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Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.

As the volcano in Iceland threatens to erupt any minute now, some social media users are falsely claiming the fumes from the natural disaster will generate more CO2 than all of the cars and airplanes on earth. #TheCube

Before epilepsy was understood to be a neurological condition, people believed it was caused by the moon, or by phlegm in the brain. They condemned seizures as evidence of witchcraft or demonic possession, and killed or castrated sufferers to prevent them from passing tainted blood to a new generation.

Opposition leader Donald Tusk told supporters that political "change for the better is inevitable” in Poland at a massive march on Sunday.

The same day that Unity confused all their developers with a new pay per user install revenue model, the team behind the open source Godot Engine just announced their new Godot Development Fund.

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The see-through cephalopod was spotted by researchers exploring the deep sea surrounding Alaska's Aleutian Islands.

Researchers at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with Danilo Zia and Fabio Sciarrino from the Sapienza University of Rome, recently demonstrated a novel technique that allows the visualization of the wave function of two entangled photons, the elementary particles that constitute light, in real-time.

Debian Linux is 30 years old. Today, it remains one of the most dominant Linux distributions. Here's how it started and where its impact is still felt today.

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There are a number of things that Linux Mint objectively does better than Windows 11, and in this video I’m going to show you what those things are.

We need to start talking about the Cyber Resilience Act, because according to all major Open Source organizations the CRA is a threat to Free Software itself, and it has been approved by the European Committee that was working on it.

Fundamental discovery and new technique could lead to better, safer rechargeable batteries. UCLA researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that could enhance the safety and efficiency of lithium-metal batteries. By preventing corrosion during the deposition of lithium, the researchers foun

Recently, the mocking framework Moq made the developer news by trying to change how it requested sponsorship. This caused a lot of uproar in the community, with anger over how the changes were made, what the changes did, and in the idea that open-source software projects might ask for money....

SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal Foundation will receive the 2023 EFF Awards for their vital work in helping to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all...

A coalition of open-source AI stakeholders are calling on EU policymakers to protect open-source innovation as they finalize the EU AI Act.

The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.

Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

2022 年，开源中国 (OSCHINA) 正式收购日本老牌开源社区 OSDN。 OSDN 是一个支持开源软件开发和协作的平台，全称为 Open Source Development Network。它提供了一系列免费工具和服务，帮助开源开发者组织、管理和......

New research into the forces that bring diamonds to the surface from deep in the Earth's mantle could help locate undiscovered diamond deposits, say Macqurie University geologists.

Wiz Research discovers CVE-2023-2640 & CVE-2023-32629, 2 privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Ubuntu's OverlayFS module impacting 40% of cloud workloads.

The saga continues.

Red Hat made being a 1:1 clone hard. So AlmaLinux is pivoting and speeding up.

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is important to sustain nitrogen fertility of paddy soil and rice yield, while could be affected by nitrogen fertilization. Iron-reducing bacteria, Anaeromyxobacter and Geobacter, are newly found diazotrophic bacteria predominant in paddy soil. Experimental field of this study is a long-term...

Many Redditors were caught off guard by the removal of their chat and message history.

Organizations running Linux distributions need to prepare to defend their systems against ransomware attacks. Steps to ensure resiliency and basics such as access control reduce major disruptions.

Nifty new features mostly go to Cinnamon users, though

It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't

A new study at King's College, Cambridge reveals the striking benefits of letting lawns go wild. But can others be persuaded to break with a 300-year old social norm?

A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests that climate change is causing the oceans to become greener, offering clues about how global warming is impacting the ocean’s ecosystem.

The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server. In an accompanying letter, the State Secretary explains how this relates to the government strategy of supporting digital common goods.

Departure follows layoffs, project cancellations, and other chaos.

Linux enthusiasts rejoice! After a long journey, according to StatCounter's data, by June 2023, Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share.

From COVID-19 to climate change, scientists are facing a flood of hate mail, threats and harassment from conspiracy theorists.

The video discussing 'What was Linux distro model and why it has broken now'...

Stripped down to a skeletal genetic blueprint, the artificial cells were dealt a losing hand for survival—yet they thrived.

How bacteria use carbon dioxide and electricity to produce useful chemical In the field of microbial electrosynthesis, microbes utilize CO2 and electricity to generate substances like alcohol. The precise biological mechanisms underpinning this process have, until recently, been largely theoretical

Recent moves by the open-source software company Red Hat point at a growing divide between commercial Linux users and the noncommercial community that supports them.

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One of the most important, yet least understood, concepts in all of physics. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and th...

TOKYO -- A Japanese research team is making progress on the development of a groundbreaking medication that may allow people to grow new teeth, with c

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The Akira ransomware operation uses a Linux encryptor to encrypt VMware ESXi virtual machines in double-extortion attacks against companies worldwide.

Rocky Linux is an open enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux.

Part of a new low-cost British radar spacecraft is to be knitted from a gold-plated tungsten yarn.