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Australians To Get At Least Three Hours a Day of Free Solar Power - Even If They Don't Have Solar Panels(2025-11-04 05:00:04)

Australia's new "solar sharer" program will give households in NSW, south-east Queensland, and South Australia at least three hours of free solar power each day starting in 2026 -- even for those without rooftop panels. Other areas will potentially follow in 2027. The Guardian reports: The governmen...
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Antarctic Glacier Saw the Fastest Retreat In Modern History(2025-11-04 00:00:07)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study -- and the way it retreated could have big implications for global sea level rise. The Hektoria Glacier, roughly the si...
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Ukraine First To Demo Open Source Security Platform To Help Secure Power Grid(2025-11-03 20:00:14)

concertina226 shares a report from The Register: [A massive power outage in April left tens of millions across Spain, Portugal, and parts of France without electricity for hours due to cascading grid failures, exposing how fragile and interconnected Europe's energy infrastructure is. The incident, t...
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The Curious Case of the Bizarre, Disappearing Captcha(2025-11-03 15:00:04)

Captchas have largely vanished from the web in 2025, replaced by invisible tracking systems that analyze user behavior rather than asking people to decipher distorted text or identify traffic lights in image grids. Google launched reCaptcha v3 in 2018 to generate risk scores based on behavioral sign...
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OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Deal With Amazon(2025-11-03 10:00:18)

OpenAI will pay Amazon $38 billion for computing power in a seven-year deal that marks the companies' first partnership. Amazon expects all of the computing capacity negotiated as part of the agreement will be available to OpenAI by the end of next year. The ChatGPT maker will train new AI models us...
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