From sovereign cloud and AI compute to gaming and quantum, PwC research shows how the region is reshaping growth, competitiveness and digital sovereignty

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In celebration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, an assortment of compelling images have been released today that were recently taken by Hubble. This stretches from the planet Mars to dramatic images of stellar birth and death, to a magnificent neighbouring galaxy. Af…

“ThunderBarb,” that’s the callsign my staff at the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) jokingly...
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The ghost of Elon continues to haunt the federal government.

It’s undeniable that AI is a breakthrough technology that no one wants to be left behind on. However, as AI accelerates innovation in the cloud-native world, environmental sustainability often gets sidelined, perceived as something that could...

A record year for mentorship, 187 graduates contributing to the ecosystem, and one engineer’s journey from “I didn’t know about Docker” to Kyverno maintainer. In 2025, the CNCF mentorship programs hit a milestone: 187 successful mentorship...

ODATE, Japan — Before students can come out to play at his school, Yoji Hikage has to give the all clear.

A humble shelter operating out of a tent remains the last beacon of hope for the injured and hungry animal population in war-ravaged Gaza, even as its workers and volunteers face their own impossible conditions.“You cannot look at a creature that trusts you and eat in front of it without sharing,” S…

Trump and Netanyahu should declare a new special relationship that brings both countries even closer than they were in 1962. The sooner Washington and Jerusalem double down on ties, the better for global security and liberty.
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Investors owning more than 100 properties account for a mere one percent of the US single-family housing stock, according to a recent and penetrating analysis by my AEI colleagues. Even at their peak, these firms never represented more than three percent of annual home purchases.
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When you picture the ocean, you might imagine peaceful blue waters and an underwater world full of calm and quiet. But beneath the surface, the ocean is actually far from silent — a full-blown symphony of calls, clicks, and crashing currents. From the popping sounds of snapping shrimp to the piercin…

From Grogu to the Death Star, we look back over the Lego Star Wars sets released over the course of 2025.

With survey operations set to begin this fall, the Rubin control room at SLAC will serve as a key hub for training and remote observing support for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

New research suggests liver cells exposed to too much fat revert to an immature state that is more susceptible to cancer-causing mutations.

Iran has launched a trio of new satellites into space with the help of a Russian rocket, the country's state media reported Sunday (Dec. 28).

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is proud to share the results of a recent security audit of KubeVirt, a Kubernetes virtualization API and runtime for managing virtual machines. With the continued support of Quarkslab...

Forty years ago I forecast that the impact of machine learning would be that book-learning and logical reasoning would lose status just as literacy did when everyone could read and write. Two years ...

The DOJ accused Disney of mislabeling videos aimed at children, resulting in targeted ads and unlawful data collection.

Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit to alleviate the space junk problem.

27 October 2025, Lima, Peru. Check against delivery Your Excellency, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Hugo de Zela, Deputy Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources at the Ministry of Environment, Ms Raquel Hilianova Soto Torres, Director of Climate Change Division of the UN Envi…

British heavyweight and Olympic gold medalist Anthony Joshua was in a speeding Lexus and survived a crash Monday morning in Nigeria that killed two other people, authorities said

Explore a shape that can’t pass through itself, a teenage prodigy, and two new kinds of infinity. The post The Year in Mathematics first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Three million years ago the fault regions of the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains began their thunderous rise. Their...
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The Reiners’ bodies were cremated at Mount Sinai Mortuary.

The world’s tallest peak has a serious trash problem. Officials hope a revised cleanup plan could finally make a difference.

This enormous protoplanetary disk is confounding astronomers.

Learn why some long-enrolled OSS-Fuzz projects still contain vulnerabilities and how you can find them.
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As 2025 turns to 2026, the worldwide launch manifest is quieting down, with only four…
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IN A NUTSHELL 🔍 Researchers used digital reconstruction to reveal a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus face. 🗺️ The discovery was made at the Gona site in Ethiopia, known for its rich archaeological record. 🧩 The reconstruction process involved high-resolution micro-CT scans and 3D modeling technique…

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC), one of the largest space and defense contractors in the United…
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Rocket Lab had its most successful year to date in 2025, with its Electron rocket…
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Meet this year's newest right whale mother and calf pairs.
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What chip industry engineers were watching this year.
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After months of fighting and countless proposals for a bipartisan compromise, the expiration date for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax subsidies has arrived, with millions of Americans set to feel the pain. Congress had until Dec. 31, 2025 to strike a deal extending tax credits th…

Russia on Monday promised to retaliate against Ukraine after it said nearly 100 drones had targeted one of President Vladimir Putin's residences, likely throwing a wrench into President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the nearly four-year war."Such reckless actions will not go unanswered.

Recent research suggests that AI chatbots are not merely passive sources of election information; they can actively shape voter attitudes in measurable and durable ways.
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The Trump administration’s first year in office kicked off a variety of legal challenges and policy changes spanning federal spending practices to sweeping tariffs, prompting Americans to scramble to understand the size and scope of these reforms. The chaotic environment has led news outlets coverin…

When we think of snow, we usually think of winter. But did you know that it is always snowing in the ocean? Marine snow isn’t the kind you can sled on — this continuous underwater snowfall sustains life in the deep sea and helps regulate Earth’s climate.  WHAT IS MARINE SNOW? Marine snow is made up …

It might be hard to imagine, but manatees are believed to have inspired sailors’ tales of mermaids and sirens. These gentle giants are far from mythical, but just as captivating.  A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO WEST INDIAN MANATEES West Indian manatees are also known as sea cows – for good reason! These sl…

As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway will serve as spacecraft commander and pi…

President Donald Trump played cheerleader for the US economy in a prime-time address last night. But in the end, facts on the ground will matter more than words on a teleprompter.
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The singer-songwriter, who came up with Lone Star heroes like Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen, makes his long-awaited return with a dazzling EP

The AI-powered tool could inform the design of better sensors and cameras for robots or autonomous vehicles.

The approach could apply to more complex tissues and organs, helping researchers to identify early signs of disease.

A new method could enable users to design portable medical devices, like a splint, that can be rapidly converted from flat panels to a 3D object without any tools.

This new technique enables LLMs to dynamically adjust the amount of computation they use for reasoning, based on the difficulty of the question.

An impressive display piece for Lego-loving space fans who want to commemorate the legacy of this iconic post-Space Race vessel.

NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to Texas from its current home in a Smithsonian Air and Space Museum hangar in Virginia, may end with a different spacecraft entirely landing in Houston.

After looking yesterday at the most viewed Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks of 2025, today's look is at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the past year. There were 3,286 original news articles on Phoronix during 2025 written by your's truly, here's a look back at what excited readers t…

InputPlumber 0.70 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source input router and re-mapper daemon for Linux systems. With more gaming handhelds coming to market and other controllers as well as the upward trajectory of Linux gaming, InputPlumber is becoming more applicable for this d…

An important fix has made it into the X.Org Server XWayland codebase ahead of the new year. XWayland has been fixed to avoid sending incorrect pointer coordinates to X11 clients on pointer enter events...

Merged to Linux Git on New Year's Eve was a fix in the form of a code revert for broken MediaTek WiFi on the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

The ReactOS free software project is turning 30 this year and its "open-source Windows" OS ambitions remain. They are starting out this year with another "major step" towards Windows NT 6.0 compatibility...

President Trump said Wednesday that his administration will end its deployment of the National Guard in Chicago; Los Angeles; and Portland, Ore., vowing to return federal forces to the major, Democratic-led cities if crime spikes again. “Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren’t for…

The president also revealed his New Year's resolution.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pausing all child care payments to Minnesota, amid a sweeping federal probe into allegations of fraud within the state’s social services programs.  Citing a video released Friday by independent journalist Nick Shirley detailing his investigation i…

The FBI is assisting in the investigation.

A few weeks ago at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta, the Kyverno community had the opportunity to participate in ContribFest, one of the most energizing and community-driven initiatives in the cloud-native ecosystem. While ContribFest...

Recent industry developments, such as Amazon’s announcement of the new EKS capabilities, highlight a trend toward supporting platforms with managed GitOps, cloud resource operators, and composition tooling. In particular, the involvement of Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro)—a...

It’s undeniable that AI is a breakthrough technology that no one wants to be left behind on. However, as AI accelerates innovation in the cloud-native world, environmental sustainability often gets sidelined, perceived as something that could...

It’s time to recap the key Kubernetes security highlights from 2025 and outline features likely to graduate to stable in early 2026. From a DevSecOps perspective, 2025 brought several meaningful security improvements that directly influenced day-2...

A decade on from its first commit in 2015, 2025 marks a significant milestone for the Cilium project. The community has published the 2025 Cilium Annual Report: A Decade of Cloud Native Networking, which reflects on...

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales.

A look back over the stories that generated headlines over the past 12 months

Licensed spectrum is reliable and has better performance than unlicensed, which is low cost, easy to deploy and subject to interference. Lightly licensed spectrum offers a balance.

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 tech ethics stories of 2025

Some fake job applicants are attempting to gain access to an organization's internal systems. Learn how CHROs must work with other departments to guard against this threat.

Looking back at the skills and hiring landscape in 2025, Computer Weekly shares key moments for IT careers and skills over the past 12 months

Artificial intelligence continued to have a big impact on information management in 2025. Also selected are case studies and interviews with data chiefs that show the enduring value of good data management

Scientists have analyzed a collection of meteorites to figure out where asteroid prospectors should go first.

Take one last look back at the year that was with all of our Year in Review stories.

The star of 1997's 'Batman & Robin' looks back on his superhero moment—and that infamous costume.

A release date has been confirmed, ending a nearly four-year BTS drought.

A man's rare condition caused "excessive wrinkling" in his hands which spread to his wrists and elbows.

2026 will test his limits and the extent of America’s pushback

Proposed levies of up to 92% slashed on imported Italian premium brands

New mayor dismisses fears of an exodus of wealthy residents as he looks to fund his affordability agenda

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American Jews are arguing with one another in a moment of real danger. That fear is heartbreaking and regrettably justified. But fear does not confer moral license. It does not excuse contempt, nor absolve us of the obligation to argue with care rather than cruelty.
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GENEVA, Nov 19 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is calling for nominations of the authors for the 2027 Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage. Carbon Dioxide Removal refers to anthropogenic activities that remove CO2 f…

United Launch Alliance (ULA), jointly owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, announced today that President…
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Iran is facing its largest demonstrations in years as people hit the streets of Tehran and other cities to protest the country's dismal economic situation

Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 is their next bet.

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of planetary construction.

Anyone doubting gold’s dominant status as the world’s safe-haven asset has not been paying attention to its superior performance over its rivals. In its best performance since 1979, over the past year, the gold price increased by around 70 percent,
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Comics are routinely dismissed as diversions, harmless entertainment rather than serious cultural texts. Yet they have never been marginal to modern moral imagination. They are among our most widely shared and quietly influential teachers.
The post The Moral Education We Still Get from Comics appear…

At least 100 were injured when a fire broke out at the Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, police said. Crans-Montana is a ski resort in the Swiss Alps.

Supporters of a casino project say it’s an economic lifeline for Saipan; detractors raise questions about money laundering and ties to Chinese criminals.

NASA astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks in January outside of the International Space Station to prepare for the installation of a roll-out solar array and complete other tasks. Experts from NASA will preview the spacewalks in a briefing at 2 p.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 6, at NASA’s Johnson Spa…

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is continuing the celebrations with a new view of the Eagle Nebula. This vast stellar nursery displays a towering spire of cosmic gas and dust that incorporates new data processing techniques develope…

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) took the Observatory’s new portable Starlab planetarium on...
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SuperKnova is a project to provide learning opportunities in radio technology for students in a way that is inclusive...
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Where power, profits and pressure points are likely to lie across five key sectors

Distorted attacks by the populist right are really about demography

Authorities say about 100 injured after blaze at bar during new year celebrations in upmarket Crans-Montana

Remote sensing in agriculture requires complex systems that are able to communicate with various external devices like GPS and cameras, and use machine learning and AI inference to provide insights to the grower regarding their orchard,...

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is proud to share the results of a recent security audit of KubeVirt, a Kubernetes virtualization API and runtime for managing virtual machines. With the continued support of Quarkslab...