AMD’s new GPUs could be a flop – and while that’s good news for Nvidia, I’m worried for gamers
AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs are not even in Steam’s top ranked graphics cards Nvidia’s Blackwell…
pdf-parser: All Streams – SANS Internet Storm Center
A user reported a bug in pdf-parser: when dumping all filtered streams, an error would occur: The reason for the error, is that not all streams have filters applied to them, and thus dumping a filtered stream that has no filter caused a bug. I have fixed this: But I would like to point out…
Wireshark 4.4.9 Released, (Sun, Aug 31st)
Wireshark release 4.4.9 fixes 5 bugs. Source link
Scientists uncover wildfire paradox that’s putting 440 million people in danger
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have spotted a contradiction in worldwide wildfire trends: Despite a 26 percent decline in total burned area from 2002 to 2021, the number of people exposed to wildfires has surged by nearly 40 percent. The study, published on August 21 in Science, revealed another statistic that…
Scientists stunned as strange islands and hidden springs appear in the Great Salt Lake
As Great Salt Lake’s levels continue to sag, yet another strange phenomenon has surfaced, offering Utah scientists more opportunities to plumb the vast saline lake’s secrets. Phragmites-covered mounds in recent years have appeared on the drying playa off the lake’s southeast shore. After several years of scratching their heads, University of Utah geoscientists, deploying a…
Geologists got it wrong: Rivers didn’t need plants to meander
A new Stanford study challenges the decades-old view that the rise of land plants half a billion years ago dramatically changed the shapes of rivers. Rivers generally come in two styles: braided, where multiple channels flow around sandy bars, and meandering, where a single channel cuts S-curves across a landscape. Geologists have long thought that…
The trade in US body parts that’s completely legal
Luke MintzBBC News BBC Harold Dillard was 56 when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer around his abdomen in November 2009. Within weeks the former car mechanic and handyman – a Texan “Mr Fix It” type who wore a cowboy hat and jeans nearly every day – was in end-of-life hospice care. In his…
Common heart drug taken by millions found useless, possibly risky
Beta blockers—drugs commonly prescribed for a range of cardiac conditions, including heart attacks—provide no clinical benefit for patients who have had an uncomplicated myocardial infarction with preserved heart function. Beta blockers have been the standard treatment for these patients for 40 years. This is a breakthrough discovery from the “REBOOT Trial” with senior investigator Valentin…
County Durham mother’s vaccination plea after ‘terrifying’ measles
Sharon BarbourHealth correspondent, BBC North East and Cumbria Supplied Baby Saskia had the typical measles rash Nowhere in the north-east of England and Cumbria has the childhood measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination rate of 95% needed to achieve the “herd immunity” at which point disease does not spread, latest figures show. Middlesbrough has the…
Baby dies of whooping cough after mother not vaccinated while pregnant
Getty Images A baby whose mother was not vaccinated against whooping cough while pregnant has died after contracting the infection, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The death, which occurred between January and June 2025, is the first fatal case of whooping cough in the UK this year. It follows government warnings about…
Scientists uncover hidden shards of Mars’ violent birth, frozen for billions of years
New research published in the journal Science reveals the Red Planet’s mantle preserves a record of its violent beginnings. The inside of Mars isn’t smooth and uniform like familiar textbook illustrations. Instead, new research reveals it’s chunky — more like a Rocky Road brownie than a neat slice of Millionaire’s Shortbread. We often picture rocky…
