Month: October 2024

Staatliche russische Hacker nähmen Zimbra- und Jetbrains Teamcity-Installationen westlicher Unternehmen aufs Korn, warnen die USA und Großbritannien. (Cyberwar, Server-Applikationen)

Elon Musk hat den Prototyp des Tesla Cybercab vorgeführt. Die zweitürige Limousine hat kein Lenkrad und keine Pedale. Es soll ab 2026 auf den Markt kommen. (Tesla, Elektroauto)

Außerirdische Steine mit Kartoffeln und Salz - oder Blut und Urin: Forscher entwickeln Weltraumziegel, die härter sind als Beton. (Weltall, Kohlenstoff-Nanoröhren)

Tesla übernimmt 500 Leiharbeiter in der Gigafactory Berlin in eine Festanstellung. (Gigafactory Berlin, Elektroauto)

Die Freenet-Marke hat ihre Tarife überarbeitet. Nutzer surfen mit bis zu 50 MBit/s im 5G-Netz der Telekom, die monatliche Grundgebühr ist reduziert. (Freenet, Telekom)

Die Automatisierung von Prozessen mit Python kann die Effizienz von Unternehmen erheblich steigern. Ein zweitägiger Online-Workshop vermittelt die Grundlagen und Anwendungen der Robotic Process Automation. (Golem Karrierewelt, Python)

Intel's 14th-generation desktop processors were a mild update on top of a mild update: a barely faster revision of the 13th-gen Core CPUs, which were themselves a modest tweak to 2021's 12th-gen Core processors. The new Core Ultra CPUs (and their underlying architectural changes) were exclusive to laptops.

Today, that changes: The Core Ultra 200S processors (codenamed Arrow Lake) will bring to desktops many of the changes Intel has made to its Core Ultra 100- and 200-series laptop CPUs (Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake, respectively). Changes include a new chiplet-based design, new manufacturing technologies, updated CPU and GPU architectures, and a neural processing unit (NPU) for accelerating some AI and machine learning workloads.

All of the new processors launch on October 24th.

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Breakdancing has become a global phenomenon since it first emerged in the 1970s, even making its debut as an official event at this year's Summer Olympics. But hardcore breakers are prone to injury (sprains, strains, tendonitis), including a bizarre condition known as "headspin hole" or "breakdance bulge"—a protruding lump on the scalp caused by repeatedly performing the power move known as a headspin. A new paper published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) describes one such case that required surgery to redress.

According to the authors, there are very few published papers about the phenomenon; they cite two in particular. A 2009 German study of 106 breakdancers found that 60.4 percent of them experienced overuse injuries to the scalp because of headspins, with 31.1 percent of those cases reporting hair loss, 23.6 percent developing head bumps, and 36.8 percent experiencing scalp inflammation. A 2023 study of 142 breakdancers reported those who practiced headspins more than three times a week were much more likely to suffer hair loss.

So when a male breakdancer in his early 30s sought treatment for a pronounced bump on top of his head, Mikkal Bundgaard Skotting and Christian Baastrup Søndergaard of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark seized the opportunity to describe the clinical case study in detail, taking an MRI, surgically removing the growth, and analyzing the removed mass.

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After more than nine months in an unusual, highly elliptical orbit, the US military's X-37B spaceplane will soon begin dipping its wings into Earth's atmosphere to lower its altitude before eventually coming back to Earth for a runway landing, the Space Force said Thursday.

The aerobraking maneuvers will use a series of passes through the uppermost fringes of the atmosphere to gradually reduce its speed with aerodynamic drag while expending minimal fuel. In orbital mechanics, this reduction in velocity will bring the apogee, or high point, of the X-37B's orbit closer to Earth.

Bleeding energy

The Space Force called the aerobraking a "novel space maneuver" and said its purpose was to allow the X-37B to "safely dispose of its service module components in accordance with recognized standards for space debris mitigation."

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The MINISFORUM EliteMini AI370 is a 5.12″ x 5″ x 1.85″ computer powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Point” 12-core processor with Radeon 890M integrated graphics and a Ryzen AI NPU that delivers up to 50 TOPS of AI performance. It’s one of only a handful of mini PCs announced to feature […]

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