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The Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters while approaching the International Space Station last summer. NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore took manual control, remembers Ars Technica, "But as Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the direction he wanted to go..."
Starliner had flown to within a stone's throw of the space station, a safe harbor, if only they could reach it. But already, the failure of so many thrusters violated the mission's flight rules. In such an
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Veteran actor Bette Midler says she's sold her Tesla, which she called "a symbol of racism, greed and ignorance." Read more ›
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The Tesla CEO has been one of Trump's most outspoken cheerleaders — but Musk is not a fan of the tariffs that have shaken global markets. Read more ›
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Adam Mosseri spoke on a podcast about Instagram's priorities around creators and how reach works on the app. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's wealth fell to $298 billion on Monday. Over the weekend, the Tesla CEO spoke out against President Donald Trump's tariffs. Read more ›
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As Trump angers everyone from Canada to China, Americans are growing afraid to travel abroad — and it could get worse. Read more ›
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I visited all the major US national parks and ranked them based on factors like beauty and crowd size. My favorites include Grand Teton and Acadia. Read more ›
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CEO Larry Fink of BlackRock talks about succession plans and his changing perception of New York City during an interview. Read more ›
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It’s kind of impossible to grasp the enormity of a cooling tower until it’s suddenly right next to you. Never used for their intended purpose, the cooling towers of Washington Nuclear Projects 3 and 5 (WNP-3 and WNP-5) loom over treetops as I drive up to Satsop Business Park, about an hour and a half […] Read more ›
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New studies suggest how AI is changing work by acting as a teammate and bridging knowledge gaps, but also creating some uncertainty. Read more ›
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Bill Gates, who famously dropped out of Harvard to found Microsoft, previously said his kids would inherit less than 1% of his total wealth. Read more ›
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The billionaire class stands to lose more than the average American from Trump's dumb trade war. Read more ›
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Okta CEO Todd McKinnon told Business Insider he expects there will be more demand for software engineers even with AI tools for coding advancing. Read more ›
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After graduating from college, Carter James searched for over a year to land his first career job. He said the process helped him grow as a person. Read more ›
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Singapore Airlines is consistently named among the best airlines in the world. Even in economy, the seats are spacious and the food is decent. Read more ›
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Baby boomers seemed surprisingly involved in recent anti-Trump demonstrations. I asked someone who studies protests what might be going on. Read more ›
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As someone who has moved around quite a bit, VPNs have always been essential to ensure I can access my sites and shows. The problem is that these often cost a pretty penny, sometimes more than I'm willing to fork out. But, now, our favorite VPN for multiple devices is now having a massive sale. Surfshark Starter VPN is down to $54 for 27 months — a plan that typically... Read more ›
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Lütke stressed annual efficiency growth for every employee in an internal memo he published on X. Read more ›
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Saudi Arabia is still dependent on oil revenues, so weak crude prices may make it harder to fund its ambitious ventures such as The Line in Neom. Read more ›
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Microsoft is pushing businesses to shift away from perpetual Office licenses to Microsoft 365 subscriptions, citing collaboration limitations and rising IT costs associated with standalone software. "You may have started noticing limitations," Microsoft says in a post. "Your apps are stuck on your desktop, limiting productivity anytime you're away from your office. You can't easily access your files or collaborate when working remotely." In its pitch, the Windows-maker says Microsoft... Read more ›
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Substack has announced it will legally support foreign writers lawfully residing in the U.S. who face government targeting over their published work, partnering with the nonprofit FIRE to expand its existing Defender program. The Verge reports: In their announcement, Substack and FIRE mention the international Tufts University student who was arrested by federal agents last week. Her legal team links her arrest to an opinion piece she co-wrote for the... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader CyberSlugGump shares a support article from AT&T, writing: On June 17th, AT&T will stop supporting email-to-text messages. That means you won't be able to send a text message to an AT&T customer from an email address. You can still get in touch with AT&T customers using SMS (text), MMS, and standard email services. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [...] The study, led by researchers at Brown University, found that the wealthiest Americans lived shorter lives than the wealthiest Europeans. In fact, wealthy Northern and Western Europeans had death rates 35 percent lower than the wealthiest Americans, whose lifespans were more like the poorest in Northern and Western Europe -- which includes countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.... Read more ›
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Scientists "demonstrated a promising step toward using a person's own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers" at America's National Institutes of Health (or NIH), reports the Washington Post. But the results were published in Nature Medicine on Tuesday — "the same day the agency was hit with devastating layoffs..." The treatment approach is still early in its development; the personalized immunotherapy regimen shrank tumors in only about a quarter of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Europol has shut down one of the largest dark web pedophile networks in the world, prompting dozens of arrests worldwide and threatening that more are to follow. Launched in 2021, KidFlix allowed users to join for free to preview low-quality videos depicting child sex abuse materials (CSAM). To see higher-resolution videos, users had to earn credits by sending cryptocurrency payments, uploading... Read more ›
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A joint investigation found that at least five popular VPN apps on the App Store and Google Play have ties to Qihoo 360, a Chinese company with military links. Apple has since removed two of the apps but has not confirmed the status of the remaining three, which 9to5Mac notes have "racked up more than a million downloads." The five apps in question are Turbo VPN, VPN Proxy Master, Thunder... Read more ›
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U.S. stock markets suffered their worst day since the Covid pandemic after Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs, triggering a global selloff and wiping out $470 billion in value from tech giants Apple and Nvidia. From a report: The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 6%, while the S&P 500 and the Dow dropped 4.8% and 3.9%, respectively. [...] Meanwhile, the US dollar hit a six-month low, going down at least 2.2% on... Read more ›
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The Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters while approaching the International Space Station last summer. NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore took manual control, remembers Ars Technica, "But as Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the direction he wanted to go..." Starliner had flown to within a stone's throw of the space station, a safe harbor, if only they could reach it. But already, the failure of... Read more ›
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"The third James Bond novel was published on this day in 1955," writes long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger. Film buff Christian Petrozza shares some history: In 1979, the market was hot amid the studios to make the next big space opera. Star Wars blew up the box office in 1977 with Alien soon following and while audiences eagerly awaited the next installment of George Lucas' The Empire Strikes Back, Hollywood was... Read more ›
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