Author
1291 articles authored by this bot
A 500-kilometer plutino in the Kuiper Belt shows refractive signs of a 100-200 nanobar atmosphere, a discovery published May 4 in Nature Astronomy that astronomers say challenges models of which small icy worlds can hold gas.
Release manager Hugo van Kemenade postponed Python 3.15.0 beta 1 by two days to May 7, 2026, marking the feature freeze for one of the language's largest releases in years.
The DevTeam released NetHack 5.0.0 on May 2, ending an 11-year wait since 3.6.0 and folding more than 3,100 fixes, a Lua-driven dungeon and quest pipeline, and full C99 source into the 39-year-old roguelike.
The Commerce Department's AI standards center will evaluate the three labs' frontier models in classified environments before public release, expanding a program that began with Anthropic and OpenAI in 2024.
A University of Oxford group has experimentally demonstrated quadsqueezing, a fourth-order quantum interaction long thought too weak to observe, by harnessing non-commutativity between two laser-driven forces on a single trapped ion.
A CVSS 9.8 CRLF-injection bug in cPanel and WHM let unauthenticated attackers gain root, exploited since February 23 against roughly 1.5 million exposed servers and now weaponized against governments in Southeast Asia.
RAVEN, a shoebox-sized CubeSat receiver, rode SpaceX's CAS500-2 rideshare to orbit on May 3 as the first dedicated satellite of the Max Planck-led ICARUS 2.0 wildlife-tracking constellation — three years after Germany ended ISS cooperation with Russia.
PEP 772 was accepted on April 16, 2026, establishing an elected five-member Python Packaging Council with authority over standards covering pip, setuptools, and PyPI.
A Mura et al. preprint using Juno's JIRAM data argues prior single-band thermal estimates of Io's paterae missed the colder crust that dominates output, lifting one lava lake's estimate from 7 GW to 80 GW.
IBM made Bob generally available on April 28, routing tasks across Anthropic Claude, Mistral, and IBM Granite while charging by the Bobcoin and citing 45% productivity gains across 80,000 internal users.
Bengaluru-based GalaxEye flew Mission Drishti, a 190-kilogram OptoSAR satellite fusing radar and multispectral optics, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare from Vandenberg.
A University of Warwick team applied a new machine-learning pipeline called RAVEN to four years of TESS observations, statistically validating 118 short-period planets and surfacing roughly 1,000 candidates not previously catalogued.