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Watch 'Blue Ghost' Attempt Its Landing on the Moon
Watch the "Blue Ghost" lunar lander attempt its moon landing.
The actual landing is scheduled to happen at 3:34 a.m. Eastern time, according to CNN, while "The first images from the mission should be delivered about a half hour after..."
Success is not guaranteed... [B]roadly speaking, about half...
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27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next?
Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They'd spotted a Reddit post "detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in...
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Microsoft Outage Leaves Tens of Thousands Unable to Access Email and Other Apps
"Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon," reports CNBC:
"We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services," Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, sa...
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Perl's CPAN Security Group is Now a CNA, Can Assign CVEs
Active since 1995, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (or CPAN) hosts 221,742 Perl modules written by 14,548 authors. This week they announced that the CPAN Security Group "was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)" to assign and manage CVE vulnerability identification...
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COSMIC Desktop Alpha 6 Released
New submitter TronNerd82 writes: Linuxiac reports that the 6th alpha release of the COSMIC desktop environment has been released. The new alpha release includes zooming, desktop icon management, some new scaling options, and improved accessibility features. Also included in the release are a number ...
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