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You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room On the Moon For $250,000(2026-01-13 05:00:14)

A newly founded startup called GRU Space is taking deposits of up to $1 million to eventually build inflatable hotels on the Moon. The bet is that space needs destinations, not just rockets, even if the first customers are essentially early adopters of sci-fi optimism. Ars Technica reports: It sound...
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EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution(2026-01-13 00:00:15)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has calculated the health benefits of reducing air pollution, using the cost estimates of avoided asthma attacks and premature deaths to justify clean-air rules. Not anymore. Under President...
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Even Linus Torvalds Is Vibe Coding Now(2026-01-12 20:00:09)

Linus Torvalds has started experimenting with vibe coding, using Google's Antigravity AI to generate parts of a small hobby project called AudioNoise. "In doing so, he has become the highest-profile programmer yet to adopt this rapidly spreading, and often mocked, AI-driven programming," writes ZDNe...
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China is Geoengineering Deserts With Blue-Green Algae(2026-01-12 15:00:14)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Deserts are hard to reclaim because plants cannot survive on shifting sand, but scientists in northwest China are changing that -- by dropping vast amounts of blue-green algae onto the dry terrain. These specially selected strains of cyanobacteria can survive ext...
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Cloudflare Threatens Italy Exit After $16.3M Fine For Refusing Piracy Blocks(2026-01-12 10:00:07)

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has threatened to withdraw free cybersecurity services from Italy's Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics and potentially exit the country after Italy's telecommunications regulator fined the company approximately 14 million euros for failing to comply with anti-piracy blockin...
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