How plant-fungi friendships may change in the face of warming soil and rising CO₂ levels
Just as the human body contains a multitude of symbiotic microbial companions, most plant species also live alongside microbial friends. Among these companions are mycorrhizal fungi, which help plants gather water and nutrients—particularly nitrogen—from the soil. In exchange, plants provide mycorrhizal fungi with an average of 3% to 13% of the carbon they pull from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and so … ⌘ Read more
Ukraine Said It Used Storm Shadow to Strike Russia Gunpowder Facility ⌘ Read more
OpenBSD 7.8 released
Like clockwork, every six months, we have a new OpenBSD release. OpenBSD 7.8 adds support for the Raspberry Pi 5, tons of improvements to sleep, wake, and hibernate, the TCP stack can now run in parallel on multiple processors, and so much more. DRM has been updated to match Linux 6.12.50, and drivers for the Qualcomm Snapdragon DRM subsystem and Qualcomm DisplayPort controller were added as well. The changelog is, as always, long and detailed, so head on over for the finer details. OpenBS … ⌘ Read more
Sweden signs letter of intent to export 100-150 Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine ⌘ Read more
Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare’s Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)
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What about the icons in pifmgr.dll?
Raymond Chen has another great post about some of the classic icons from Windows 95, this time focusing on pifmgr.dll. In this file, there are a variety of random-seeming icons, and it turns out they’re random for a reason: they were just a bunch a fun, generic icons intended for people to use when creating PIF files. The icons in pifmgr.dll were created just for fun. They were not created with any particular programs in mind, with one obvious exception. They w … ⌘ Read more
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Understanding driver updates through Windows Update
Microsoft has published a set of short questions and answers about driver updates through Windows Update, and there’s one tidbit in there I found interesting. Driver dates might look old, but that is not true. The driver date is descriptive info set by the driver provider and can be any date they choose. When determining which driver to install, Windows Update uses targeting information set by the provider inside the driver file … ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Maturity Model 4.0 (Beta): Reflecting what’s next for cloud native — and we want your input
The CNCF Cartografos Working Group is excited to announce the beta release of the Cloud Native Maturity Model 4.0. This version expands the framework to include AI, FinOps, and evolving cultural practices. We invite the community… ⌘ Read more
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I didn’t even want a cat… ⌘ Read more
Ukraine strikes Russian chemical plant with Storm Shadow missiles, military says ⌘ Read more
Getting Started with Offload: Automating Everyday Workflows with Docker
Every developer eventually hits a wall with their local machine. Maybe it’s training an AI model that drains your CPU, compiling a massive codebase that makes your fan sound like a jet engine, or simply trying to run GPU workloads on a laptop that doesn’t have one. The result is the same: slow builds, limited… ⌘ Read more
My family cat of 22 years is getting put down tomorrow ⌘ Read more
Ukrainian children killed in Russian strikes, hours after Trump-Putin talks shelved ⌘ Read more
486Tang - 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
The Sipeed Tang 138K FPGA hosted by a retro console-style breakout board is available for around $120, or a bit more if one wants a fancy case.
This Verilog implementation lacks an FPU and the ‘386 chip’s virtual ‘86 mode, but might be of interest to operating system developers who want to get further into the chip than is normally possible without expensive (and these days unavailable) ICE hardware.
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How to nurture infant microbiomes for a lifetime of good mental health
The microbes that take hold in our bodies during early life have long-term effects on our brain health. Helen Thomson investigates how to get kids’ microbiomes off to the best start. ⌘ Read more
Hungarian, Romanian oil refineries tied to Russia hit by blasts ⌘ Read more
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Trump puts Putin talks on hold as Kremlin rejects ceasefire, attacks Ukraine ⌘ Read more
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Research shows that land can’t buy security for young Kenyans
An anthropologist from The University of Manchester has uncovered the hidden struggles of young men on the edges of Nairobi, who inherit land but lack the means to turn it into the financial security they desperately need. ⌘ Read more
Scientists release new survey of the biggest objects in the universe
Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. ⌘ Read more
Fiji’s coral reefs show remarkable recovery after Category 5 cyclone
A new study led by WCS, University of the South Pacific, and partners has found that coral reefs in Fiji showed remarkable resilience after being battered by Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016. Despite losing more than half of their hard coral cover on average, reefs rebounded within four years, reassembling to nearly their pre-cyclone condition. ⌘ Read more
Ukrainian Drones Hit Rostec Explosives Plant and Major Oil Hub Deep Inside Russia – 1200 km Behind Lines ⌘ Read more
Show HN: Coach Thyself – Replace your morning scroll with structured journaling
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Simple, minimal SQL database migrations written in Go with generics. Std lib database/sql and SQLX supported OOTB
I built GoSMig for personal projects and open-sourced it. It’s a tiny library for writing migrations in Go (compile-time checks via generics). Supports both transactional and non-transactional steps, rollback, status/version commands, and a built-in CLI handler so you can ship your own tool.
- Zero dependencies (std lib; golang.org/x/term used for pager support)
- database/sql and sqlx supported out of the box, others w … ⌘ Read more
Why do Americans have shorter life expectancy and worse health than people in other high-income countries?
Mauricio Avendano and Ichiro Kawachi , London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Social Policy, LSE Health and Social Care | Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, - National Library of Medicine
_Stephan: I have published on this in science journals, … ⌘ Read more
Me: standing next to the cabinet with dried salmon | My cat: 👁️👁️ ⌘ Read more
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAURA UNGAR, AP Global Investigations Team | Medicine and Science on the AP’s Global Health and Science Team - Associated Press
_Stephan: Based on fact-based research studies, American healthcare, as I have repeatedly published, is terrible. But, and this is important to note, under dictator Trump’s adminis … ⌘ Read more
Trump’s EV retreat is a huge win for his No. 1 trade rival
Allison Morrow, Reporter - CNN
_Stephan: Because Trump, his vassals, and the Republican Party think climate change is not real, and just a “con”, America is going backwards, while China is being handed world leadership of the EV transition. It is just one of a dozen other trends reducing the geopolitical stature and economic success of the United States. Yet millions of Americans still don’t get what Trump … ⌘ Read more
Trump pushed Zelenskyy in vulgar ‘shouting match’ to cede land or be ‘destroyed’: report
Alexander Willis, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Dictator Trump is a geopolitical non-democracy supporting incompetent, as he demonstrates again and again. Americans may not be paying much attention to this, and it certainly isn’t getting appropriate media coverage, but I assure you the rest of the world is watching his mistakes, and reassessing t … ⌘ Read more
Russia strikes Kharkiv kindergarten with drones: 1 fatality, multiple injuries including children ⌘ Read more