NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens (arstechnica.com)
NASA’s independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs on September 14, 2023....
Teen’s death after eating a single chip highlights risks of ultra-spicy foods (arstechnica.com)
Harris Wolobah, a healthy 14-year-old from Worcester, Massachusetts, tragically died last Friday, hours after eating a single ultra-spicy tortilla chip seasoned with two of the hottest peppers in the world.
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Trade Commission's chief administrative law judge ruled that Intuit violated US law with deceptive advertising and should be forced to stop promoting TurboTax as "free" unless all conditions imposed on the free offer are immediately and conspicuously displayed to consumers.
Nasty bug with very simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend (arstechnica.com)
New warp drive concept does twist space, doesn’t move us very fast (arstechnica.com)
The researchers did indeed discover a warp drive solution: a method of manipulating space so that travelers can move without accelerating. There is no such thing as a free lunch, however, and the physicality of this warp drive does come with a major caveat: the vessel and passengers can never travel faster than light. Also...
Ars Technica | Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s (arstechnica.com)
Here are links to the website, GitHub, and Wikipedia pages....
NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan (arstechnica.com)
German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating (arstechnica.com)
The Delta IV Heavy, a rocket whose time has come and gone, will fly once last time. (arstechnica.com)
"Shields up!" An interesting look at real-life active-shielding technologies for spacecraft. (arstechnica.com)
FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai (arstechnica.com)
New study looks again at how alcohol influences attraction (arstechnica.com)
For a phenomenon that is so deeply engrained in the public consciousness, the scientific evidence regarding what has been called "beer goggles" is surprisingly inconsistent. The term refers to finding people more attractive after drinking alcohol, and there is a wealth of scientific evidence both for and against its existence.
Federal health dept. says marijuana should be downgraded to Schedule 3 drug (arstechnica.com)
If DEA accepts HHS's rescheduling recommendation, it could ease marijuana access.
