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Report of Newly-Discovered Asteroid Turns Out to Be... a Tesla Roadster(2025-01-25 18:00:09)

Founded in 1947, the Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide authority "for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system," reports USA Today. Unfortunately, "What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to b...
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'Copilot' Price Hike for Microsoft 365 Called 'Total Disaster' with Overwhelmingly Negative Response(2025-01-25 15:00:03)

ZDNET's senior editor sees an "overwhelmingly negative" response to Microsoft's surprise price hike for the 84 million paying subscribers to its Microsoft 365 software suite. Attempting the first price hike in more than 12 years, "they made it a 30% price increase" — going from $10 a month to ...
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Bambu Labs' 3D Printer 'Authorization' Update Beta Sparks Concerns(2025-01-25 12:00:06)

Slashdot reader jenningsthecat writes: 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Labs has faced a storm of controversy and protest after releasing a security update which many users claim is the first step in moving towards an HP-style subscription model. Bambu Labs responded that there's misinformation circu...
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Researchers Say New Attack Could Take Down the European Power Grid(2025-01-25 09:00:04)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Late last month, researchers revealed a finding that's likely to shock some people and confirm the low expectations of others: Renewable energy facilities throughout Central Europe use unencrypted radio signals to receive commands to feed or dit...
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Hubble's Largest Panorama Ever Showcases 200 Million Stars(2025-01-25 06:00:08)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has released the largest ever photomosaic featuring over 200 million stars -- all of which are bright than our own Sun. It consists of over 600 overlapping Hubble images and 2.5 billion pixels. "That is a huge number, yet only a fraction of the estimated one trillion st...
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