US Is Throwing Away the Critical Minerals It Needs, Analysis Shows Summary A new analysis, published in Science and reported via Slashdot/Phys.org, finds that existing US metal mines already mine…
Threads Has 400 Million Monthly Users. But Who Are They? Summary Slashdot highlights a Mashable piece examining who actually uses Threads despite the platform reporting over 400 million monthly active…
The Unix Epochalypse might be sooner than you think Summary Restorers at the National Museum of Computing discovered a time-related bug in vintage kit that causes programs to crash in…
Record Solar Growth Keeps China’s CO2 Falling in First Half of 2025 Summary Clean-energy expansion — especially a surge in solar — helped China cut CO2 emissions by about 1%…
Bluesky Blocks Service In Mississippi Over Age Assurance Law Summary Bluesky has blocked access to its official app in Mississippi rather than comply with HB 1126, a new state law…
LibreOffice 25.8 Slams the Door On Windows 7 and 8.x Summary LibreOffice 25.8 has been released with performance and typographic improvements, but the headline change is platform support: the suite…
US Is Throwing Away the Critical Minerals It Needs, Analysis Shows Summary A new analysis led by Elizabeth Holley of the Colorado School of Mines pairs federal mine-production records with…
Threads Has 400 Million Monthly Users. But Who Are They? Summary Threads, Meta’s text-focused app, now reports more than 400 million monthly active users. Mashable (via Slashdot) asks who actually…
Clean-energy expansion — especially a surge in solar — helped China’s CO2 emissions fall by about 1% year‑on‑year in the first half of 2025, continuing a decline that began in…
Bluesky Blocks Service In Mississippi Over Age Assurance Law Summary Bluesky has blocked access to its official app in Mississippi after the state enacted HB 1126, a law that requires…
