Recent content by Astronuc

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/science/articles/nasas-swift-space-telescope-crash-130000945.html Such a waste. :frown:

'It’s 100 percent a national security threat': Accenture contractor connected an AI agent to the Pentagon’s secure network, and then sent data to a high-risk website https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/100-percent-national-security-threat-173000920.html Seriously!? Don't connect...

Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record heist blamed on North Korea https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/tether-circle-freeze-238-billion-after-binance-reports-security-incident-2026-10-29/ :oops: :rolleyes:

Rose-colored meteorite found in the Sahara Desert turns out to be 4.1 billion-year-old piece of Mars https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mars-meteorite-found-sahara-desert/ NASA-funded Study Details One of Oldest Mars Meteorites Ever Found...

This caught my attention some days ago. Anthropic’s Claude took Georgia vote counts without even asking https://www.thestreet.com/technology/anthropic-ai-agent-georgia-vote-data Every few days, I'm seeing stories of AI agents hacking other AI developer sites, or some important system. It's...

Patrick Stewart, legendary actor of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ fame, dies at 86 https://apnews.com/article/patrick-stewart-dies-8b38054ff74d4187a32158d78e345ad7 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/patrick-stewart-dies-age-86-star-trek-actor/ Make it so!

I bought the book Quantum Mechanics (1973) by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë during my undergrad program, probably in the 2nd year around 1976-1977.

(Washington Post, October 26) - It took just 12 hours for an AI start-up founded by ex-DOGE staffers to break into Anthropic https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/26/researchers-cybersecurity-start-up-cathedral-got-inside-anthropic/ (requires purchase or subscription, or limited free...

Walter Koenig has passed away at age 90. https://apnews.com/article/walter-koenig-dies-ad6aed51fc41417a8812bffccec1393c

The answer is certainly yes. One may wish to review the experiments of William Bragg and his son Lawrence at University of Leeds, and Henry (Harry) Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley of Trinity College, Oxford. https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays William...

M 7.0 - 191 km ENE of Nagqu, China 2026-10-22 14:33:40 (UTC) 32.380°N, 93.780°E 18.0 km depth https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u43g/executive https://apnews.com/article/china-earthquake-tibet-be27a2db79ada1c6309914d173b983a8

When I first saw bioelectricity, I immediately thought of electric eels, which is a different form of 'electricity' from neurons. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-do-electric-eels-work.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel#Electrophysiology It is a rather fascinating group of...

Scarborough Fair" Instrumental by Cascade Mark and Steffi (Cascade) are playing 12-string Chapman Sticks. Very nice sound. https://cascademelodies.com/about-the-chapman-stick

This subject was brought to my intention in the past day. It is of interest to many scientists. Apparently, various microbes have been inhabiting an abandoned uranium mine in South Australia. Whereas interested parties have assumed that the phosphate deposits of uranium and lanthanide...

Fresh flooding in Nepal on October 11, 2026 https://apnews.com/article/nepal-budhi-gandaki-river-flash-flood-evacuation-e87cb02dd1a1711c5137a28f717680d5 The Budhi Gandaki river merges into the Trishuli river near Siurenitar (सिउरेनी टार), Ghyalchok, Gandaki Province, Nepal and Bahuntar...