky is set to propose his 20-point peace plan, a counteroffer to the Trump adminis…

Stimulating the liver to produce some of the signals of the thymus can reverse age-related declines in T-cell populations and enhance response to vaccination.

Professors Ahmad Bahai and Kripa Varanasi, plus seven additional MIT alumni, are honored for highly impactful inventions.

MIT physicists say these quasiparticles may explain how superconductivity and magnetism can coexist in certain materials.

Images from geostationary satellites alone aren’t enough to help planes avoid contrail-prone regions, MIT researchers report.

Jimmy Kimmel used his Christmas Day message to U.K. viewers Thursday to declare victory for free speech over President Trump's calls to cancel his talk show.The big picture: British public broadcaster Channel 4 selects a high-profile figure to deliver an alternative to the British monarch's annual C…

A mid-infrared femtosecond laser tuned to the collagen absorption peak can ablate pancreatic cancer while preserving healthy pancreatic tissues
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The BCTVNet neural network provides accurate and rapid target volume delineation for cervical cancer brachytherapy
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The director of the gloriously trashy Sydney Sweeney-and-Amanda Seyfried thriller weighs in on his leads, those WTF twists, and why a movie is like a martini

The man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committee headquarters on Jan. 5, 2021, told investigators he believed the 2020 election was tampered with and he felt "someone needs to speak up," the Justice Department said in a court filing Sunday. CBS News jus…

Coach Deion Sanders and his Colorado Buffaloes remain among the biggest stories of the college football universe as they get ready to compete in the Big 12 Conference once again this season.

NASA ER-2 pilot Kirt Stallings waits inside the transport vehicle at Edwards, California, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, moments before boarding NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center’s ER-2 aircraft for a high-altitude mission supporting the Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx). Through the veh…

Join us in the Kubernetes SIG Network community in celebrating the general
availability of Gateway API v1.3.0! We are
also pleased to announce that there are already a number of conformant
implementations to try, made possible by postponing this blog
announcement. Version 1.3.0 of the API was releas…

Move comes after party’s exclusion for last two years was lambasted by JD Vance at this year’s event The Munich Security Conference (MSC) has invited lawmakers from Alternative für Deutschland to join its annual gathering of top international defence officials in February after shutting out the far-…

Young batter had a slightly wasted summer, but his second innings at the MCG showed why England think so highly of himUntil his ice-cool 40 helped England dodge an Ashes whitewash in front of 90,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday, the most clippable aspect of Jacob Bethell’s tour…

Chosen by a British TV station to give an “alternative” to the king’s speech, Jimmy Kimmel said it had been a great year for the U.S. “from a fascism perspective.”

arXiv:2512.21525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In todays security landscape, every user wants to access large amounts of data with confidentiality and authorization. To maintain confidentiality, various researchers have proposed several techniques. However, to access secure data, researchers use a…

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall on more than 2,800 pounds of raw 90/10 ground beef processed by Mountain West Food Group, LLC, from Idaho.

A Texas power developer is proposing to use repurposed retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines to supply continuous power to large-scale artificial intelligence data centers. The proposal comes from HGP Intelligent Energy LLC, which, according to filings with the U.S…

How to watch Africa Cup of Nations for free. Live stream Angola vs. Egypt in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free.

On the side of a dusty road in Gaza, dozens of mostly young men gather against the counter of a makeshift storefront.

News Release Marine Conservation Institute Commends IUCN’s Commitment to Protecting the Ocean’s Twilight Zone By Marine Conservation Institute | October 14, 2025 Today, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) voted to pass Motion 035, “Protection of mesopelagic ecosystem integrity,…

CES is the January trade show where the tech industry kicks off the year with a bevy of new and notable announcements — and it’s less than a week away. The CES 2026 show floor is officially open from January 6 through 9, but the fun kicks off with events on Sunday January 4 and a host of press confe…

Our visual highlights from the animal world this year include a mouse caring for its companion, dolphins communicating in an unexpected way and a colossal squid caught on camera for the first time

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling and supercomputing to researchers around the world – but the Trump administration is set to shut it down

After starting the year with its first known bird flu death, the US expanded its efforts to contain the virus, which enabled it to end its public health emergency response months later

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova."

As part of the various end-of-year benchmarking comparisons on Phoronix and with Linux 6.19 switching older AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards to the AMDGPU driver by default, I planned for a very large AMD Radeon graphics card comparison on the latest open-source Linux driver for ending out 2025. In th…

Ahead of CES 2026, Samsung has unveiled a number of impressive gaming monitors that flaunt 3D and very high refresh rates. The headliner is the 32-inch Odyssey 3D, "the world's first 6K display with glasses free 3D," according to Samsung. Along with the high resolution, it offers a 165Hz refresh rat…

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 years, none appeared — an unsettling result tied to low-oxygen waters in the region. These worms play a key role in breaking down whale remains and supporting deep-sea life. The…

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is that changing environments prevent these mutations from spreading widely before they become useless o…

A proposed state constitutional amendment introduced in the Michigan House in April  would put the right to clean air, water, soil and a stable climate on par with other fundamental liberties like the freedoms of speech and religion. The Michigan Green Amendment, introduced by Rep. Rachel Hood (D-Gr…

Tighter border controls caused arrivals to decline sharply but forced people on to more dangerous routes, activists sayMore than 3,000 people died trying to reach Spain by sea over the past year, a sharp fall from the previous 12 months.However, activists cautioned that the drop reflected tighter bo…

The 2025 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2025. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by the Kubernetes Community.
The Steering Committee oversees the gover…

Have you ever wished you could enable interactive delete,
by default, in kubectl? Or maybe, you'd like to have custom aliases defined,
but not necessarily generate hundreds of them manually?
Look no further. SIG-CLI
has been working hard to add user preferences to kubectl,
and we are happy to announ…