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The Rosetta Stone for MarsA rose-colored rock discovered in the Sahara Desert may hold some clues to Mars' ancient geological history.
The meteorite, named Teghaza 001 after the salt plain in Mali where it was discovered in 2022, weighs roughly 1.8 pounds (800 grams) and formed more than 4.1 billion years ago. Blasted off Mars by an impact before eventually landing on Earth, it is one of the three oldest Martian meteorites ever found.
The extraordinary age and unusual mineral composition of Teghaza 001 offer a rare glimpse into the formation of Mars' early crust and how volcanic materials may have been altered by water, according to a statement from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
"It was only after we started looking closely that we realized this meteorite is really unique,” research leader Yang Liu of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California said in the statement. "One of the paper’s reviewers called it a Rosetta Stone for Mars."
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Are you sure his name wasn’t Guido Sarducci?Definitely a kid from Chicago.
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In the 1950s shopping cartI remember Chun King, HiHo, and French's Worcestershire. And I loved Uneeda Biscuits.
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In the 1950s shopping cartA lot of these are a bit before my time, but I do remember three or four of them…
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What piano playing does to your brainThanks, @chas . Great video. The comments are a bonus. I was starting to think about selling my digital piano but this has prompted me to reconsider...
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Good reason not to have wifi on your refrigeratorFrance has accused Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of being behind cyber-attacks that raised the temperatures of supermarket fridges and freezers.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the attack was "unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression", adding those who were responsible would be hit with sanctions "at the European level".
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Inside the fake review tradeRecently, our team exposed sophisticated scam kits designed to steal sensitive data and trick consumers. But underground marketplaces are not just for malware and stolen passwords. They also offer services designed to manipulate your opinion of the products and services you buy every day.
In our latest research, we examined cybercrime forums where sellers advertise illicit “reputation management” services. For the right price, these underground operators offer to flood a product with glowing, five-star ratings or remove negative reviews. This shadowy industry works both ways—artificially boosting reputations and deliberately hiding legitimate complaints.
A major shift we are seeing in this space is the adoption of new technology. We also found that cybercriminals are using AI to automate these fake review campaigns. This could allow them to quickly generate realistic, human-sounding feedback in large volumes without much manual effort.
htps://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/11/5-stars-for-sale-inside-the-underground-fake-review-trade
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Susie's out, Stephen's inInside the White House it's apparently dog eat dog.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/06/politics/stephen-miller-trump-susie-wiles
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KrakowSad and shocking.
Mr wtg's high school doctor friend and his family were in Krakow this past summer. Sent us the most wonderful photos of what looks like an idyllic town; they said they loved it. I'm sure they were stunned by the news.
The shooter died this morning.
Reporting from Reuters:
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Every vote countsAcross the Mississippi Delta — poor, Black, rural — there were houses like the one where Smith was busy at work, where organizers spent months figuring out how to get a community of nonvoters excited about reengaging in democracy.
When Colom was trying to figure out the final message for his Senate campaign, he and his team chose to end with a commercial about Medgar Evers, the African American veteran whom white supremacists killed as he was conducting voter registration campaigns.
“We can’t just ask people to vote for me,” Colom said in an interview with The Washington Post on Thursday morning. “We just got to talk about sacrifice. We got to talk about the importance of voting.”
It was also about stressing the idea of what he called “Mississippi Values” — including Evers’s audacious and righteous response to abusive power. Those values were revealed in the work of Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Party, and others who worked during the Civil Rights Era to break some of the most racist policies in the South. Still, Colom knew it would take a herculean effort in a place that hadn’t elected a Black politician to statewide office since the fall of Reconstruction.
Smith just focused on reaching would-be voters where she grew up in Holmes County. It is one of the smaller counties in the state — about 15,000 people, 80 percent Black, with 34 percent living below the poverty line. But it was a place where Colom could run up the score to offset Whiter, more conservative districts.
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Happy Diwali!Happy Diwali! We used to love going to the lunch buffet at our favorite Indian restaurant on Diwali. The buffet was always expanded to include even more items, and the restaurant was always super busy. Fun times!
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Local AI on an HP laptopOf course the laptop is priced at $7K....
I tried local AI on HP’s Omnibook Ultra – it’s a private, powerful beast with zero token fees
I ran a free, open-weights AI model locally on HP’s $7,000 OmniBook Ultra and turned 20 years of my articles into a searchable archive in a day.
https://www.zdnet.com/tech/hp-omnibook-ultra-nvidia-rtx-spark-laptop-review/
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Where was Ax? -
Word association threadEaster
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Peruvian peppersThat looks delicious!
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For sourdough bakers -
Laughter is the best medicine
(that's a @dougg or @piano-dad joke....)
