“Elon Musk wanted The Onion; he got Thud,” reports the Verge, telling the wacky story of how Elon Musk gave $2 million to two former editors from the Onion to create “an ambitious, offbeat satire startup” that would focus on the real world instead of online, “with fake brands, fake products, and fake museum installations.” To Musk, satire is almost a…
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Safer Nuclear Reactors Are On the Way
Nuclear power plant manufacturers, such as Westinghouse and Framatome, are developing safer nuclear reactors that use so-called accident-tolerant fuels that are less likely to overheat — and if they do, will produce very little or no hydrogen. As Scientific American reports, commercial reactors use small pellets of uranium dioxide stacked inside long cylindrical rods made of zirconium alloy, which “allows the…
Tesla Says Solar Roof Is On Its Third Iteration, Currently Installing In 8 States
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Tesla is currently installing its solar roof product in eight states, according to Elon Musk, speaking at the Tesla Annual Shareholder Meeting on Tuesday. The solar roof-tile project has had a relatively long genesis since being unveiled three years ago, in 2016. In addition to having installations run in eight states, Musk said…
New RCE Vulnerability Impacts Nearly Half of the Internet’s Email Servers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A critical remote command execution (RCE) security flaw impacts over half of the Internet’s email servers, security researchers from Qualys have revealed today. The vulnerability affects Exim, a mail transfer agent (MTA), which is software that runs on email servers to relay emails from senders to recipients. According to a June 2019 survey…
Tesla to slash prices of solar panels in attempt to revive sales
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523750/tesla-solar-panels-price-slash-decline-sales-roof…
Install the Windows Sandbox in Windows 10 Home
The upcoming feature update for Windows 10, the May 2019 Update or Windows 10 version 1903, includes a new feature called Windows Sandbox. Windows Sandbox is a secure environment that is separated […]
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