国防科大磁悬浮试验车时速达到 700 公里
国防科技大学透露，该校磁悬浮团队成功在两秒内，将吨级重的试验车加速至 700 公里/小时，测试速度打破了同类型平台全球记录，成为全球最快的超导电动磁悬浮试验速度。磁悬浮列车速度更快、加速减速更出色，维护成本更低，但建造成本更高，而且不兼容现有铁路设施。至今只有七列磁悬浮列车在运行——中国四列，韩国两列，日本一列。有两条城际磁悬浮线路正在建造，其中一条连接日本东京和名古屋，另一条连接湖南长沙和浏阳。日本实验性磁悬浮列车 L0 Series 曾在 2015 年创造了 603 km/h 的速度记录。 via Solidot
国防科技大学透露，该校磁悬浮团队成功在两秒内，将吨级重的试验车加速至 700 公里/小时，测试速度打破了同类型平台全球记录，成为全球最快的超导电动磁悬浮试验速度。磁悬浮列车速度更快、加速减速更出色，维护成本更低，但建造成本更高，而且不兼容现有铁路设施。至今只有七列磁悬浮列车在运行——中国四列，韩国两列，日本一列。有两条城际磁悬浮线路正在建造，其中一条连接日本东京和名古屋，另一条连接湖南长沙和浏阳。日本实验性磁悬浮列车 L0 Series 曾在 2015 年创造了 603 km/h 的速度记录。 via Solidot
MIT 科学家首次合成有抗癌潜力的天然分子
MIT 与丹娜法伯癌症研究院的科学家合作，首次在实验室成功合成了天然真菌分子“轮枝孢菌素A（verticillin A）”。该分子 50 多年前被首次发现，因其显著的抗癌潜力备受关注，但复杂的结构令其人工合成一直未能实现。研究成果发表于《美国化学会志》，有望开辟一类全新的抗癌药物研发路径。在最新研究中，研究团队不仅实现了轮枝孢菌素A的全合成，还以此为基础设计出多种新型衍生物。初步测试显示，部分衍生物对一种罕见的儿童脑癌——弥漫性中线神经胶质瘤表现出强大的抗肿瘤活性。研究团队从氨基酸衍生物β-羟色氨酸出发，逐步引入醇、酮、酰胺等化学官能团，并精准控制每一步的立体构型。历经16步精密反应，他们最终构建出轮枝孢菌素A分子。 via Solidot
MIT 与丹娜法伯癌症研究院的科学家合作，首次在实验室成功合成了天然真菌分子“轮枝孢菌素A（verticillin A）”。该分子 50 多年前被首次发现，因其显著的抗癌潜力备受关注，但复杂的结构令其人工合成一直未能实现。研究成果发表于《美国化学会志》，有望开辟一类全新的抗癌药物研发路径。在最新研究中，研究团队不仅实现了轮枝孢菌素A的全合成，还以此为基础设计出多种新型衍生物。初步测试显示，部分衍生物对一种罕见的儿童脑癌——弥漫性中线神经胶质瘤表现出强大的抗肿瘤活性。研究团队从氨基酸衍生物β-羟色氨酸出发，逐步引入醇、酮、酰胺等化学官能团，并精准控制每一步的立体构型。历经16步精密反应，他们最终构建出轮枝孢菌素A分子。 via Solidot
New York To Require Social Media Platforms To Display Mental Health Warnings
December 27, 2025 at 07:07AM
December 27, 2025 at 07:07AM
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New York To Require Social Media Platforms To Display Mental Health Warnings
Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users' mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday. From a…
NASA Chief Says US Will Return To Moon Within Trump's Second Term
December 27, 2025 at 07:40AM
December 27, 2025 at 07:40AM
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NASA Chief Says US Will Return To Moon Within Trump's Second Term
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who was confirmed by the Senate just last week after a turbulent nomination process that stretched across most of 2025, said Friday that the United States will return to the moon within President Donald Trump's second term.…
Driverless Future Gains Momentum With Global Robotaxi Deployments
December 27, 2025 at 08:30AM
December 27, 2025 at 08:30AM
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Driverless Future Gains Momentum With Global Robotaxi Deployments
The global push to put autonomous taxis on public roads is accelerating as ride-hailing companies and technology firms advance from pilot programs toward limited commercial rollouts in cities across China, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. WeRide…
Mesh Networks Are About To Escape Apple, Amazon and Google Silos
December 27, 2025 at 10:00AM
December 27, 2025 at 10:00AM
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Mesh Networks Are About To Escape Apple, Amazon and Google Silos
After more than two decades of promises and false starts in the mesh networking space, the smart home standards that Apple, Amazon and Google have each championed are finally set to escape their respective brand silos and work together in a single unified…
Rocket Crashes in Brazil's First Commercial Launch
December 27, 2025 at 01:01PM
December 27, 2025 at 01:01PM
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Rocket Crashes in Brazil's First Commercial Launch
The first-ever commercial rocket launched at Brazil's Alcantara Space Center crashed soon after liftoff late earlier this week, dealing a blow to Brazilian aerospace ambitions and shares of South Korean satellite launch company Innospace. From a report: The…
Toll Roads Are Spreading in America
December 27, 2025 at 04:02PM
December 27, 2025 at 04:02PM
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Toll Roads Are Spreading in America
Toll roads are expanding across the U.S. as the traditional gas tax funding model for highways collapses. Indiana became the first state to authorize tolls on all of its existing interstate highways when Governor Mike Braun signed legislation in June. The…
Taiwan's iPass Releases Floppy Disk Pre-Paid Cash Card
December 27, 2025 at 06:01PM
December 27, 2025 at 06:01PM
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Taiwan's iPass Releases Floppy Disk Pre-Paid Cash Card
Taiwan's iPass has released a limited-edition prepaid payment card shaped exactly like a 3.5-inch floppy disk. The company, perhaps rightly so, felt the need to include a warning on the product listing: "This product only has a card function and does not…
Video Call Glitches Evoke Uncanniness, Damage Consequential Life Outcomes
December 27, 2025 at 08:00PM
December 27, 2025 at 08:00PM
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Video Call Glitches Evoke Uncanniness, Damage Consequential Life Outcomes
Those brief freezes and audio hiccups that plague video calls are not the benign nuisances that most people assume them to be, according to a new study published in Nature that found glitches during virtual interactions can meaningfully damage hiring prospects…
Free Software Foundation Receives 'Historic' Donations Worth Nearly $900K - in Monero
December 27, 2025 at 11:34PM
December 27, 2025 at 11:34PM
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Free Software Foundation Receives 'Historic' Donations Worth Nearly $900K - in Monero
On Wednesday (Christmas Eve), the Free Software Foundation announced it had received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD — in the cryptocurrency Monero. The two donations "are among some of the largest private gifts ever made to the…
Should Physicists Study the Question: What is Life?
December 28, 2025 at 12:34AM
December 28, 2025 at 12:34AM
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Should Physicists Study the Question: What is Life?
An astrophysicist at the University of Rochester writes that "many" of his colleagues in physics "have come to believe that a mystery is unfolding in every microbe, animal, and human." And it's a mystery that: - "Challenges basic assumptions physicists have…
Japan Votes to Restart Fukushima Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Its Meltdown
December 28, 2025 at 01:34AM
December 28, 2025 at 01:34AM
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Japan Votes to Restart Fukushima Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Its Meltdown
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant "was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986," CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities "have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant," reports CNN,…
Open Source Initiative Estimates the 'Top Open Source Licenses in 2025'
December 28, 2025 at 02:34AM
December 28, 2025 at 02:34AM
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Open Source Initiative Estimates the 'Top Open Source Licenses in 2025'
The nonprofit Open Source Initiative offers "enriched" license pages with "relevant metadata to provide deeper insights and better support". So which pages got the most pageviews in 2025? The MIT license, Apache 2.0 license, BSD licenses (3-clause and 2-clause)…
Japan Votes to Restart World's Biggest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Meltdown
December 28, 2025 at 01:34AM
December 28, 2025 at 01:34AM
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Japan Votes to Restart World's Biggest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Meltdown
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant "was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986," CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities "have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant," reports CNN,…
Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism
December 28, 2025 at 03:34AM
December 28, 2025 at 03:34AM
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Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism
Waymo explained this week that its self-driving car technology is already "designed to handle dark traffic signals," and successfully handled over 7,000 last Saturday during San Francisco's long power outage, properly treating those intersections as four…
NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux
December 28, 2025 at 04:34AM
December 28, 2025 at 04:34AM
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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux
NVIDIA has been "gradually dropping support for older videocards," notes Hackaday, "with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed." "What's more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, with Arch…
Is Russia Developing an Anti-Satellite Weapon to Target Starlink?
December 28, 2025 at 05:34AM
December 28, 2025 at 05:34AM
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Is Russia Developing an Anti-Satellite Weapon to Target Starlink?
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with…
New Runtime Standby ABI Proposed for Linux Like Microsoft Windows' 'Modern Standby'
December 28, 2025 at 06:34AM
December 28, 2025 at 06:34AM
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New Runtime Standby ABI Proposed for Linux Like Microsoft Windows' 'Modern Standby'
Phoronix reports on "an exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list" proposing "a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the 'Modern Standby' functionality found with Microsoft Windows..." Modern Standby is a low…
Researchers Show Some Robots Can Be Hijacked Just Through Spoken Commands
December 28, 2025 at 07:44AM
December 28, 2025 at 07:44AM
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Researchers Show Some Robots Can Be Hijacked Just Through Spoken Commands
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this story from Interesting Engineering: Cybersecurity specialists from the research group DARKNAVY have demonstrated how modern humanoid robots can be compromised and weaponised through weaknesses in their AI-driven control…
OpenAI is Hiring a New 'Head of Preparedness' to Predict/Mitigate AI's Harms
December 28, 2025 at 09:34AM
December 28, 2025 at 09:34AM
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OpenAI is Hiring a New 'Head of Preparedness' to Predict/Mitigate AI's Harms
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: OpenAI is looking for a new Head of Preparedness who can help it anticipate the potential harms of its models and how they can be abused, in order to guide the company's safety strategy. It comes at the…