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For the first time in more than six decades, electricity generation from renewables in the U.S. will surpass coal in 2022. Renewable sources of electricity, including wind, solar and hydro, accounted for 22 percent of the total, ahead of coal at 20 percent. U.S. greenhouse gas emissions remained higher than the previous year, largely due […]

Linux is going to disable Microsoft’s RNDIS protocol driver due to security concerns. RNDIS stands for Remote Network Driver Interface Specification, which is a proprietary protocol that mainly uses the USB protocol as its lower-layer transmission to provide a virtual Ethernet connection to the upper layer. Apart from Windows, RNDIS is not widely used in

For the 11th time, Bill Gates answered user questions on Reddit’s Ask My Anything, talking about AI, climate change and his time at Microsoft. Gates said that the last time his code appeared in a Microsoft product was in 1985, and that in the future, if a product’s time cycle is too long, he can

According to a NASA report, 2022 will be the fifth-hottest year on record globally. Last year’s global average temperature rose by 0.89 degrees Celsius compared with the 1951-1980 base period average temperature. The report pointed out that 2022 is tied with 2015 as the fifth hottest year since meteorological records began in 1880, and the

After the Jurassic era, it’s only a matter of time before Earth meets a larger asteroid. But unlike dinosaurs, humans have the ability to change the orbit of asteroids. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully slammed into an asteroid called Dimorphos last September. This is the world’s first demonstration of planetary defense technology,

The Soyuz spacecraft MS-22 on the International Space Station was originally scheduled to return three astronauts to the ground in February this year after a ruptured external radiator coolant line late last year. Now that the spacecraft is malfunctioning, how can the astronauts go home? NASA and Russia’s Roscosmos announced on Wednesday that the MS-22

Over the past two weeks, hackers exploited a high-risk vulnerability in the SugarCRM system to spread malicious programs to control servers. The vulnerability was revealed in December 2022, when there was no patch for 0day, the person who disclosed the vulnerability also released the exploit code, saying it was an authentication bypass plus remote code

In 2021, the Supreme Court announced a civil ruling requiring Jiangxi Fuzhou Genesis Technology Co., Ltd. to return 485,000 MSI-made AMD graphics cards RX470 8GB to Genesis Mining, a company engaged in cryptocurrency mining. Genesis Mining reached a custody agreement with Genesis Technology in 2017, and terminated the cooperation in 2018. In May 2019, Genesis

The FAA’s air mission notification system NOTAMs (Notice to Air Missions) experienced a serious glitch on Wednesday, temporarily grounding flights across the United States. The FAA said it initially judged that the source of the problem was a damaged database file, and there was no evidence that it was a cyber attack. The backup system

Life stressors such as obesity reprogram immune system cells and cause damage to the eyes as we age, according to a study published in Science. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, affecting approximately 196 million people as of 2020. It comes in two forms: dry macular degeneration, which is

Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that Apple is developing a touchscreen Mac computer, and the new MacBook Pro with an OLED display could be its first touchscreen Mac, which is expected to launch in 2025. Apple engineers are actively involved in the project, the report said. The first MacBook Pro with a

Mercedes-Benz has become the first automaker to offer certified Level 3 autonomous driving technology in the United States. Mercedes said its Drive Pilot autonomous driving system has been approved by the state of Nevada and is awaiting a formal certificate of compliance from the state, which is expected to happen within two weeks. It also

Bankdata, which provides IT solutions for Denmark’s central bank and the country’s financial industry, was hit by a DDoS attack, disrupting access to the central bank’s and seven private banks’ websites. A DDoS attack works by directing traffic to a targeted website in order to take it offline. A spokesman for Denmark’s central bank said